Ten Career Gems for New Reliability Engineers

Abstract

Carl and Fred discuss our top advice for those starting a role as a reliability engineer for the first time.

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Join Carl and Fred as they discuss
Topics include:

• Academic question: What do you do when you research a subject and there are no meaningful results, and nothing to publish? By what criteria should you select future projects?
• Academic question: Feel like missing something in education program, how to get out and actually apply reliability?
• There are many potential paths in a reliability career
• What should you do when you finish reliability educational program? What are the opportunities?
• Advice to new graduates or new reliability engineers: 1. Listen to successful people in your field and your company; 2. Connect with customers who actually use your product; 3. Find your network and your partners, including in marketing and finance; 4. Do a really good job where you are for minimum two years; 5. Get involved in professional organizations; 6. Don’t be afraid to talk with management; 7. Augment tech skills with soft skills (reference chapter 11 and 12 of The Process of Reliability Engineering; ; 8. Speak up if something is not going the right way (but do your research first); 9. Ask questions, be curious, learn; 10. Continue learning with new courses and self study.

Enjoy an episode of Speaking of Reliability. Where you can join friends as they discuss reliability topics. Join us as we discuss topics ranging from design for reliability techniques to field data analysis approaches.

SOR 1089 10 Gems Career Start AdviceCarl S. Carlson

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