by Pat Sweet | Sep 17, 2014 | Article, Professional Development
[Note from Pat: This is a guest post from a colleague of mine, Joel Erway. Joel is an expert in helping engineers pass their Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam, a must-do if you want to become a professional engineer in the United States.] I have dealt with many...
by Pat Sweet | Aug 23, 2014 | Article, Careers
[Note from Pat: Today’s post is from Rebecca Martin on how to get a management position. She is the community outreach coordinator for the University of North Carolina’s MBA online program. Becca graduated from Loyola University in Maryland with a B.A. in...
by Pat Sweet | Aug 2, 2014 | Article, Project Management
In the world of engineering, most of us work in a “project environment”. That is to say, most of our work consists of a series of distinct, unique endeavours to accomplish some specific goal. That could be to design a new product or service, for...
by Pat Sweet | May 14, 2014 | Article, Project Management, Systems Engineering
As much as I hate to admit it, engineers are fallible (Gasp!). I know, I know, we spent years in school learning second order derivatives, every function possible in Excel, and have the Greek alphabet memorized. But still, it happens from time to time that we...
by Pat Sweet | May 1, 2014 | Article, Leadership, Productivity, Project Management, Systems Engineering
Do you work in an environment with high levels of uncertainty? Uncertainty is characterized by high complexity (that is, many players or factors are at work) and high instability (things can change in a moment). If you have both complexity and instability, you have...
by Pat Sweet | Apr 20, 2014 | Article, Business Skills, Leadership, Professional Development
[Note from Pat: This is a guest post from Carl Friesen, principal of Global Reach Communications Inc.] Many engineers believe strongly that technical excellence is their path to career success. So they focus on technical aspects such as accuracy in measurement,...
