Mastering the world of engineering management through blogging

When you first leave engineering school and get your first job, it’s not unusual to be a little overwhelmed. Navigating the ins and outs of a finding and managing a corporate job, along with studying for your PE exam can be stressful. Here are 16 tips to help make the rookie engineer’s life a little more manageable.

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In any field of engineering, it’s critical that you stay on top of your game. Keeping abreast of new technologies and applications is an important part of keeping your skills sharp. Using Twitter to keep up with great engineers and engineering resources is a great way to find out what’s going on. Twitter is a great resource for busy people because you get information you choose to receive and you receive it in a concise format that you can get on the go and that doesn’t take up a lot of your time.

Here are 18 engineering gurus and resources we think you’ll enjoy following on Twitter. These resources come from many different engineering disciplines, though some will be of interest to engineers in all disciplines.

1. The Engineer UK: This is a technology & innovation publication & website for engineers. They provide information on all disciplines of engineering.This is one of the UK’s foremost resources on engineering for engineers.
2. Anoop: Anoop is a software engineer in India who blogs about engineering topics.
3. Jacqui Engineer: Jacqui is also a software engineer who writes code and blogs.
4. Secret Engineer: The Secret Engineer is located in Denver, Colorado. We’re not sure what he’s keeping secret, but he does give you some insight into his engineering work.
5. ReEngineer America: This is the Twitter account and blog of a civil engineering firm in Pennsylvania.
6. Mixed by Shaud: Shaud is a recording engineer, working with up and coming music groups.
7. Engineer Anon: Lots of great information on design and engineering here.
8. Engineer Head: This is the Twitter page of an electrical engineer and blogger.
9. Get Sales Engineering Jobs: This Twitter page offers information and insight into job openings in technical sales and sales engineering.
10. Civil Engineering Site: Great tweets about civil engineering come from this site.
11. Aeorotek Engineer: Learn about engineering work and engineering jobs at this Aerotek site.Aerotek is one of the country’s largest employers of engineers. This is a great site to check out when you’re job hunting.
12. Fountain Engineer: This guy engineers, builds and installs fountains for a living. He’s got some really cool stuff. His work can be found all over the world in public parks and other public areas.
13. Summit Engineer: This is the Twitter page for the county civil engineer for Summit County Ohio.
14. Engineer Update: Engineering updates for engineers in the UK. This is a good place to find out about job openings in the UK for engineers, as well as other updates.
15. The Geek Engineer: This engineer is dedicated to software and upgrades on products like iPhone, iPad, etc.
16. Primary Engineer: This is the Twitter page of a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting engineering in elementary schools. The goal is to give kids an understanding of engineering and the skills required to pursue this field, hoping to create more of an interest in engineering for the future.
17. Electrical Engineer: This Twitter page is the link to electrical and electronic engineering information. By following this page, you’ll get links to lots of other great pages.
18. EE Compendium: Lots of great information here for electronic engineers and embedded systems programmers.

Staying current is one of the biggest challenges in engineering. While we’re off working on our projects, new technology is evolving all around us. It’s critical to keep up with it, so that your technical skills don’t become obsolete. With Twitter, you can get little snippets on the new technologies as they arise, and then follow up on the ones that pertain to your career. It’s a great way to stay up to date without spending a lot of time researching. New organizations and people subscribe to Twitter every day. So, in addition to following these engineers and engineering organizations, look for new ones as they arrive. You’re sure to find lots of great information on Twitter that you can use every day in your work and your home life.

If you have the right applications, your Android can be one of your best productivity tools. As Android developers come up with more applications, you’ll see more and more of them geared toward specific industries. Combine those industry specific applications with great general business tools, and you’ve made your Android so much more than a phone. Check out these twenty applications we think engineers will really love. (more…)

A basic criterion which is used in estimating age of a building is on the basis of the condition of the structure. Below is provided a short list of buildings that due to their conditions and archeological value has been termed as the oldest buildings of the times.

1. Shibam: It is a city in Yemen with about 7,000 habitants and dates back to 3rd century AD. In ancient time it was the capital of the Hadramawt Kingdom. The city is known for its distinguished architecture and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The entire houses in Shibam are made of mud brick but about 500 of those houses are tower houses that rise as high as to 5 to 11 stories building.  It is also referred as many a times as the “the oldest skyscraper city in the world” or “the Manhattan of the desert”, and is one of the oldest and best examples of urban planning based upon the vertical construction.
2. Giza Pyramids: The Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now El Giza, Egypt. It is oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one to remain to in its original shape from the past. It is assumed that pyramid were made as a tomb by forth dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu and was constructed over a 20 year period concluding around 2560 BC.
3. Ggantija: It is a Neolithic, megalithic temple complex on the Mediterranean island of Gozo. The ?gantija temples are the earliest of a series of megalithic temples in Malta. They are suspected to be constructed around 3600 to 2500 BC  that has made these temples to be 5500 years old and one of the oldest manmade religious structures. Along with similar structures like Megalithic Temples of Malta it is been put into the UNESCO World Heritage Site. In folklore these temples are believed to make by giants and being used as places of worship.
4. Panthenon: The Pantheon is a building in Rome that is commissioned by Marcus Agrippa as a temple to all the gods of Ancient Rome, and reconstructed by Emperor Hadrian in about 126 AD. The entire building is circular with a portico of three ranks of huge granite Corinthian columns under a pediment opening into the rotunda, under a coffered, concrete dome with a central opening having towards the sky. Despite being after nearly two thousand years after its construction the dome is world’s largest unreinfroced concrete dome.
5. Newgrange: It is a prehistoric monument situated in County Meath, on the eastern side of Ireland that is located one kilometre north of the River Boyne. It is an example of a megalithic passage tomb mound. The monument was constructed around circa 3100 and 2900 BC, during the Neolithic period, to keep the remains of the dead over there. It is suggested that Newgrange is as similar and common to the famous Maeshowe tomb in Orkney, Scotland and Bryn Celli Ddu site in Wales. It is too part of the Brú na Bóinne UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Engineers are considered as experts who better and safe solutions to practical problems by using mathematics and their scientific knowledge while at the same time keeping technical point of view of problem in their brain. According to the need of modern times there many branches of modern engineering has been developed and some of most affluent braches of modern engineering Aerospace, Agriculture, Biomedical, Chemical, civil, computer hardware, electrical and electronics, environment, industrial, material, mechanical, mining, nuclear and petroleum engineering.

With perspective of scope for job of engineering according to a survey previous year engineers were employed at as much as 3 million positions. And for entire data the prominent placements occurred as 256,000 jobs in civil engineering, 227, 000 jobs in mechanical engineering, 201,000 jobs in industrial engineering and others in remaining branches. To become an engineer at any stream or branch of engineering one should have bachelor’s degree in engineering. Though, in some exceptional cases master’s degree in physical science or mathematics is assumed to be equivalent to engineering on specific deputations and job requirements.

Other than educational requirements there are many other things that are needed for becoming an engineer as being registered as engineer for knows and recognition as a professional engineer (PE).  For becoming a professional engineer one should have degree in engineering accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET), four years of relevant work experience and successful completion of state examination according to the prescribed norms of the state. For the purpose of advancement in career an engineer as far as gain experience and knowledge works more independently and liberty. They start with making decisions, developing designs and solving problems and with span of time and experience they become technical specialist or supervisors over a staff or team of engineers and finally gets into becoming an engineering managers or go into sales job.

As far as job opportunities and future of engineering it is known that job prospect as well as scope for engineering would rise as much as possible till throughout 2016 and has become much brighter after overcoming of recession.  According to a report of US Bureau of Labor Statistics that biomedical, industrial and civil engineering would have fastest rate of growth in respects of engineering jobs in coming time. Where in agriculture, aerospace, chemical, health and safety would gain growth in field of engineering.

Salary of an engineer varies upon the branch where his location or site of working exists.  The average salary for different branches of engineering is as following Electrical: $75,930, Civil: $68,600, Mechanical: $69,850, Computer Hardware: $88,470, Environmental: $69,940, Nuclear: $90,220, Biomedical: $73,930

The world is becoming incredibly competitive at each day break and so are virtually all professions. Professionals are always seeking ways through which they can experience self-improvement as well as professional growth. The demand for engineering managers also continues to increase as the field continues to diversify quite rapidly.

Engineering managers are charged with responsibilities such as planning, designing, as well as coordinating production activities both within medium and larger engineering industries. These roles have even become more elaborate in the recent years due to the growth in scope of modern engineering projects. Spanning from data systems and urban planning, engineering managers take up the responsibility of giving guidance to engineering ventures with consummate ease. The Online Masters in Engineering Management seeks to achieve this and is designed in a way that it integrates formal academic learning, coupled with business experimental learning for meaningful and learning results.

Professionals taking this program will be opened up to a solid foundation essential for modern business and engineering management, while at the same time augmenting their engineering competency. Instruction is usually based on providing instruction in management as applied technically-based enterprises. Both qualitative and quantitative techniques are incorporated in the program as well as the strengthening of both managerial and technical skills.

Individuals are also equipped with the basic tenets of modern business environment so as to able to handle a wide array of management responsibilities. This includes areas such as finance, operations, accounting, marketing, economics and marketing. Students are also taught how to manage the technical aspects of an enterprise while focusing on problem solving skills and good relations with both technical and non-technical staff. This ensures that both management and technical skills are enhanced through the use of a balanced curriculum.

One is also equipped with essential business skills such as project management, risk analysis, contract negotiations, decision making in engineering operations, strategy and planning as well as Finance and budgeting. What the program basically does is to bring feasible engineering projects in to the market. One will also learn how to determine whether a project will bring money or not. There are online masters programs that will also require a student to undertake a final project along with the final report.