Our May Meeting featured a new event we called the Panel on Career Advice For Young Professionals. As part of the event, our chapter held a group discussion in which the panelists shared some of their most important career advice and lessons learned with our audience. The panelists took turns answering these questions:

1) What is the most important career advice you would give a young engineer or land surveyor?

2) What is the biggest challenge you faced in your career as an engineer or land surveyor, and what did you learn from it?

3) What skills or characteristics are the most important for a young engineer or land surveyor to possess in today’s world?

Our panel had a great mix of members representing the public sector and the private sector, men and women, business owners and employees. Our panelists were Chad Coleman (of Coleman Engineering), Marco Palilla (of HDR), Elba Mijango (from the City of Manteca), and Aundrea Tirapelle (of Guida). Cameron Hagans (of Ghirardelli and Associates) moderated the panel.

The panelists offered great advice to the young professionals that were invited to the meeting by our regular chapter members.