Nobody hands you a mentor. Noelia Gozalo worked out her first engineering years alone, and she calls that the hard...
Authentic Leadership for Engineers: Visibility, Feedback and Trust
Saskia Slotboom wanted to study psychology. Architecture also looked interesting. Her maths and physics were good, her...
Spare the Details: Explaining Technical Work to Non-Technical Stakeholders
Most engineers do not lose time on the technical problem. They lose it on the explanation. Johan Bel knows that...
Multilingual Engineering Projects: How Three Countries Build in Three Languages
Most engineers accept that international projects run in English. Then they meet a project that runs in three...
How to Choose a Technical Translator: What Engineers Should Look For
Your specification goes out for translation. It comes back in French. You cannot check it, so you sign it off and...
Career Advice for Engineers Moving to Denmark (and Beyond)
If you're an engineer thinking about a move to Denmark, or you're already there and confused about why interviews keep...
How Technical Translators Work: The Unsung Heroes of Engineering
Clients ask Olivia to translate their documents all the time — a tender spec, a contract, a manual. She always says...
Authentically Aussie: How Engineers Get Hired in Australia
Thinking about moving to Australia as an engineer? The timing might be better than you think. Australia is short on...
All Your Ducks in a Row: Language Barriers & Home Buying Abroad
Highly educated, highly capable professionals still freeze up mid-sentence in a foreign language. That's the starting...
Vienna Waits for You: Reinventing an Engineering Career
In this episode of English for Engineers, I sit down with Andrea Zimmerl, a fellow Viennese and a fellow engineer, who...
Junk the Jargon: Why Engineering Jargon Isn’t Clear
In this episode of English for Engineers, I sit down with Becky Paroz, a 30-year veteran of the Australian...
Why Logic Alone Can’t Hold Your Team Together
In this episode of English for Engineers, I sit down with Catherine Stagg-Macey, executive coach, team coach, and...
Let the Drawings Speak: How Engineering Culture Changes Across Borders
In this episode of English for Engineers, I catch up with an old schoolmate, Christian Urich, a civil and...
Lost in Translation: How Culture Shapes Business Communication
You can have perfect grammar and still get completely misread. That's the whole premise of these two episodes — one...