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Flying High: How to Build Travel Rewards as a Consultant

Tom Spencer

If you are transitioning into consulting from school or a job in industry or government, you will likely begin traveling more than ever. Sure, maybe you have gone to a few conferences or travelled to your company’s annual meeting, but once you begin a consulting career you will be on the road much more frequently than before.

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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

These include offsetting greenhouse gas production by purchasing carbon credits, investing in more efficient gas turbine engines, using sustainable aviation fuel, and manufacturing with novel materials and 3D printing methods. When it comes to understanding the carbon footprint of these aircraft, the primary culprit is the engine.

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Our engineering ratchet

Seth Godin Blog

Quietly, over the last thirty years, engineering has become dramatically more efficient and effective. Insulated glass, cars that don't break down, keyboards with just the right feel to them… Mechanical, electrical and chemical engineering are all moving faster than ever. The ratchet turns the ratchet.

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Boeing Starliner Failure: Lessons for Your Lean Program

Markovitz Consulting

The problem with this engineering marvel? The spacecraft’s internal clock became unsynced with the overall “mission elapsed timing” system, so the Starliner failed to fire its engines at the correct time to reach orbit. No, the problem was with the internal clock.

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Consultant Profiles Series: Billy Gerhard

Tom Spencer

in Civil and Environmental Engineering in the Gunsch Lab from Duke University. in Environmental Engineering from UNC-Chapel Hill. Just being around a bunch of business terms will greatly help the transition from engineering or another field to business. In 2019, he received his Ph.D. in Biology and a M.S.P.H. Image: Pixabay.

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What Managers Can Do to Keep Women in Engineering

Harvard Business

Engineering faces a serious gender-based retention problem. Despite all the efforts encouraging women to study engineering, over 40% of highly skilled women who enter the field end up leaving. In 2014 we interviewed 34 women engineers in two FTSE 100 firms in the UK. vgajic/Getty Images.

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Before Day 1: Taking Advantage of the In-Between

Tom Spencer

Since everyone has a unique financial situation, amount of free time, and ability to travel, some of these suggestions will be more applicable to you than others. Speaking of travelling, this is obviously an attractive, but expensive, option. Learn a new skill, try a new activity, give back, travel, or consult.