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Forum to discuss the “soft skills” engineers encounter throughout their career. Topics include licensure, ethics, education, client relations and career development.
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  • I understand your frustration, Haydn. I have been there too as have most of us engineers, whether civil or another discipline. While you are working on beginning your career, I am at the other end of things. I retired in 2017 after a career spent in ...

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  • Thank you for asking! Not a glitch. Just a silly design choice on the researcher's part. Rest assured, whatever response you select, that is the response that is recorded. ------------------------------ Kyle Payne Ph.D. -------------------------- ...

  • Kyle - When I click on any star, that star and all those to the left light up. Is there a bug in the survey program, or am I misunderstanding how it works? Thank you for researching this important part of engineering. -Tom Caldwell, PE [email protected] ...

  • This is a rejoinder to my earlier post – in relation to the 'foundation' aspect of integration of disciplines in engineering education. There are many outstanding lines on 'foundational' aspect, one can choose to pick. Here is an excerpt ...

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