I’m 45 now, I’ve been an engineer for over half my life. Bit by bit, I have passed into the second half of my career without ever seeing the change coming. Every once in a while I run into a discussion, in person or online, about the Millenials as the “Me Generation”, about how young [...]
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The Me Generation?
Posted in current events, employment, society, teaching, work, workplace, tagged engineering, excellence, management, society, work, workplace on 31 March, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Great Expectations…
Posted in science, teaching, tagged engineering, excellence, mathematics, science, teaching on 26 January, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Sigh. Although my students do the best they can with the background they have, I continue to be stunned at the low requirements of the American education system. A sizable portion of college and university classes here are basically remedial high school. I’m getting lots of people in their second or third year in a [...]
Career: Project management
Posted in employment, Personal, work, workplace, tagged Career, excellence, management, Personal, planning, work, workplace on 23 October, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As in many other technical disciplines, it’s a frequent career path for engineers — almost required — to move from on from pure technical work (design, analysis, number-crunching, etc.) onto project management. A long time ago as an undergrad in civil engineering, my course concentration was in construction project management. I learned the crunchy part, [...]
No, really — Fix your résumé!
Posted in employment, job search, Personal, society, workplace, tagged excellence, job search, jobs, Personal on 29 June, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Sometimes people are just so strange. In case anyone blinked and missed it, we’re in the middle of a recession, an economic downturn, whatever you want to call it. A lot of people are out looking for a job (or two) as we hit higher unemployment rates than we’ve seen in decades. And yet, people [...]
Getting good stuff for free
Posted in technology, tagged excellence, networking, planning, tools on 21 May, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here are some free online learning resources you can use to do some research, improve your skills, and share information. I like using free e-books, slide presentations, images, and videos to find cool ideas, information, and resources. Scribd — a place where you can store documents online and browse what others have uploaded. I’ve found [...]
Ada Lovelace Day
Posted in current events, science, technology, tagged activism, ALD09, ALD09post, excellence, Personal, science, women on 24 March, 2009 | 5 Comments »
So here we are — today bloggers are celebrating the heritage of Ada Byron Lovelace and other “techie” women in science, technology, engineering, and medicine. I picked women I admire and whose excellence inspired me through the years. Marie Curie Maria Skłodowska Curie, the Polish-born physicist and chemist who pioneered research in radioactivity with her [...]
Cosmos
Posted in books, science, society, technology, tagged astronomy, books, evolution, excellence, humboldt, media, physics, science, tv on 23 March, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. – Carl Sagan, Cosmos A few days ago, the free online video service Hulu made Carl Sagan’s 1980 science series Cosmos available among their releases (also available through Google Video). This is the most recent release, containing Sagan’s 1990 updates as well [...]
What is an engineer?
Posted in Personal, work, tagged Career, engineering, excellence, work on 18 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last week on LinkedIn I read a question asking (the link only works if you’re signed up on LinkedIn): What classifies an engineer? Over the years I have met some interesting people that classified themselves as engineers and I wanted to get the general consensus. My thoughts there were 2 defintions either you drive a [...]
Women in science and technology, Part 4
Posted in Personal, science, technology, tagged activism, ALD09, Career, engineering, excellence, science, women, workplace on 17 March, 2009 | 4 Comments »
(Continuing the discussion of women in science and technology from Part 3 last week, and leading up to Ada Lovelace Day.) What’s so great about it? Today I want to talk about some of the reasons science and technology are particularly interesting for women, despite any obstacles. Let’s face it: at any job that requires [...]
Book recommendation: Getting Thing Done
Posted in books, tagged books, Career, excellence, management, reviews on 9 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Based on a recommendation from Patty Huntley, the trainer at the project management class I recently attended, I picked up David Allen’s book Getting Things Done. It’s my turn now to recommend it as a very useful reading. Getting Things Done provides a very practical, down-to-earth, useful plan for getting organized and sticking to it. [...]
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