Personal skills are as crucial as technical skills for a successful career in engineering, and paves the way for successfully navigating the business world. Discover how to:

• Develop skills that are necessary to effectively run a meeting and manage a committee.
• Apply the best practices for time management and priority setting of tasks
• Better manage your online persona and learn how it can assist or affect your career
• Plan your finances and investments

Decision-makers are frequently looking to engineers for advice to improve public policies. Discover:

• How a legislation is drafted, introduced, and debated in Congress
• The major policy issues and contentions of current interest, and why you should care
• The role engineers play in informing and shaping public policy and how to get involved

Staying involved in a professional society adds value to your career. However, becoming a leader improves your professional net worth and profile. Discover how:

• A professional society—such as IEEE—can help you in your professional and personal growth
• Staying involved with a professional organization is a value to you and your profession

Innovation is a complex theoretical concept but can be learned by practice like any other art or science. Discover how to:

• Capitalize on your professional training and creativity to become an innovator
• Learn from the success and failure of others
• Incorporate elements and practices of other cultures and professions (such as arts, humanities, media, and sociology)

In a world of short attention spans, it is crucial to create and communicate a message that sticks. Learning how to communicate effectively will multiply the impact of your work. Discover how to:

• Master the art of storytelling
• Deliver better presentations
• Improve written communication
• Leverage social, traditional, and other media effectively
• Use these skills to help improve the public understanding of engineering and its impact

Engineers play a major role in advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. Discover how to:

• Play a role in reducing poverty and hunger, improving infrastructure, and addressing environmental and economic challenges
• Become a global citizen and an ambassador for the engineering profession.