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Agreed, although two years in can be a bit early to jump ship unless the job or company is really a dead end. At 2 years out of school, an engineer is still just getting his/her feet wet. But companies and the HR business seem to have accepted the fact that people change careers much more frequently ...

Anna - great question! I fully concur with Joseph Rozmiarek's suggestions. Codes - both construction material codes as well as design loading codes - have become much more complex in the 35 (plus....) years I've been practicing. It's a double edged sword - the additional code detail addresses ...

That's a great workspace! Companies that want their employees to spend more time in the office could learn from your employer. Manufacturers long ago learned that they can increase production efficiency by laying out assembly lines in the way that help workers produce their product most efficiently. ...

An Engineering Law course could be a good addition to a college curriculum, but the basics could probably be taught in 3 or 4 hours of a larger course, or in an ASCE student chapter lunch series. Honestly, it's a topic you don't appreciate as much in college as you do when you are out in the working ...

Hourly billing in consulting.......that was a whole new world to me when I graduated. Growing up, my father worked for the local newspaper (on the advertising/business side) and was salaried, so to me 'salaried' meant you came in, did your work, and got a check every two weeks for 1/26 of your annual ...