Mike Reo | How to hire engineers, develop curiosity, and “fail fast”

    Mike Reo Mike Reo has over 30 years of experience working as an engineer and in technical fields. He has held roles from technician to engineer to CEO and brings a wealth of [...]

Callye Keen | A Coach for Entrepreneurs who Want to Launch Tangible Products to the Marketplace

             Who is Callye Keen? Callye Keen helps physical product companies grow through strategy, design, as well as manufacturing in his company, RedBlueCollective. In this episode, [...]

Barbara Allen | How to Find An Engineering Mentor & the Bay Area’s Best Kept Secret

             Who is Barbara Allen? Barbara Allen earned a degree in chemical engineering. She later realized that manufacturing and design are more interesting than chemicals. Beginning her [...]

Elizabeth Mallett | Why W.L. Gore is An Amazing Engineering (& People) Company

Who is Elizabeth Mallett? Elizabeth Mallet shares her unique perspective as a worker at a “theory X” company and contrasts those experiences with the “theory Y” environment, which was [...]

Matt Heidecker | How To Build A Quality System That Works For You (and not the other way around)

Matt Heidecker Matt Heidecker shares his deep and valuable experience with us from testing pharmaceutical compounds and understanding the mechanics of the universe on an atomic level as well as [...]

Blayne Roeder | Engineering Empathy, Identifying Needs, & Developing Strong Work Ethic

Blayne Roeder 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 [...]

Ryan Frederick | Soliciting Negative Feedback, Understanding The Problem, & Building Sales Success

Who is Ryan Frederick? Ryan Frederick has spent his career establishing software product companies, and he discusses a few of the lessons he’s learned along the way in this episode. His [...]

Alexander Slocum, MIT Mechanical Engineering Professor | How to Determine if an Idea is Worth Pursuing

  Alexander Slocum How to determine if an idea is worth pursuing? In this episode, we talk about how to tinker and proactivity hacks, how to achieve work-life balance, how to monetize your [...]

Ogun Unal | How Oxidation Weakens Aluminum, and Why Engineers Make the World Better

Who is Ogun Unal? Ogun Unal‘s expertise is in industrial engineering and metallurgy. He describes how the oxidized top layer of molten Aluminum can be pushed sub-surface and lead to [...]

David Oh | NASA, Systems Engineering, and Sending Robots to Space

David Oh David 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 [...]