Welcome to the first ever episode of The being an engineer podcast. My name is Aaron Moncure. And I will be your host on the show, we thought it might be useful to start the series off with a short introduction. And I will share just a little bit about me and also about my company who's behind this podcast. So who am I, an engineer and I have degrees in mechanical and bio engineering. I grew up surfing in Hawaii. In fact, the name of our company, which we'll get to in a minute, is a throwback to
one of those beaches. I live in Arizona now, which is where my business is pipeline design and engineering. And we focus on developing turnkey test fixtures and automated equipment, predominantly for medical device engineering teams, although we work with other industries as well. We've been in business for over 10 years and support companies local here in AZ as well as across the rest of the US. I am really into systems and
productivity. And those will certainly be some of the themes we'll discuss in upcoming shows something weird about me. I hate newspaper, not news reporters, not news channels, not the news itself. But newspaper. I don't know what it is, ever since I was a kid. And I know this is super weird. I've just hated this stuff. I can't stand the texture, that touch of it, the smell of it, the ink that gets on your hands, just everything about it. I hate newspaper. I don't even like saying the name.
That's something weird about me. Why did I create this show? selfish reasons. Really? I think that people are supremely interesting. And I want to learn more about them, especially engineers. That might seem counterintuitive, because engineers are nerds. And why would that be interesting, right? Case in point, my wife and I were about to go to sleep the other night. And I told her, I might watch a show before hitting the sack. And she said, Isn't it about your bedtime?
Lately, I've been really into getting high quality sleep and going to bed at the same time. Anyway, I said, You're right, only eight minutes left until optimal bedtime. And she rolled her eyes at me. And it was like, and I was like what? And she says only eight minutes left until optimal bedtime, who talks like that? I had to admit she had me there. I used nerdy language like that all the time. But if you think about it, engineers are the reason the
world works the way it does. I mean, your smartphone, your refrigerator, your car, even mundane stuff like toilet paper and CutUps. Those things exist because we engineered them. Engineers are the problem solvers of the world. And so we're kind of rockstars less the cocaine and groupies. And who wouldn't want to learn more about us? Full disclosure, I also hope this will be a marketing tool for our company. I promise to be discreet. This is not a podcast about our
company. And I fully realized that in order to be a good marketing tool to has to be interesting and valuable enough for people to want to listen. So that is my goal. What are we going to talk about and learn on this show? I thought to convey that message, I might just share a few questions that I envision us talking about in upcoming episodes. So for example, what are a few habits that you have developed that have proven useful to you could be engineering related or personal?
How did you decide that you wanted to become an engineer? What are a few ways that you think about the world that you think maybe are unique to the fact that you're an engineer, maybe share a major success and a failure? And what we've learned from those successes and failures, those kinds of things.
All those questions, reference engineers and certainly will interview a lot of engineers mechanical, electrical chemical, but we also want to spend time with a lot of engineering adjacent roles, for example. Project managers, machinists, contract manufacturers, students, suppliers, maybe training l personnel. We love everyone except the civil engineers. Just kidding civvies we'd love you to kind of who should listen to this show.
engineers or people who work with engineers that want to better understand them, including spouses we welcome you to, in fact, my wife back when we were first married, made me this brilliant spreadsheet. I'm sorry, not spreadsheet flowchart. And it started off his wife happy. Yes. Great. What did you do? Right? Give yourself a pat on the back, keep doing those things. Or Nope. Is she hungry? Yes, feed her then reassess, or no. Is the house a
wreck? Yes, he'll pick up and wipe things down, then reassess, or no. Are the kids being jerks? Yes, no, etc, etc. awesome tool for me. And I'm embarrassed to say that it's been profoundly useful as well. Anyway, engineers, people who work with engineers, and really anyone interested in learning new ways for approaching problem solving, or being more productive or just generally learning about what it's like to be an engineer?
Where can you find us? Well, for the podcast, all the major podcast platforms, if you're looking for our company, you can go to test fixture design.com, or design the product.com. Either one, I suggest going straight to the case studies pages, they are probably the most interesting and educational if you're looking for business related material. We welcome feedback and participation from all of you. Please let us know what you want to hear about who you want to hear from, and you
can contact us via email. It's in the show notes. And that's it. That's what we're doing. See you on the next show.