The Engineering Career Coach Podcast

What makes us successful as an engineer is not solely what’s going to bring us success as a leader or a partner. We need to be really tuned in with who we are and grow in our profession. The post The Truth About Engineering Partnership: The Good, The Bad, and The Potentially Ugly – Ep 206 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

Constant communication on the things that you can improve on is very important in your career journey, and especially within the first 90 days at your firm. The first 90 days when starting a new job is like an extension of your job interview. Your managers will want to make sure that you are a good fit for the company and that they make a good hiring decision. The post Starting a New Job: How to Succeed Faster in the First 90 Days of Employment – Ep 205 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

There are ways to show your company you're ready for engineering management, but it takes extra time, dedication, focus and the ability to stretch yourself. The post How to Show Your Company You Are Ready for Engineering Management – Ep 204 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

Five Years, 260 Weeks, 1820 days, 2,620,800 Minutes. What will you do with it? What could you do with it? Where Will You Be Five Years from Now? The post Where Will You Be Five Years from Now in Your Engineering Career? – Ep 203 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

Look at the things that are important to you and determine what the 80/20 drivers are in your career and life. Do you have deadlines around them? If it is important to you, you should have a clear and defined deadline. The post How to Use Deadlines as Productivity Tools in Your Engineering Career and Life – Ep 202 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

An introvert is not simply a shy person or somebody that is not outgoing. It is someone who needs time to recharge their batteries alone after they spent a lot of time with people. The post Overcoming Limiting Beliefs and Tackling the Job Search for Rising Introverts – Ep 201 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

Ram Iyer, an engineer with a business degree, tallks about business thinking skills and the techie mindset and how you can develop these skills. The post How to Develop Business Thinking Skills for Engineers and Techies – Ep 200 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In this episode, I talk with Lisa Earle McLeod, a global expert on purpose-driven work. She is the author of five books, including the bestseller: Selling with Noble Purpose and we will be talking about how you can lead with a noble purpose, and how by doing this, you can improve your engineering career and […] The post How Engineering Professionals Can Lead with Noble Purpose – Ep 199 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In this episode, I am speaking with Chris Marshall, P.E., Regional Geotechnical Engineer at Professional Services Inc. (PSI) in Houston, Texas.  We talk about the strategies he uses when dealing with everyday distractions in his engineering career and we discuss the difference between a maker’s and manager’s schedule, and how you might utilize these different […] The post Maker’s Versus Manager’s Schedule for Engineers – Ep 198 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

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 […] The post How to Confidently Communicate In-Person and Online for Engineers with Molly McPherson – Ep 197 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

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 […] The post Where Passion Meets Productivity: The Intersection Between People’s Careers and the Company Objective – Ep 196 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In this episode, I am going to discuss the four books that I am currently reading and how these books, or really how my reading process may help you as an engineer. I decided to create this episode because engineers are constantly asking me what I am reading or what books they should be reading […] The post The Four Books That I Am Reading Now and How They Can Help You as an Engineer – Ep 195 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In this episode of The Engineering Career Coach Podcast, I outline two different approaches to professional development efforts. I explain the advantages and disadvantages of each of these approaches, and how you can use them to increase your overall success in your engineering career and life. Engineering Quotes: Here are the 2 different approaches to […] The post Do You Prefer Sprinting or Jogging with Your Professional Development Efforts? – Ep 194 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In this episode, I talk with Jim (a false name used to keep our guest anonymous), a young engineer who had to spend some time in prison soon after he graduated college. We talk about everything he went through while in prison as well as the things he learned and how his experiences have contributed […] The post What Prison Has Taught This Young Engineer and How it Can Help You- Ep 193 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In this episode, I talk with Rich Archbold, senior engineering director at Intercom. We talk about an article he wrote called: “Engineers quit managers, not companies. Don’t let that manager be you.” Engineering Quotes: Here are some of the key points discussed about why engineers quit managers and not companies: One of the most important […] The post Why Engineers Quit Managers Not Companies – Ep 192 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In this episode, I talk with award-winning journalist and host of the Peggy Smedley show, Peggy Smedley about cyber-security and hacking and how it affects us as engineers in our work as well as in our personal lives. Engineering Quotes: Here are some of the key points discussed about hacking and how it puts our […] The post Hacking and How It Puts Our Engineering Systems at Risk – Ep 191 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In this episode, you will be listening in on a conversation between myself and Christopher Geiger, PE who is an Engineering Director with Lockheed Martin on a pretty interesting topic that we haven’t talked about much on the podcast which is sustaining long term projects with short term technology. He will also tell us about […] The post Sustaining Long Term Projects with Short Term Technology with Christopher Geiger – Ep 190 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In this episode, I talk with Paul Axtell about something all engineers are involved in, which is meetings.  Not just the “M-word”, these are the individual and team interactions that make projects happen, and Paul provides us with some great take-aways you can use to take your meetings from ordinary to extraordinary. Engineering Quotes: Here are some […] The post Taking Your Meetings from Ordinary to Extraordinary – Ep 189 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In this episode, I speak with Professor Jim Tinjum, who is the Associate Chair of the Department of Engineering Professional Development at University of Wisconsin-Madison. We talk about his roughly 1300-mile, 14-day bike trip across the Upper Midwest and what made him decide to take this bike ride for sustainability. Engineering Quotes: Here are the […] The post Taking Action – A Bike Ride for Sustainability – Ep 188 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.

In this episode, I talk with Adam Zach, PE, a project engineer at an environmental engineering firm in Grand Forks, North Dakota. We talk about the importance of goal setting for engineers and how setting goals has greatly contributed to his success in his career, but even better Adam shares his process in this episode, […] The post Goal Setting for Engineers Based on One Engineer’s Proven Process – Ep 187 appeared first on Engineering Management Institute.