Career Development

Published on April 17, 2024 Join the PCS Chapter of IEEE Philadelphia on May 29, 2024  at 7pm Eastern time for a book review and discussion. Topics include Nakamura’s Brilliant! and  Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People. ZOOM:Topic: Engineering Book Review/Discussion: PCS Chapter of IEEE ...

Published on April 10, 2024 Senior Member is the highest grade of IEEE membership for which a member can apply.  Only 10% of the 400,000 members of IEEE are Senior Members.  We would love to see more of our colleagues in the Professional Communication Society applying ...

Published on February 28, 2021 Moving from Student to Engineer: Part 2 By Robert Lyons, Technical and Management Consultant, and Nancy Barr, PhD On top of their day jobs, engineers are often called on to work on the proposals to win business that keeps the company alive. Engineering ...

Published on February 13, 2021 Moving from Student to Engineer – Part 1 By Robert Lyons, Technical and Management Consultant, and Nancy Barr, PhD The differences between academic and industrial communication projects seem to be in scope and scale of content, size and number of teams, duration of ...

Published on January 26, 2021 By Nancy Barr, PhD, and Robert Lyons, Technical and Management Consultant. A common question of engineering students nearing graduation involves negotiating. They want to know whether it’s okay to negotiate when they receive a job offer, how to negotiate without offending, i.e., ...

Published on December 13, 2020 For many, the fundamentals of everyday work experienced a seismic shift in 2020-2021. This short series will cover updated information about best practices for engineering, scientific, and business online presentations given the major shifts towards ongoing remote work circumstances. From online ...

Published on May 22, 2018 Ethics has long been acknowledged as central to engineering education; yet current approaches to teaching engineering ethics fail to understand the the psychological and philosophical literature about how ethics are learned. The three dominant modes may be identified as: The ethical theories ...

Published on June 19, 2017   In a previous post, I wrote about your job application as an argument, and showed how we could use a rhetorical framework established by Stephen Toulmin to help your cover letters do a more effective job of connecting your evidence to ...

Published on February 7, 2017 The first quarter is traditionally a strong hiring season for companies, and also a time when people turn to thoughts of new jobs and career paths. Professional communication skills are key to taking advantage of those opportunities, particularly in engineering and the ...

Published on September 22, 2016 Ron Blicq performs one of the roles in a difficult conversation. Ron Blicq has been integral to the development of technical writing as a field, and to the IEEE Professional Communication Society. It’s no wonder that our award for Distinction in Technical Communication ...

Published on July 24, 2015 In this podcast, we discuss the role that communication skills play in determining success for engineers with Anthony Fasano, author of the IEEE-Wiley series book, Engineer Your Own Success: 7 Key Elements to Creating an Extraordinary Engineering Career, and strategies for improving communication skills ...