Send us Fan Mail Michael Kaeding is an experienced Project Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in machinery, specializing the agricultural and mining industry. He’s skilled in various 3D modelling software, such as SolidWorks, Autodesk, and Inventor. He enjoys providing practical, easy to use pieces of equipment for a variety of customers. [RT1] Michael received his Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) focused in Mechanical Engineering from University of Saskatchewan. The Being An E...
Jan 28, 2022•26 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Send us Fan Mail 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 the process he has been named inventor of the year (2013) and a Battelle Distinguished Inventor. Join us during our conversation as we discuss what one learns working 40 years at the same company, the importance of process, and how to mentor young engineers. The Being an Engineer podcast is a ...
Jan 21, 2022•57 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Send us Fan Mail Tommy is a bioengineer with bachelors and masters degrees from Cal Poly who, in addition to building medical devices, helps driven engineers land dream jobs using LinkedIn and personal branding. On the side, he barbeques, works on his truck, and brews his own biodiesel. The Being An Engineer podcast is brought to you by Pipeline Design & Engineering. Pipeline partners with medical & other device engineering teams who need turnkey equipment such as cycle test machines, cu...
Jan 14, 2022•42 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Send us Fan Mail Sol Rosenbaum is an energy engineer with both bachelors and masters degrees in mechanical engineering. Sol is also passionate about mentoring younger engineers, so much so that he has founded TheEngineeringMentor.com where he helps people in the industry find jobs, network, and learn non-technical skills. ABOUT BEING AN ENGINEER The Being an Engineer podcast is a repository for industry knowledge and a tool through which engineers learn about and connect with relevant companies,...
Jan 07, 2022•40 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Send us Fan Mail Greg Trees has a degree in mechanical engineering, and has spent nearly 30 years as a mechanical design engineer developing products from railroad instrumentation to drug delivery devices to diagnostic equipment. Greg also has specific expertise in the world of FEA (Finite Element Analysis) and EHD (electrohydrodynamics). ABOUT BEING AN ENGINEER The Being an Engineer podcast is a repository for industry knowledge and a tool through which engineers learn about and connect with re...
Dec 31, 2021•47 min•Season 2Ep. 55
Send us Fan Mail Stephen is the go-to person for creative design work at the Mayo Clinic and has been working at Mayo for the past 20 years. He’s also the Chair of documentations standards workgroup, he figures out how to document SolidWorks designs. Stephen is a mechanical engineer with a P.E. license. In this episode we discuss the advantages of Model-Based Definition (MBD), and specializing vs. being a jack of all trades. ABOUT BEING AN ENGINEER The Being an Engineer podcast is a repository f...
Dec 24, 2021•42 min•Season 2Ep. 54
Send us Fan Mail Kristy M. Walson, PE, LEED Fellow, BEMP, is a Mechanical Engineer by trade, Sustainability Consultant by nature. She specializes in energy modeling, energy audits, utility analysis, and sustainability consulting from conceptual design through occupancy. Kristy is Principal and Senior Sustainability Consultant at TLC Engineering Solutions. She provides sustainability consulting, LEED, and other sustainable rating systems. The Being an Engineer podcast is a repository for industry...
Dec 17, 2021•34 min•Season 2Ep. 53
Send us Fan Mail Robert States shares how he started as a plastics engineer and his experiences working with multinational corporations. You should check out the part where he shares his experiences that led to him joining his current company. We also tackle what his life has been like now, which he describes being highly focused on driving the careers of his team members. Robert holds a bachelor’s degree in plastics engineering and an MBA from Penn State. He is a principal at Stress Engineering...
Dec 10, 2021•45 min•Season 2Ep. 52
Send us Fan Mail John Teel is an Electronics design engineer and the founder of PredictableDesigns.com . He helps entrepreneurs, startups, makers, inventors, and small companies develop new electronic hardware products through his Hardware Academy . John also hosts The Predictable Designs Podcast , which is for hardware startups and entrepreneurs planning to bring a new electronic hardware product to market. He discusses things related to developing, manufacturing, marketing, and selling success...
Dec 03, 2021•22 min•Season 2Ep. 51
Send us Fan Mail Today we’re going to talk about soft skills, and we’re going to do so with an expert on the subject, Dave Smith . Dave and his cohost Jamison Dance are the founders and hosts of the Soft Skills Engineering podcast where they answer questions from technical people about non-technical work problems. Both Dave & Jamison have worked as software engineers from staff levels through director levels at a variety of companies including Lockheed Martin, Walmart, & Amazon to name a...
Nov 26, 2021•43 min•Season 2Ep. 50
Send us Fan Mail In early March 2020, Carbon engineer Hardik Kabaria received a message about a sudden swab shortage. With his engineering background and knowledge of software, he led the team at Carbon to produce Lattice Structure 3D Printing – a 3D-printed COVID-19 Test Swab. Hardik Kabaria is Director of Software Engineering at Carbon. In this role, he leads the development of Carbon’s Design Engine. He works on a variety of computational geometry and mechanics algorithms including surface an...
Nov 19, 2021•40 min•Season 2Ep. 49
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we’ll discuss what it’s like working at the Mayo Clinic’s engineering department. We also talk about what the Mayo Clinic looks for in engineers they hire. Check out the part where we touch on translational medicine, and the latest engineering technologies they’re working on. (Hint: Titanium 3D printing) Sean McEligot is Section Head of medical device research and development at the prestigious Mayo Clinic. He’s Division of Engineering, Quality Manager, has seco...
Nov 12, 2021•39 min•Season 2Ep. 48
Send us Fan Mail Joe Mullings Today on Being an Engineer podcast, we have none other than Joe Mullings . You might have seen him as the host of TrueFuture TV series, a documentary-style show highlighting cutting-edge technologies and related careers to expand the horizons of its viewers. He joins us today for another riveting conversation. Joe has a degree in mechanical engineering and is the chairman and CEO of The Mullings Group (TMG). For over 30 years his team has been connecting high-calibe...
Nov 05, 2021•55 min•Season 2Ep. 47
Send us Fan Mail Rich Sheridan Rich doesn’t just talk about joy in the workplace. He lives it every day at Menlo, the custom software and consulting company he co-founded in 2001 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Rich’s passion for inspiring organizations to create their own joy-filled cultures leads him to address audiences across the world as well as throughout the United States. Today, listen to Rich first hand on how to build a workplace people love. We also talk about other things such as pairing and...
Oct 29, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 46
Send us Fan Mail Andrea Dallan is an engineer, an entrepreneur and CEO of Dallan Spa, an Italian family business ( Dallan ) that has been producing systems for the processing of thin sheet metal since 1978, with 160 employees that include engineers, technicians and operations. He is also the author of the books “The Revolution of Efficiency” (2020) and “Think Thin” (coming summer 2021). Join our conversation to hear how he has used principles of efficiency, automation, and flexibility to increas...
Oct 22, 2021•45 min•Season 2Ep. 45
Send us Fan Mail Joseph Larsen runs an Engineering YouTube channel (Joko Engineering) with over 32K followers, in which he covers tutorials on SolidWorks, FreeCAD, Calculus, Engineering, Turbocharging dynamics and more. He also works a Medical Device Handle Design Engineer at W. L. Gore & Associates. He graduated with a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Arizona State University. Rafael, our co-host, met Joseph via YouTube when he was looking for resources to pass the SolidWorks CSWP exam. Li...
Oct 15, 2021•43 min•Season 2Ep. 44
Send us Fan Mail Matthew is an engineer and a coach who helps other engineers leave 50+ hour work weeks behind by using their time more productively. It was clear during the interview that Matthew knows his stuff, from concise and poignant answers to sharing a few of the systems he uses himself and with his clients. Learn more about Matthew at https://www.matthewgaddy.com and enjoy all the free content he shared during this episode of the Being An Engineer podcast. The Being An Engineer podcast ...
Oct 08, 2021•49 min•Season 2Ep. 43
Send us Fan Mail Devon Newman is a Mechanical Engineer with a demonstrated history of product design. Skilled in SolidWorks, ANSYS, and Manufacturing. He has an Masters focused in Mechanical Engineering from University of Utah and has used SolidWorks to develop a wide range of products; from pipeline inspection tools in the oil and gas industry, electromechanical assemblies, consumer products, and cooling systems. But Devin is most known for his website, SOLIDWORKSsecrets.com , in which he has d...
Oct 01, 2021•40 min•Season 2Ep. 42
Send us Fan Mail Many of you know James Hobson from his wildly popular YouTube channel Hacksmith Industries . James has a degree in mechanical systems engineering and runs Hacksmith Industries , a company he founded that takes fictional ideas from comics, movies and video games and makes real working prototypes as a way to inspire youth around the world into STEAM fields. A few of the amazing projects he and his team have completed over the years include a working Ironman helmet with heads up di...
Sep 24, 2021•59 min•Season 2Ep. 41
Send us Fan Mail Ted Newill is a business owner twice over, the first being Medical Device Success where he helps small to medium size medtech companies with strategic planning, marketing and sales expertise, and the second being a company called SRD Vision where his team manufactures a testing platform that helps researchers and eye care professionals conduct visual and reading tests. Ted holds a bachelor’s degree in business as well as a master’s degree in international management. He is also ...
Sep 17, 2021•40 min•Season 2Ep. 40
Send us Fan Mail Joel and I met in college where we were roommates and both earned a degree in mechanical engineering, he then went on to earn a master’s degree in materials science from MIT, followed by an MBA from Harvard Business School. He has worked in many industries including semiconductor, automotive, industrial chemicals, medical devices and currently serves as President at a company called ILC Dover . Beyond being ridiculously smart, he is also one of the calmest and most humble people...
Sep 10, 2021•54 min•Season 2Ep. 39
Send us Fan Mail Stephanie’s mission is to help develop women leaders in the STEM field. She feels so strongly about this that she has founded Engineer’s Rising , an organization dedicated to helping women in engineering and technology create fulfilling careers on their terms. Don’t think this episode is just for female, though. Along the way Stephanie teaches us how skyscraper engineers ensure their buildings won’t experience catastrophic resonant frequencies, how large structural engineering p...
Sep 03, 2021•51 min•Season 2Ep. 38
Send us Fan Mail Kevin Mako is the Founder of MAKO Design + Invent, a product development firm that provides end-to-end physical consumer product development. What really sets Kevin’s company apart is that it’s tailored to inventors, product startups, and small manufacturers. Mako Design is a 30-person team with offices in Austin, Miami, San Francisco, & Toronto, has developed over 1,000 products for clients and has earned over 25 design and business awards including Red Dot, Inc5000, Entrep...
Aug 23, 2021•50 min•Season 2Ep. 37
Send us Fan Mail Aaron reminds me of the calm, driven and technical savvy camp counselor that everyone aspires to be like. During my own interview on the Being an Engineer podcast I could sense Aaron had a wonderful story and advice to share with all of us. So, in this episode I put on my podcast interviewer hat and put Aaron through the gauntlet of questions. We get to dive into how Pipeline Design & Engineering came to be, how this podcast came to be & so much more. Aaron is a genuine ...
Aug 23, 2021•49 min•Season 2Ep. 36
Send us Fan Mail It’s very clear speaking with Angel that he cares about people, and so it’s no wonder that his warm personality has allowed him to advance in his career to a director level. A technically brilliant engineer without good interpersonal skills will only advance so far in his or her career, but for one with brilliant communication and people skills there is almost no limit. Join our conversation to learn more about how Angel has improved these skills over time and applied them to th...
Aug 13, 2021•49 min•Season 2Ep. 35
Send us Fan Mail Process engineering is not something that gets a lot of love during school, so many engineers enter the field without an understanding of what it means to be in process engineering. In practice, it’s one of the most important skills an engineer can have because it relates directly to a company’s ability to manufacture their product or device. Join us on this episode to hear from Zach O’Ferrell , a master process engineer, about design verification & validation, IQ/OQ/PQ, Lea...
Aug 06, 2021•49 min•Season 2Ep. 34
Send us Fan Mail Dr. Mark Farber has worked as a physician consultant helping medical device manufacturers develop their products for over 20 years. He is Chief surgeon within the Division of Vascular Surgery at the University of North Carolina (or UNC for short), Program Director of the Vascular Surgery Fellowship, and a Professor of Surgery at the UNC School of Medicine. Join our conversation in this episode to hear Dr. Farber’s suggestions for how medical device engineering & MFG teams ca...
Jul 30, 2021•46 min•Season 2Ep. 33
Send us Fan Mail Filip Valica is a mechanical engineer, product line manager, and former co-host of another wonderful podcast you should know about called The Product Startup podcast, where they specialize in talking about taking ideas from invention to shelves. Filip no longer co-hosts the podcast, because he sold it, but he shared valuable insights from his personal experiences interviewing dozens of inventors he had on his show. It would be very valuable for us to bring him on our show to ask...
Jul 23, 2021•42 min•Season 2Ep. 32
Send us Fan Mail Chris has worked in medical devices for most of his career, much of which has been spent managing and leading engineering teams. He has a degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue and has helped commercialize over a dozen products from the ideation stage, many of which being multimillion dollar projects that lasted several years each. The Being An Engineer podcast is brought to you by Pipeline Design & Engineering. Pipeline partners with medical & other device enginee...
Jul 16, 2021•48 min•Season 2Ep. 31
Send us Fan Mail Thomas Rinaldi is an architectural designer. He has degrees from Georgetown and Columbia Universities and has written several architecture books and his photographs have been published in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and New York Post. He has lectured widely, including at the New York Public Library and the Society of Architectural Historians. Book link: Patented: 1,000 Design Patents Co-Host Rafael Testai Subscribe to the show to get notified so you don't miss new ep...
Jul 09, 2021•47 min•Season 2Ep. 30
