Being an Engineer

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S1E23 A-Team Engineering, From Ireland to the United States | Ronan Jenkinson Jul 24, 2020

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Ronan’s drive to work as an engineer at medical device companies gave him the courage to move from a small fishing town in Ireland where he grew up to silicone valley. Within a surprisingly short amount of time he was designing new products at Phoenix Deventures and building a fantastic network of engineering (and engineering-adjacent) professionals. Now working as a senior verification engineer he continues loving every aspect of the engineer life and shares with us insight ranging from perseverance to why MacGyver would most definitely win in a battle against Batman.

Pipeline Design & Engineering partners with medical device engineering teams who need turnkey equipment such as cycle test machines, custom test fixtures, or automation equipment but don’t have the bandwidth or resources internally to develop that equipment. You can find us on the web at www.testfixturedesign.com and www.designtheproduct.com .

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S1E22 Being a GENUINE engineer/leader | Rob Newsom Jul 17, 2020

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With over 24 very sincere recommendations on his LinkedIn page, it is clear that Rob’s teams over the years have loved working with him. Join our conversation as we explore how he has developed these loyal teams, as well as how he has helped hardware and software engineers work together to develop new products. Rob’s current role is VP of Product Development at Cubex, LLC.

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S1E21 Weird Al, Strong Creative-Analytical Linking, & Bomb Squads | Margaret Koga Ward Jul 17, 2020

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Margaret shares her rich history as an engineer in the automotive and medical device industries, including best practices for root cause failure analyses, what it’s like to be a woman in the male-dominated engineering industry, and how she helped “Weird Al” Yankovic get over stage fright early in his career.

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S1E20 PLCs, HMIs, & Making Hardware Move | Karl Gerety Jul 03, 2020

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Karl started his career as a field service technician and, thanks to his budding skill within the controls realm, quickly transferred into the role of controls engineer. For the past 20 years Karl has honed his skill and is now Director of Engineering at Machine Solutions where he leads an entire group of controls engineers.

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S1E19 Mentors, Ego, and Vulnerability | Trey Bobo Jul 03, 2020

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Trey’s varied experiences within the product development and engineering industry have not only helped him become a gifted engineer, but also a charismatic manager (currently at Edwards Lifesciences). Join our conversation as we discuss topics ranging from technical descriptions of manufacturing equipment through the soft skills of managing people.

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S1E18 Automating Nanoparticle Characterization | David Freedman Jul 03, 2020

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Like all great engineers, David started with Legos. That quickly grew into a fascination not just with mechanical building but with automation and software, which led him into the field of electrical engineering. David now operates as COO at NanoView Biosciences, which he co-founded, helping research and Academic institutions detect and characterize exosome nanoparticles & other extracellular vesicles.

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S1E17 Precise Speech, Customer Success, & General Engineering Love | Jesseca Lyons Jun 26, 2020

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Jesseca exudes love for the engineering craft. Her sincere passion for what she does is so evident as she shares her experiences working in automation, understanding customer needs, and creating highly detailed and precise documentation. When most of us engineers would just as soon throw the documentation side of development “over the wall”, Jesseca thrives producing drawings, user guides, & other engineering related communication.

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S1E16 The Joys of Solving Really Hard Problems | Robert Whirley Jun 26, 2020

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When Robert’s professors during school had him and his classmates use simplified assumptions to teach engineering problem solving his response was always “but what if these assumptions aren’t true?” Robert Whirley has always wanted (and successfully done) to solve the hard problems. Join us as we hear about his experience working as an engineer in multiple industries and starting product development companies of his own.

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S1E15 Robot Cinematography, 16-day Ventilators, & Identifying the REAL problem | Russ Aldridge Jun 19, 2020

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Russ Aldridge and cofounder Marc Christenson started Sisu in 2010 as an integrator for their former employer NI (National Instruments). They have expanded the company far beyond just NI and now serve a wide variety of industries developing highly sophisticated robotic & automated applications. Their team’s skill and ingenuity is matched by their incredible dedication to serve the customer – case in point: team Sisu went from concept to 100 fully functioning ventilators in just 2 weeks to meet the massive need brought on by COVID.

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S1E14 An Engineer’s Engineer | Robert Futch Jun 19, 2020

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Robert grew up building Legos, toy rockets, fixing vehicles, and developing video games…it seemed inevitable that he would become an engineer. As CTO at Delta Development Team, he continues developing his engineering skills going through the MS program for systems engineering at the University of Arizona while running their startup thermal systems/medical device company at the same time. Hear about the pressures & thrills of developing revolutionary life-saving technology (watch out Coleman coolers…your days are numbered).

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