CEA - Teaching, Creating a Company, and Developing Balance with Ed Quesenberry

Have you ever dreamed of starting your own engineering firm but you are unsure how to handle all the demands? Today’s guest did just that. Ed Quesenberry established his own practice back in 2003, and today he teaches you how he balances it all: business owner, principal engineer, adjunct professor, husband, and father.

Tune in to Learn:

• One thing you build in college that can help you for the rest of your career
• The biggest challenge you'll face starting your own engineering firm
• Reasons to get into Structural Engineering: should you do it for the money...alone?
• The industry's inherent profit problem — and how to solve it
• What it's like to be a civil engineer working in academia
• Balancing life responsibilities as a business owner: is it more difficult?
• The most important thing recent graduates should look for in a job, but most don't
• What young structural engineers just getting started in structural design should know
• The importance of licensure to advancing your career — in and out of a company

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Resources Mentioned:
CEA #156 With Dirk Bondy - https://civilengineeringacademy.com/cea156
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo - https://www.calpoly.edu/
Beaverton Library - https://www.beavertonlibrary.org/
Portland State University - https://www.pdx.edu/
International Building Code (IBC) - https://www.iccsafe.org/products-and-services/i-codes/2018-i-codes/ibc/
Brunelleschi's Dome, by Ross King - AMAZON

Connect With Ed:
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-quesenberry-57113161/
Equilibrium Engineers - https://www.equilibriumllc.com/

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