Getting a PhD as an Engineer or Not- Engineering Career TV Ep. 10

Q: What is the value of a PhD in Engineering? Welcome to Episode #10 of Engineering Career TV. The topic for this episode is Getting a PhD as an Engineer or Not. I will spend most of the Engineering Career TV episodes answering questions that have been submitted from engineers around the world on how to rapidly […]

How to Drive Global Change as a Civil Engineer – Ep 056

Drive Global Change

In episode 056 of The Civil Engineering Podcast, I interview Sabrina Rivera, PE a civil engineer working in water resources in the Los Angeles area. We talk about how to drive global change as a civil engineer. Here are some of the questions I ask Sabrina: What made you interested in water resources? How do you […]

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 […]

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 […]

Be BIG, Serve People, and Achieve Your Engineering Success – Ep 125

Be BIG, Serve People, and Achieve Your Engineering Success

In this episode, Christian Knutson, PE interviews self-made millionaire Daniel Ally who discusses his concepts around engineering success and what it takes to achieve success in life.  We will also be talking about the books he is busy reading and how those books might change your life. Engineering Success quotes: Here are the key points […]

If Goal Setting Isn’t Working, Try Going With A Theme

It’s pretty standard fare here on TECC to espouse the benefits of setting goals.  The reason we come back to goal setting over and over is because it works.  Goals:  Define a future intended situation.  Focus resource application.  Highlight what is important.  Can help bring what we want most in life into reality. Goals can […]

3 Reasons You Must Set Your Vision Before Setting Your Professional Goals

Anthony and I are both proponents of goal setting.  We’ll each tell you that if you’re unsure of what action to take next, don’t do anything until you’ve re-focused your goals.  Why?  Goals serve as a target against which we can take aim and focus our energies.  As an engineer, setting goals must become second […]

Project Management and Goal Setting

Identifying actionable goals can be difficult if you don’t know what you want to achieve and if you don’t have a process in place.  As engineers, we know that every successful project has a clearly defined project statement, scope, and process to deliver the intended results. The skills of project management which we’ve developed in […]