What to Do in Your Engineering Career When You Don’t Know What to Do
This post was inspired by a recent conversation that I had with one of our Institute for Engineering Career Development (IECD) members. She is a young engineer and not sure what direction to go in her engineering career. She is considering various questions, such as: What specific discipline in her engineering field should she go […]
At The End of Your Engineering Career Will You Say I Wish I Hadn’t Worked so Hard
What do you usually think about how you would like to finish your engineering career? Would you like to finish your engineering career as an expert in your profession but without personal experience? Today we talk about what many people often regret at some point in their lives… An engineer that I met during one […]
Selecting an Engineering Company: Does Size Matter?
Last week I attended the 11th annual ASCE Younger Member CEO forum at Columbia University in New York City. The topic for the evening was: Selecting an Engineering Company: Does Size Matter? There was a panel consisting of high-level executives from some of the largest companies in the world as well as some smaller engineering […]
From Design Engineer to Manager in 2012 – You Can Do It!
I have received many questions recently through the different social media outlets to the effect of, “How do I go from design engineer to manager in my engineering career?” It’s a great question and one that many engineers ask. In my career travels as a design engineer, and the last few years as an Engineering […]