by Excel Technical Institute | Aug 4, 2026 | Upskill
A former classmate of mine spent two years as a general mechanical design engineer, doing solid, unremarkable work on HVAC systems, before a recruiter cold-messaged her about a piping design role at an EPC firm. She almost ignored it — she’d never touched a...
by Excel Technical Institute | Aug 4, 2026 | Upskill
Ask ten piping engineers how they actually learned the job, and at least seven will tell you some version of the same story: nobody handed them a checklist. They picked up 3D modeling by watching someone else do it badly first, learned ASME B31.3 the hard way after a...
by Excel Technical Institute | Jul 16, 2026 | Upskill
If you’ve spent any time job-hunting with a mechanical engineering degree in your hand, you’ve probably noticed something uncomfortable: the degree that was supposed to open doors mostly gets you into a very crowded room. Everyone else in that room has the...
