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U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Projections for the Engineering Profession
If I had to characterize what the next decade holds for the engineering profession here in the United States, it wouldn’t be positive. First, there’s a projected shortfall in STEM graduates. Basically,...
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What’s the Importance of Employee Alignment in Engineering?
As a manager, do you ever sit in bed at night and wonder: how much does everyone on the engineering team really care about this project? Now of course, every team member wants to be successful in their...
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Engineering Leadership Development is Key to Innovation Based Growth
Not long ago, I wrote an Introduction to Talent Management post that put that topic in the context of the engineering organization. I followed that up by looking at the question of What’s the...
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Learning and the 10,000 Hour Threshold to Become an Expert Engineer?
Do you consider yourself an expert at your job? Well, maybe that’s not the best question. Let’s try this instead. All tags and titles aside, do you consider yourself a professional’s professional as an...
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The New Management Forum at the CIC Conference
Although I’ve never been able to attend in the past, I’ve always thought that the Collaboration and Interoperability Congress (event website) took on some intriguing topics. CAD interoperability. PLM...
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Are You Losing the War for Engineering Talent?
I have to admit, I am ready to move on past all of the talk about the recession and recovery. But there’s some good news that deserves some attention. Most notably, some relatively recent research is...
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The Biggest Loser of the STEM Shortfall?
It’s now been over a week since I got back from Arizona, and COFES is still on my mind. To get an idea of what it is and what it is all about, head on over to Monica Schnitger’s Hot Topics post on...
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The Best Domestic Talent Pool for Engineering?
It seems like finding the right engineering talent for your organization is never easy. There’s the STEM shortfall issue where we aren’t graduating enough engineers to fill the roles needed...
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The Impact of Reshoring Momentum on Engineering
I remember when the initial trends towards offshoring started. Manufacturers were exploring and pursuing it behind the scenes because, as you might imagine, it was terribly unpopular. The thought of...
View ArticleTurning a Blind Eye to the Creativity in Engineering
A few months ago, I wrote a post here at engineering-matters that talked to multiple intelligences and how they relate to the engineering field. That topic struck me as important because it...
View ArticleAn Introduction to Talent Management: A Means to Stem Chaos in Engineering?
So far on this blog, we’ve talked about a lot of issues when managing an engineering organization. We’ve looked at generational issues from several different Boomer, GenX and GenY perspectives. We’ve...
View ArticleEngineering Executive Chris Weiss on Talent Management in His Organization
A couple weeks ago, I published a post introducing Talent Management in the context of the engineering organization. I honestly believe adopting more efforts like these can be the difference in...
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