Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge


Book Description

This report outlines 21 foundational, technical, and professional practice learning outcomes for individuals entering the professional practice of civil engineering.




Engineer Your Own Success


Book Description

Focusing on basic skills and tips for career enhancement, Engineer Your Own Success is a guide to improving efficiency and performance in any engineering field. It imparts valuable organization tips, communication advice, networking tactics, and practical assistance for preparing for the PE exam—every necessary skill for success. Authored by a highly renowned career coach, this book is a battle plan for climbing the rungs of any engineering ladder.




Exploring Careers with Kids Activity Book: ABCs of Civil Engineering


Book Description

This is an activity book for children that provides learning and creativity. The focus of this book is civil engineering. The coloring, mazes, word searches, and crossword puzzles are all related to civil engineering topics. The book is a companion to Exploring Careers with Kids: ABCs of Civil Engineering.




Guide to Hiring and Retaining Great Civil Engineers


Book Description

The need for civil engineers has outstripped supply, and it has become increasingly difficult for firms to retain civil engineers -- particularly the best ones -- and recruit additional civil engineers to meet staffing needs. In response, the ASCE Committee on the Employment of Civil Engineers (CECE) published this guide on finding and keeping the best civil engineers. Written both by CECE members with many yearsýýý experience in both the public and private sectors, and human resource practitioners, this manual provides both the pragmatic focus of civil engineering practitioners as well as valuable contributions from specialists in the human resources field. This manual will help you to improve your organizationýýýs hiring practices and keep the good engineers you already have. Topics include: Retaining Key Civil Engineers; Recruiting; Compensation and Benefits; and Developing Your Team: Managerial Keys to Helping Junior Staff Advance Their Careers. An appendix discusses "Career Path: Moving Up the Career Ladder."




Civil Engineering Careers


Book Description




The Business of Engineering


Book Description

In The Business of Engineering, consulting engineer Matthew Loos describes the unique parallels between business and engineering strategies. Loos, an engineering leader in a fast-paced industry, explains how the strategies utilized by both titans of business and engineering greats are not all that different. Using stories, humor, and dozens of practical tips, he provides an avenue through which engineering professionals and entrepreneurs can learn valuable techniques from these seemingly different professions. In this book you'll discover: How engineers can utilize business techniques to increase their career potential Ways to analyze business problems like an engineer How to unleash your full potential by integrating the strengths of these two seemingly contrasting professions Problem solving is the key to success in both engineering and business. If you are either an entrepreneur looking for a unique approach to business or an engineer searching for a way to advance your career, this book is for you.




Outdoor Careers


Book Description

Includes individual career profiles in: agriculture and food production - biological sciences - conservation - environmental sciences - engineering - marine careers - recreation - indoor careers with an outdoor twistRevised and updatedProvides job descriptions and information about salaries, employment outlook, and educational requirements for everything from farming to forestry to meteorology. Professionals are interviewed at the end of each chapter, offering a personal look at specific jobs and insight on day-to-day responsibilities. With telephone, mail, and internet sources for job listings and other information, this makes an excellent resource for students and those changing careers.




Becoming a Green Building Professional


Book Description

A career guide for professionals in sustainable architecture, design, planning, development, and related consulting For those considering a new career or a career change focused on green and sustainable building and design, Becoming a Green Building Professional offers practical information on educational requirements, career options, guidance and tips, and first-hand interviews with green building professionals. Perfect for underemployed architects and other building and design professionals who want to reinvent and renew their careers, as well as students considering such a career, this is a vital and informative guide to a growing field.




Understanding the Educational and Career Pathways of Engineers


Book Description

Engineering skills and knowledge are foundational to technological innovation and development that drive long-term economic growth and help solve societal challenges. Therefore, to ensure national competitiveness and quality of life it is important to understand and to continuously adapt and improve the educational and career pathways of engineers in the United States. To gather this understanding it is necessary to study the people with the engineering skills and knowledge as well as the evolving system of institutions, policies, markets, people, and other resources that together prepare, deploy, and replenish the nation's engineering workforce. This report explores the characteristics and career choices of engineering graduates, particularly those with a BS or MS degree, who constitute the vast majority of degreed engineers, as well as the characteristics of those with non-engineering degrees who are employed as engineers in the United States. It provides insight into their educational and career pathways and related decision making, the forces that influence their decisions, and the implications for major elements of engineering education-to-workforce pathways.




Will the Civil Engineer


Book Description

Follow along as Will learns about how everything that is built has an engineer and how he can be one, too! Part of a STEAM career-themed picture book series.