Category: Career & Interviews
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What Degree Should You Get for Controls Engineering?
If you Google or ChatGPT this question, you will most likely get an answer along the lines of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Mechatronics as the most common backgrounds for controls engineers. And while that’s not wrong, in my experience it doesn’t paint the full picture of how things actually work in the aerospace industry,…
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Career Pyramids
and the rising need for generalists What Is a Career Pyramid? A career pyramid is like a career ladder, except it is wide. Instead of only moving up, you can move up or across. Moving up the pyramid signifies depth in a specific field—say, power electronics—while moving across signifies breadth, such as hardware product development,…
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The Art of Networking
I started networking before I even knew I was networking. I didn’t have connections in the engineering field, so 18-year-old me had to find ways to understand what I was getting myself into. I started off by asking friends and family who they knew so I could chat with them and learn about this very…
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