How Best to Engineer a New Career in 2019
Winter has gone. New Year resolutions may have been broken, but the days are getting longer and spring is in the air. The outlook is rosy. It’s a good time for people to consider their future best career options, whether they are in the right job or to reflect on how they want their […]
How to Confidently Communicate In-Person and Online for Engineers with Molly McPherson – Ep 197
In this episode, I talk with consultant and keynote speaker Molly McPherson, M.S., APR. We outline strategies to communicate more confidently and clearly, and we also discuss how you can become more effective on social media, specifically LinkedIn. These two topics can have a massively positive impact on your professional development efforts. Engineering Quotes: Here […]
How to Use Your Fear to Build Your Self-Confidence as an Engineering Professional
Building self-confidence is not easy. For many engineering professionals, comfort is a function of routine. We establish a set of sequences that we enjoy, that we know we succeed at, that will make us feel good, and that’s the end of it. But, to build true self-confidence, we need to break our routines.
Managing Mega Civil Engineering Projects and Staying Calm in the Process – Ep 112
In episode 112 of The Civil Engineering Podcast, I’m taking you with me to the offices of Louis Berger where I will be speaking with the Department Manager, Muzamil Husain, PE. We talk about the importance of managing mega civil engineering projects and how to stay calm during stressful situations. Engineering Quotes: Here are some […]
Young Engineers Moving into Management Positions
So, what is Engineering Management? Is it preparing budgets, scheduling, resource allocation and earned value management? These skills are the barometers of monitoring projects and work groups. But management principles are more defined than you’d think. Specifically:
Where Passion Meets Productivity: The Intersection Between People’s Careers and the Company Objective – Ep 196
In this episode, I will be speaking to Jakob Heuser, an engineering leader, writer, speaker and entrepreneur about the intersection between people’s careers and the company objective. For this episode we will have a guest co-host named Carolette Wright. Carolette is a mechanical engineer and she has been an avid listener of our show who […]
3 Ways to Build Your Courage Muscles for Job Search
Your job search and networking success depend heavily on how courageous you are. It calls for reaching out to strangers and starting conversations with them without any assurance that they’ll like or even listen to you. Yet, it’s important to have courage because you have to take these job search actions regardless of your […]
Five Reasons All Civil Engineers Should Gain Field Experience – Ep 111
In episode 111 of The Civil Engineering Podcast, I am going to give you five reasons why ALL civil engineers should get field experience on project sites as early on as possible in their careers. The purpose of this episode is to reinforce the importance of on-site experience for civil engineering professionals. Engineering Quotes: Here […]
Engineering Tools for Leading Top-notch Engineering Teams
Managing an engineering team can be a highly difficult task. With major responsibilities like overseeing the project’s progress and keeping track of team member’s daily work, it’s important to have a competitive mindset, the right skill set and must-have engineering tools for engineering teams. Digital tools that are helpful to engineering teams have grown in […]
Things You Need to Worry About When Running Your Own Engineering Business
Starting and running your own engineering business is always challenging. As many consultancies are small businesses, they face the same problems as similar ventures. 54% of SMB leaders have stated that acquiring talent is a problem. In the world of engineering businesses, this is just the first step in a myriad of things you […]