How to Create a Winning Strategy for an Engineering Career of Success – Ep 145

How to Create a Winning Strategy for an Engineering Career of Success

In this episode, Chris Knutson, PE interviews Nader Mowlaee on how to create a winning strategy for an engineering career of success. They hit on why, and how, to establish your own personal brand and they also dive into core skills development and their importance to engineers, as well as the importance of building and […]

Ensuring the Resiliency of the Power Grid and Critical Infrastructure – Ep 144

Ensuring the Resiliency of the Power Grid and Critical Infrastructure

In this episode, Chris Knutson, PE interviews Mike Legatt, CEO and founder of ResilientGrid Inc. on ensuring the resiliency of the power grid and critical infrastructure. This all came into being through one experience he had while doing laundry in 2003. Engineering Quotes: Here are the key points discussed: Every time that a human being makes a […]

How to Set Goals and Track Progress in your Engineering Career – Ep 143

How to Set Goals and Track Progress in your Engineering Career

Let’s take a walk together.  In this episode, I am going to give you seven steps that you could use to get super focused on your career growth including where you want to go in your career. I will also explain to you how to track your progress in your engineering career. (The recording of […]

Choosing Between a Fortune 50 Company and a Small Engineering Firm – Ep 142

Choosing Between a Fortune 50 Company and a Small Engineering Firm

In this episode, I talk with a listener whose question I previously answered in Episode 131. We talk about the factors that influenced his decision in choosing between a Fortune 50 Company and a Small Engineering Firm, and what he learned from the decision he made. Engineering Quotes: Here are the key points discussed in […]

Putting out Fires and Driving Value as a Professional Engineer – Ep 141

Putting out Fires and Driving Value as a Professional Engineer

In this episode of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I am going to be talking to Aaron Khan, one of our listeners from Australia, about putting out fires and driving value as a professional engineer.  Aaron asked some amazing questions that I believe hold many keys to engineering career success. Engineering Quotes: Here are the […]

How to Use Your Time Wisely as an Engineering Professional – Ep 140

How to Use Your Time Wisely as an Engineering Professional

In this episode, I am going to talk to one of our listeners, Carl Humphrey, about challenges that he is facing around career planning and will give you some advice on how you can use your time wisely as an engineering professional.  There were some very interesting strategies that we discussed in this episode that […]

The Importance of Seeing Opportunities in your Engineering Career – Ep 139

The Importance of Seeing Opportunities in your Engineering Career

In this episode, I want to share a story with you about two shoe salesman and also talk about the importance of seeing opportunities in your Engineering Career…. Engineering Success quotes: Here are some ideas to implement that will help you in seeing opportunities in 2017: Think about your approach in your engineering career and your […]

How to Make Career Changes in Your Engineering Career – Ep 137

How to Make Career Changes in Your Engineering Career

In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast I am going to answer questions from our listeners on how to make career changes or shifts in your engineering career. Engineering Quotes: Here are the summary of questions and answers about career changes that we’ve discussed in this session: Question: I would like to know […]