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Engineer to Entrepreneur: Success Strategies to Manage Your Career and Start Your Own Firm
Starting, managing, and owning an engineering firm can be a daunting experience. Engineer to Success Strategies to Manage Your Career and Start Your Own Firm provides practical steps at key career points to reach your professional goals in any engineering discipline. Rick De La Guardia leads the aspiring entrepreneur through the process from undergraduate class choices, through first jobs, to opening an office and running a consulting firm. Divided into three main sections for the student, beginning engineer, and company owner, De La Guardia provides background information, suggested activities, and detailed steps to make the most of each stage of your career. Personal examples from his own career are used to illustrate real-life issues and decisions facing entrepreneurs as you find your niche, expand your contacts, and launch your firm. Engineer to Entrepreneur will help engineers in any discipline rethink your career and take charge of your future.
195 pages, Paperback
Published July 15, 2016
About the author
Rick De La Guardia
4 books15 followersAuthor of “Engineer to Entrepreneur: Success Strategies to Manage Your Career and Start Your Own Firm” published by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and under contract for a second book tentatively titled "My Father's Influence, TAP into Your Potential: How to Think, Act and Practice Like an Entrepreneur" to be published by Business Expert Press (BEP).
Rick De La Guardia is President and Founder
of DLG Engineering, Inc. (DLGE), a consulting firm specializing in the design, analysis and forensic inspections of building envelope systems to help mitigate or assess storm damage in hurricane prone regions of the country.
DLGE was founded in South Florida in 2009 during the height of an economic downturn, now known as the Great Recession, when many engineering firms were struggling and opening an engineering firm was considered ill advised.
Since the founding, his firm has been recognized as one of the top minority owned businesses in South Florida by the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce.
He has since gone on to found or co-found several new entrepreneurial venture companies, among them, DLG Private Ventures and Genesis Structural Engineering.
He earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Miami in 1995. He has presented to numerous student and professional engineering associations on entrepreneurship, leadership and success.
Mr. De La Guardia served as president of the University of Miami, College of Engineering Alumni Association from June of 2010 to May of 2012, chaired an advisory committee on Entrepreneurship and Innovation for the University of Miami College of Engineering and was member of the University of Miami Herbert Business School Entrepreneurship Advisory Board.
He has mentored and advised many students and aspiring entrepreneurs
Rick De La Guardia is President and Founder
of DLG Engineering, Inc. (DLGE), a consulting firm specializing in the design, analysis and forensic inspections of building envelope systems to help mitigate or assess storm damage in hurricane prone regions of the country.
DLGE was founded in South Florida in 2009 during the height of an economic downturn, now known as the Great Recession, when many engineering firms were struggling and opening an engineering firm was considered ill advised.
Since the founding, his firm has been recognized as one of the top minority owned businesses in South Florida by the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce.
He has since gone on to found or co-found several new entrepreneurial venture companies, among them, DLG Private Ventures and Genesis Structural Engineering.
He earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Miami in 1995. He has presented to numerous student and professional engineering associations on entrepreneurship, leadership and success.
Mr. De La Guardia served as president of the University of Miami, College of Engineering Alumni Association from June of 2010 to May of 2012, chaired an advisory committee on Entrepreneurship and Innovation for the University of Miami College of Engineering and was member of the University of Miami Herbert Business School Entrepreneurship Advisory Board.
He has mentored and advised many students and aspiring entrepreneurs
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September 30, 2021
The writer must be a very generous person. Provides well laid out ideas on what it takes to start your own engineering business and relates those ideas to what he went through while creating his own firm. Every engineer or technical person who plans to start a business in the future should have this on their shelf as well as those already running their businesses.
July 15, 2020
This book tells you how to go from being an engineer to an entrepreneur. I am not an engineer but I came across this book and found it interesting, well written and useful. It helped me be an employer, manage clients, market my business, interact with competition and how to play to my strengths. How to do what I was good at.
This book is written by a man who knows how to start as an engineer and open their own business. We know Rick has done that. Now we know he can write, tell people his story and help other people.
November 21, 2020
I highly recommend to anyone in engineering, or considering engineering as a profession, who may be thinking of opening their own firm. I am available to chat on the topic at anytime with anyone.
June 11, 2022
Muy caro para lo que ofrece.
Tiene consejos muy generales, no me gusto mucho la verdad.
Tiene consejos muy generales, no me gusto mucho la verdad.
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