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Are You Investing In Your Organization?
Hiring the right people is the key to your success, and ACEC's Job Board will help you find the best candidates.
We have the power of the engineering niche. More and more employers are looking to niche job boards to cover all their recruiting bases. By using a niche job board, such as the ACEC Job Board, you get direct access to a focused group of qualified engineering talent specific to your needs.
Don't forget that while you have an active job posting, you will also have access to our searchable resume database, containing over 15,500 job seekers.
Visit the ACEC Job Board to create an account and post your job today.
For more information, contact Nina Goldman at 202-682-4325 or write ngoldman@acec.org.
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Over 500 Searchable Jobs Posted
Over 15,500 Searchable Resumes Posted
Over 2,000 Registered Employers |
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Last Five "Help Wanted" Open Positions:
Electrical Engineer—Los Angeles, CA
Structural Bridge Leader—Columbus, OH
Bridge/Structural Designer—Omaha, NE
National Surface Water Technology Program Manager—Golden, CO
Mechanical Engineer—Vancouver, WA
A Sampling of Posted Resumes:
Geotechnical Engineers—1,078
Water Resources/Wastewater Engineers—1,684
Transportation—1,439
Civil Engineers—2,331
Structural Engineers—1,678
Environmental Engineers—1,506
View These and Other Resumes and Jobs on ACEC's Job Board
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Marketing Tips From The ACEC Bookstore
Does your company's marketing plan need a boost? Add energy to your marketing efforts with these new titles at the ACEC Bookstore.
Rubies in the Orchard—How to Uncover the Hidden Gems in Your Business
Lynda Resnick & Francis Wilkinson
Click here to order.
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Clientship™—Building Client Service Bridges to Profitability
Michael Kennedy, Steve Greenberg
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Marketing Handbook for the Design & Construction Professional
Society for Marketing Professional Services (SMPS)
Click here to order.
Click here to view all Marketing publications available through the ACEC Bookstore!
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Online Seminars Are
Cost-Effective Source For Business Tools, PDHs
With one registration fee payable per Internet connection, a roomful of staff can participate in an ACEC online seminar at no additional cost—a welcome and cost-effective way to gain knowledge and earn needed PDHs. ACEC's 2009 calendar of online seminars will feature a wide variety of topics in support of better A/E business management knowledge and the techniques needed to weather an uncertain economy.
April
7—Teaming and Joint Ventures in the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Market—A Case Study by Keith Sabol, Parsons Corp.
8—How Can You Exceed My Expectations If You Don't Know What They Are? Looking for Real and Useful Client Feedback by David Stone, Stone & Company
14—The Business Case for Sustainable Engineering Practice by Bill Wallace, Wallace Futures Group LLC
15—How to Give and Receive Effective Feedback by Gary Bates, Roenker Bates Group
16—Private Partnerships for Public Needs: PPPs and Surface Transportation by Jim Hatter, Federal Highway Administration
21—Built to Last: Sustainability and Succession by Robert vanArsdall, XL Design Professional
22—Take Charge of Your Health! by Carol Calvin, United Healthcare
May
5—Diverging Diamond Interchange: An Innovative Traffic Solution by Lorenzo Rotoli, Fisher Associates
6—Effective Project Planning to Improve Profits by Gary Bates, Roenker Bates Group
12—Risk Management Report Card: Would Your Firm Earn A, F or Incomplete? by Erin Austin and Jack Beemer, David Evans and Associates, Inc., and panel
13—Increase Your Win Rate with Powerful, Persuasive Proposals by Clare G. Ross, The Clare Ross Organization
20—Breaking Down the Generational Language Barrier in Today's Multigenerational Engineering Workplace by Lori Oakes-Coyne, Morrissey Goodale, LLC
26—The Climate Project: Impact of Global Climate Change on Engineering Practice by Raymond Sirois, Wright-Pierce Engineers
27—Lessons Learned in Implementing BIM and IPD in a 900-Person Multidisciplinary Firm by Sean Smith, Gresham Smith and Partners
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| Victory For Design Firms Achieved In Nevada Supreme Court; ACEC Role "Instrumental"
Cindy Potter,
ACEC/Nevada President |
The Nevada Supreme Court has issued a landmark ruling that strongly protects a design firm's ability to limit its liability for a client's commercial losses on a project.
When a client and a service provider have contractually agreed to limits on the provider's liability and the client then experiences purely economic losses, the Economic Loss Doctrine would essentially bar the client from obtaining a higher monetary award than the contract permits. In the present Nevada Supreme Court case of Terracon v. Mandalay Resort Group, the Court held that the Economic Loss Doctrine specifically protects engineers and architects.
ACEC filed a joint amicus brief with ACEC/Nevada, the Design Professionals Coalition, AIA, NSPE, ASFE and ASCE to defend the Economic Loss Doctrine. The brief was co-authored by the Las Vegas law firms of Beckley Singleton and ACEC affiliate member law firm Morris Polich & Purdy. ACEC provided financial assistance for the brief through grants from the Minuteman Fund, DPC, and ACEC/Nevada. The ACEC Legal Counsel Forum also reviewed the brief and provided valuable comments.
"This is a tremendous victory for the engineering industry," said ACEC/Nevada President Cindy Potter of CH2M HILL. "We are grateful to ACEC for its instrumental role in helping to defend the Economic Loss Doctrine in Nevada. The decision establishes a great precedent that we hope other states will follow."
Click here for more information on how to make a donation to the Minuteman Fund.
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| ACEC's Neimeyer Participates In Obama's Online Town Hall At White House
ACEC Treasurer Terry Neimeyer, nearest row, second from the left, listens to President Obama answer a question during the online town hall meeting last week. |
ACEC Treasurer Terry Neimeyer, who was seated in the front row at President Obama's online town hall meeting held last week at the White House, is chairman and CEO of KCI Technologies, Inc. in Hunt Valley, Md. "I was enthused about the Administration's strong commitment to infrastructure funding," said Neimeyer.
"The president talked about making immediate investments in the short term that you know will pay off in the long term," he said. "That is the key argument in favor of investing in our nation's infrastructure."
Neimeyer was prepared to ask a question about infrastructure, but wasn't called upon. "I wanted to ask him how he reconciles his go-green policy of minimizing foreign oil use with an infrastructure policy that is funded by the gas tax," he said. ACEC supports the eventual replacement of the gas tax with a Vehicle Miles Traveled tax because it will provide a more consistent flow of revenues for infrastructure funding.
Neimeyer came away from the town hall meeting very impressed. "He speaks as well as Bill Clinton did, but there is a difference in that his intelligence is just so plainly obvious," he said.
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| More Than 500 Already Registered For Upcoming Annual Convention
The ACEC Annual Convention, April 26-29 in Washington, D.C. will place special emphasis on how to navigate through stormy economic waters.
More than 500 early registrants are focusing on the over 40 education sessions that address critical business concerns, stimulus-based contracting opportunities with federal agencies, popular CEO roundtables, and other activities.
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood will address ACEC members at the Convention's 100th Anniversary Luncheon on Monday, April 27. He follows noted CNN political analyst David Gergen, who will address Convention attendees during the Opening General Session earlier that day.
Convention attendees also will converge on Capitol Hill to advocate important industry initiatives—including funding for surface transportation, water infrastructure, aviation, and defeat of the 3 percent withholding mandate—as part of the engineering industry's largest legislative event.
Other Convention highlights include a Centennial Soiree Opening Reception and Dinner featuring the Capitol Steps comedy troupe on Sunday, April 26, and the 43rd Annual Engineering Excellence Awards Gala—the "Academy Awards" of the engineering industry—on Tuesday, April 28.
Make your hotel reservations well in advance while rooms are available. Contact the Grand Hyatt directly at 1-888-421-1442 and reference "ACEC Annual Convention" to secure your hotel room at a special discounted rate. ACEC's discounted room rates expire on April 3.
Click here to view more Convention information and to register.
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| Strut Your Stuff: Promote Your EEA-Winning Project In May/June Engineering Inc.
Achieve maximum exposure for your Engineering Excellence Award-winning project by advertising in the special May/June issue of Engineering Inc., which highlights all winners in this year's EEA competition.
Promote the outstanding work of your firm to important clients and colleagues with an advertisement accented by the special 2009 EEA Winner's Recognition seal.
By advertising in Engineering Inc., your firm's winning effort will be seen by thousands of key industry professionals, plus local, state and federal agency administrators, in addition to more than 43,000 employees of ACEC Member Firms.
For more information on advertising in Engineering Inc., special EEA winner advertising rates and winner seals, contact Nina Goldman at 202-682-4325 or ngoldman@acec.org.
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| ACEC/PAC Backs Illinois Congressman Dan Lipinski—Also An Engineer
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Jim Oberstar, left, (D-MN) and committee member Dan Lipinski (D-IL) (right), flank ACEC/Illinois Executive Director David Kennedy and his wife Sandy, at a congressional reception for Lipinski last week in Chicago. The Illinois lawmaker, himself an engineer, has a strong history of supporting industry issues, including his recent work to expand the application of QBS to local airport projects. |
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You Can Plan For Change! Register For Practical New Course By April 3 And $ave
Practical Strategic and Business Planning for Engineering Firms
April 29-30, Washington, D.C.
Find yourself more than a little surprised by the current economy? ACEC presents a new course that will prepare firm leadership to anticipate and cope with complexities of change in a rough-and-tumble economic environment. Practical Strategic and Business Planning for Engineering Firms, debuting April 29-30, Washington, D.C., is presented by well-known veteran industry experts Rod Hoffman and Gerry Salontai as faculty.
This timely course offers a practical hands-on exploration of today's best strategies for staying on course by adapting to unexpected change, in addition to effective implementation techniques and proven planning approaches for long-term firm sustainability.
The one-and-a-half-day course will provide new knowledge to increase planning process effectiveness, successful industry case studies, and models for making better business choices. Attendees will earn 11 PDHs for 2009.
*Early bird registration pricing is available through Friday, April 3.
For details and to register, click here.
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New Cram Course Expands Project, Program Management Skills For Bottom-Line Advantage
Advanced Project and Program Management for the Engineering and Construction Industry
June 8-9, Cambridge, MA
ACEC and Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering bring Advanced Project and Program Management for the Engineering and Construction Industry curriculum to the East Coast this summer. The intensive two-day course will be presented June 8-9 in Cambridge (Boston), MA, providing contemporary insights into topics of vital importance in a challenging economy, including:
- Becoming "Project Fiduciary" in Uncertain Economic Times
- New Information Systems and Their Contributions to Projects
- Management of the Environmentally and Economically Sustainable Project
- Project Risks and Mitigation Measures
- Creative Funding Mechanisms—Program Economics
- Path Forward in Program Execution for Increased Fees, Repeat Business
Faculty are Stephen Mulva, associate director, Construction Industry Institute; Jerry Novacek, president NovaConGroup; and Ahmad Hadavi, associate director, Master of Project Management, Northwestern University.
Expand your knowledge of new delivery systems and contracting formats and discover innovative management techniques to increase projects and program revenues. Attendees earn 16 PDHs.
For details and to register, click here.
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Recognize 'Red Flags' Of Model Contracts to Protect Your Business, Avoid Risk
Recognizing the Snares and Pitfalls in A/E/C Industry Contracts
May 28-29, Philadelphia
Set for May 28-29 in Philadelphia, Recognizing the Snares and Pitfalls in A/E/C Industry Contracts is a one-and-a-half-day course that will equip your firm's engineers, architects, project managers, contracting officers, specifiers and others to avoid risk, with important up-to-date knowledge in critical contract areas, especially important in a competitive economy.
Sessions will cover two dozen key provisions in model contracts that are vital in protecting your business and maintaining your firm's professional standards. Presenting faculty are James C. Brown II, vice president, Malcolm Pirnie, Inc., and Justin L. Weisberg, Arnstein & Lehr LLP. Attendees earn 11 PDHs.
For details and to register, click here.
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Business Of Design Consulting Offers Tools "Not Taught In Engineering School"
The Business of Design Consulting: Managing to Succeed in a Challenging Economic Environment
June 3-6, Portland, Maine
In response to continued strong interest, ACEC will again present The Business of Design Consulting: Managing to Succeed in a Challenging Economic Environment, June 3-6, in Portland, Maine. This intensive, four-day course examines and updates every element and function of the successful A/E business in the context of an uncertain and challenging business environment.
Content covers the eight key areas of business: management, finance, marketing, contracts, risk management, leadership, human resources, and information technology.
If you are an owner, executive, principal, business administrator, project manager (all levels), human resources manager, or manager of facilities and/or infrastructure projects, then you can't afford to miss this ACEC course. Attendees earn 28 PDHs.
For details and to register, click here.
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Early Registration Opens For Fall Building Information Modeling (BIM) Course, Seattle
Building Information Modeling (BIM): The Promise and The 2009 Reality for A/E/C Firms
October 29-30, Seattle
ACEC's popular course, Building Information Modeling (BIM): The Promise and The 2009 Reality for A/E/C Firms, is accepting registrations for the next presentation, Oct. 29-30 in Seattle. Mark your calendars and register now for an informative and inside look into the many components that contribute to bottom-line success utilizing this interdisciplinary project delivery system. This is an invaluable overview for COOs, IT and project managers, and company principals. Attendees earn 11 PDHs.
For details and to register, click here.
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Sales & Marketing Forum Sets May 14-15 Meeting
Sales & Marketing Forum
May 14-15, Orlando
ACEC's Sales & Marketing Forum is joining other special interest ACEC Forums to schedule its first free-standing meeting, May 14-15 in Orlando. The group originally met regularly under the umbrella of ACEC conferences and conventions.
An idea exchange event for firms' sales, marketing and business development staff, the Forum is also a unique opportunity to network and address industry challenges. Discussion topics announced for the upcoming meeting include marketing and sales in a declining economy, go-and no-go decisions and discussions, lead tracking software, proposal debrief workshop, plus topics of mutual interest that arise.
The Forum is open to ACEC members and non-members.
For details and to register, click here.
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Don’t Miss These Upcoming Online Topics
Teaming and Joint Ventures in the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Market—A Case Study
April 7, 1:30-3 p.m.
Keith Sabol, Parsons Corporation, presents a case study of the emerging PPP market, focusing on strategic alliances, the value and challenges of design/construction joint ventures, leveraging firm strengths for success, and mitigating risk. Participants will gain an inside look at how PPP contractual teaming relationships can successfully propose and deliver large infrastructure projects, understand and meet owner needs and concerns, and expand their firm's geographic markets.
For details and to register, click here.
How Can You Exceed My Expectations If You Don't Know What They Are? Looking for Real and Useful Client Feedback
April 8, 1:30-3 p.m.
How often do you actively seek your clients' opinions about what you do well and what you do poorly? More importantly, what do you do with those opinions when they're given? The idea of seeking regular, reliable and candid feedback from clients can be both exciting and terrifying. David Stone, Stone & Company, presents a thought-provoking session of real methods for obtaining honest feedback from clients, along with solid suggestions about what to do once you know those opinions.
For details and to register, click here.
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