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Let’s Rewrite Your 2019 Career Goals

February 4, 2019 By EMI

Let’s Rewrite Your 2019 Career Goals is a guest post by Nader Mowlaee

2019 Career Goals

It’s been five weeks since we returned from the holidays. We went quickly back to our jobs, the same old routines, the same old molds. Some of us have already transitioned to a new job or a new company in January, but some still haven’t achieved what they aimed for regardless of how much they tried. If that sounds like you, then this article is for you. Before we get started though, remember that there is nothing wrong with your big 2019 career goals and dreams, so don’t ever lower your expectations. Lowering the target won’t make it easier to hit if you lack the fundamental skills. Your goals aren’t too big; they are not the problem. If you haven’t achieved them yet consider the possibility that there are still other ways that you can persist and pursue your goals. It’s what you deserve.

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Filed Under: Blog, Personal Development and Professionalism Tagged With: books, Career Goals for 2019, Career Success, Engineering Career, failure, Goals/Goal Setting, goalsetting, mentors, Nader Mowlaee, Re-evaluate Your Goals, Rewrite Your Career Goals, SMARTER goals

TECC 193: What Prison Has Taught This Young Engineer and How it Can Help You

January 8, 2019 By EMI

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What Prison Has Taught This Young Engineer and How it Can Help You

In this episode, I talk with Jim (a false name used to keep our guest anonymous), a young engineer who had to spend some time in prison soon after he graduated college. We talk about everything he went through while in prison as well as the things he learned and how his experiences have contributed to his success in his career.

Engineering Quotes:

Here are some of the key points discussed about Jim’s time spent in prison:

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Filed Under: Career Goals and Challenges, TECC Podcast-The Engineering Career Coach Podcast Tagged With: considerate, determination, different people, engineer, failure, General Education Development, giving up, Mindset, networking, PE Exam, preparing, Prison, Professional Engineer, recent graduate, situations, skills, surroundings

TCEP 087: How Civil Engineers Can Adapt to Climate Change and Its Effects on Infrastructure

June 18, 2018 By EMI

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Climate Change

In episode 87 of  The Civil Engineering Podcast, which is the second episode of our 5 episode Infrastructure Series, I talk with Professor Bilal M. Ayyub, PhD, PE, Dist.M.ASCE from the University of Maryland about how civil engineers can adapt to climate change and its effects on infrastructure.

Engineering Quotes:

Climate Change

Climate Change

Here are some of the questions I ask Professor Bilal:

  • Tell us more about risk mitigation in general.
  • How will you assess an existing piece of infrastructure against potential climate change concerns?
  • Does the government assess certain points of existing infrastructure that are more susceptible to climate change than others?
  • How do you analyze the risk associated with something as variable as climate change?
  • How can civil engineers move towards more climate-resilient designs?

Here are some key points discussed on climate change and its effects on infrastructure:

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Filed Under: Infrastructure, TCEP-The Civil Engineering Podcast Tagged With: adaptive design, Bilal M. Ayyub, changing climates, Civil Engineers, Climate Change, climate-resilient designs, Danfoss, economic analysis, failure, government, infrastructure, infrastructure assistance, RedVector, risk mitigation, safety

Getting an Engineering Job after a Hiatus – Engineering Career TV Ep. 26

September 11, 2017 By EMI




Q: How can I get an engineering job after a hiatus?

Welcome to Episode #26 of Engineering Career TV. The topic for this episode is getting an engineering job after a hiatus. 

I spend most of the Engineering Career TV episodes answering questions that have been submitted from engineers around the world on how to rapidly advance their careers and live the lives they want to live.

You can submit questions for the show by clicking here.

Let’s jump into today’s topic: getting an engineering job after a hiatus, which is based on a question from Matt, who asks the following:
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Filed Under: Engineering Career TV Tagged With: 80/20 Rule, career, career advice, career break, career objectives, career plan, engineering field, engineering job, failure, getting back to a job, hiatus, job advice, job tips, job worries, return to work, skill sets, skills, Success, work, work-life balance

5 Big Mistakes Engineers Make on the Job

July 26, 2017 By EMI

This is a guest post by Nader Mowlaee.

5 Big Mistakes Engineers Make on the JobEngineers are expected to perform at their best, if not all the time, most of it at least. Room for error in this type of career is small of course, as it can have huge negative impact on an individual project or the lives of millions of people.

It is essential to learn from our mistakes as it can help us become better engineers in our chosen paths, and the first step towards that is understanding how to become self-aware.

Everyone makes mistakes in things they do, such as daily actions and activities, their opinions towards someone or something, or judgements towards techniques and processes that result in poor outcomes, poor reasoning, and overall carelessness.

No matter how good of an engineer you are in your field, there is always going to be a time where you will make a mistake, as the famous saying goes, “Nobody is perfect.” Even machines make mistakes over time.

Mistakes Engineers MakeWhy is it important to discuss these common mistakes? Well, prevention is the best solution to avoid mistakes, and we must talk about and accept the fact that we all can be in one of these following five situations at some time during our career.

Mistakes Engineers Make

There are mistakes that you have probably committed but didn’t realize because they happened on a subconscious level and required you to push outside of your comfort-zone, but you failed to do so and hoped and prayed that nothing bad would happen, but it did. Here’s how to avoid disasters from happening again.

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Failure Lessons from Evel Knievel and How they May Apply to Your Engineering Career

August 29, 2016 By EMI

This is a guest blog post by Daniel Hayes, PE, PMP

failure

Evel Knievel is a ‘60s and ‘70’s era stunt performer and daredevil.  He was often seen on ABC’s Wide World of Sports on Sunday afternoons, jumping his motorcycle over cars trucks and buses.  A venerable showman, Knievel is most famous for the televised attempt to jump the Snake River Canyon in Idaho in a steam powered rocket.  He owns the Guinness Record for having broken 433 bones when the human body has only 206 bones.  He also literally jumped the shark, in 1977.

Knievel made more than 81 ramp to ramp motorcycle jumps from 1965 – 1977.  He was successful 63 times.  While his success percentage is high, his failures were extremely high risk.  Broken bones, punctured organs.  Yet, Knievel kept jumping.

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Filed Under: Blog, Personal Development and Professionalism Tagged With: Career Failure, Daniel Hayes, engineering career decisions, Engineering Risks, failure, Failure lessons

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