Begin Your Journey

A crash course for how to have an impact with your engineering career.

What makes an engineer an engineer?

In our view, an engineer is someone who designs and creates solutions - we use scientific and technological knowledge to change our physical world in useful ways.

Most of us want that change we make to be positive. But what positive change should we try to make, and how should we go about making it? At High Impact Engineers, our mission is to provide tools and guidance to maximise our positive impact as engineers, even if you don’t think you want to continue with engineering.

This crash course is a summary of everything we’ve learnt so far about how to direct your engineering skills towards solving the world’s most pressing problems.

The Course

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Start Here

You have 80,000 hours in your career: 40 hours per week, 50 weeks per year, for 40 years.

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Key Ideas
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Key Ideas

Here, we aim to summarise the key ideas of Effective Altruism and 80,000 Hours’ research into impactful careers.

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Pressing Problems
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Pressing Problems

There are so many problems in the world that it can be overwhelming to even know where to start. What are some of the most pressing problems you could work on?

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Next Steps
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Next Steps

Here are some concrete next steps for you to put these ideas into action.

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