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Future-proofing your engineering career
For this year’s Leadership in Engineering profile, I spoke with Jabil CEO Mark Mondello (see the feature story in this issue) about his company’s culture and vision. With something like 43,000,000 sq-ft of manufacturing footprint spread across the world, Mondello, who’s an ME himself, employs a heck of a lot of engineers. So, knowing how in touch he is with the changing world of manufacturing, I was interested to hear how he’d suggest current engineers and engineering students properly future-proof their careers.
Mondello告诉我，除了获得技术，设计或各种工程平台的知识外，工程师还需要花时间补充一些先天的优势，了解商业工作如何 - 以及发展良好的书面或口头沟通技巧。
“我看到工程师只有神话般的想法，然而有时他们不能完全阐明他们试图以实际有效的方式说的话，”他说。
他还认为他们意识到在涉及业务或生活时，世界上没有更多的地理限制。
“我认为地理范围是有关政治和宗教以及地理边界提供的所有事情。但在设计方面，在技术方面，就生命而言，我们越来越多地注意到地理边界正在消失，“他说。“我认为成功，才能实现，工程界需要开放到旅行，从出去和看看那里，围绕着大量不同的文化和许多不同的人，以及
be open-minded about those cultures and those people.”
Mondello also noted that he sees a lot of engineers who have very strong opinions, and a lot of those opinions are certainly well grounded in scientific fact. Yet, constantly holding on to those strong opinions can have a negative impact on how open individuals can be to change.
“Change is exponential, so you’ve got to be open-minded to it,” he said. “You’ve got to be open-minded to new ideas because there’s a high probability that whatever products you’re working on today, tomorrow they’re going to be obsolete. And this will happen at a rate much faster than it was historically. Be open-minded to the rate at which everything is changing around you—that would be a good start.”
Paul J. Heney
Vice President, Editorial Director
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