Last year, I was sitting at a table full of women who were in some way or another involved in product development at my company. We were chatting, sharing stories about our experiences, and getting to know each other. It was a nice casual way to spend a lunch break. One woman was sharing her background. She was an engineer whose job was to do a lot of calculations and diagrams. But in the middle of explaining this, she made…
Welcome to the inaugural post of my blog, The Bold Engineer! Why “The Bold Engineer,” you might ask? Because there are many kinds of engineers: mechanical engineers, chemical engineers, electrical, industrial, civil, computer, audio, aerospace, naval…the list goes on and on. The number of different areas in which engineers exist is huge. And these engineers are many things: creative, curious, analytical, problem solvers, hard workers, team players. But what I’ve learned is that for any engineer to be good at…