S2E06 How to Find An Engineering Mentor, & the Bay Area’s Best Kept Secret – Barbara Allen
Send a text Barbara earned a degree in chemical engineering then learned she found manufacturing and design more interesting than chemicals. Beginning her career supervising a manufacturing team, she ...
12 Feb 202148min
S2E05 Why W.L. Gore is An Amazing Engineering (& People) Company | Elizabeth Mallett
Send a text Elizabeth shares her unique perspective having worked at a “theory X” company prior to her 10+ years at Gore, and contrasts those experiences with the “theory Y” environment that has been ...
5 Feb 202158min
S2E04 How To Build A Quality System That Works For You (and not the other way around) | Matt Heidecker
Send a text Matt shares his deep and valuable experience with us from testing pharmaceutical compounds and understanding the mechanics of the universe on an atomic level through implementing truly pra...
29 Jan 20211h 7min
S2E03 Engineering Empathy, Identifying Needs, & Developing Strong Work Ethic | Blayne Roeder
Send a text Like many great engineers, Blayne Roeder (pronounced like “raider”) grew up on a farm with a strong work ethic and in a culture that valued the ability to maintain (and sometimes build) yo...
22 Jan 202149min
S2E02 Soliciting Negative Feedback, Understanding The Problem, & Building Sales Success | Ryan Frederick
Send a text Ryan Frederick has spent his career building software product companies and during this episode shares just a few insights he has learned over the years. Directly applicable to both softwa...
15 Jan 202143min
S2E01 How to Determine if an Idea is Worth Pursuing – Mechanical Engineering Professor at MIT | Alexander Slocum
Send a text Alexander Slocum is a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and is one of the authorities in the realm of mechanical design. He has written two books on machine design, Precision Mach...
8 Jan 20211h 12min
S1E59 How Oxidation Weakens Aluminum, and Why Engineers Make the World Better | Ogun Unal
Send a text Ogun Unal’s expertise is in industrial engineering and metallurgy. He shares a particularly interesting example with us describing how the oxidized top layer of molten Aluminum can be push...
31 Des 202048min
S1E58 NASA, Systems Engineering, and Sending Robots to Space | David Oh
Send a text David Oh is the former flight director for the Mars Curiosity rover, and current systems engineering manager and system architect at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for the upcomin...
23 Des 202052min
