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your employability as well as your subordinates.
It is the rare engineer who has a single employer
for a whole career, and employers understand this.
So it follows that it is unreasonable to expect
engineers to accept becoming useless to other potential
employers, however invaluable they have become to
their current employer. If your skills and knowledge
are valuable only to your current employer, you
are in trouble. Sooner or later, for one reason
or another, your employer will no longer be interested
in buying those skills, and you will have no place
else to sell them. Be an adherent and proponent
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Advice
on courses and continuing education - Julie
Pollitt, NASA/Ames |
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Some
international and business perspectives on
the masters degree - Cecilia Gotama, Syska
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Many
recent graduates mistakenly believe that their education
ended with their bachelor degrees. Here is the reality.
If you want to maximize your abilities as an engineer
and your value to your company, your education will
never end.
Continuing education is an important ingredient
in staying connected to advancing technology and
in learning new skills and abilities (both technical
and non-technical). By learning and exposing yourself
to new ideas and new methods, you make yourself
more valuable to the company, as well as open up
new areas of interest for yourself. Your new knowledge
or skill might enable to you to solve problems more
quickly or help develop a new process or product
that provides the company a cost savings or produces
new revenue. And that, at its core, is what engineers
do.
Some guidelines to getting the most out of continuing
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advantage of the in-company training programs
offered to you (even if it means staying after
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Check
out your company's tuition reimbursement plan
to see if you are eligible and how to maximize
the benefits. |
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Consider
taking short courses that are applicable to
your job function offered by professional
societies like ASME or local universities.
(Many are now offered online). |
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Pursue
an advanced degree. |
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Keep
a log of all the courses and training you
complete, and make sure copies of completion
certificates are placed in your employment
file. |
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education does not guarantee job advancement. What
counts is how well you use that new knowledge in
the performance of your duties. So it is important,
when deciding on what courses or continuing education
programs to pursue, that they can be applied to
support your job function. |
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