How much are you willing to invest in your success? Structural engineers spend $10s, if not $100s of thousands preparing to launch their careers technically. And that is usually sufficient for the first five years of a career. Beyond this, what are you personally investing to enhance your career and your practice? For our practices, firms, and companies to grow and thrive requires competent people, 21st-century solutions to address 21st-century problems, business savvy, and more. Ensuring a strong pipeline of people, solutions, and business aids necessitates collective investment. No one firm can accomplish this alone. This is where the SEI Futures Fund comes in.
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Author Archives : Anne M. Ellis, P.E., FACI, F.ASCE
Anne Ellis is the Executive Director of the Charles Pankow Foundation and serves as an outside director on the boards of Alpha Corporation and GEI Consultants. In addition, she is chair of the SEI Futures Fund Board, serves on the ASCE Industry Leaders Council, and is chair of the Board of Directors of the National Institute of Building Sciences.
Introducing the SEI/ASCE Global Practice Guide
Did you know in some countries the workweek is Saturday – Thursday? That some countries use decimal commas where others use decimal periods when writing numbers of 4 places or more? That some countries have neither national, regional nor local building codes nor standards? When working outside the U.S., local practices, different from our own, can wreak havoc on structural engineering projects if not adequately anticipated and addressed. In consideration of such, some may ask, why work outside of the U.S.? …
How Performance-Based Design Will Shape Our Future
Meeting and getting to know leaders of our profession – authors of textbooks, chairs of committees, ENR newsmakers – is one of the many perks of SEI engagement. In sharing insights from recent conversations with leaders helping to shape our future, I intend to inspire you to join in. …