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Introducing the Career Engineering Roadmap

Around me was a backdrop of pirate ships, crystal-clad dancers, and LED arrays lighting the glass facades of steel towers sparkling with the reflections of taxis, storefront signs, and digital camera flashes. One couldn’t have hoped for a more visually...
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LeChâtlier’s Passport: Working Across Cultures

Recently at a dinner in a “small” Chinese town of just under three million people, I sat around a table with colleagues representing seven countries, speaking Mandarin Chinese, English, French, Korean, Flemish, German, Russian, and Dutch....

Letter to a (Graduating) Young Engineer

Dear Recently Minted Engineering Graduate, I use the term “minted” not lightly, but as an indication of value and of stability. Just as the strength of a currency defines the economic stability of a country, the strength of your skills, having...
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The Recession-Proof Engineer

In March of 1970, Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) presented the concept of a CORElator: certain scientists with the technical background to expand and apply their skill-sets across multiple disciplines. In 2003, then editor-in-chief of C&EN...
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Surviving Professional Decline: How Tough is Your Parachute?

In the present economic straits, even some of the most robust corporations have just now begun to start climbing up out of the embers. Of the many books on the subject that have appeared, Jim Collins’s How the Mighty Fall , captures the act of collapse...

The Thinking Engineer’s Holiday Guide to Taking Time Off

The end of the year is upon us, but before you devote all your free time to catching up on episodes of Lost or making round-trip sojourns to the eggnog punch bowl, consider a few other ways to make the most of your holiday gift of Outlook-calendar free...

What Poets Can Teach Engineers About Career Development

I am getting good at being blank, Staring at all the zeroes in the air. - Billy Collins Former Poet Laureate of the United States Collins’s “zeroes” are less about currency than they are about being current or rather, motivating oneself...
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