S7E6 Bob Hankins | Medical Device Engineering Leadership & Working With the FDA
Send us a text Bob Hankins brings over 20 years of dedicated experience in the medical-device industry, spanning engineering leadership, product development, process improvement and strategic technical oversight. As Director of Engineering at TE Connectivity, he leads a global team of engineers and scientists focused on designing, developing and delivering innovative customer-centric medical device solutions—particularly complex machined, extruded and laser-cut components. In this role he ens...
6 Feb 41min
S7E5 Scott Roberts | The Stainless Steel Hardening Process Most Engineers Don’t Know Exists
Send us a text Scott Roberts is the North American Regional Sales Manager for Bodycote’s S³P technologies, where he oversees the sales team and rep network responsible for bringing one of the most unique surface hardening processes to manufacturers across the country. The S³P family of treatments—including Kolsterising—uses low-temperature carbon diffusion to create exceptionally hard, wear-resistant surfaces while preserving the corrosion resistance that stainless steels and cobalt-chromium ...
30 Jan 37min
S7E4 Scott Heimendinger | Developing the World’s First Home-Kitchen Ultrasonic Chef’s Knife
Send us a text Scott Heimendinger is an engineer and inventor whose career spans business intelligence at Microsoft and IBM, to cutting-edge food-tech innovation. Early in his career he served as a program manager at Microsoft, then pivoted into culinary science, co-founding the pioneering sous-vide company Sansaire, which raised over $823 K via Kickstarter to make sous-vide accessible to home cooks. He then moved into roles of increasing technical depth: at Modernist Cuisine he developed rob...
23 Jan 58min
Custom Machined Parts: High Quality, Low Cost, Fast Turnaround
Send us a text In this short trailer, Pipeline Design & Engineering announces a new service we quietly piloted in 2025—and are officially opening up in 2026. Pipeline is a team of engineers who design and build custom machines, fixtures, and automation systems for manufacturers working on complex, real-world problems. Like most engineering teams, we rely heavily on custom machined parts—and over the years, we’ve developed a trusted overseas manufacturing supply chain to support our ...
20 Jan 3min
S7E3 Aaron Eden | How Engineers Can Use AI Today
Send us a text Aaron Eden brings more than three decades of building, testing, and shipping practical innovation. At Intuit, he focuses on AI-driven process automation; partnering with product, operations, and analyst communities to eliminate manual toil and design customer-centric solutions at scale. His posts highlight ongoing hiring and growth around intelligent automation and a practitioner’s mindset toward measurable impact. Before Intuit, Aaron co-founded Moves the Needle, where he help...
16 Jan 54min
PDX Webinar Trailer, Engineering Project Management
Send us a text Presented by Mike Landis, Director of Engineering at Pipeline Design & Engineering In this PDX Webinar, Mike Landis shares the practical project management framework Pipeline uses to manage engineering development projects, balancing budget, schedule, scope, and risk. The session includes a walkthrough of Pipeline’s engineering project budget and schedule tracking spreadsheet, refined over 20 years of real-world use. View the webinar and download the trave...
12 Jan 3min
S7E2 WEBINAR: Your Manufacturer is Stupid: Why Your Circuit Board Design Is Making Their Job Harder with Chris Denney
Send us a text This episode is a recording of a webinar with guest Chris Denney. Watch the recording for free on The Wave. Think your manufacturer keeps screwing up your circuit boards? The truth might be that the design itself is setting them up to fail. In this webinar, we uncover the most common PCB design mistakes that frustrate manufacturers — and how engineers can prevent them. This session is geared toward mechanical engineers who want to better understand how board layout and design c...
9 Jan 1h 1min
S7E1 A Joyful Approach to Product Development | Lisa Ho & Andrew Muyanja (Menlo Innovations)
Send us a text This episode is a rerun. Andrew and Lisa are Menlonians (team members at Menlo Innovations). They do things different there. And even though they develop software products, the processes they use are supremely applicable to developing hard goods products, as well. Join us as we discuss “the Menlo way” and paired work, kindergarten skills, storycards, and other methods of producing the right product, on budget, and on schedule. The Wave is a place for engineers to actively lear...
2 Jan 48min
