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:

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Resources Mentioned:

The Ultimate Floodplain Manager Review Course

The Ultimate CA Seismic & Survey Courses (Waitlist)

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:

LinkedInWebsiteSurf City Hydraulic

Engineeringpaige.brue@surfcityh2o.com

Our Exam Prep Resources:

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Civil FE Review Course

Civil PE Review Course

Civil PE Depth Review Courses

Floodplain Manager Review Course

CA Seismic and Survey Courses (Waiting List)

FE Practice Exams

FE CBT Exam Simulator

PE Breadth Practice ExamsP

E Depth Practice Exams

PE CBT Exam Simulator

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