The Civil Engineering Academy Podcast1 Mar 2024

CEA - Building a Stormwater Management Consulting Business With Paige Brue

Have you thought of doing the same engineering work you do at your workplace, but for yourself? 🤔 Then you’ll want to listen to this interview with Paige Brue about her own journey to start her consulting business! She dives into how her education allowed her to provide the type of services she provides, why having professional credentials is a must (and the easiest way to get them)...all the way to her best tips for aspiring firm owners. 😉 👇

Tune in to Learn:

How a devastating flood in her hometown got her interested in Water Resources
What led her to start her own engineering business
How to know if starting your own engineering practice is really for you?
2 pieces of advice before you (cluelessly) go and start your own firm
The number one thing you need to thrive professionally (and it's not only money)
What the CFM credential is all about
How her PE license and CFM credential are crucial for her independent work
The biggest misconception about an engineer's work that we only learn after school
What she did that made passing her PE a lot easier...and you should do too
Is it difficult to take the PE Exam in a discipline that's not yours?
Her experience with CA Seismic and Survey Exams (+ how difficult they are)
Her #1 advice for women to succeed in the field...that works wonders for men too.
Organizations for Water Resources folks and women engineers to join

Our Partner:

Built Bar

Resources Mentioned:

The Ultimate Floodplain Manager Review Course

Society of Women Engineers (SWE)

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

California Stormwater Quality Association

The 2008 Floods in Indiana

Purdue University

North Carolina State University

School of PE

Connect With Paige:

Website

Surf City Hydraulic Engineering

paige.brue@surfcityh2o.com

Our Exam Prep Resources:

Main Website

Civil FE Review Course

Civil PE Review Course

Civil PE Depth Review Courses

Floodplain Manager Review Course

FE Practice Exams

FE CBT Exam Simulator

PE Breadth Practice Exams

PE Depth Practice Exams

PE CBT Exam Simulator

Connect With Us:

isaac@civilengineeringacademy.com

🚨 Disclaimer: 🚨

CFM® is a registered certification mark of The Association Of State Floodplain Managers, Inc. (ASFPM), which is not affiliated with and does not endorse or sponsor this course nor any other goods or services offered by CEA. Our course is based solely on publicly available materials and general industry principles. We do not use or distribute any proprietary or exam content from ASFPM. The author of our course took the exam more than four years ago and cannot (and will not), under any circumstances, answer questions related to the exam itself or its content. References to CFM® are for descriptive purposes only.

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