Career By Design

Based on my experience explaining to teens all the different types of work possible might help. As a young person I had a lot of energy, and desk jobs were not attractive to me. I liked solving problems. I did drafting for a while, then had to ...

I assume the premise of your question is that undergraduate engineering enrollment is down, with inherent risks of wholesale dismissal of engineering departments and/or a lack of supply to meet to future needs. From my view, the ongoing efforts to nudge ...

You're not going to motivate everyone to choose engineering, and that's okay. Making them aware that it's an option and why they might choose it will be enough to get the folks who are aligned towards it interested. I agree that sharing your personal ...

Yes, probably it's about salaries; that's a good way to attract young people nowadays. I noticed this talking with my teenagers (my daughter, she is 14, and her friends). So, they were talking about college, and you know, teens can be divided into three ...

I always think about why I was motivated to choose engineering. I enjoyed drafting, math, science, and challenging work in general. Coming from a family with no ties to engineering, I really didn't understand what civil engineering was in high school. ...