Skills needed in today's Changing World

To become successful Engineer, One need to develop both Hard and Soft skills

Hard Skills

1. Importance rating for success - 15%
2. Academic Qualifications
3. Expertise
4. Work Experience

Soft Skills

1. Importance rating for success - 85%
2. Attitude for learning
3. Motivates
4. Values
5. Adaptability

How can soft skills be acquired

1. Discover more about your personality, strengths and weaknesses and commit to creating a plan of action to address them
2. Practise presenting yourself - Your appearance and personality are as important as your knowledge about theories and concepts
3. Practice active listening, paraphrasing - pay attention to the rules of conversation; take notes to aid your understanding
4. Think big and practice your creative and innovation skills
5. Improving awareness skills reading and comprehending information
6. Remain positive - try to learn something from every experience

Characteristics of Soft - Skilled Individuals

1. Strong work ethic
2. Positive Attitude
3. Good Communication skills
4. Time Management skills
5. Problem Solving skills
6. Acting as a team player
7. Self confidence
8. Ability to accept and learn from criticism
9. Flexibility and Adaptability
10. Working well under pressure

Characteristics of successful engineering leadership

• Believable
• Dependable
• Trustworthy
• Accountable
• Integrity
• Effective
• Consistency
• likeability

all above will turn into Credibility

Hemant Gor, Compiled from Gulf News www.gnads4u.com/jobs

Interview Questions for Structural Engineers

Draw Deflected shape and Bending Moment Diagram (BMD) for following beams

Hemant Gor (GorHemant@Gmail.com)

Structural Engineer Interview Question Bending MOment Diagram

Draw bending moment and shear force diagram for above structures

Smart Google Search Tips for Engineers

We use Google to search information day in and day out. One can provide few clues to make the Google Search quick and effective. The Clues are in the form of search within particular domain (Universities: edu, ac.uk, Government: gov, gov.ae) or website or searching text within particular file format ( Excel file, Word file, Powerpoint file, PDF file)

Simple Google search for the string “tall building” will give 2.24 Million pages on the web. One can narrow down this search by providing clue to the Google.

Clue means telling Google to search within particular site/domain/country/company/university etc.

The Google Option to find the “tall building” string within domain/website are following

·         Searching within American Universities – site:edu

·          Searching within British Universities – site:ac.in

·         Searching within IIT Bombay site – site:iitb.ac.in

·         Search within Indian Companies – site:in

·         Search within file sharing website site:4shared.com

The string “tall building” can be found inside any of the following file types

·         Microsoft Word file ( Clue for Google – filetype:doc )

·         Microsoft Excel File ( Clue for Google – filetype:xls )

·         Microsoft Power Point Presentation file ( Clue for Google – filetype:ppt )

·         Acrobat PDF file ( Clue for Google – filetype:pdf )

·         Post Script file ( filetype:ps)

Examples of Using Google Smart (Advance) Search:

If one wants to find the string “tall building” within the website of Council on Tall Buildings & Urban Habitat (www.ctbuh.org), Use following information in Search box

Similarly to find the books on “Tall building” inside file sharing website 4shared.com

Searching Particular File format:

One can find only Power Point Presentation file containing the string “Tall Building” through Universities in America, using following input in Search Box

Google can help to find only PDF files containing the complete phrase “Tall Building” inside Universities in UK using following information inside search box

Searching the string “Tall Building” within Acrobat PDF files on American University websites

Use of Both filetype and site clue will make google search quick and effective

Hemant Gor, GorHemant@GMail.com