The Engineering Career Coach Podcast

Image by jcomp on Freepik In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I will give you some strategies that will help you filter content consumption in your engineering career. In our Take Action Today segment at the end of the show, I will give you a tip on how to be more aware […] The post The Dos and Don’ts of Content Consumption in Your Engineering Career – Ep 044 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

Image by senivpetro on Freepik In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I talk about why credentials are so important in your engineering career and give you some tips on how you can obtain the right ones. I will also share with you my public pledge on one of my 2015 goals at […] The post Three Reasons Why Credentials are Important and Three Strategies on How to Get Them – EYOS Part 2 of 7 – Ep 043 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I give you the one key that you must know in order to controlling your destiny in your life. “Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.” – Pablilius Syrus In our Take Action Today segment at the end of the show, I will […] The post The Key to Controlling Your Destiny in Your Life and Engineering Career – Ep 042 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I provide seven steps that you can use to set powerful personal and professional goals or revisit existing goals for the upcoming year. This episode is the first in a series of seven where I am going to walk through the seven key elements to creating […] The post 7 Steps to Engineering Powerful Personal and Professional Goals – EYOS Part 1 of 7 – Ep 041 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I help a young electrical engineer develop a plan for shifting his career from a domestic position to an international engineering career. Fadi is a 28 year-old electrical engineer from New York City. He is originally from Iraq and received a scholarship for a Master’s degree […] The post Strategies for Shifting Your Engineering Career from Domestic to International – Ep 040 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I interview Sam Lytle who is an engineer turned entrepreneur. Lytle discusses the benefits of how being an entrepreneur can help you as an engineer, whether you’re a business owner or a recent graduate. The Take Action Today segment of this episode provides tools that you can […] The post How Being an Entrepreneur can Help you in your Engineering Career with Sam Lytle, PE of CivilFX- Ep 039 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I will finish my interview with historian Clifford Zink who wrote The Roebling Legacy and bring you 10 more characteristics that made John Roebling a great engineer. In this second half of the interview, Clifford discussed Roebling’s projects and proposals and how he exhibited these characteristics […] The post 18 Characteristics that made John Roebling one of the Greatest Engineers of All Time – Part 2 of 2 – Ep 038 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I visit the Roebling Museum and interview a historian who has written a book about John A. Roebling, one of the greatest engineers of all time to find out what made him great. This is the first half of the interview, which includes 8 of the […] The post 18 Characteristics that made John Roebling one of the Greatest Engineers of All Time – Part 1 of 2 – Ep 037 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

Image by Lifestylememory on Freepik In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I interview Sandra Abdalian of YourCareerEngineer.com. Sandra discusses the three pillars that you can use to create the engineering career and life you’ve always wanted. “You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is […] The post Three Pillars That Will Help You Live the Engineering Career and Life You Love – Ep 036 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

Image by jannoon028 on Freepik In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I interview a chemical engineering student who raised over $88,000 to take her dream of empowering young women and make it a reality. “An idea can only become a reality once it is broken down into organized, actionable elements.” “Most ideas […] The post 4 Steps for Taking Your Idea and Making It a Reality in Your Engineering Career – Ep 035 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I interview Matt Tenney and learn how he has used his five and a half years in a military prison to transform his life and career to where he is today. The Take Action Today segment of the show will give you a simple tip on […] The post How a 5.5 Year Prison Sentence Inspired Author Matt Tenney to Become a Servant Leader – Ep 034 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I am going to help a younger engineer in Florida take her biggest challenge as a military spouse and leverage it into something positive. “Everything negative – pressure, challenges – are all opportunities for me to rise.” – Kobe Bryant The Take Action Today segment of […] The post How To Turn Your Biggest Challenge in Your Engineering Career into Your Biggest Opportunity – Ep 033 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I am going to challenge you to work only four hours per day for one week. “Success is actually a short race, a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.” “It is not that we have too little […] The post A Challenge to Work Four Hours a Day in Your Engineering Career – Ep 032 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I discuss work-life balance, a topic that I am very passionate about. My guest is Julie Cohen, author of Your Work, Your Life …Your Way and an expert on this topic. “Thinking about work as a day job has made a big difference in the way […] The post Seven Keys to Developing Work-Life Balance in Your Engineering Career – Ep 031 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I am going to provide you with specific steps for building your willpower and creating positive habits with my guest Leo Gura, who is a personal development expert and has over 200 videos on YouTube. “When you control your thoughts, you control your mind. When you […] The post How to Build Willpower and Create Positive Habits that Move You Closer to Your Engineering Goals with Leo Gura – Ep 030 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In this bonus session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I am going to summarize the panel sessions on communication and networking from our recent Institute for Engineering Career Development meetup in San Diego. The Take Action Today segment of the show will give you a strategy to drastically improve your relationships – immediately. “What […] The post IECD 2014 Fall Meetup – What Our Panelists Taught us on Communication and Networking – Ep 029 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In this episode of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, my guest, Pat Sweet, is going to give out some amazing strategies with nine specific points on writing proper and meaningful e-mails. The Take Action Today segment of the show will show you how to get your message across in a way that’s easy for people […] The post Nine Steps to Writing Proper and Meaningful E-mails for Engineers – Ep 028 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I am going to give you six action items you can use to differentiate yourself in the industry. Please note, most of these actions are the opposite of what most people will tell you to do. “The job is what you do when you are told […] The post Six Action Items for Differentiating Yourself as an Engineer by Doing Things that You Are Not Always Supposed to Do – Ep 027 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In this session of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I provide the five-step process that I have utilized to overcome my addiction to e-mail in hopes that you can do the same. E-mail is a valuable method of communication, but it is also dangerous; it can seriously hamper our productivity, especially if we live in […] The post A Five-Step Process for Overcoming Your Addiction to E-mail – Ep 026 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

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 […] The post What to Do if You Are Not Getting the Engineering-Design Experience You Need – Ep 025 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.