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Retaining Student Engineers

Bucknell University and Parsons Brinckerhoff partnered to launch Engineering Success Alliance, a retention program aimed at keeping Bucknell students from under-resourced high school in engineering programs.

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9 Self-Improvement <br />Strategies for <br />Engineers

9 Self-Improvement Strategies for Engineers

Early-career engineers need to create self-improvement strategies that boost their value as employees and increase their overall competitiveness in the job market. Key elements include learning all parts of the business, mastering customer relationships, understanding the upstream supply chain, taking professional-development courses, finding a coach, and seeking out new challenges.

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A Look at Engineering <br />as a Profession

A Look at Engineering as a Profession

According to an ASME survey, engineers are optimistic about their ability to meet global challenges over the next 10 to 20 years and expect to do so by working in increasingly interdisciplinary teams of professionals.

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Groups

Basic Engineering Technical Group (BETG)

Comprised of six Divisions concerned with the application of basic engineering principles

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Applied Mechanics Division (AMD)

Energy and Technology Management Group (ETMG)

Committee on Power Boilers

Workforce Development is the effort to expand the skills and capabilities of employees in their current positions and for jobs of the future, while improving opportunities with regard to gender and race. It is engineering for change with an understanding of the ethics involved to necessitate fair hiring practices. It also anticipates trends such as a retiring workforce that will need to be bolstered by new hires, and new hires who will need training and mentoring.