Clear Is Kind: A Crossover Episode with Aimee Arsenault
Engineers are trained to communicate in steps. Step 1, step 2, step 3. Read the diagram, follow the procedure, done. But the moment a project manager asks you to cut a 4-hour safety orientation down to 20 minutes, or a client asks you to sign off…
Vienna Waits for You: Reinventing an Engineering Career
In this episode of English for Engineers, I sit down with Andrea Zimmerl — a fellow Viennese and a fellow engineer — who traded a career as a plastics engineer for communication coaching, life coaching, and eventually, dog training. We get into why…
Junk the Jargon: Why Engineering Jargon Isn’t Clear
In this episode of English for Engineers, I sit down with Becky Paroz, a 30-year veteran of the Australian construction industry, engineer, project manager, and quality assurance specialist, to talk about why industry jargon might be costing your…
007: License to Talk
In this episode of English for Engineers, I share why I started this podcast in the first place, then walk through five practical, no-fuss ways to master technical English as a working engineer. What You’ll Learn in This Episode Why does listening…
Why Logic Alone Can’t Hold Your Team Together
In this episode of English for Engineers, I sit down with Catherine Stagg-Macey, executive coach, team coach, and founder of Conversations at the Edge, to talk about the one skill that keeps international engineering teams from falling apart:…
Let the Drawings Speak: How Engineering Culture Changes Across Borders
In this episode of English for Engineers, I catch up with an old schoolmate, Christian Urich, a civil and environmental engineer now based in Melbourne, Australia, about how engineering culture changes once you cross a border — from the…
Lost in Translation: How Culture Shapes Business Communication
You can have perfect grammar and still get completely misread. That’s the whole premise of these two episodes — one long conversation with Ama Zbarcea, split in half because there was too much good stuff to cut. Ama is a legal expert, a polyglot,…
Technical English vs Business English
What I Mean by “English for Engineers” In this episode of English for Engineers, I take on three terms that get thrown around constantly: Business English, Simplified Technical English, and Technical English, and explain why none of them, on their…
Well, Hello There, Engineers
In the first episode of the English for Engineers podcast, Olivia introduces herself and explains why a civil engineer ended up building a business around language. She also shares four ways to work on your English starting tonight, no course…