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3 Uncommon Engineering Skills That Engineers Should Develop for Extraordinary Success

October 7, 2019 By EMI

This is a guest post by Nader Mowlaee

Uncommon Engineering Skills There comes a time in every engineer’s career where they’ll want to take their roles to the next level by managing others, overseeing projects, and even running their own engineering startups. It’s a given that to catapult your engineering career, you have to do what’s necessary to be successful in outshining the rest, and sometimes that calls for identifying and fine-tuning the skills companies need. Research shows that companies desire soft skills, such as complex problem-solving, people management, creativity, and critical thinking—four essential soft skills that are projected to be the top desired soft skills by 2020. While these skills are essential for being successful in your engineering career, they often overshadow the uncommon engineering skills that engineers need to achieve exceptional success the way Apple’s Tim Cook or Tesla’s Elon Musk did. 

Yet, everyone can’t transform into Elon Musk overnight. If you want to accomplish extraordinary success, you have to look beyond the ordinary. You won’t achieve far-reaching goals by simply working harder or longer hours than everyone else on the job. Instead, shift your focus to developing the unconventional skills that engineers often neglect. Here are three uncommon skills every engineer needs to achieve next-level success: 

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Filed Under: Blog, Personal Development and Professionalism Tagged With: courage, Cultivate Connections, engineer's career, engineering company, engineering skills, engineering startups, Extraordinary Success, influence, people management, perseverance, problem solving, soft skills, uncommon soft skills, unconventional skills

TECC 211: Transitioning from Engineering to Marketing

September 17, 2019 By EMI

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In this episode, I talk with Anne-Marie Walters, a chemical engineer and a global marketing director at Bentley Systems. We talk about her transition from engineering to marketing and how her engineering skills have helped her throughout this transition. Anne-Marie also talks about how having a big-picture outlook in life can provide so much fulfillment in your career. This episode was also published on YouTube which you can view here.

Engineering Quotes:

Engineering to Marketing

Here Are Some of the Key Points Discussed About Transitioning from Engineering to Marketing:

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Filed Under: Business/Entrepreneurship, TECC Podcast-The Engineering Career Coach Podcast Tagged With: Anne-Marie Walters, computer-based system, energy usage, engineering skills, Engineering to Marketing, market the value of engineering, risks, safety and emergency procedures, transition from engineering

How to become the Best Civil Engineer While Still in School

November 6, 2017 By EMI

How to become the Best Civil Engineer While still in School




Q: Can you become a good Civil Engineer while you are still in school?

Welcome to episode #34 of Engineering Career TV. The theme for today’s episode is: How to become the best civil engineer while still in school. 

I spend almost all of the Engineering Career TV episodes answering questions that have been submitted from engineers around the world.  The questions are typically focused on professional development for engineering professionals, especially relevant to practicing engineers.

You can submit questions for the show by clicking here.

Let’s jump into today’s topic: How to become the best civil engineer while still in school.  This topic is based on a question from Carl, who asks the following:
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Filed Under: Engineering Career TV Tagged With: Being the Best you can Be, career, career advice, civil engineer, civil engineering jobs, civil engineering skills, Engineering, engineering field, engineering skills, engineering student, imitate engineers, preparing yourself, student questions, successful people, water resource engineer, water resource management

Learn about Project Management to Enhance Your Engineering Career

October 3, 2016 By EMI

Project ManagementWhether you want to become a project manager or not, you’ll be running a project at some point in your life and in one of your capacities.  It might be in the role you hold at your firm, or in the role you occupy in a technical or professional organization, or even a role you fill in a community group.  The point is, many of activities we undertake are projects.  That is, they are what Project Management International (PMI) defines as a, temporary in that it has a defined beginning and end in time, and therefore defined scope and resources.  A project is unique in that it is not a routine operation, but a specific set of operations designed to accomplish a singular goal.


So the question is, do you want to approach your management of these projects in life half-assed, or with a framework that will make your management of the project more efficient?

Before I dive into one possible answer to this question (the option I’ll suggest is one worth following!), I’m not advocating earning a credential, certificate or degree in project management.  I don’t believe a practicing engineering professional must earn one of these to be proficient in applying project management concepts to efficiently bring about intended benefits to the customers and clients they serve.  What I do believe, is that one cannot leave development of a methodology of project management to on-the-job training or simple observation.

Learning about project management by osmosis might make you proficient, however, I doubt it.  Relying on casual observation to learn, internalize, and then apply knowledge in a fashion that enhances ones proficiency in any topic is a path that’s fraught with long lead-time.  Simply put, you’re going to get a better return on investment of time if you actively study project management methodology and know the basic concepts.

So how is knowing project management concepts going to make you a better engineer?

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Filed Under: Blog, Project Management Tagged With: Christian Knutson, communication, engineering career success, engineering leader, engineering skills, project management, project management fundamentals, project management methodology

TCEP 31: How to Use LinkedIn Effectively as a Civil Engineer

May 11, 2016 By EMI

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In episode 031 of The Civil Engineering Podcast, I interview Richard Poulin, a resume writer and marketing professional with 12 years experience, as well as extensive skills in using LinkedIn for professional networking.

Quotes to think about:

LinkedIn

TCEP Ep 31 Quote2(1)

Here are some tips on How to Build a Complete LinkedIn® Profile:

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Filed Under: Business Development, TCEP-The Civil Engineering Podcast Tagged With: civil engineering resume, engineering skills, LinkedIn, Richard Poulin, using linkedin for engineers

TECC 96: A Discussion on What Engineering Skills and Certifications Are In Demand

January 19, 2016 By EMI

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In today’s episode, Joe Lampinen of Kelly Services talks about the trends in the industry and what employers are looking for in the engineering industry in the way of engineering skills and certifications.

Here are some key points:

Trends in hiring:

Hollywood model/talent supply chain management – hiring just for the life of the project or particular purpose.

Open innovation – bringing in minds outside the organization who can contribute or share technical insight or vision on how an engineering problem may be solved.

Recent graduates should expect to change jobs 10x times over the course of their career. [Read more…] about TECC 96: A Discussion on What Engineering Skills and Certifications Are In Demand

Filed Under: Job Search/Salary/Relocation, Leadership/Management, TECC Podcast-The Engineering Career Coach Podcast Tagged With: employee value proposition, engineering skills, job security, Joe Lampinen, Leadership, trends, turnover

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