Mark Downey | The Importance of Learning to Say No

Who is Mark Downey? After learning to fly at a young age, Mark Downey started his career in the aerospace industry designing parts and test equipment for aircraft. He then moved into automotive [...]

Peter Cerreta | How To Engineer Your Way Out of Boring Engineering Work

Peter Cerreta Like any good engineer, Peter Cerreta loves solving challenging problems. Conversely, he hates working on boring problems. When one of his former employers presented him with one [...]

Mauricio Romero | The ABCs of Industrial Automation

Mauricio Romero Mauricio Romero is a senior manager of metrology at Johnson & Johnson’s Vistakon division. He has been automating equipment and manufacturing lines for well over a decade. In [...]

Les Voss | How To Succeed at The Technical & Business Aspects of Engineering

Les Voss If your product works, is it a success? During our conversation with Les Voss, we learn that is not necessarily the case as we discuss the various elements of a project that all need to [...]

Astrid McNellis | Tools for Building Successful Team Relationships, Loyalty & Passion

  Astrid McNellis Are you passionate about your work? If not, is it possible you are not performing to your greatest extent? These are questions Astrid McNellis asked herself early in her [...]

Lisa Ho & Andrew Muyanja (Menlo Innovations) | A Joyful Approach to Product Development

Who are Andrew Muyanja and Lisa Ho? Andrew Muyanja and Lisa Ho are Menlonians (team members at Menlo Innovations). They do things differently. Even though they develop software products, the [...]

Rob Maldonado | What Can You Accomplish If You Spent 1-hour a Day On Your Purpose

  Who is Rob Maldonado? With over 36,000 Instagram followers, Rob Maldonado is the author of #CADModelOfTheDay, an initiative he started over 300 days ago in which he posts one CAD model [...]

Lisa Somogyi | How To Communicate Between Development Groups

Lisa Somogyi Lisa Somogyi started her career working in the construction industry designing the mechanical systems for residential and commercial buildings. A few companies later, and after [...]

Kailee Hanratty | How To Develop Products for Farmers & the NBA

Kailee Hanratty Kailee Hanratty shares with us several fascinating projects on this episode of Being An Engineer. She shares how she develops rugged and reliable prosthetics for farmers to more [...]

Jeff Wells | How to Build Trust (& Win New Business) With Your Customers

Who is Jeff Wells? After working for several years designing airplane components, Jeff Wells grew weary of the similar designs we was asked to create over and over. He then jumped at the chance [...]