Building Project Management into your Engineering Career – Ep 132
Image of our-team on Freepik In this episode, Chris Knutson, PE will answer some questions from listeners and give advice on why engineers should consider studying and learning about project management. He will also expand on why project management will be good for your engineering career, as well as your engineering organization. Engineering Success quotes: […]
Learn about Project Management to Enhance Your Engineering Career
Whether 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 […]
Working Effectively on Multidisciplinary Projects as a Civil Engineer with Todd Hay of Pennoni Associates – Ep 022
In episode 022 of The Civil Engineering Podcast, Todd Hay, who has 23 years as a civil engineer working on multidisciplinary firms, talks about cross marketing, communicating effectively, working on proposals for multidisciplinary projects, and more. Here Are Some Key Points Discussed in This Episode About Working Effectively on Multidisciplinary Projects as a Civil Engineer: […]
Leading Change in Your Civil Engineering Career – Ep 021
In episode 021 of The Civil Engineering Podcast, Jon Weinstein, President of Line-of-Sight Consulting, talks about leading change management, what it is and why it is important to understand it in the context of an engineer involved in projects as well as management and leadership of people. Here are some key points discussed in this […]
Four Key Insights To Earning $100 000 Per Year in Your Engineering Career – Ep 074
Image by senivpetro on Freepik In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, Chris Knutson interviews Bruce Harpham and discusses career planning, increasing your ability to generate more income, and lifelong learning and certifications. We’ll also give you Four Key Insights To Earning $100 000 Per Year in Your Engineering Career. “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Viktor […]
5 Things You Can Do To Increase Focus in Your Engineering Career
One of the challenges I hear about from a lot of engineers is how to stay focused when there are so many distractions vying for their bandwidth. I can relate, the same problem exists for me! I think that any engineering professional today is going to have to come up with ways to protect their […]
Six Challenges in Managing Multi-Organizational Civil Engineering Projects and How to Overcome Them – Ep 009
In episode 009 of the Civil Engineering Podcast, we take a closer look at Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge in St. Louis, Missouri and provide project management advice from Jeff Church, PE and Gwen Lageman, PE, the engineers who worked on the project. Christian will break down the project and I will summarizes 6 challenges the project engineers encountered […]
Why Working Less on Your Projects Can Improve Engineering and Project Management Efforts
There is a stereotype in the engineering world that I would like to disprove and that is, to be successful in your engineering and project management efforts you have to work a TON of hours. I think this is totally false, and I think that this stereotype is causing a lot of engineering and project […]
9 Steps to Get A Project Back On Track
No project lasts first contact with reality, just like no military plan lasts first contact with the enemy. It isn’t because there’s a lack of good engineers and project managers. No, it’s because these good engineers and project managers didn’t properly assess risk during the planning, design and execution phases. Yesterday on Engineering.com I wrote […]
Five Must Do’s as a Project Manager in the Engineering Industry
This is a guest post by Githal Pathirana. Managing projects in any industry is a challenge. Project managers must have the ability to listen thoroughly, think quickly, and delegate properly, all while tracking results and making necessary adjustments. To say it requires a level-headed person capable of organized multi-tasking is an understatement. A project manager in […]