Being an Engineer
Episodes
367 episodes
S7E26 Paul Vizzio | From Prototype to Product: How Paul Vizzio Engineered RemieDog Into a Real Hardware Business
Paul Vizzio is a seasoned hardware engineering leader with deep expertise in building complex electromechanical systems and scaling them from early prototypes to full production. Currently...
S7E25 Yesenia Avellaneda | Engineering, Medicine, and Manufacturing Leadership
Yesenia Avellaneda is an engineering leader whose career sits at the intersection of innovation, operations, and impact. Currently a Senior Project Engineer within Global Operations ...
S7E24 Larry Copponi | The Most Important Skill To Get Hired As An Engineer
For more than 40 years, Larry Copponi has been working at the intersection of engineering talent and product innovation. Today, he serves as Vice President of...
S7E23 Jordan Kapitanoff | Screw Manufacturing, LEAN Processes, and Investing for Engineers
Jordan Kapitanoff is a mechanical engineer by training and a transformation leader by practice. A graduate of Kettering University with a BSME and an MBA from Aurora Universi...
S7E22 Amelia Howe | Developing Medical Device Injectrodes for Pain Reduction, & Project Management Best Practices
Amelia Howe is a biomedical engineer and R&D project manager whose career spans startups, research labs, and established medical device companies. She currently leads cross-functional d...
S7E21 Rod Scholl | Pro Tips from 30-Year Analyst For Accurate Simulations (FEA & CFD)
Rod Scholl is the Founder and Principal Analyst at Epsilon FEA, an engineering services company he launched in 2008 to specialize in advanced numerical ...
S7E20 Mahantesh Hiremath | How to Influence Public Policy As An Engineer
Dr. Mahantesh Hiremath has built a rare engineering career at the intersection of deep technical rigor, systems thinking, leadership, and service. Across more than three decades, h...
S7E19 Ryan Schoonmaker | How to Take A Structured Approach to Solving Engineering Problems
Ryan Schoonmaker has spent roughly two decades in medical device product development, building a career around solving hard engineering problems in high-stakes environments. T...
S7E18 Aaron Moncur | Building Pipeline, the Being An Engineer Podcast, and Engineering Communities
In this special role-reversal episode of the Being An Engineer podcast, longtime host Aaron Moncur steps into the guest seat while previous guest
S7E17 Joe Couitt | How to Design for Swiss Machining
Joe Couitt is the founder of JMC Swiss Solutions, a Phoenix-based consulting firm dedicated to CNC Swiss applications and machining opti...
S7E16 Chad Walters | Constraints, Iteration, & Industrial Design in Product Development
Chad Walters is an experienced product design leader with more than two decades of experience developing complex products across healthcare, life sciences, aerospace, defense, and commerc...
S7E15 Mustafa Poonawala | Diagnostic Clinical Trials, Prioritization, & Decision Latency in Engineering
Mustafa Poonawala is a globally recognized leader in medical device and diagnostics innovation, known for his ability to translate strategy into execution across R&D, clinical operations, a...
PDX Webinar Trailer, Engineering for Success: Making Product-Market Fit an Actionable Design Goal
Watch the webinar here!Great engineering alone does not guarantee product s...
S7E14 Brad & Aaron | How To Accelerate The Speed of Engineering (Episode 3 of 3)
In this final episode of the three-part series on accelerating the speed of engineering, Aaron Moncur and Brad Hirayama zoom out to focus on the organizational and cultural levers that compound over time.While earlier episodes explored h...
S7E13 Brad & Aaron | How To Accelerate The Speed of Engineering (Episode 2 of 3)
In part two of this three-part series on accelerating the speed of engineering, Aaron Moncur and Brad Hirayama shift the focus from individual habits to team workflows. Drawing from patterns that have surfaced across 300+ Being An Engineer inte...
S7E12 Flash Training: Design for Assembly: Why Fewer Screw Lengths Makes Everything Easier
Watch this flash training here: https://youtu.be/QCy9i4TB2b4When engineers design parts in isolation, it’s easy to unintentionally introduce dozens of slightly different fastener lengths into an...
S7E11 Brad & Aaron | How To Accelerate The Speed of Engineering (Episode 1 of 3)
In this special kickoff to a three-part miniseries, Aaron Moncur and Brad Hirayama explore one of the most important—and often overlooked—skills in engineering: how to accelerate the speed of engineering work without sacrificing quality. Drawin...
Engineering Industry Evangelist
Pipeline Design & EngineeringAbout Pipeline Pipeline solves difficult manufacturing problems through automation, custom equipment, fixtures, and product development. We also build community through PDX, the Being An En...
S7E10 Daniel Gledhill | How to Win at People-Centered Leadership in Engineering Teams
Daniel Gledhill is a seasoned manufacturing and engineering leader whose career bridges high-risk industrial operations and precision-driven medical device manufacturing. Danie...
S7E9 Brad & Aaron | Top 5 Takeaways After Interviewing Over 300 Engineers
After more than 300 episodes of conversations with engineers, founders, and technical leaders, certain patterns start to emerge. In this special retrospective episode of Being An Engineer, Aaron Moncur and Brad Hirayama fli...
S7E8 Matt Ketterer | Professional Growth through Interdisciplinary Exploration
In this episode, we join Matt Ketterer, a seasoned engineer, at Pipeline Media Studio's inaugural session. Matt shares his career journey, from his initial foray into mechanical enginee...
S7E7 Mike Romance | Industry 4.0, Production Transfers, & People-Centric Leadership
Mike Romance has spent nearly two decades operating at the intersection of manufacturing engineering, automation, validation, and operations leadership within the life-sciences ecosystem. H...
S7E6 Bob Hankins | Medical Device Engineering Leadership & Working With the FDA
Bob Hankins brings over 20 years of dedicated experience in the medical-device industry, spanning engineering leadership, product development, process improvement and strategic technical over...
S7E5 Scott Roberts | The Stainless Steel Hardening Process Most Engineers Don’t Know Exists
Scott Roberts is the North American Regional Sales Manager for Bodycote’s S³P technologies, where he oversees the sales team and rep networ...
S7E4 Scott Heimendinger | Developing the World’s First Home-Kitchen Ultrasonic Chef’s Knife
Scott Heimendinger is an engineer and inventor whose career spans business intelligence at Microsoft and IBM, to cutting-edge food-tech innovation. Early in his career he served as a ...