Professional Development
Professional Development
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So, I work for a company that is not really a traditional engineering firm. We only have about 4 PE's and 3 EI's who do actual engineering work. My question to the group is how much Professional engineering development does your company want you to have? Not what is req'd by the licensing boards of your state but what your company wants you to get. I am trying to set a standard up for the engineers in my company as to what they can expect for the company to provide for them (mainly compensation and time off to go to class or seminars). Is there a standard in your company or does it depend on your position? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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RE: Professional Development
Here. Not so much.
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Greg Locock
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RE: Professional Development
What should I do?
RC
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RE: Professional Development
Current company; less than 5 days/yr
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RE: Professional Development
I'm going to a seminar in a couple months. I went to the NCSEA conference. I go to our local SEA meetings (about 5-6 times per year. We sometimes have ASCE webinars.
RE: Professional Development
My new job is sending 3 people to take classes onces a week, I think they are planing on me being one of the three.
RE: Professional Development
Keep track of micro/macro seminars presented by your local SEA and attend those that are beneficial for the type of work you do. Invite vendors for their product seminars (often free sandwiches for everyone). For costly seminars, send one or two senior staff to attend and they can present in-house seminars for rest of the staff.
Professional development doesn't have to be anything formal. Informal discussions about do's and don't's, standard company procedures, etc all contribute to one's professional development.
Also, topics do not necessarily have to be technical. Business and risk management aspects in this industry can help many engineers step up to the next level.
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RE: Professional Development
I have been to a manufacturing brown bag seminar where I learned their manufacturing process, equipment, what they have typically in stock, ...ect. So now when I design, I have a better scope of what to do and not to do.
Tobalcane
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RE: Professional Development
The company I work for has a 2 year training/development program for engineers, but from what I hear it takes 5 years in this department (field P&C) before you can expect to feel comfortable in most tasks.
RE: Professional Development
My experience is that an engineer should strive to attend 5-10 seminars in town a year, and give one either internally or externally to the company. If you get a good topic then you can find yourself presenting at the national conventions without much trouble. I've been invited to three, and I'm only 10 years out of school for my BSCE.
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In addition, we got all the typical safety training stuff (fall arrest, lock-out etc etc)
Otherwise, it was the standard "sink or swim" stuff.
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Syl.