Don’t Fall off Mt. Stupid

This is a guest post by Jacob Valentien, PE  In my previous article, I spent some time writing about the four major components for optimizing your career development. I wanted this article to focus on the Experience and Continual Learning components. Have you ever heard of the Dunning-Kruger effect? Well, don’t feel bad, most folks […]

Understanding and Optimizing the Long Game That Is Your Engineering Career

This is a guest post by Jacob Valentien, PE  As I reflect and think about the various blog topics that I could write about for the Civil Engineering Collective, I wanted to start off by summarizing one of the biggest concepts that I see young engineers struggle with in their first few years after graduating […]