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Learning Hub
Welcome to second-hand-tigers — career and project-skills content from experienced engineers. Pick the row that fits you:
Where to Start
Career Learnings
| If you are… | Start here |
|---|---|
| Still in school | Making the Most of College — co-op, extracurriculars, group projects, grad school |
| Looking for a job | The Job Hunt — resumes, LinkedIn, interview prep |
| Newly hired and want to hit the ground running | The Renaissance Engineer — career stages and development planning |
| A manager or leader | The Needs of the Many — developing and staffing your people |
| Working on communication skills | Workplace Communication — presentations, BLUF, workplace writing |
| Complete Listing of Career Topics | Career Learnings Directory |
Technical & Workflow Learnings
| Start here | |
|---|---|
| Working on a design project | WORK IN PROGRESS Motor Gasoline Benzene Removal Project — scoping, design, milestones, flowsheet modeling, PFDs/BFDs, stakeholder engagement |
| Complete Listing of Technical and Workflow Topics | WORK IN PROGRESS Process Engineering |
Internal planning (task boards, cross-project coordination) and toolkit code (GitHub App automation used to simulate stakeholder conversations) live in separate, non-public-facing repos and aren’t linked from here.
Who This Is For
Built for students and educators with specific focus on career and project success depending as much on stakeholder engagement and communication as on technical skill.
- If you are a student, start with the topic that feels closest to what you are dealing with right now. Project work and career development happen in parallel, not in sequence — you’re building a project and building a career at the same time, and most people find themselves more pulled toward one than the other at any given moment. That’s expected, not a problem to fix.
- If you’re an educator interested in adapting this site’s structure or toolkit for your own course, start with the Process Engineering hub for the general approach, then look at a specific project repo to see it in action.
Site Developers Toolkit
Reusable command-line tools behind how this organization’s content is built and maintained — not project or career content itself, but the infrastructure someone would want if they’re adapting this whole approach for their own group.
- toolkit — public, MIT-licensed tools (starting with a GitHub wiki dump utility), meant to be cloned and reused directly rather than read about.
How This Organization Is Structured
Learning Hub (this page)
├── chem-eng-projects (Process Engineering hub — philosophy, general wiki, links to projects)
│ ├── chem-eng-projects-MogasDebenz (one specific fictional project)
│ └── (future projects, e.g. a crude expansion project)
├── career-learnings-directory (Career Learnings hub — links to contributor repos)
│ ├── badocter-career-learnings (one contributor's career content)
│ ├── career-learnings-template (starter template for new contributor repos)
│ └── (future contributor repos)
├── toolkit (reusable tooling for running this kind of org)
└── .github (organization policies, licensing, and contributing terms)
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