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Are you Focused on Moving your Engineering Career Forward, Every Day?

January 10, 2018 By EMI

Are you Focused on Moving your Engineering Career Forward, Every Day?

Odds are if you’re like most engineers, you show up at work each day, solve problems, go home, and then come back the next day and repeat that process. Obviously, I am simplifying things here. Within that, ‘solve problems’ generalization, lie thousands of amazing projects, inventions, and solutions that move our world forward. Engineers create extraordinary things. But what career-related items do you partake in outside of your engineering projects, and how you do you decide when or why to execute them and move your engineering career forward?

TCEP 072: Raise the Bar: Closing the Education Gap for the Future Civil Engineer

December 6, 2017 By EMI

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Raise the Bar: Closing the Education Gap for the Future Civil Engineer

In episode 72 of The Civil Engineering Podcast, I talk with Kelly Dooley ASCE’s Director of the Raise the Bar initiative and Brad Aldrich from Aldrich + Elliott on ASCE’s Raise the Bar initiative which is focused on closing the education gap for future civil engineers. We will also be answering some questions from the ASCE LinkedIn group on the Raising the Bar initiative. [Read more…] about TCEP 072: Raise the Bar: Closing the Education Gap for the Future Civil Engineer

What to do After you’ve Lost your Engineering Job – Engineering Career TV Ep. 22

August 7, 2017 By EMI

Q: What can I do after I’ve lost my Engineering Job?

Welcome to Episode #22 of Engineering Career TV. The topic for this episode is What to do after you’ve lost your Engineering Job.

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 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: What to do after you’ve lost your Engineering Job, which is based on a question from Christopher, who asks the following: [Read more…] about What to do After you’ve Lost your Engineering Job – Engineering Career TV Ep. 22

TECC 137: How to Make Career Changes in Your Engineering Career

December 2, 2016 By EMI

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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 what I can do to get a job in an international firm?

Answer:

Make sure you have the right credentials.
Do your research on companies that work internationally, and build your network around those people.
Use LinkedIn to build your network around firms that do international work.
Reach out to your Alumni association for engineers that works internationally .

TECC 99: Engineering Degree and Credential Questions – Special Q&A Series from Engineering Management Institute and the WPI MBA Program 3 of 6

February 5, 2016 By EMI

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This podcast is the third of six special Q&A Series which air every first Friday of the month in addition to our regular episodes through May 2016. I answer more questions from our listeners asking for career advice.

Here is the summary of the questions and answers I’ve discussed in this session: [Read more…] about TECC 99: Engineering Degree and Credential Questions – Special Q&A Series from Engineering Management Institute and the WPI MBA Program 3 of 6

TECC 025: The Engineering Career Coach Podcast – What to Do if You Are Not Getting the Engineering-Design Experience You Need

August 12, 2014 By EMI

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In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I give a young engineer some guidance on concerns she has, including lack of engineering-design experience and which master’s degree is best to pursue.

While much of my content on this site focuses on the development of core or nontechnical skills, getting the proper technical and engineering-design experience is also important as an engineer, especially when you are starting your career. Unfortunately, many engineers get trapped in a job in which, for whatever reason, they are not getting this experience. This session offers engineers with this dilemma some strategies for overcoming it.

“A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.” – Elbert Hubbard

The career-changing tip at the end of the show will not only challenge you to take action in your career but will force you to do it in a big way.

Listen to this session and learn: [Read more…] about TECC 025: The Engineering Career Coach Podcast – What to Do if You Are Not Getting the Engineering-Design Experience You Need