Life of a successful engineer
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There are many paths you can take as an engineer. Those paths can be quite different depending on the discipline you pursue, the type of role you aspire to have, and the industry you work in. That said, there are common characteristics that are present in all successful engineers. Here are 12 of the most important.
1. Insatiable Curiosity
Engineers want to know how things work. They also want to make things better, more efficient, and more effective. They are the driving force behind innovations in a vast range of industries, but everything starts with that curiosity of figuring out how and why.
2. Continuously Seeks to Improve
In most fields of engineering, best practices, technologies, and the requirements of customers change fast. As a result, engineers need to be adaptable, but it is not enough to be open to change. You also need to constantly work to improve and enhance your skillset through ongoing professional development. This can be through formal training and developme
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IT’S probably fair to say that not very many people really know what being an engineer entails. A somewhat elusive career, we always say that the world wouldn’t be as progressive as it is today without the talents of engineers – they’ve truly given us so much.
To give you an insight into the role of an engineer, at least at McGreevy Engineering, we asked our Senior Supervisor Peter Scott, who has been with us for 15 years, to lay out what a typical day in his life looks like and as you can see, it’s incredibly busy!
Q1. What time do you normally arrive at work and what’s the first thing you do?
I aim to arrive 10 minutes before the day starts at am. The very first thing I do during this time is to get all the machines switched on and on a warm up cycle.
Q2. Take us through a typical day – what does it look like for you?
After turning all the machines on first thing, I head to my desk, check my emails and log into our ERP
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Early Life as an Engineer and my path to Entrepreneurship
I started my bachelor’s in civil engineering in , more than 15 years ago. I wanted to become a civil engineer, design new vägar, buildings, power plants, and fancy high-rise buildings. “Design” is a core concept in the civil engineering curriculum, where students learn to calculate loads, predict capacities, and optimize their precise solutions in very specific cases. In doing so, they become familiar with another concept, “risk”. In school, engineering students learn how to identify risk, quantify it, and attempt to minimize it within their design.
As for precision, it is an important aspect of every engineering solution. Every great design, whether it fryst vatten a high-rise building, a modern vehicle, or a personal computer is built with noggrannhet in mind. A perfect design has precision in every detail, from aesthetics to core functions.
Another aspect of life as a civil engineer is learning to work as a team member.