Engineering Geology Explained: Engineering with Passion – Ep 043

In this episode, we talk to Felipe Ochoa, Ph.D., M.Sc., M.Eng., B.Sc., a geotechnical engineer who is passionate about geology and geosciences and his career as an assistant professor. We discuss his passion for geology and some of the great projects he has been involved in. He also talks about how having — and beating […]

Finding Career Fulfillment in Your Engineering Career – Ep 265

Finding Career Fulfillment in Your Engineering Career

In this episode, Jeff Perry, MBA talks about how you can find career fulfillment. He shares a framework that will help you on your journey and some actions that you can start taking right away to get on the path to engineering career fulfillment. Here Are Some of the Key Points Discussed About Finding Career […]

How to Approach Mentorship in Your Engineering Career

  What do you want out of your career? What are your aspirations? What are your short- and long-term goals? Are you on the right track or are you veering off? These are the questions that many engineers have either thought about or even dug deeper to answer, and then are some who might not […]

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 […]

The Importance of Soft Skills in Your Engineering Career

This is a guest blog by Nick Heim, P.E. Soft skills are important to every engineer’s career — and in this article, I share some great examples to help them stick with you! Learn from my missteps! Armed with a great education from an excellent institution, I thought I knew it all. I just started […]

3 Steps to Building an Accountability System for Your Engineering Career

Accountability System

Career success and growth comes to us when we accept responsibility for our actions, our wins, and our failures. This is because what we put into our career, from education to continuous learning, training, and certifications, dictates what we get out of task accomplishments, project achievements, and daily performance. We begin to notice that no […]

The Power of Perseverance in Developing a Strong Engineering Career

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The good news is that your beliefs can strengthen your engineering career success, and as you build stronger core beliefs, you will raise your motivation to learn and grow into a more capable engineer. But the bad news is that changing your life and reaching your career goals will not be an easy task. You […]

2 Steps to Setting Goals for Changing Your Engineering Career in 2021

Changing Your Engineering Career

STEP 1: Identify the Outcomes You Want to Create or Contribute To Align your mission with a company’s mission that motivates you. It is tough to come up with innovative ideas by yourself, especially if you are starting to set new goals or changing your engineering career and you do not know where to start. […]

Be Open to New Opportunities in Your Engineering Career – Ep 014

In this episode, we talk to Sebastian Lobo-Guerrero, Ph.D., P.E., a geotechnical project manager and laboratory manager at American Geotechnical & Environmental Services, Inc., about how you can be open to new opportunities in your engineering career, what geotechnical engineers can do in life, and what it means to be an engineer who attends conferences. […]

How to Level up in Your Engineering Career – Ep 236

How to Level up in Your Engineering Career

In this episode, I talk to Shawn Livermore, a bestselling author, software engineer, consultant, and tech startup founder. He wrote a book called Average Joe that has lit the world on fire and has given hope to people, explaining that anyone in the tech world can create and that anyone on the peripheral of tech […]