List of Contributions

GPA matters to some employers. Does it matter to the student? It may actually represent one's grasp of the body of knowledge or it may mean that person is good at studying and test taking but is totally lost in applying the knowledge. It is most important you actually understand the material and how ...

I am constantly amazed ASCE still has to bring this issue up using buzz words. Apparently U.S. News & Wold Report's university rankings are horrendous and engineers have been going to the wrong schools for the past 40 years. I was taught "sustainability" principles as a part of the overall curriculum ...

In my experience, the gender wage gap disappeared in the 1980’s. Every firm I worked for offered the job to the best qualified candidate regardless of their gender and offered them all competitive salaries based on the local position wage scale. Pay was either consistently lower than other firms ...

Natalya, From a very brief and simplified perspective outlined below, I would say primarily liability and regulation. A person would need to be a registrant in that state, carry adequate professional liability insurance for their work (many contracts require the prime consultant to require subconsultants ...

Not to sound snarky but a big issue / reason almost every discussion about this subject ignores is the industry doesn't need more managers. The ratio of managers to staff requires a natural decrease simply because there are less positions. One manager to 10 to 15 positions, means that even if all the ...

First job, 4 years. Moved on due to spouse allergies in locale. Moving for a spouse was maybe worst mistake I've made. Firm had loyalty to staff and vice-versa but economy didn't want to cooperate. Very large regional firm. Second job, 8 years. Ownership management was a geographic clique and management ...

Sorry, I am so late to this conversation. Stephanie, it really depends on what one wishes to do in their career. However, it also has to do with your degree's age and program structure. Current U.S. bachelor degrees have less credit hours than previous ones, thus less education. If you graduated since ...

Well, given the stated facts, this isn't an ethical issue. This is a supervisory management issue example. A few observations / expressions of professional opinion. 1) The firm either does not inform their new staff of the firm's review procedures (extremely poor management and professionalism) or ...