S2E19 Prioritizing time for family, personal projects, & CAD/design strategies | James Drachenberg
Send a text I first found James on his personal website and immediately realized this is an engineer who truly loves design. Why else would one spend the countless hours of personal time required to d...
24 Apr 202150min
S2E18 Side Hustles, Asking Dumb Questions, & Not Compromising Your Values | Nate Post
Send a text Nate has a disarming way about him. You’ll hear it in the interview. It’s a big part of why he has been able to create such a safe environment for his team to operate in, both from a physi...
16 Apr 202158min
S2E17 Earthquake Engineering, Honesty, and The Most Important Things for Engineers To Learn | Guna Selvaduray
Send a text Guna has worked in academia for over 30 years. Though not always a popular topic within the academic community, Guna has pushed for curriculum that includes more relevant learning objectiv...
9 Apr 202153min
S2E16 Deep Space Exploration, Earth-Like Planet Discoveries, & The Search for Life | Tracy Drain
Send a text Tracy is a Flight Systems Engineer working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Over her 20-year career, she has helped to develop, test and operate a variety of robotic spacecraft to expl...
2 Apr 202154min
S2E15 Breaking Problems Down Into Actionable Pieces, & How to Develop Good Habits | Kehinde (I.T.) Majolagbe
Send a text I.T. grew up in Nigeria solving problems such as having to plan for getting water, and only having access to electricity during certain times of the day. Coupled with a rigorous educationa...
26 Mar 202152min
S2E14 How Knowing Nothing Can Make You a More Creative Engineer | Phnam Bagley
Send a text Phnam grew up in France, became an industrial designer, and eventually moved to the United States to pursue her career. She is a designer in the truest sense, having a mastery over topics ...
19 Mar 20211h 3min
S2E13 Relentless Empathy & Going Deep On Understanding The Problem | Ryan Eder
Send a text Six months after graduating with his degree in industrial design Ryan Eder entered his senior thesis project, a novel piece of fitness equipment, into the International Design Excellence c...
19 Mar 202150min
S2E12 What It’s Like Being A 40 Year Engineering Veteran At The Same Company | Bill Atterbury
Send a text Over his 40 year tenure working at Battelle, Bill has worked on a multitude of different projects, been named on dozens of patents, and developed skills using a wealth of design tools. In ...
12 Mar 202145min
