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Engineering Influence is the official award-winning podcast of the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC).
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Episodes
Monday Oct 16, 2023
The Growing Partisan Divide with the U.S. Chamber’s Neil Bradley
Monday Oct 16, 2023
Monday Oct 16, 2023
Neil Bradley, Executive Vice President, Chief Policy Officer, and Head of Strategic Advocacy with the U.S. Chamber, was our first speaker at the 2023 Fall Conference. His presentation focused on a generational shift happening in Washington where both the left and the right sides of the political aisle are beginning to adopt policies that harken back to the big government days of the New Deal era. On the podcast, Neil discusses what this means for free enterprise.
Monday Oct 16, 2023
Monday Oct 16, 2023
We sat down with the ACEC Scholar of the Year Michael Drummond to talk about his journey in engineering. Recorded at the 2023 ACEC Fall Conference.
Friday Oct 06, 2023
Operationalizing AI in Your Firm - With POWER Engineers’ Nathan Bingham
Friday Oct 06, 2023
Friday Oct 06, 2023
There's a lot of talk about the promise of AI, but much less about how the technology can be implemented in your firm. We sat down with Nathan Bingham, Chief Digital Officer with POWER Engineers to talk about how they harnessed the power of AI.
Friday Sep 29, 2023
Are We Headed to a Government Shutdown?
Friday Sep 29, 2023
Friday Sep 29, 2023
Government funding expires on September 30th. Unless the House and Senate come to an agreement on key spending items, we will enter a period of a partial government shutdown. Is this avoidable? How long will it last? What impact will it have on our industry?
We talked to Matt Reiffer, ACEC's Vice President for Infrastructure Programs to find out.
Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
The ACEC Research Institute’s 2023 Q3 Sentiment Survey
Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
Tuesday Aug 29, 2023
The ACEC Research Institute recently published its 2023 Q3 Engineering Business Sentiment Survey. We sat down with Joe Bates with the Institute, to review the survey's findings and check the pulse of the engineering industry. Download the survey here.
Tuesday Aug 22, 2023
Filling the Practical Skills Gap with VDCI’s David Sellers
Tuesday Aug 22, 2023
Tuesday Aug 22, 2023
David Sellers, the President and CEO of VDCI - the Virtual Design and Construction Institute (www.vdci.edu) joined the podcast to discuss how ongoing virtual education can help close the practical skills gap that exists with new engineering graduates who lack the hands-on skills to immediately take on project work on software platforms upon being hired.
Friday Aug 11, 2023
Private Market Economic Update with Dr. Anirban Basu
Friday Aug 11, 2023
Friday Aug 11, 2023
On this episode, Dr. Anirban Basu and Diana Alexander cover everything from recession to monetary policy, inflation to deflation, and what markets will fair best and which won't during this downturn. Find more private market briefs here: https://www.acec.org/resources/resource-library/?_topic_area=private-markets&_resource_type=brief
Register for the AI in AEC series here: https://www.acec.org/course/ai-for-aec-business-development-marketing-transformed-four-part-series/
Thursday Aug 10, 2023
The Time to Standardize Digital Design Delivery is Now
Thursday Aug 10, 2023
Thursday Aug 10, 2023
With evolving sustainability requirements, talent and skill shortages across the sector, and greater client demands, infrastructure project design and delivery have never been more complex and challenging for today’s engineering consulting and service firms. A critical approach to overcoming these issues is standardizing engineering design review processes and technologies.
In this podcast, we talk to Dan Cutler, Project Engineer with Bentley Systems, about how ProjectWise, powered by iTwin, can standardize engineering work in progress using scalable and customizable workflows without limiting the number of projects an organization can manage and without having to start over with new CAD applications. We also discuss how ProjectWise can help engineering consulting and service firms comply with ISO19650 standards.