Podcasts about applications engineer

In this episode, we speak with a behind-the-scenes expert in power system testing. Mariana Felix de Souza is an Applications Engineer for Latin America at the cable diagnostics solutions company B2 electronics. Mariana describes how her experience and responsibilities contribute to helping sales partners ensure the reliability of their customers' cable systems in Latin America with B2 diagnostic solutions. She also offers advice to those who want to develop in her area of technical expertise.

Send us a textDavid Pierick, a retired Applications Engineer, shares the journey of bringing powder bed fusion technology to prosthetics and orthotics, revolutionizing patient comfort and outcomes through advanced materials.• The initial challenge: proving 3D printed prosthetic components were as good or better than traditional methods• Testing showed printed sockets were remarkably strong—in one test bending the aluminum testing rod before deforming the socket• Patient feedback consistently reported greater comfort with PA-12 sockets, especially when paired with flexible interliners• PA-11 offers superior fatigue properties and better strength-to-stiffness ratio than PA-12, though at higher cost• PK5000 combines nylon stiffness with TPU softness, enabling thinner socket designs with excellent impact resistance• Proper design principles are critical: avoid sharp edges, ensure proper radii on all features, and properly transition corrugations• Future innovation requires thinking beyond traditional manufacturing constraints and adopting true 3D design approaches• Collaborative teams of polymer experts, design specialists, and clinicians are essential for solving complex challenges• New applications could include integrated functionality with shock absorption zones and varying flexibility in a single componentSpecial thanks to Advanced 3D for sponsoring this episode.Support the show

In the second part of Andy's conversation with Cody Heimann of Sound Devices (part one is here), the duo rolls up their sleeves and goes deep on the company's Astral wireless platform that offers 32 channels in a single rack-unit, Optocore integration, and a handheld transmitter that can take almost any capsule on the market without any additional adapters, there's a lot to discuss. This episode is sponsored by Allen & Heath and RCF.Episode Links:Episode 290 — Cody Heimann On Large-Scale RF DeploymentSound Devices Astral Wireless & A20-HH Intro VideoEpisode 291 TranscriptConnect with the community on the Signal To Noise Facebook Group and Discord Server. Both are spaces for listeners to create to generate conversations around the people and topics covered in the podcast — we want your questions and comments!Also please check out and support The Roadie Clinic, Their mission is simple. “We exist to empower & heal roadies and their families by providing resources & services tailored to the struggles of the touring lifestyle.”The Signal To Noise Podcast on ProSoundWeb is co-hosted by pro audio veterans Andy Leviss and Sean Walker.Want to be a part of the show? If you have a quick tip to share, or a question for the hosts, past or future guests, or listeners at home, we'd love to include it in a future episode. You can send it to us one of two ways:1) If you want to send it in as text and have us read it, or record your own short audio file, send it to signal2noise@prosoundweb.com with the subject “Tips” or “Questions”2) If you want a quick easy way to do a short (90s or less) audio recording, go to https://www.speakpipe.com/S2N and leave us a voicemail there 

Episode 290 goes all in on wireless as Andy is joined by Cody Heimann, RF applications engineer at Sound Devices as well as a veteran RF coordinator for large-scale events. In the first of two episodes, he talks about how his career grew and led to finding a niche as an RF coordinator for events and clients such as Coachella, New Year's Eve in Times Square, and some of the largest corporate events and conventions in the world. This episode is sponsored by Allen & Heath and RCF.In a wide-ranging conversation, Cody shares tips and advice for handling large events, making wise choices about compromises to fit hundreds of channels of RF into tight spaces, and much more!After starting his career as an audio assistant, he became a stage tech and patch master, moving through the ranks to monitor and front of house engineer, PA tech, and production manager. He's been involved in all things audio, which has allowed him to build a diverse portfolio in troubleshooting, technical skills and client relationships.Now, as an RF applications engineer, he's definitely no stranger to being agile and working in different mediums of the industry. In April of 2024, Cody joined the RF Applications Team at Sound Devices where he largely works largely in product development, technical support, education, and large-scale and complex deployments of the company's Astral wireless systems.Cody loves fitness and the outdoors; he was a part-owner of Music City Boxing in Nashville, met his wife rock climbing as well as an avid motorcycle enthusiast and self-proclaimed “once upon a time drummer.” It's no doubt that music has been a passion of his since his youth and he loves being able to help continue to be a small part in the big shows!Episode Links:Cody Heimann On LinkedInPractical Show Tech 15: RF Over Fiber, Multi-Antenna Systems & MorePractical Show Tech 23: Basics Of Frequency Coordination Using PWS IASSound Devices Astral Wireless FamilyGrownsy Baby Nasal AspiratorPowered Ear Wax RemoverEpisode 290 TranscriptConnect with the community on the Signal To Noise Facebook Group and Discord Server. Both are spaces for listeners to create to generate conversations around the people and topics covered in the podcast — we want your questions and comments!Also please check out and support The Roadie Clinic, Their mission is simple. “We exist to empower & heal roadies and their families by providing resources & services tailored to the struggles of the touring lifestyle.”The Signal To Noise Podcast on ProSoundWeb is co-hosted by pro audio veterans Andy Leviss and Sean Walker.

PlastChicks Lynzie Nebel and Mercedes Landazuri host April Brown, Applications Engineer at Moldex3D. They discuss her professional journey to a plastics industry career, injection molding simulation projects, reducing manufacturing cost and optimizing processes while reducing waste and considering sustainability, being more inventive and efficient in the workplace, creating a sustainable future for everyone in the plastics industry, using AI to compile years of simulation data to help optimize a new part design, using simulation to predict defects before production and reduce necessary trials and tooling modifications, Moldex3D's Moldiverse cloud ecosystem, and future predictions for simulation and AI in plastics manufacturing. Watch the PlastChicks podcast on the SPE YouTube Channel.PlastChicks is sponsored by SPE-Inspiring Plastics Professionals. Look for new episodes the first Friday of every month.

One more Bonus just in time for EPIC! Charli has Hannah Verrall from Sundyne on to talk about her experiences.  As Product Line Manager, I'm responsible for the product roadmap and go to market strategies for Sundyne sealless pump product lines, to position them for growth in chemical, industrial and traditional energy markets, as well as emerging markets in renewables and sustainable energy production. Based at the Sundyne factory in Eastbourne UK, I provide the link between operations, NPD and external sales teams and work closely with our distribution network to make sure I'm in tune with market trends. With a BEng and MSc in Engineering, I have a passion for encouraging females and young people to enter STEM industries and mentoring others to support their professional advancement. In my current position and previous roles as Applications Engineer and Aftermarket Manager, I have gained expertise in centrifugal pump technology and related industry standards, along with various skills in team management, bid management and negotiation, troubleshooting/FMEA and business case development.Find us @EmpoweringPumps on Facebook, LinkedIn,  Instagram and Twitter and using the hashtag #EmpoweringIndustryPodcast or via email podcast@empoweringpumps.com    Read up at EmpoweringPumps.com and stay tuned for more news about EPIC at the Colorado School of Mines Nov 12th and 13th.Find us @EmpoweringPumps on Facebook, LinkedIn,  Instagram and Twitter and using the hashtag #EmpoweringIndustryPodcast or via email podcast@empoweringpumps.com   

In this episode of The Construction Show, host Jerrod Downey sits down with Narain Hariharan, New Products and Applications Engineer at Graymont, to discuss the innovative product, GRAYBOND™, and its versatile applications in construction. They dive deep into the technical aspects of how GRAYBOND™ is engineered for specific projects, particularly focusing on its role in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by up to 70% in some cases. Watch Full Episode Here Media Partner

Industry-leading computed tomography (CT) scanning technology provided by Nikon has been employed to uncover the secrets of a rare 17th-century pendant watch, part of the Museum of London's renowned Cheapside Hoard. The intricate details revealed by the scans have transformed the Museum's understanding of this unique piece of early modern technology, providing new insights into its mechanism, case, and historical significance. The heart of the goldsmiths' trade in post-medieval Britain was on the south side of Cheapside in the City of London. Here, on 18th June 1912, beneath a brick-lined cellar floor in a timber-framed building, workmen discovered a remarkable cache of almost 500 items of jewellery, gems and other precious Elizabethan and Jacobean objects. Probably buried in about 1640 at the onset of the English Civil War, the so-called Cheapside Hoard is now housed in the Museum of London and contains only one item that can be directly attributed. It is a gilt-brass pendant watch, made in Geneva between 1610 and 1620, bearing the signature of its maker, G Ferlite (Gaultier Ferlite). For a catalogue to be published to coincide with the opening of the new London Museum in 2026-2027, Hazel Forsyth, Senior Curator Medieval & Early Modern Collections responsible for the Cheapside Hoard, wanted to check a few facts and figures concerning recent further research on the watch. In 2023, she approached Nikon for assistance and was delighted when Alistair Watson, X-ray Sales Manager, suggested rescanning the watch. The watch movement had first undergone X-radiography and CT reconstruction in 2005, but the technology has progressed enormously since then and there was potential to discover much more detail. The latest investigation was undertaken by James Finch, Applications Engineer at Nikon's X-ray CT production, demonstration and subcontract inspection centre in Tring in February. The watch was scanned in a Nikon XT H 450 system equipped with a source having a 450kV rotating reflection target manufactured on-site. Scan parameters were 430kV, 100W and a 2mm tin filter was used. A total of 3,800 projections were acquired with a voxel size of 31.8 microns. Each exposure took 1,415 milliseconds, so the overall scan time was 90 minutes. Nikon's CT scans produce ‘staggering' results “The results were staggering. For the very first time, it was possible to see details that were blurred in 2005, or simply invisible. The results showed precise features and gear components and relative metal densities, including imaging of the areas which still retain gilding,” says Hazel Forsyth. “It was also possible to obtain precise measurements of particular features. Even more exciting was the possibility of scanning the case and movement so that we could virtually re-insert the mechanism into its original housing. This meant we could work out what its early 17th-century owner would have seen through some of the apertures in the dial. The latest images have had a transformative effect on our understanding of this important watch and its place in early modern horology.” The watch, designed to be worn around the neck, is intriguing because it has a reverse-set chapter ring; the numbers 12 and 6 are transposed so the wearer could read the time by inclining their head. Other interesting features include a piercing in the case for an alarm, as well as astronomical and calendar indications on the dial. When it was made, it would have been a very expensive, luxury item. Unfortunately, it is in poor condition. Most of the enamel on the dial is lost and the hinge and cover are missing. The dial is currently supported by a modern acrylic insert and the mechanism, which was removed for conservation reasons, is heavily corroded. Very little of the internal structure can be seen with the naked eye, which is why the detail revealed by CT scanning has been so valuable.

Join Steve and Darren as they learn how to speak Star Trek in Farsi and debate how the IT Department will transition to more daylight when the Bob Crane Community Center opens with guest, and Upper Arlington's Applications Engineer, Nasser Arman.

In this episode of Design World's Technology Tuesdays Podcast, VP, Editorial Director Paul J. Heney chats about vision systems with Philip Freidin, an Applications Engineer with IDS Imaging Development Systems Inc. They discuss new and interesting applications, how to select the best industrial camera system, and what the future holds for this important technology area.

Hydrocarbon Processing caught up with Jeff DeWitt, Applications Engineer for Swagelok, to discuss the many facets of gas distribution systems, including new trends, safety, selecting the best regulator(s) and ways asset owners can optimize their internal gas distribution systems.

In this episode we follow Will and Patrick, two passionate Applications Engineers, to the US and UK. Both are currently working abroad as part of an expat program at TGW. They debunk misconceptions about their job title, shedding light on the true essence of being an Applications Engineer. Get inspired by their resilience in navigating through challenges, embracing change, and starting anew until the most complex warehouse systems fit into the smallest space possible.

In this informative video, Guillermo Martinez, Applications Engineer at Polygon US, addresses a common question about system design and power requirements for desiccant dehumidifiers. He explains the challenges in estimating power needs before designing the system and highlights the flexibility to adjust power once the system is in place. Martinez overviews the R Series, specifically the tri-fuel desiccant dehumidifiers powered by propane, natural gas, or electricity.Martinez emphasizes the importance of three-phase 460-volt power for most systems and illustrates how to determine the amps required based on the unit's specifications. He also showcases strategies to optimize energy usage, including using gas burners for reactivation cycles. Watch the video to learn more about maximizing energy efficiency in desiccant dehumidifiers.

In this informative video, Guillermo Martinez, Applications Engineer at Polygon US, addresses a common question about system design and power requirements for desiccant dehumidifiers. He explains the challenges in estimating power needs before designing the system and highlights the flexibility to adjust power once the system is in place. Martinez overviews the R Series, specifically the tri-fuel desiccant dehumidifiers powered by propane, natural gas, or electricity.Martinez emphasizes the importance of three-phase 460-volt power for most systems and illustrates how to determine the amps required based on the unit's specifications. He also showcases strategies to optimize energy usage, including using gas burners for reactivation cycles. Watch the video to learn more about maximizing energy efficiency in desiccant dehumidifiers.

Guillermo Martinez, an Applications Engineer for Polygon US, provides a comprehensive explanation of psychrometric charts, their significance, and how Polygon utilizes them in their work. Guillermo begins by introducing psychrometric charts as tools used to understand the properties and conditions of air, including temperature, humidity, and energy. He emphasizes that these charts are specific to certain conditions, such as elevation, which affects air pressure and alters the properties of air.The video focuses on understanding the components of a psychrometric chart. Guillermo explains the x-axis, which represents the dry bulb temperature, the y-axis, which represents the grains per pound or humidity ratio, and the curved lines indicating relative humidity levels.Guillermo demonstrates how the chart enables Polygon to determine their targets and understand the relationship between outside weather conditions and the desired internal environment. Through psychrometric chart generating software, they overlay weather data accumulated over many years to visualize worst-case scenarios and align them with the desired indoor conditions. This allows Polygon to determine the starting point and make informed decisions based on client specifications or material requirements.He highlights a typical target of 75 degrees and 50 percent relative humidity, showcasing how this point on the chart provides additional information, such as the grains per pound. Guillermo stresses the importance of considering outside weather data, demonstrating how it influences the project. He explains that Polygon designs systems to manipulate the outside air and achieve the desired indoor conditions.The video emphasizes the complexity and value of psychrometric charts in understanding air properties and planning environmental control solutions. Guillermo assures viewers that Polygon is ready to engage in detailed discussions with clients, tailoring explanations to their specific needs.

In this episode of the VM Podcast, we catch up with Chad Beamer, Applications Engineer managing the US-based application center for Quintus Technologies, the global leader in high-pressure technology.  Quintus designs, manufactures, installs, and supports high-pressure systems in three main areas: densification of advanced materials, sheet metal forming and high-pressure processing for food and beverage innovation, safety, and shelf life. The company has delivered over 1,900 systems to customers within industries from energy, medical implants, space, aerospace, automotive and food processing. The company is headquartered in Västerås, Sweden, with a presence in 45 countries worldwide. Today we going to learn exactly what Quintus Technologies does, what Chad Beamer does and, perhaps more importantly, how this relates to additive manufacturing. Among other things we are going to discuss the latest innovations in Quintus' Hot Isostatic Pressure (HIP) technologies and systems, how these processes can bring significant benefits to parts produced via metal PBF but also all other metal AM processes, from metal binder jetting to DED and cold spray, and which are the most significant areas of application.

A conversation with Sean Herman, Applications Engineer for the Amphenol Commercial Air Division in Sidney, NY. Sean has been with Amphenol for over five years. We talk about his customer-facing role, which, for him, is the perfect blend of engineering and learning what his customers do. We talk about the struggles during the commercial aerospace market downturn for a couple of years but then pivot to its current rebound and the emergence of new markets like EVTOL. We talk about the unique performance requirements for new connector designs in these emerging programs and the satisfaction of finally seeing them take off. We talk about growing up in a small, rural town in upstate New York, going to college for engineering, then lucking out by finding the perfect first job for him at Amphenol. We talk about some of his hiking recommendations around New York. And we discuss his desert island album, book, and movie. This is The Interface. Hosted by Chris Cappello. Music by Square Seed. For The Interface podcast guest inquiries and suggestions: email ccappello@amphenol-aao.com or send a LinkedIn message to https://www.linkedin.com/in/cjcappello.

JBL was one of the earliest and largest manufacturers of speaker components and cabinets. Mark Gander spent 41 years at JBL starting in 1978, with various roles through the years such as Applications Engineer, VP of Marketing, VP of Engineering, and most recently Director of JBL Technology. He is also known as JBL's historian and is often just called JBL GURU. In my opinion, he was one of the most influential and centrally connected people when it comes to speakers, with the largest sound companies in the world. He was directly responsible for marketing, product development, and connecting companies like Clair Bros, Maryland Sound, ShowCo, Stanal Sound, A1 Audio, Schubert Systems, and many more with JBL in the late '70s and early '80s. This was a time when all sound companies had to make their own property systems. Mark has a very unique perspective on our history because he was at the center of the live sound industry. Sound Companies needed a symbiotic relationship with a speaker manufacturer to develop, engineer, and design their systems. Mark Gander was the catalyst of that for JBL.  Check out www.howwegotloud.com for more details and other episodes

Definition of sustainable site is it promotes land development and management practices with our future in mind. So sustainable sites generate less waste, minimize impact on the landscape, and use less energy, water and natural resources. Brandon is a Sr. Applications Engineer for one of an innovative solar technology company. He was influenced by growing up with a father who was a pioneer of sustainable building professionals. Now that he owns a property of his own up the hills in southeast of Los Angeles near Temecula, he has undertaken a truly regenerative transformation project of what once looked like a deserted property into a home with net-positive energy sanctuary. Brandon shares the strategic approach he has taken to regenerate his home and the land surrounding his home on almost 5-acre of property including decarbonization, water management, and landscaping following the concept of “sustainable site.”

This week on Manufacturing Happy Hour, we're exploring what makes an industrial partnership great.Is it the tech? Is it the company culture? Is it the size of the company?Today's podcast answers all of these questions in the context of a global robotics company, KUKA, and all of their partners. We spent an entire day at IMTS 2022 exploring applications from 3D printing to machining to launching robots into space, all while interviewing KUKA's partners that make all of these applications possible.This 2-part episode features ten interviews co-hosted by Jake Hall, the Manufacturing Millennial, with the following leaders:Evandro Maia, Robotics Application Engineer, KUKAJuan Vega, CTO, ReliaboticsWarren Reynolds, VP of Operations, I-Cubed Industry Innovators Inc.Nick Johnson, Co-Founder, One Off RoboticsTravis Turner, General Manager, EckhartScott McIsaac, Project Engineer, KUKA SystemsJean-Sébastien Neveu, President, WayboCole Nielsen, CTO and Founder, Orbital CompositesMichael Duong, Applications Engineer, Ingersoll Machine ToolsMatthew Robey, Account Manager, KUKADarcy Charbonneau, Director of US Sales, KUKAMake sure to visit ManufacturingHappyHour.com/KUKApartners for detailed show notes and a full list of resources mentioned in this episode. Stay Innovative, Stay Thirsty.

What is plastic welding, really? In this podcast episode, Dr. Miranda Marcus, Applications Engineer with EWI, outlines features of plastics welding as a precursor to her ASSEMBLY Show Workshop, "Fundamentals of Plastics Welding." Miranda's workshop will take place on the first day of the show, October 25th, from 1:00 to 4:00. Register for The ASSEMBLY Show and Miranda's fascinating workshop that will take participants into the multibillion-dollar plastics welding industry. 

Marcus Cooksey, CEO and Founder at DUKE.ai., has 25 years of software development experience, along with a broad range of expertise related to embedded systems design and software development of real-time applications. Previous roles included, Applications Engineer for TI’s VoCable, IPPhone, ThinClient and Automotive Infotainment product lines and Business Development Manager (China/Taiwan) for Texas Instruments’ […] The post Marcus Cooksey With DUKE.ai appeared first on Business RadioX ®.

Marcus Cooksey, CEO and Founder at DUKE.ai., has 25 years of software development experience, along with a broad range of expertise related to embedded systems design and software development of real-time applications. Previous roles included, Applications Engineer for TI’s VoCable, IPPhone, ThinClient and Automotive Infotainment product lines and Business Development Manager (China/Taiwan) for Texas Instruments’ […]

Brett Dooley is a mechanical engineer at Bosch-Rexroth. He collaborates with business owners and engineers to develop targeted solutions for motion control and automation challenges. He uses his wide experience in business development, industrial repair, and a decade as an electronics tech in the US Navy submarine force to ensure delivery of an effective and robust automation system. Aaron Moncur, hostWe hope you enjoyed this episode of the Being an Engineer Podcast.Help us rank as the #1 engineering podcast on Apple and Spotify by leaving a review for us.You can find us under the category: mechanical engineering podcast on Apple Podcasts.Being an Engineer podcast is a go-to resource and podcast for engineering students on Spotify, too.Aaron Moncur and Rafael Testai love hearing from their listeners, so feel free to email us, connect on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and subscribe on Apple Podcast and Spotify! About Being An EngineerThe Being An Engineer podcast is a repository for industry knowledge and a tool through which engineers learn about and connect with relevant companies, technologies, people resources, and opportunities. We feature successful mechanical engineers and interview engineers who are passionate about their work and who made a great impact on the engineering community.The Being An Engineer podcast is brought to you by Pipeline Design & Engineering. Pipeline partners with medical & other device engineering teams who need turnkey equipment such as cycle test machines, custom test fixtures, automation equipment, assembly jigs, inspection stations and more. You can find us on the web at www.teampipeline.us

A conversation with Julianne Benson, Product and Applications Engineer for Times Microwave Systems in Mesa, AZ. Julianne has been with Amphenol for two years. We talk about the wide range of engineering disciplines she covers in her role -- from R&D design to manufacturing and process engineering. We talk about the silicon dioxide cable product line, its applications, and the advantages of manufacturing in the dry heat of Arizona. We talk about growing up in Oregon, then going to Northern Arizona University, sight unseen, to study mechanical engineering. We talk a bit about women in engineering and helping to promote engineering to younger people through STEM and other initiatives. We talk about spending most of her free time outdoors doing multiple activities, including hiking and wakeboarding. We talk about her three dream dinner guests and discuss her desert island album, book, and movie. This is The Interface. Hosted by Chris Cappello. Music by Square Seed. For The Interface podcast guest inquiries and suggestions: send an email to ccappello@amphenol-aao.com or LinkedIn message to https://www.linkedin.com/in/cjcappello.

Jeff Thompson is joined  in the studio by Brandon Biggs, inclusive designer and Engineer with The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute (SKI), the foremost organization for vision research in the U. s. and Christopher Toth, an Applications Engineer. Audiom is the solution for “glancability” of a map to give an idea of location of objects, places and relationships to each other as a map does for a sighted person. Using audio soundscapes, stereo location design along with map coordinates , one will be able to mind map out a venue, park, mall through audio maps. Christopher Toth was hired on to build the application and you can find demos and give the application a try on the web at www.Audiom.net. Brandon Biggs and Christopher Toth talk about the development process and where they see Audiom in the future. Be sure to give the Beta a try and how your feedback can help make maps more accessible to us all. Read more Web Site we would love to hear from you! Send us an email at info@BlindAbilities.com or give us a call and leave us some feedback at 612-367-6093

Evan Thompson, Applications Engineer at Nordfab Ducting, discusses common ducting challenges and their solutions.

Liron is a General Partner at Meron Capital and has over 10 years of experience in the venture capital, private equity and tech industries.  Liron also manages the Young Venture Capital Forum in Israel - a professional organization connecting over 250 young partners, principals and associates from all VC firms in Israel.Prior to joining Meron Capital, Liron was a Principal at Blumberg Capital and led Cyber, SaaS, Marketing-tech and Infrastructure IT deals. Prior to that, she was a Strategy and M&A consultant at Bain Capital and PwC's PE group in New York, where she leads commercial and operational due-diligence projects for the largest private equity firms in the US.  Before moving to the US, Liron was a technical Applications Engineer at Agilent Technologies, where she worked with blue-chip clients in Europe, Asia and the US. Liron holds an MBA from MIT-Sloan, an M.Sc. in Computer Science from MIT and a B.Sc. in Math and Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. At 25, she was the youngest student ever to graduate MIT's dual MBA / M.Sc. degree program. She started her bachelor's degree at Talpiot, the elite Israeli Defense Forces program, and completed it while serving full-time as a technology analyst and researcher at the Israeli intelligence unit 8200.

AJ Kohn is a Professional Skateboarder / Entrepreneur / Engineer and Community Activist from Philadelphia PA.Skateboarding gave him not only a canvas to create but a means to travel, perform, promote the sport but a lens to view the world in.This vision has set the path for his successful business pursuits, award winning designs / patents, community outreach and an out of the box approach to trouble shoot and problem solve creating opportunities to take ideas into reality that benefit the community at large.   Skateboarding: Responsible for all the inner city skateboard programming (youth, adult, adaptive, LGBTQ, Philly Cup contest series, build clinics, etc.) for the city of Philadelphia PA Event organizer for the rebirth and development of modern Professional Freestyle Skateboarding era (US and World Championships since 2001), Skateboard Programs (After School / Summer Camps / Sk8Edu ), member of the legendary United Skateboard Association (Beast of the East /GROM Series), former top 5 nationally ranked amateur & top 5 world professional competitor / demo talent with 2000+ shows performed world wide. Entrepreneur: Stunt show/ Event organization work since 97, Partner in One Skateboard Company since 06, Edutainment Assemblies since 2011, The Collective Philadelphia (2015-17) Multi Use Events / Arts Space The Skateboard Academy indoor training facility since 2017​Engineer /Design : Product developer for Toys & Action Sports gear (patents) Trade Show booths and Stage show sets.Currently and Applications Engineer for and Educational company training Educators and building STEM Labs and Maker Spaces.Developed educational programing based on STEAM fundamental learning for school nationwide through a tour of edutainment assemblies nationwide. Community Activist: helped fundraise through various means for all current skateparks in the city of Philadelphia and many in surrounding areas, program outreach to inner city and at risk youth through skill mentorships sponsored by the city of Philadelphia, fundraised and volunteered for various causes and individuals ...SHOP allineedskate.bigcartel.com

In this episode, host Mike Murphy is joined by Rick Hoadley, Principle consulting Applications Engineer for ABB LV and MV Drives, to discuss active front end technology in the mining industry. Discover what safety features are available in the ACS2000.Learn more about solutions for the mining industry.

In this episode, host Mike Murphy is joined by Rick Hoadley, Principle consulting Applications Engineer for ABB LV and MV Drives, to discuss active front-end technology in the mining industry. Discover what AFE is and why a facility would be interested in this type of technology. Learn more about solutions for the mining industry. 

Nathan Patton, Applications Engineer at Trimble, joins us for episode 248 of Art of Construction. As we learned on AOC Show 241 with David Burczyk, Trimble is a company that's transforming the way the world works by delivering products and services that connect the physical and digital worlds. They have been developing mixed reality hardware since the late 90's. In 2014 they partnered with Microsoft to work on the HoloLens Project. Thinking of problems that this technology could solve on a construction site, Trimble and Microsoft created the Trimble XR10, the only HoloLens 2-compatible hardware with an industry-standard hardhat and safety certification. Workers can visualize a project's model on the field, and all recorded spatial data is accessible by any employee, providing a single source of truth in a digital frame. Nathan Patton got his degree in geomatics engineering - recording and applying spatial data - and worked at Stantec in 2014 as a surveyor in construction. He joined Trimble through their rotational development program, where he gained experience working closely with the buildings and construction team in mixed reality. Now as a Product Manager, Nathan spearheaded the development of FieldLink, Trimble's latest construction layout and scanning software. Trimble FieldLink transitions across all Trimble layout and scanning instruments to help contractors translate the precision of 3D models directly into the field. Join Nathan and Devon as they discuss the benefits of mixed reality in construction, how Trimble works closely with their customers to ensure real problems are being solved, and how this medium can facilitate the collaboration between a retiring workforce and a new, tech-embracing generation. And for those who are confused, Nathan clarifies the differences between virtual, augmented, and mixed reality.

We sat down with a great friend of ours , John White.  We talk about being black in I.T., negotiating salaries, relationships,  knowing your worth, relocation, chasing your dreams, and more.Originally from the south side of Chicago, John White attended Grand Valley State University in Allendale, MI. He graduated in December of 2011 with a Bachelor of Business Administration with an emphasis in Management Information Systems. And in December of 2020 he received a Master of Science degree from Davenport University in Technology Management. For the last 10years he has worked in the IT Department at Steelcase, Inc. the global leader in office furniture manufacturing and design.With a current title of Sr. Applications Engineer, John typically wears some combination of the following hats:Applications Developer, Systems Analyst, and/or Project Manager within the manufacturing execution and distribution space. From 2014 to 2019, John was also responsible for the recruitment, interviewing, hiring, and coordinating summer activities for all of Steelcase's IT interns for the Grand Rapids campus. In October of 2020, John started a 90-day assignment for Steelcase in Rancho Cucamonga, CA as an experiment on placing an IT Applications Engineer within a remote Regional Distribution Center (RDC). In this role he is supporting the Steelcase RDC as well as AMQ, a recent Steelcase acquisition co-located in the same building from an IT perspective. At the conclusion of this temporary assignment John and his family chose to relocate to California permanently for this role and he is now enjoying life in sunny SOCAL. As recent events have put DEI in the forefront, John has also been tapped by Steelcase leadership to serve on the Steelcase DEI executive team whose responsibility is to advise and develop a global DEI Strategy for the Fortune 1000 company.Outside of work he spends quite a bit of time with his wife of 9 years, Josephine. Being an Active member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. He enjoys watching Anime, playing video games (PS5, XBOX Series X, Switch, PC), traveling and drinking with friends.

In a followup episode to the podcast " FAE... a developer's best friend", Kyle jumped further into customer support to talk to the applications team based at the HQ facilities of Silicon Labs to further understand customer support. In this episode, Kyle talks to Tabi Parker, Jan Schnepp and Colin Tompkins.  

David Movitz is a mechanical engineer with a passion for leadership, problem solving and teamwork. While studying at the University of Iowa, he founded the Iowa Formula racing team, a student organization that designs, manufactures, and races an electric formula race car for international competitions. As Team Principal, he grew the team to over 50 members and led them to compete within their first year, an accomplishment few teams have achieved. David currently works for a 3D printing manufacturer, Impossible Objects, as an Applications Engineer. He works with companies to create stronger and lighter parts made from carbon composite materials using a patented 3D printing process. While focused on 3D printing today, David studies new technological innovations with the intention of creating his own start up in the future. ————————————————————————————— Connect with me here: ✉️ My weekly email newsletter: jousef.substack.com

JBL was one of the earliest and largest manufacturers of speaker components and cabinets. Mark Gander spent 41 years at JBL starting in 1978, with various roles through the years such as Applications Engineer, VP of Marketing, VP of Engineering, and most recently Director of JBL Technology. He is also known as JBL's historian and often just called JBL GURU. In my opinion, he was one of the most influential and centrally connected people when it comes to speakers, with the largest sound companies in the world. He was directly responsible for marketing, product development, and connecting companies like Clair Bros, Maryland Sound, ShowCo, Stanal Sound, A1 Audio, Schubert Systems, and many more with JBL in the late '70s and early '80s. This was a time when all sound companies had to make their own property systems. Mark has a very unique perspective on our history because he was at the center of the live sound industry. Sound Companies needed a symbiotic relationship with a speaker manufacture to develop, engineer, and design their systems. Mark Gander was the catalyst of that for JBL.Check out www.howwegotloud.com for more details and other episodesSupport the podcast on PatreonGet your How We Got Loud swag at our online storeI want to thank Earthworks for sending me their new ICON podcasting microphone. It looks awesome and sounds great.Please check out and support The Roadie Clinic, Their mission is simple. "We exist to empower & heal roadies and their families by providing resources & services tailored to the struggles of the touring lifestyle."

To celebrate National Women's History Month, this episode is dedicated to the countless women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math who have blazed a trail for women in STEM today.  At elliTek, a couple of women are carrying the Engineering torch today.Julie Shaw is an Applications Engineer with elliTek.  Julie earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering at Tennessee Technological University.  Not only is Julie a superstar with Vision Systems, but she is a whiz when it comes to PLC Programming, HMI Programming, Mechanical Applications, and troubleshooting to name a few. Allis Burris is the outside Sales Engineer with elliTek.  Allison earned her BS in Electrical Engineering with a Mathematics minor from Western Kentucky University.  Allison excels not only in Complex Circuit Analysis, Electrical Hardware Debugging, Jig Design, and Machine Troubleshooting, but her team focus, critical thinking, and problem solving have served her well in her career.Allison took some time out of her busy schedule to talk with us about being a woman in a predominantly male work environment.Allison tells us what got her on the path to engineering.  We talk about the classes she took and how her studies prepared her for entering the workforce.  Allison lets us in on her challenges and successes as a Production Engineer and Sales Engineer.Stay tuned to hear Allison's advice for girls considering a career in engineering.  You DO NOT want to miss it!Last but not least, we highlight a few women who have paved the way for women such as Julie and Allison.  It was tough to pick just a few.  Take some time to learn more about the Women Engineers in Science History at Science Buddies.www.sciencebuddies.org/blog/women-in-science-historyReach out to us with any questions or future topics!LinkedIn:  www.linkedin.com/company/ellitek-incInstagram:  www.instagram.com/ellitekFacebook:  www.facebook.com/ellitekTwitter:  www.twitter.com/elliTek_Inc/mediaIf you don't want to click on those links, pick up the phone to call us at (865) 409-1555 ext. 804.

Darin has been an application engineer supporting SolidWorks users since 1997, and as a result has a plethora of experience and practical tips for using the software. He is also a prolific content creator who has found innovative ways of not only showcasing the value of the software, but how it can be implemented in users personal lives, as well. After his company was acquired by GoEngineer in 2019 he has also developed a deep appreciation for the ways in which GoEngineer has cultivated a work environment that is, in Darin’s words, “the most fun I’ve ever had in this ‘job’ ”. The Being An Engineer podcast is brought to you by Pipeline Design & Engineering. Pipeline partners with medical device engineering teams who need turnkey equipment such as cycle test machines, custom test fixtures, automation equipment, assembly jigs, inspection stations and more. You can find us on the web at https://teampipeline.us

It takes an incredible amount of knowledge and skill to design and manufacture custom made guitars and basses as a side project, including hardware and electronics!This is a story of a person driven by curiosity of how things work and a continual quest to follow their passions, improve their skills and relentlessly seek the next challenge. Phil created a substantial career steeped in learning, problem solving, educating and improving. He is an Applications Engineer by Career title but off the clock he is driven to learn, build, create and improve the world around him as well as finding time and energy to give back to a younger generation at his Alma Mater. Listen to the career journey of Mr. Timpson and you will understand that because of skilled workers like him, America has been and will continue to be a leader in innovation, manufacturing and applied engineering. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Designing a robust 24 V digital output channel means planning for the unknown. Unknown loads attached to the channel. Unknown faults on the channel that occur at unknown times and for unknown durations. In this podcast Isaac Sanchez talks to Asa Kirby, Sr. Product Manager for Isolation, considers various types of protection required to handle these unknowns.  Travis Lenz, Applications Engineer from the Isolation & Power group, then gives a technical discussion on Silicon Labs’ novel approach the handle these challenges with the Si834x Isolated Smart Switch. Power Hour Webinar Series: https://www.silabs.com/about-us/events/power-webinar-series

Timestamps: 1:46 - Developing the next generation of solar modules 7:29 - Does winning awards help a startup? 8:56 - Fierce competition from China 12:03 - The non-liberalized energy market in Switzerland 14:32 - What will 2021 bring? About Laurent Coulot and Insolight Laurent Coulot is the co-founder and CEO of Insolight, a photovoltaic startup. Laurent started Insolight in 2015, together with his two co-founders, Mathieu Ackermann and Florian Gerlich. Within 5 years, the company has grown to over 15 employees. With Insolight, the co-founders focus on a very specific area of the photovoltaic market which is not yet well served by mass produced photovoltaic panels - agrivoltaics. Insolight’s solar panels are both translucent and highly efficient. These properties make the panels uniquely suited to be deployed on top of areas which are used for growing crops - therefore reducing the land use competition between agriculture and photovoltaic by allowing them to coexist in the same space. In 2020, Insolight closed a $ 5m series A and received its first orders from industrial customers. The company was also awarded the public choice award at the Swiss Energy Startup Days. In 2021, Insolight plans to build and ship more than 1000 panels. Before starting Insolight, Laurent worked as an Applications Engineer at Melexis. He holds a Masters in Micro and Nanosystems from the EPFL. Memorable Quotes: "We think market regulations should reflect the fact that solar energy has a pretty much non-existent carbon footprint." If you would like to listen to more episodes on solar power, check out our conversations with André Borschberg, Anaïs Matthey-Junod, Sébastien Jaffaux and Liliane Ableitner. Don’t forget to give us a follow on our Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn accounts, so you can always stay up to date with our latest initiatives. That way, there’s no excuse for missing out on live shows, weekly give-aways or founders dinners! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/swisspreneur/message

Stephanie Kobayashi is a Product Manager and Alexander Kovac an Applications Engineer at ZEISS Industrial Quality Solutions. ZEISS is an internationally leading technology enterprise operating in the fields of optics and optoelectronics. ZEISS develops, produces and distributes highly innovative solutions for industrial metrology and quality assurance, microscopy solutions for the life sciences and materials research, and medical technology solutions for diagnostics and treatment in ophthalmology and microsurgery. Founded in 1846, ZEISS now has over 32,000 employees and is active globally in almost 50 countries. You can learn more about ZEISS on https://www.zeiss.com/

The Tech Impostors are back this time with another special guest, this time with Bryan Greenaway, Sr. Applications Engineer with the Chicago Bears! What is that you say? How does an NFL Football Team use Teams? While technology probably isn't the first word that comes to mind when you think about a football team, we find out and confirm that just about every organization on the planet is achieving more these days with technology. Either by design or by necessity, we are all doing things differently. Case in point - the 2020 NFL Draft. The NFL had to scramble and transform this huge and highly visible in-person event into a seamless virtual experience and everyone involved had to get up to speed very quickly. Teams proved to be a great platform for this high-profile event for a multi-billion-dollar industry and people like Brian, working in the trenches at each NFL team, helped make that possible. Additionally, again as with almost every organization in every industry, the day-to-day work and processes have been transformed. Brian shares some stories of that journey for the Bears with various business processes and the nearly 200 Power Platform solutions they've spun up to date, as well as introducing other technologies around Intune and AutoPilot. We commiserate with Brian on that journey, knowing that it is really just getting started for many of us. As usual, as we talk, we're enjoying some refreshing beverages. It was kind of like we were tailgating before the big game!

While the COVID-19 pandemic has focused on the importance of clean air and high-efficiency filters that benefit the air filtration industry as a whole, this increased attention combined with the need for filter media used in mask supply has led to shortages. These shortages are leading to hardships for our members and the industry. Watch the webinar on the current filter media supply chain challenges. Moderated by Joel S. Swann, CAFS, Applications Engineer, AAF|Flanders, our panelists explained the current media supply challenges and answer questions submitted by attendees as part of the registration process. Panelists: Mike Clark, President, High Efficiency and Specialty Filtration Division, Hollingsworth & Vose Scott L. Tennison, Global Director of Filtration and Protective, Kimberly-Clark Corporation Mark Tucker, Sales Manager, SWM International Watch the webinar on YouTube at https://youtu.be/ZapL8dgoLN8 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nafahq/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nafahq/support

Episode 72: Bob Ihrig is the Applications Engineer of Filter Systems, and Timothy Rodman is the Marketing Supervisor from Schroeder Industries.In this episode, we discuss the most common reasons for hydraulic systems to become contaminated, the best ways to prevent it, and how Schroeder Industries can save you money. Subscribe  YouTube | Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Radio Giveaway Contest We regularly have our supplier’s giveaway great products worth hundreds, even thousands of dollars. It takes 5-seconds to enter. Check out our latest giveaway. Show Notes Visit HeavyDutyPartsReport.com for complete show notes of this episode and to subscribe to all the content Jamie Irvine publishes.  Disclaimer: This podcast and description may contain affiliate links, which means that if you click on one of the product links, The Heavy-Duty Parts Report may receive a small commission. Apply for the SAP Truck and Auto Parts Regional Sales Manager Position: SAPCorp.net/apply Look up heavy-duty parts without a VIN: https://parts.diesellaptops.com/

Welcome to the Beyond Your Research Degree podcast from the University of Exeter Doctoral College! The podcast about non-academic careers and all the opportunities available to you... beyond your research degree!  In this episode Kelly Preece, Researcher Development Manager talks to Dr. Celia Butler, Senior Applications Engineer at Synopsys Inc.   Music from https://filmmusic.io 'Cheery Monday' by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses   Podcast transcript   1 00:00:10,870 --> 00:00:23,530 Hello and welcome to the Beyond Your Research Degree podcast by the University of Exeter, Doctoral College   2 00:00:23,530 --> 00:00:27,580 Hello and welcome to the latest episode of Beyond Your Research Degree.   3 00:00:27,580 --> 00:00:34,570 I'm Kelly Preevce And today, I'll be talking to Dr Celia Butler, who is currently senior applications engineer at Synopsis,   4 00:00:34,570 --> 00:00:41,380 having graduated with her PhD in physics in 2012. Celia, you happy to introduce yourself?   5 00:00:41,380 --> 00:00:53,080 Hello, my name's Celia Butler and I did my PhD in Microwave Metamaterials in the electro magnetic materials group at the University of Exeter   6 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:58,870 which is part of the physics department or it was at the time. And now I work for synopsis   7 00:00:58,870 --> 00:01:03,740 I'm a senior applications engineer with the simplewear support team.   8 00:01:03,740 --> 00:01:14,370 And what I do is I provide support for a software package that allows you to take 3D image data and like scans from MRI,   9 00:01:14,370 --> 00:01:24,670 and CT and turn it into a computer model and you can do all sorts of things with that computer model from 3D printing to finite   10 00:01:24,670 --> 00:01:34,030 element analysis all the way through to just simple visualisations to learn something about that data that you're inspecting.   11 00:01:34,030 --> 00:01:42,490 Amazing. So can you tell me a little bit about the transition from doing your research degree into the current role?   12 00:01:42,490 --> 00:01:50,050 Did you have any were there any jobs that you took in between or was it a straight move?   13 00:01:50,050 --> 00:01:59,860 Yes. So when I left my PhD, I actually went into a job which sort of spanned the gap between academia and industry.   14 00:01:59,860 --> 00:02:10,510 So officially, it was a postdoc role, but I was actually more of a research and development engineer with a pre-spin out company.   15 00:02:10,510 --> 00:02:15,760 So it was still part of the university and it took on a role.   16 00:02:15,760 --> 00:02:20,120 kind of like a technical consultancy?   17 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:30,610 So like an R&D consultancy role. And my specific area was to look at improving radio frequency identification tagging.   18 00:02:30,610 --> 00:02:38,690 So RFID tagging is now quite popular, popular. You see it all over the place in tags, in clothes shops.   19 00:02:38,690 --> 00:02:44,440 RFID tags are embedded into shoes. When you buy them all sorts of things.   20 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:50,860 But the specific area that I was looking at was how to tag structures that have a lot of   21 00:02:50,860 --> 00:02:56,320 metal in them because essentially they're an antenna and when you place them on metal,   22 00:02:56,320 --> 00:03:02,290 they don't work very well. And I was looking at tagging RFID circuit boards.   23 00:03:02,290 --> 00:03:08,890 So these circuit boards have very high value and you really try to understand what you can do.   24 00:03:08,890 --> 00:03:16,420 So I worked with a few different people locally to try and address this problem,   25 00:03:16,420 --> 00:03:22,490 using some of the knowledge from my PhD, but also past experience from before that as well.   26 00:03:22,490 --> 00:03:32,320 And after that role, I left it and started a new position for a company called Subten Systems.   27 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:40,660 Now, this was a very small Start-Up company, possibly the best and most exciting research I have ever done.   28 00:03:40,660 --> 00:03:46,480 It was looking to create wireless Ethernet bridges.   29 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:52,780 What that means is point to point, a transmission of data, at very, very high frequencies.   30 00:03:52,780 --> 00:04:03,910 So in the millimetre wave region. And this was so exciting because I was quite new to the R&D world and I was given a lot of responsibility,   31 00:04:03,910 --> 00:04:08,770 but also worked in an amazing team and we just got things done.   32 00:04:08,770 --> 00:04:15,910 It was fantastic. But unfortunately, like a lot of start-ups, it didn't make it.   33 00:04:15,910 --> 00:04:22,800 And I had to make the decision to leave. Possibly the hardest decision of my life.   34 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:28,390 But yes. So I left subten systems and that fantastic team.   35 00:04:28,390 --> 00:04:33,460 And then I found a job in the centre of Exeter working for at the time, simplewear   36 00:04:33,460 --> 00:04:42,580 which were, again, a small company, not really a Start-Up, but about 30, 40 people.   37 00:04:42,580 --> 00:04:49,060 And from there. This company was bought out by synopsis.   38 00:04:49,060 --> 00:04:54,660 But my job role has stayed pretty consistent. Most of the way through.   39 00:04:54,660 --> 00:05:09,100 And I actually I'm able to use a lot of my experience from my career, but also interests outside of work to perform my job, which is it's just a.   40 00:05:09,100 --> 00:05:13,810 Varied and keeps me on my toes most of the time.   41 00:05:13,810 --> 00:05:20,610 That sounds amazing. And in a short space of time, you've worked in quite a lot of different.   42 00:05:20,610 --> 00:05:30,280 Different organisations. So what was it like making that transition from your phd into a.   43 00:05:30,280 --> 00:05:40,560 Non-academic Role did. Did you always know you wanted a job outside of academia and doing research in industry or so?   44 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:51,050 I think when I did my PhD, I really enjoyed my time doing the research element before I did my PhD.   45 00:05:51,050 --> 00:05:53,390 I worked in industry for a few years.   46 00:05:53,390 --> 00:06:03,630 So I was very aware of what it was like to work in a team doing commercial R&D as opposed to quite academic research.   47 00:06:03,630 --> 00:06:11,390 And it is very different. And I preferred the industrial research, the kind of work.   48 00:06:11,390 --> 00:06:16,610 Working towards one product or one specific goal,   49 00:06:16,610 --> 00:06:24,680 but also having the flexibility to change projects or move into different roles within the same organisation.   50 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:33,950 Whereas in a PhD, you're very focussed on your path, your route to completing whatever your project might be.   51 00:06:33,950 --> 00:06:35,960 I didn't find the transition very hard.   52 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:46,520 Moving from academic research to sort of industrial R&D, I think, because it's something that I knew and I was comfortable with.   53 00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:58,220 I was looking forward to moving back. I also had very good kind of time management skills during the PhD.   54 00:06:58,220 --> 00:07:03,680 I viewed it more as a day to day job because of my past experience.   55 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:08,660 There is one exception for that, which was when I was writing up.   56 00:07:08,660 --> 00:07:15,080 When I wrote up, the time really went out the window. I was just working all the time, it seemed.   57 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:19,850 But after that, I was really able to relax into that role,   58 00:07:19,850 --> 00:07:27,080 to work with lots and lots of different people and to really focus on a product, which is what we were aiming for.   59 00:07:27,080 --> 00:07:29,720 So, yeah, that worked really well for me. So, yeah.   60 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:38,030 Can you say a little bit more about what it what it is about doing R&D work in industry that you prefer to academia.   61 00:07:38,030 --> 00:07:48,200 Is it that kind of. Is it something to do with the pace. Is it the pace of it or is it the kind of clearer sense of product, and impact.   62 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:57,200 So I think industrial R&D has a clear focus, a clear aim.   63 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:09,860 But people work slightly differently. In my experience in commercial R&D compared to academic R&D or academic research, in academic research,   64 00:08:09,860 --> 00:08:21,890 you are striving to understand every single little part of whatever your problem or area might be in commercial R&D,   65 00:08:21,890 --> 00:08:28,430 although you need to understand what's going on. There's a limit to how much detail you need to go into.   66 00:08:28,430 --> 00:08:38,300 You need to be able to solve the problem. But you are working towards a different goal and that goal will come to an end and it will change.   67 00:08:38,300 --> 00:08:44,150 There will be a second level, another stage or something that you are building on.   68 00:08:44,150 --> 00:08:51,560 You need to understand this area. Make a decision. Produce a product, whatever that might be, and then you move on.   69 00:08:51,560 --> 00:08:55,820 It's also quite normal to have multiple projects going on at the same time.   70 00:08:55,820 --> 00:09:10,100 And for me, I need that that ability to be able to switch between projects to keep me fully invested and sort of just enjoying what I do.   71 00:09:10,100 --> 00:09:14,510 I need lots of little things to dip in and out of just to keep me entertained.   72 00:09:14,510 --> 00:09:19,830 I guess. Yes, I absolutely know that feeling.   73 00:09:19,830 --> 00:09:30,870 So you said about the time management skills that you developed during your PhD and how important they are to what you do now.   74 00:09:30,870 --> 00:09:34,950 And certainly if you're working in lots of different projects, I can really see that.   75 00:09:34,950 --> 00:09:44,730 What other skills and experiences have you taken from your PhD that have really helped you with an R&D role in industry?   76 00:09:44,730 --> 00:09:52,590 I think the biggest thing that I learnt during the PhD, as opposed to other roles I've been in before,   77 00:09:52,590 --> 00:10:01,110 was to be able to take a big project and be able to divide it up into small chunks that seem more manageable,   78 00:10:01,110 --> 00:10:06,840 because I think when you start the PhD, it can be a little bit overwhelming because you've got this three,   79 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:12,290 four years plus and you've got to produce something at the end of it.   80 00:10:12,290 --> 00:10:14,160 But I'm not really sure what that is.   81 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:28,980 So to be able to take that huge idea, chop it up and then manage yourself to be able to to achieve whatever that might be is really important.   82 00:10:28,980 --> 00:10:34,980 And then the other thing, the sort of skills that I learnt.   83 00:10:34,980 --> 00:10:43,800 I did a course on how to read sounds ridiculous, but how to speed read, how to take academic papers and top and tail.   84 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:49,710 And that's been really useful in other projects that I've done because in industrial research,   85 00:10:49,710 --> 00:10:55,260 you haven't got loads of time to do a full literature review on most projects.   86 00:10:55,260 --> 00:11:04,260 You need to extract the information that you need. Put it together and then use it in whatever form that might be.   87 00:11:04,260 --> 00:11:10,380 The other thing I think was really important is how to present robustly.   88 00:11:10,380 --> 00:11:17,150 So I've never really had a problem with the actual presenting side of things.   89 00:11:17,150 --> 00:11:24,390 But the questioning was something that was sort of really drilled into me during my PhD   90 00:11:24,390 --> 00:11:26,640 That you need to know your subject well enough.   91 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:35,100 You need to have done your research to be able to answer questions robustly and kind of stand up to someone standing up and saying,   92 00:11:35,100 --> 00:11:39,270 oh, I'm not I'm not sure about this. Tell me more or I don't believe that.   93 00:11:39,270 --> 00:11:48,720 What's your evidence for it? And to be able to stand there and and defend the research that you've done and to present a reasoned argument.   94 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:52,890 And I think that was probably the biggest thing to take away.   95 00:11:52,890 --> 00:12:04,720 Yeah. So really, it it's project management. It's. Ability to read and synthesise information and presenting.   96 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:14,920 Yes, it's kind of a soft skills. I mean, obviously I learnt a lot of physics in my actual PhD   97 00:12:14,920 --> 00:12:19,360 But I wouldn't say that I've applied much of that in my other roles.   98 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:25,240 It's more being those kind of soft skills that have been the most useful.   99 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:31,540 Yeah. And I think that's that's always what's really interesting about looking at careers beyond academia,   100 00:12:31,540 --> 00:12:34,510 because I think we get really entrenched in this idea that I.   101 00:12:34,510 --> 00:12:43,480 I need to be looking at something that's very specific to the very niche topic area I am working in, whereas actually.   102 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:50,650 When people are going to work in industry, that they're more using the working in the general subject area in some shape or form.   103 00:12:50,650 --> 00:12:57,670 But it's those soft skills that become even more important because they're the ones that are transferable.   104 00:12:57,670 --> 00:13:07,060 Absolutely. And I can give you an example of that. So. Right. One of the first things that I did when I joined Simplewear   105 00:13:07,060 --> 00:13:17,040 whereas it was then now synopsis was I had a Web meeting with someone who is using this software and they were doing knee replacement.   106 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:31,600 And now my PhD is a microwave metamaterials. I'm looking at electromagnetic interaction with materials and it has nothing to do with knees.   107 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:40,180 So very quickly, I have to understand the different parts that need to put the bones are called some of the key muscles or tendons.   108 00:13:40,180 --> 00:13:48,280 I had to understand how you perform in knee replacement so that I was roughly on the same level so that   109 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:54,610 we could talk in similar terms because there are terms that are specific to different industries.   110 00:13:54,610 --> 00:14:02,500 So I had to come up to speed very fast on all of that and then understand how this particular   111 00:14:02,500 --> 00:14:08,800 customer wanted to use the software and what what the challenges were that they were facing.   112 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:16,270 And then I had to take all of that presented back to them in a Web meeting in under an hour.   113 00:14:16,270 --> 00:14:21,460 So very quickly, you're having to take a problem.   114 00:14:21,460 --> 00:14:32,300 Understand it. Do your research. Kind of problem solve along the way and then present it back and answer questions all in one.   115 00:14:32,300 --> 00:14:39,370 So I think that would take about maybe between one and two days to complete the whole project.   116 00:14:39,370 --> 00:14:48,550 But at the same time, I had three or four other projects and sort of mini projects like that that I'd have to answer as well.   117 00:14:48,550 --> 00:14:53,200 And meetings and emails and all these other things. So it's really a bit of a juggling act.   118 00:14:53,200 --> 00:15:01,420 But you've got to focus on each problem, solve it, and then present it back to your customer and make sure that they're happy with that solution.   119 00:15:01,420 --> 00:15:09,670 Make sure that you have understood and solved whatever they're looking to work towards and make sure that it fits for them.   120 00:15:09,670 --> 00:15:14,340 So it it's quite a quite large challenge, but it's really fun.   121 00:15:14,340 --> 00:15:19,130 Yeah, and I think that there seems to be something there that's really about problem solving,   122 00:15:19,130 --> 00:15:28,410 but using your research skills and your creativity in finding solutions to your work problems.   123 00:15:28,410 --> 00:15:34,710 And I think you draw on all your past experience in order to do that Problem-Solving.   124 00:15:34,710 --> 00:15:39,450 So in before I started the PhD, I worked in manufacturing.   125 00:15:39,450 --> 00:15:47,970 So there are lots of things that I learnt in terms of tolerances, in terms of manufacturing processes.   126 00:15:47,970 --> 00:15:57,030 So when I work with someone who's using additive manufacturing, I can relate to certain areas there as well.   127 00:15:57,030 --> 00:16:01,930 And I bring that experience to help me to solve that.   128 00:16:01,930 --> 00:16:06,030 So, yeah, there's lots of different areas that kind of draw together.   129 00:16:06,030 --> 00:16:15,550 But the PhD brings a skill set of tackling a very large project and helping you to form it all together.   130 00:16:15,550 --> 00:16:24,480 One of the things people get. We get feedback that our researchers are quite nervous about is the application process for.   131 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:34,830 Jobs outside of academia, because they're sort of the. Academic kind of job application promotions process feels very familiar.   132 00:16:34,830 --> 00:16:40,040 When you're in that environment, can you talk about your experience of.   133 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:51,640 Applying for jobs in. industry and specifically kind of how you talked about and framed, your research experience?   134 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:58,630 Yes, absolutely. So I was very lucky with the jobs that I went to.   135 00:16:58,630 --> 00:17:03,580 Most of them, I had some connection to the company.   136 00:17:03,580 --> 00:17:11,220 And throughout my working career, I seem to have fallen into jobs rather than applied through the formal process.   137 00:17:11,220 --> 00:17:21,310 So I would definitely say to any PhD tudents and create a network and tell people that you're looking for a job,   138 00:17:21,310 --> 00:17:28,850 because the one that I got at Subten Systems, I found out through a guy that I used to go gliding with.   139 00:17:28,850 --> 00:17:33,010 He'd started at this company and they were looking down on and I was able to apply   140 00:17:33,010 --> 00:17:37,930 and get a lot of things have kind of fallen into place through that network.   141 00:17:37,930 --> 00:17:48,310 I have done very few formal applications. Having said that, all my positions have involved some kind of interview.   142 00:17:48,310 --> 00:17:58,180 So I can certainly comment on that. I guess the key thing is to think about how you've applied your skills and   143 00:17:58,180 --> 00:18:04,540 any way that you can show that you can talk about how you've used that skill.   144 00:18:04,540 --> 00:18:09,750 So it could be that you.   145 00:18:09,750 --> 00:18:15,510 Looked after a colleague's child, say, for a few hours.   146 00:18:15,510 --> 00:18:21,150 And that was very challenging for you. You can apply that situation and say this was a very stressful situation.   147 00:18:21,150 --> 00:18:31,620 Not something that I'm familiar with. And this is how I managed it. That might not be particularly relevant to an industrial R&D engineering job,   148 00:18:31,620 --> 00:18:37,290 but they can see how when you went into a new situation, how you managed it.   149 00:18:37,290 --> 00:18:48,450 And I think those how you can form an example, if you can draw on your PhD, if you can draw on your sort of formal experiences, that's great.   150 00:18:48,450 --> 00:18:55,620 But if there's an area where you think importantly, where to go with this, look at your your life outside of work,   151 00:18:55,620 --> 00:19:00,840 outside of academia and think, are there examples that you can draw from there as well?   152 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:07,230 Because that's a really key area that people sometimes sometimes miss.   153 00:19:07,230 --> 00:19:12,640 I think the other thing about applications and interviews is.   154 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:23,890 It's almost always evidence based. So really try to give as many examples of how you fulfil the job.   155 00:19:23,890 --> 00:19:32,590 Job skills and competencies which will be listed on the job description, try and like focus on those specifically.   156 00:19:32,590 --> 00:19:38,520 And then you've got a stronger application. Are there particular things that you did?   157 00:19:38,520 --> 00:19:42,760 So you said you talked about kind of the importance of forming those examples and those examples,   158 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:48,910 not having to be really specific to the role the industry that you're working in.   159 00:19:48,910 --> 00:19:55,930 Are there things that you did during your OhD that weren't necessarily kind of just about the doing the research   160 00:19:55,930 --> 00:20:03,310 and writing the thesis that have been really useful to you as examples and job applications and interviews?   161 00:20:03,310 --> 00:20:11,080 Oh, that's a great question. So there are lots of things I did during my PhD   162 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:17,500 I travelled extensively as part of the PhD, which is something that I would definitely recommend to everybody.   163 00:20:17,500 --> 00:20:23,800 And actually that travel led to multiple collaboration's.   164 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:34,250 Regarding my research. So that was extremely helpful in terms of outside of the actual PhD and the research environment.   165 00:20:34,250 --> 00:20:42,450 And I was also a Brownie leader. So that's part of the Girlguiding structure.   166 00:20:42,450 --> 00:20:54,850 And that was something that kept me really rooted during the PhD because I was working with girls aged seven to 10 and they can be so challenging.   167 00:20:54,850 --> 00:20:57,340 They can really come up with so many questions.   168 00:20:57,340 --> 00:21:07,030 Things that you don't think about a child's mind is a fascinating array of ideas, and they're so inquisitive.   169 00:21:07,030 --> 00:21:14,200 So that was really amazing. And I am quite lucky in that I was able to actually bring them into the physics building.   170 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:22,630 And we did a whole evening in the physics building with a little talk and we did some bridge building and and all sorts of things.   171 00:21:22,630 --> 00:21:33,730 So that was that was really fantastic. I think I also did just after my PhD, I did some volunteering through girlguiding.   172 00:21:33,730 --> 00:21:37,720 So it was sustainable. Volunteering is what I called it.   173 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:41,830 Call it. I'm not a builder. I don't have any skills in that area.   174 00:21:41,830 --> 00:21:46,000 So I can't go and build houses for people or anything like that.   175 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:52,120 But we we ran a programme where we went out and asked the people what they were   176 00:21:52,120 --> 00:21:58,150 looking for and actually what they wanted was something much more simple or simple,   177 00:21:58,150 --> 00:22:02,740 something that I could deliver. Which was how to build CVs   178 00:22:02,740 --> 00:22:11,900 How to present yourself to different people. And it was a very simplistic level, but that was something that we were we were able to do.   179 00:22:11,900 --> 00:22:19,930 So that was fantastic. And as part of that, we also developed the girl guiding programme in the country with the leaders,   180 00:22:19,930 --> 00:22:30,160 very simple ideas that don't take lots of resources or money or time, but just ideas for things that they could do to to get more people involved.   181 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:33,250 So that's something that I often talk about in interviews,   182 00:22:33,250 --> 00:22:39,580 because it's something that also changed me as a person to understand that I finished my PhD.   183 00:22:39,580 --> 00:22:45,040 But actually I have a lot of skills that are useful to other people and I can   184 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:51,610 teach them in an informal way and about the world around them and how it works.   185 00:22:51,610 --> 00:22:55,870 I never really appreciated that before I went away.   186 00:22:55,870 --> 00:23:08,650 So that was really great. That's very interesting and how did you how did you balance doing that kind of activity alongside doing your PhD?   187 00:23:08,650 --> 00:23:11,590 I was quite lucky. We're part of a team.   188 00:23:11,590 --> 00:23:25,130 So when my work load up for my academic workload was quite high, I was able to kind of step back from the brownie preparation for the sessions.   189 00:23:25,130 --> 00:23:29,200 But when I was a little bit quieter, I could jump in and do more.   190 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:36,310 And what I really tried to do was make sure that every Monday night when it was the meeting, I was always there.   191 00:23:36,310 --> 00:23:40,810 And that was a kind of a non-negotiable aspect for me. That time was Brownie time.   192 00:23:40,810 --> 00:23:47,670 And that was it. Apart from obviously when I was travelling for conferences and and other such things.   193 00:23:47,670 --> 00:23:56,500 But I think that's all about teamwork. That's about communicating with the team that you have and understanding each other's pressures.   194 00:23:56,500 --> 00:24:04,300 One of the other ladies that runs it is a school teacher. So there are key aspects during the year which are particularly busy for her.   195 00:24:04,300 --> 00:24:08,170 Another lady is a solicitor, so she has big projects.   196 00:24:08,170 --> 00:24:12,610 So sometimes it coincides that we we are all really busy.   197 00:24:12,610 --> 00:24:18,190 In which case we all do a little bit to contribute to what we need.   198 00:24:18,190 --> 00:24:22,900 Having said that, there's also a good aspect of just winging it,   199 00:24:22,900 --> 00:24:31,600 turning up and just having some fun and nothing to planned and just having a couple of things in your back pocket that you can just get on with.   200 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:36,010 And I think that's that's really fun as well.   201 00:24:36,010 --> 00:24:42,440 I wouldn't want to do all the time, but that helps. And it is quite an important skill to have.   202 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:46,600 Like you say, it's not something that we would necessarily want to make.   203 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:56,530 The way that we operate on a daily basis, but quite often in in the working world and in your PhD, you do kind of have to just turn up and wing it.   204 00:24:56,530 --> 00:25:05,830 Absolutely. So there's always that time when you go to a conference and someone's talk doesn't load properly or is corrupted,   205 00:25:05,830 --> 00:25:14,800 or I went to a talk where all the graphs were in neon colours and you couldn't see any of the lines.   206 00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:19,630 And so I give him his due. That guy stood there for 20 minutes.   207 00:25:19,630 --> 00:25:24,430 He talked about his research and we could not see a single thing on any of his slides.   208 00:25:24,430 --> 00:25:31,060 And I think that is a real skill. And I think there's a bit to be said for preparation in that situation.   209 00:25:31,060 --> 00:25:37,810 Maybe you can go in the night before or just a couple of hours before your talk and just   210 00:25:37,810 --> 00:25:42,370 check it over to make sure that it does work on the projector that you're going to use.   211 00:25:42,370 --> 00:25:47,260 However, it's if you really know your subject area,   212 00:25:47,260 --> 00:25:55,720 hopefully you'd be able to talk a little bit about your research without these slides, you know, just giving it a go talk.   213 00:25:55,720 --> 00:26:01,210 And actually, it was a really good talk because it got people asking questions.   214 00:26:01,210 --> 00:26:10,300 And I think that's really key. I guess one of the big questions is what advice would you give to someone who's currently starting out or doing well,   215 00:26:10,300 --> 00:26:17,140 coming to the end of the research degree, who is thinking about R&D roles in industry?   216 00:26:17,140 --> 00:26:25,960 What advice would you give them about things they should be doing now, about applying for applying for jobs?   217 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:29,760 Is there any kind of key tips you would give them? Absolutely.   218 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:33,700 I would say try and extend your network.   219 00:26:33,700 --> 00:26:44,770 Now, you could do that by going up to conferences, talking to people about your research, but also talk to your family,   220 00:26:44,770 --> 00:26:54,070 your friends locally, because lots of my business contacts have been made through unusual links.   221 00:26:54,070 --> 00:27:01,240 So really use that network to understand what opportunities are out there.   222 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:06,400 What kind of skills people are looking for right now. Because it changes it.   223 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:16,600 It changes all the time. We're seeing more of a focus towards automation and more scripting is required.   224 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:23,560 So things like Python are becoming more necessary and lots of job roles.   225 00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:33,550 And I would say focus on that to kind of understand what areas you might want to go into, on what kind of skills they're looking for.   226 00:27:33,550 --> 00:27:38,350 And then you can focus on sort of fulfilling those before you get there,   227 00:27:38,350 --> 00:27:46,480 but also using those contacts to understand actually is there an opportunity that I'd be perfect for.   228 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:52,060 And actually, I can look to apply and say to them, look, it's conditional.   229 00:27:52,060 --> 00:27:55,900 I want to finish my PhD and then start or something like that.   230 00:27:55,900 --> 00:28:04,930 There are lots of opportunities out there. And you just need to be a bit flexible in looking for them, how you find them.   231 00:28:04,930 --> 00:28:11,290 And I think people often overlook that. Thinking that they have to apply through a formal route.   232 00:28:11,290 --> 00:28:19,620 And there will be a formal route. That is how you find those opportunities that I'm saying can be can be less orthodox.   233 00:28:19,620 --> 00:28:25,330 Yeah, I think I think that's really key and it seems to have been a key theme in your career so far.   234 00:28:25,330 --> 00:28:34,630 Actually, the importance of networking and making Connections to actually creating those opportunities.   235 00:28:34,630 --> 00:28:45,670 Yeah, yeah, definitely. I mean, before my PhD, most of my jobs were through word of mouth.   236 00:28:45,670 --> 00:28:54,460 One of the jobs that I had was because I'd used a particular software for my dissertation and a company contacted the university and said,   237 00:28:54,460 --> 00:28:59,920 Do you have any students who can use this software? Any graduates who might be looking for jobs?   238 00:28:59,920 --> 00:29:06,430 That was another way that I that I got an opportunity there as well.   239 00:29:06,430 --> 00:29:10,750 So there are lots ways. Talk to your supervisor about what you're looking for.   240 00:29:10,750 --> 00:29:19,480 Maybe they have someone who's sponsoring PhDs in another area that maybe you're not aware of and they're looking for people.   241 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:25,630 So that can be a huge help as well. Yeah, that's really brilliant.   242 00:29:25,630 --> 00:29:33,240 I'm. Is there anything that you.   243 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:41,350 Wish that you had done. While you were still a PhD student that you think would've benefited your career so far?   244 00:29:41,350 --> 00:29:50,760 I don't think there's any opportunities that I missed. I think probably I should have spent some time learning how to code properly.   245 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:55,620 That would be really useful in my career.   246 00:29:55,620 --> 00:30:04,560 Now, I've picked up bits along the way, but I have to say I'm not a superb coder.   247 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:11,430 I think that's a key area. But in terms of conferences, in terms of experience, I was always quite cheeky.   248 00:30:11,430 --> 00:30:16,860 So I'd always ask if I wanted to go to a conference, if I saw it was somewhere amazing.   249 00:30:16,860 --> 00:30:23,730 Then I'd just ask and we'd see if there was budget and I'd make sure that I had something new to present.   250 00:30:23,730 --> 00:30:30,960 When I went to my supervisor to say I would go to this conference and most of the time we made it happen.   251 00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:39,920 So, yeah, be cheeky. Just go for it. Yeah, that's that's the benefit of being.   252 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:46,470 Proactive. And also just accepting that, you know, if you ask.   253 00:30:46,470 --> 00:30:54,560 They might say no. They might say yes. Exactly. My mom always used to say, if you don't ask, you don't get.   254 00:30:54,560 --> 00:31:00,840 And that, I think, is very true. So couple of examples on that.   255 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:06,480 Specifically, before I started my PhDD, I did a placement with Kinetic.   256 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:13,770 And there was a project that we were working on, which was on a warship that was in for refits.   257 00:31:13,770 --> 00:31:19,290 And I I've never been on an aircraft carrier.   258 00:31:19,290 --> 00:31:25,440 And I thought I'd really like to go. So I went over to the guy who's running projects and I said, I'd really like to go.   259 00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:31,410 And he said, Oh, I dunno And then I ended up being down there for two weeks.   260 00:31:31,410 --> 00:31:40,920 And it was absolutely fantastic. And in another example, in my current job, I was working on a project.   261 00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:47,340 And one of the surgeons said to me, you should come down and see surgery.   262 00:31:47,340 --> 00:31:54,030 And I said, okay. So I asked my boss and he said, Well, yes, I guess so.   263 00:31:54,030 --> 00:32:00,780 So I went down and I saw a knee replacement and a hip replacement. And I've never seen anything like that.   264 00:32:00,780 --> 00:32:10,920 It's it's brutal and it's fascinating. And I had no idea how I was gonna react, whether I was going to faint on the floor or be engrossed in it.   265 00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:18,990 Turns out I didn't faint on the floor. Fantastic. Didn't embarrass myself in front of the surgeons, but it was just the most amazing experience.   266 00:32:18,990 --> 00:32:25,590 And I've got so much more insight into how these surgeries are performed.   267 00:32:25,590 --> 00:32:30,960 So when I work with a surgeon now, I know that if you're talking about fractions of a millimetre,   268 00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:42,480 it's probably not going to be achievable in surgery because you you just can't see does that level of detail that you can give them a guide   269 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:54,220 and that that really the understanding of the situation of the kind of equipment that you have to wear of the how hot it is in the room.   270 00:32:54,220 --> 00:33:05,260 You know, all these things really help you to to speak to the customer and to to be able to direct them to the best solution for their problem.   271 00:33:05,260 --> 00:33:10,630 What do you love most about your job? Oh, just working with loads of different people.   272 00:33:10,630 --> 00:33:25,750 All the different industries. So I've got a project at the moment where I'm working on trying to automate a learning process to defect,   273 00:33:25,750 --> 00:33:29,530 to find defects in addictively manufactured parts.   274 00:33:29,530 --> 00:33:31,810 So that's one project.   275 00:33:31,810 --> 00:33:48,400 We're also working on automated learning to build models of hearts and knees and hips for things like pacemaker design or stent placement.   276 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:54,180 So just working with that huge range of industries and everything in between,   277 00:33:54,180 --> 00:34:00,730 I'm just really allows me to keep my brain active and learning lots of new, different things.   278 00:34:00,730 --> 00:34:03,010 But like I've said, applying those skills,   279 00:34:03,010 --> 00:34:12,070 I've learnt through the experience that I've had before to be able to come up with innovative solutions that don't only solve, you know,   280 00:34:12,070 --> 00:34:23,290 sort of minor problems, but they're they're really addressing critical problems like defects in aircraftg wings or,   281 00:34:23,290 --> 00:34:26,780 you know, my my mum's knee replacement. She could have.   282 00:34:26,780 --> 00:34:33,400 Now, she could have a personalised knee replacement rather than one that was probably a bit smaller, a bit too big.   283 00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:41,890 But she was somewhere in the middle. And I think helping to address those problems gives you a real warm glow feeling inside.   284 00:34:41,890 --> 00:34:48,970 Thank you so much, Celia, for taking the time to talk to me and giving some really interesting insights on kind of R&D roles,   285 00:34:48,970 --> 00:34:53,590 but also the hidden job market. And that's it for this episode.   286 00:34:53,590 --> 00:35:07,982 Join us next time when we'll be talking to another researcher about their career beyond their research degree.  

In this Podcast, Bruce Morey, Senior Technical Editor for Manufacturing Engineering Magazine discusses up-front purchase price as compared to total cost of ownership (TCO) with John Krause, Applications Engineer with Promess, Inc. Manufacturers should be aware of how the total spend for equipment, when spread out over a few years of operation, may be higher for equipment that costs less to purchase up-front.

TECHnically Female founder Jasmine Jarvis (@technicallyfemale), continues this month’s special series #AllyAugust by interviewing Vincent Sanders (@tg4solutions), a Sr. Applications Engineer at Nike and Founder of TG4 Solutions, as he discusses the biggest barriers for women & minorities in college when pursuing STEM degrees, how to be an ally for female classmates, what improvements have been made & what areas of opportunity exist to encourage women in STEM, and a little bit of insight into entrepreneurship.

Bill is an Applications Engineer at one of the biggest companies in the United States, he served in the Marine Corps for 5 years as an infantry Rifleman. This guy has always led from the front, he is dependable, high integrity and left nothing up to chance. In this episode we share some best practices  and techniques to aid in the changes from military to civilian life. How and why school is important. How to stay focus on the prize among other useful tid bits, his handle on Instagram is @stillbillhayes give him a follow because he is going places.

Dr. Ana Luisa Trejos is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering as well as Biomedical Engineering at Western University in Canada. She is also an Associate Scientist at the Lawson Health Research Institute. Ana Luisa’s research is in the area of mechatronic systems engineering. This field combines mechanical, electrical, computer, and software engineering to develop smart machines that can perceive what is happening in the environment and react intelligently. In particular, she is designing wearable mechatronic technologies that can help people recover from mobility problems due to a musculoskeletal injury or a movement disorder like Parkinson’s disease. Her goal is to make these technology solutions more comfortable for users and to restore mobility and quality of life for people with upper body movement impairments. When she’s not at work, Ana Luisa enjoys hanging out with her family, reading, putting together jigsaw puzzles, hiking, swimming, running, and renovating her house. Ana Luisa was awarded her B.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Costa Rica and her M.A.Sc. in mechanical engineering from the University of British Columbia. She worked as an Applications Engineer for Progressive Moulded Products in Ontario from 2000-2003. She then joined the team at Canadian Surgical Technologies & Advanced Robotics at Western University as a research engineer. Ana Luisa later attended graduate school at Western University where she was awarded her Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering in 2012. Ana Luisa has been awarded the IEEE London Section Outstanding Women in Engineering Award and the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) Canada District Volunteer Appreciation Award. In our interview, Ana Luisa shares more about her life and research.

Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence is hiring a Applications Engineer based in their Nashville, TN Facility. As the Applications Engineer, you will provide technical and sales support for all the applications of Hexagon products encompassing metrology, demonstration, functionality, and performance. In addition, you will be responsible for quoting and managing contract programming tasks and performing product training. For the full job description, visit MarketScale.com/careers Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence helps industrial manufacturers develop the disruptive technologies of today and the life-changing products of tomorrow. Hexagon gives you the opportunity to work with some of the brightest engineers in the field, as well as the ability to enjoy the amazing city of Nashville, TN. From hard work to hard play, Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence gives you the best of both worlds. If you or someone you know sound like a good fit for this role, you can apply at Presco.com or Marketscale.com/careers

Erik Cheng - PLC Applications Engineer - Electrical Engineering, Analog & Digital Controls Eriks degree can be used in many industrial sectors like Automation, Transportation, Food/Beverage, Energy, Utility Facilities, and Security Programs. He works on many projects like water tanks, park irrigation, lakes, bridge automation, and fish ladders. His goal is to learn all the in and outs and hopefully one day be the guy training the next generation. Our Social Media and YouTube Links: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/howcanipodcast/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/WhatWhyAndHowCanI

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Episode Description - In this episode, we speak with Liz Smith, an Application Engineer from AndyMark. Liz tells us about her vast FIRST experiences from growing up through the FIRST program to working with AndyMark as an Applications Engineer. Liz tells us about her experiences with writing documentation for instruction manuals, team branding, performing the duties as an FTA, and Drive Coach. It was a great interview and covers many aspects of Liz's life and what it is like being a FIRST alumnus now working for a company like AndyMark! Interviewee: Liz Smith, Applications Engineer - AndyMark

A conversation with Matt Simonds, Applications Engineer from Amphenol Aerospace in Sidney, NY, where we discuss the difference between mechanical engineering in college vs. the real world; his passion for working with customers on high power, ruggedized applications; and his successes (and failures) in creating fun adventures for he and his friends.  This is The Interface. Hosted by Chris Cappello.  Music by Square Seed. For The Interface podcast guest inquiries and suggestions: send an email to ccappello@amphenol-aao.com or send a LinkedIn message to https://www.linkedin.com/in/cjcappello/

Brian Ormanic, Applications Engineer, ARPACIt’s more important than ever to bridge the skills gap by engaging with your future workforce. One way to do this is by hosting your own Manufacturing Day, held annually on the first Friday in October. Intimidated? Don’t be – it’s easy! Hear best practices for how your company can inspire the next generation of manufacturers. Learn more about PMMI and the UnPACKed Podcast here: https://www.pmmi.org/Support the show (https://pmmi.org/my-pmmi)

This week, Tom Yager, Applications Engineer, and Eric Willkomm, Technical Services Supervisor elaborate on some of the fueling industry's most common acronyms! Listen in to learn more about what terms you should know on your first day, and what all these acronyms mean to you.

Our guest, Anne-Fleur Andrle, is the co-founder of Jack and Ferdi, a companion application that helps travelers identify what's most authentic about a destination while offering innovative ways to the user to give back to the local community.This Bleisure App also provides data on opportunities to have a positive impact while on the road (run and walk itineraries, indigenous music, and curated local charities to give back to), while not forgetting the primary reason for the business trip...conducting business. The app also offers data on local business etiquette, learning opportunities, and great work/meeting spaces. This well-rounded app will help business travelers combine business and leisure travel and adopt the growing bleisure travel lifestyle. Anne-Fleur graduated from UTC – a French University - as an engineer with a double major in biomechanics and scientific communication. She pursued her education at the State University of New York (SUNY) in Buffalo with a focus on cardiac regeneration and biomedical engineering. And she was the first woman to graduate from the Biomedical Engineering department of the Graduate School. A Dual citizen of France and America, Anne-Fleur never misses an opportunity to explore the world - starting with her own neighborhood.A newborn baby and a newborn business - this is an exciting startup story!Please follow and connect with Anne-Fleur and her beautiful business Jack and Ferdi here:Website: https://www.jackandferdi.com/Twitter: @afandrle and @jackandferdiLinkedIn: Anne-Fleur Andrle https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-fleur-andrle/ and Jack and Ferdi https://www.linkedin.com/company/jack-n-ferdi/Instagram: Jack and Ferdi https://www.instagram.com/jackandferdi/ and Anne-Fleur https://www.instagram.com/afandrle/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jackandferdi/If you need startup mentoring – please visit my website, http://andelyons.com where you’ll find all the ways I can add value to your startup journey: strategy calls, pitch deck and one page business snapshot coaching, WBENC application support for women business owners - I’d be honored to mentor you through whatever you’re going through – so please don’t hesitate to reach out.If you’d like to receive an alert whenever I post a new episode, please follow me on Spreaker, Stitcher, iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcasts… and let’s connect on social media!Listeners - thank you so much for tuning in - I am genuinely grateful for your time and presence. Stay strong, stay focused – and please remember – you’ve got this – Cheers!Ande ♥Anne-Fleur Andrle BioFrench born and coming from Brittany, I am a bold female entrepreneur and living an extraordinary life. Extraordinary does not mean rich, luxurious or doing nothing but drinking mojitos on an exotic beach. In my book, extraordinary means daring to live life the way I intend to, which means being free and humble, ambitious and bold, respectful of my peers and environment as well as curious to learn anytime I have the opportunity.I am convinced it is our responsibility as entrepreneurs to give back to our community and for social impact to be deeply rooted in the DNA of our enterprises. This is one of the reasons why we incorporated Jack and Ferdi as a PBC (Public Benefit Corporation). I am a person of many passions and I believe their common themes are freedom and creation. What I truly love doing is traveling, being in, on or near the water, cooking, writing and reading (especially comics and graphic novels).My passion for travel and discovery, and certainly my personal experience as a business traveler, lead me to cofound Jack and Ferdi in 2016. The goal of this one-of-a-kind mobile app was to close the cultural gap in business travel and to provide business travelers with a real tool to maintain work-life balance on the road. Closing the cultural gap on business travel was a problem I often faced during my own experiences.Prior to this, I created the North American division of AMA XpertEye (a Ubisoft sister company), established it in Cambridge, MA and dedicated myself to its success as its Executive Director.I graduated from UTC (France) as an engineer with a double major in Biomechanics and Scientific Communication. I continued my education at the State University of New York (SUNY) in Buffalo, NY with a focus on cardiac regeneration and biomedical engineering. I was the first woman to obtain a graduate degree from the Biomedical Engineering Department.I worked in R&D in the field of regenerative medicine successively with both L’Oréal and INSERM (aka French NIH) in Paris before joining Olea Medical in Boston, where I worked as a Research and Applications Engineer on stroke and tumor imaging.For several years, I hosted a radio show which I co-created "Les Echos de l’Innovation". Our objective was to publicize science to the greater public and debate about the latest innovations, their impact on society and to create a communication channel for experts from various horizons (from academics to Nobel Prize recipients). In parallel, I have been writing - both in French and in English - pretty much ever since I can remember. I wrote my first novel at age 8, and since then never really stopped. I have been an author for the website and magazine "French Quarter Mag", have had multiple blogs, and worked as a freelance editor, translator and voice-over artist.Dual citizen (French and American), I never miss an opportunity to explore and particularly love being near, on or in the water – whether it is on a catamaran, with my snorkel or scuba gear. I love to explore the world - starting with my own neighborhood.

This podcast captures a conversation with Mike Mournighan, an Applications Engineer for Silicon Labs PoE devices. Isaac asks questions that many of you may have regarding PoE but were afraid to ask.  Mike does a great job increasing your understanding of PoE. Intro to Power over Ethernet.  Starting simple. What are the components in a PoE system? How is power delivered over the cable?  PoE handshaking? What is the Connected Ceiling? Learn about PoE for the BT standard.

This podcast captures a conversation with Mike Mournighan, an Applications Engineer for Silicon Labs PoE devices. Mike goes over the recent changes with the PoE standards. Reasons for changes with the Physical Interface What solutions should be used for the new 802.3bt spec? What are the new features 803.2bt provides applications? What functions are handled by the Power Manager Si3484?

This podcast captures a conversation with Calvin Pitman, an Applications Engineer for Silicon Labs Isolation devices.  Calvin answers questions to help the listeners better understand how to use digital isolators in their designs. What are the key features of Digital Isolators? What applications use these isolators? What parameters differentiate the Silicon Labs products? What design issues are most common with customers?

Transcription: Riggs: Okay, Riggs Eckelberry here, and it is Thursday the 13th of September at 5 p.m. Pacific. I'm going to wait a few moments to make sure everybody shows up. Okay. The topic of this call is our announcement this week of the new technology AOxPlus, and I did a MoneyTV today where we brought Ayush Tripathi on the show. Ayush is our Applications Engineer, and he is the genius who came up with this and also another interesting invention, which will be announced separately, that has a lot of merit, as well. What we're doing these days in the lab is working on the treatment of water that is already clear. We've pretty much scaled up and matured the technology of clarifying very dirty and very oily water with Electro-Water Separation. That's really what we started with. Remember that, back in the day, we had developed a way to pull the algae out of water using electricity, and we basically, once algae proved to have a problem with surviving against a huge explosion of fracking, we found that we could apply this to the frack water and also to industrial water in general. To get full transcript: Click HERE.

This podcast captures a conversation with John Gammel, an Applications Engineer for Silicon Labs Isolation devices.  Several questions are answered to help you better understand the market for PLC designs and the benefits of using Silicon Labs' isolation products. What is the PLC market like? Where do the Silicon Labs isolation parts fit in PLC designs? Do these solutions apply to architectures that use "field bus"? How can engineers quickly design with these isolation devices.

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Get Design for Manufacturability (DFM) tips from Jay Colognori, Director of Business Development at Electronic Instrumentation & Technology (EIT). DFM and Design for Assembly (DFA) are important to engineers who know you can’t just design a PCB and throw it over the wall to manufacturing. Early and proactive optimization of all the manufacturing functions from fabrication to assembly of the final system is key. Listen to Jay and Judy discuss high-yield designs, EIT’s value-added engineering services and the latest state-of-the-art inspection technology and test capability.   Show Highlights: Jay was educated at Virginia Tech where he attained an EE Degree, followed by a Master's in Electrical Engineering at the University of Virginia. He spent  most of his career in the mid-atlantic and his career spans from board level electronic design to applications engineering doing custom microelectronics for a couple of years, eventually ending up in PCB Design first at TTM and now at EIT. EIT has been in existence for 42 years, and specialize in electronic manufacturing services, turnkey builds, box builds, and demand fulfillment and consider their Engineering value add as part of their DNA. EIT has three facilities on the East Coast, consisting of over 200,000 sq ft. They have a facility in Danville Virginia, headquarters in Leesburg and another in Salem, New Hampshire. Altogether they have eight surface mount lines. The Danville facility is designated as the low-cost center of excellence and is also a 100% vertically integrated location - it is built for box builds. Leesburg and Salem are high-tech facilities with the latest state-of-the-art universal equipment, as well as the latest and greatest inspection technology and a full suite of test capability - with a lot going on and a story that needs to get out - it’s almost been a secret! New EIT website DFM: Bare board tips 2 objectives - 1) to design so that it can be fabricated reliably and with high yields, and 2) so that it can be assembled VM Pad requires a wrap plating process to provide a reliable button around the via. This process requires more copper which can wreak havoc with fine line design, so be sure to plan upfront and move those fine line geometries to the inner layers. Overlapping via structures can’t be made. They need to be stacked and sequential, not overlapping. Sit down with your PCB Fabricator at the time of stackup development, before you even start that router and make sure everyone’s happy with the stackup. FR4 has too high a Dk for high speed designs today and new materials such as teflon or ceramic-filled laminates are becoming more common. If you work with a new material, consult with your PCB fabricator to see how the rules have changed with that new material for the speed you desire. DFA Wisdom: Common Pads - so close together that they touch, rather than routing a thin signal from pad to pad is a common problem. We don’t want them to physically share the same space which will cause loss of control over the solder flow. Keep the pads apart and just run a small solder trace between them. The via in the pad has to be filled, it must be plated over and planarized. Sometimes the planarization isn’t done properly and even a little dimple, with a BGA on top, will cause the gas trapped beneath the solder paste, to expand ferociously and blow all the solder out of the pad at reflow. Always use non-conductive filler it’s much less expensive. The benefit of using conductive fill from a thermal point is negligible and is too expensive for the return. Thermal conductivity is defined in Wattmeters - if you use a conductive fill, you only get 6 more wattmeters which is rather pointless because the copper is already doing all the work. When a thermal via is located in a big plane, with a copper button around it - the button will be in contact with the plane and this is a big no-no. It compromises the solder flow again. Do a sprocket arrangement around that thermal via button. This will create a gap between the button and plane and sprockets simply act as traces surrounding it - very good design practice, frequently missed. Especially on backplanes with active components, this will require retooling to enable manufacturability. Why has design migrated as a service inside many EMS companies? What is the value to the customer? It’s a benefit to both the customer and the EMS. We want to do more for the customer than just assemble the circuit cards. We want projects going through without a hitch, no delays. What we all want is production of electronics. Why did EIT recently choose to onboard Altium Designer internally over other tools? Firstly it’s an all-inclusive package. It’s schematic and design, we like the ECAD and MCAD interface which makes it easy to do 3D fit models. We love the room creation capability that allows you to reuse previous designs. It has very solid DFM rules capability which are set up in advance - that’s a nice piece of insurance. It’s reasonably priced compared to the other high-end tools as well. Engineers After Hours: Big hiker, especially the Rocky Mountains. We’re going to do 3 national parks this summer. Unique hobbies? Jay has been a dart player since the age of 19. Played in a couple of US opens. Pro advice: 2-3 beers is the sweet spot for optimal dart throwing performance.   Links and Resources: EIT Electronic Instrumentation & Technology Website Jay Colognori on Linkedin EIT on Linkedin About Jay Colognori AltiumLive 2018: Annual PCB Design Summit   Hey everyone, this is Judy Warner with Altium's OnTrack podcast. Thanks for joining us again. I appreciate everyone that's following, we are spreading like wildfire and we thank you for all your comments and opinions and we always look forward to hearing about things you want to hear - so reach out to us on Twitter; I'm @AltiumJudy, or you can connect with me on LinkedIn or Altium is on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. So today I have a longtime friend and ex colleague, Jay Colognori and Jay is the Director of business development at EIT which is Electronic Instrumentation and Technology in Richmond Virginia, and you're gonna have fun just listening to Jay because it's like talking to Matthew McConaughey! So you girls out there? We're gonna just have fun listening to Jay talk... Just kidding, but he does have a nice Southern drawl. So Jay, thanks so much for joining us today, and we look forward to talking to you about DFA and some technical stuff today. So thanks for joining. Thank you for having me. This is an exciting time at EIT we just added on Altium capability and so I'm delighted to get to the word out, and what better way to do it than talking to you? Well, you know when you suck up to your friends at Altium, you get on the podcast. That's how it works around here. So Jay, Why don't you start out by telling our listeners a little bit about your educational background and your professional background sort of set the stage for us? Okay sure. I picked up an EE Degree at Virginia Tech and then a Master's EE at the University of Virginia. So you could say I'm a son of Virginia for sure. I managed to spend most of my career here in the Mid-Atlantic and my career spans from board-level electronic design to integrated circuits, VLSI design, and then kind of jumped over to the other side of the table and became an Applications Engineer, doing custom microelectronics and had a few years running a rep firm making some commissions along the way, and then I ended up in the printed circuit board business working for DDI and VIASystems, now TTM, and one of my customers was a company called Zentech which was an Electronic Manufacturing services company, and I went to work for them. And now I work for EIT who is also situated in the Mid-Atlantic. I do want to correct one thing you mentioned. I live in Richmond, Virginia, but EIT is based in Leesburg, Virginia where we have two other facilities, I can talk some more about that. Alright. Thanks for correcting me there. So with all that variety of background why don't you tell us a little bit about where you are now and about EIT and what their expertise is, and what kind of technology makes they handle and so forth? Yeah. Okay, so I joined EIT back in March, very happy to be there. This is a company that's in its 42nd year of providing... Wow. Yeah - Engineering services which then led to electronic manufacturing services. So we do both; engineering is very much in our DNA, we consider our engineering value-add to be an important part of most of our customer relationships. So, you know, the thing about being in the electronic manufacturing service is that it's kind of a commodity when you look at it from the standpoint of just picking and placing parts with machines. So, we're looking to engage customers at additional levels, including engineering, turnkey builds, turnkey testing solutions, of all manner, box build if necessary, demand fulfillment, soup-to-nuts… so that we're doing more than just using those machines. And EIT has three facilities on the East Coast. Altogether we have over 200,000 square feet of brick and mortar which makes us pretty big for a small company. We have a facility in Danville, Virginia. Our headquarters is in Leesburg. And then another in Salem, New Hampshire. Altogether, I've got eight surface mount lines to keep busy. Danville is what we designated our low-cost center of excellence. It's also a 100% vertically integrated location because they can do any kind of metalwork, cabling wire, box build. We have all that in place. It's a purpose-built facility to support the box builds, which we like to do for our customers. We don't do metal stand-alone, although occasionally I'll build a heat sink or something for somebody. We tend to allocate that factory towards our customer box builds. Okay. And then Leesburg, and Salem New Hampshire are high-tech facilities, they both have the latest state-of-the-art universal equipment, so we can back each other up if something goes wrong and they both have a full suite of the latest and greatest and automated inspection technologies and a full suite of test capability. Wow that sounds impressive! It's a heck of a lot going on, and a story that needs to get out; it's kind of been a kept a secret lately so yeah... I haven't heard of them. I mean I'm on the left coast, of course, but I had not heard of them, but they sound like a really great facility with a really good… going all the way from true engineering to box builds. That's nice. So… and we'll make sure to share the link, by the way, for any of you listeners who are looking for a good EMS or engineering service or whatever. We'll be sure to share that link on the show notes. So yeah, and please do, because we're launching a new website next week, so I want to get that out. Okay. Hopefully the timing for that'll work out. Okay. Alright good. We'll send you some traffic for your new website. So Jay, because of the breadth of your knowledge and experience and background I thought it'd be great for our listeners today if you shared a few tips from, you know, being that you came from some of the largest board manufacturers and certainly in North America and almost the world - maybe three tips or so, on bare boards and then a few on DFA to help the designers in our audience, and engineers in our audience, that might want to learn a few tips and tricks from a pro? Okay, you know I came up with a few of each, you know, really when you're looking to design a printed circuit board, you have two fundamental objectives: one, to design it so that it can be fabricated reliably and with high yields. And then two; so that it can be assembled. So there's mistakes that can be made that can affect both key processes. So first of all, let's talk a little bit about PCB design issues that affect PCB fabrication and reliability and, you know, none of these I think are gonna be earth-shattering, but it's interesting to see the same mistakes being made a lot over and over again.So, we just kind of keep - we're banging the drum and we hope everybody gets the message sooner or later. So, I guess beginning with VM pad. There's more and more VM pad today, by necessity, and VM pad, in order to be done reliably, requires a wrap plating process. Without getting into specifics of what that does, what the purpose of it is, it provides a reliable button around the via. Without the wrap plating process. It's an unreliable arrangement, but that requires the addition of more copper on the outer layers than you would see otherwise, and this wreaks havoc with the fine line design. So, if you're at 3 mill tracing space or below, you really can't tolerate that extra copper; so it requires planning upfront. Understand, if you're gonna need wrap plating and if so, maybe move those fine lines geometries to the inner layers where that won't come into play. Okay, that makes sense. And it'll get you, I mean, you think your design's done and then the next thing you know, your fabricator says, well you know, you realize I'm going to add this much copper to the outside and now you're violating tracing space. I've seen this happen too when there's multiple on RF and microwave boards too and you have... when you're doing sequential LAM or whatever, and you keep plating, plating, and people don't, when they do their simulations, don't add in those extra layers are getting extra copper too. So you really can throw you off. All right. That's a good one. Here's another one that you know, I'm told we're still seeing a lot of it in the market by the guys that I used to work with at DDI, and that is, you know, they'll see overlapping via structures where the designer has put a via from say, level one and three, and another one from level two to eight; that can't be made. They have to be stacked; they have to be sequential. They can't be overlapping but believe it or not. You see it. I've seen it many many times, but you know, to be fair, sometimes when I look at those cords and figure out how they're gonna be stacked up, it… you know. I get confused too. So... Well, I mean, I'll say this again and again: sit down with your PCB fabricator at the time you develop your stack up and your basic via structure and basically your structure is going to be driven by the toughest part of the design. Maybe it's a BGA with a finer pitch than you've ever used before. You're not even sure how to route it, you're probably going to have to stack some micro vias, or at the very least, have some blind or buried vias to get the job done. Sit down with a fabricator, before you even start that router, and make sure that everybody likes the stack up and that it looks manufacturable. Yep, very sound advice. Okay, that's another good one, got another one for us? One more I want to talk about, because this is happening more and more, you know, all the designs are getting faster and faster. I mean, high speed digital is now in the radio frequency and, FR4 is just has too high a dielectric for most of the new designs now, so many PCB designers are going to have to work with materials they haven't worked with before, the more exotic, more expensive materials, and when you start talking about fabricating a PCB with Teflon versus FR4, you're talking about different processing altogether. So, when you go to a new material, consult with your PCB guy as to which material would be suitable for the speed you're looking at, and ask them, okay, how have the rules changed with that material? What are your limitations? And you can ask the EMS provider the same question, because the parent circuit board is the foundation upon which all of our business is done. So we understand PCBs, but I think especially with materials you want to talk to the fabricator. Yeah, it's true and when I worked for an RF and microwave shop once, I told them, I said: you know, sometimes when you see a piece of Teflon material and a piece of... I don't know, Rogers 4350, until you strip the coffer off. You can't tell it's different, but inside the board shop that Teflon can turn into bubble gum, it's not reinforced. But when you take the copper off and you go like this [motions] it like flaps in the wind where 43-50 will remain rigid so, kind of gives you a visual sense of, this is radically different. And the way that it processes inside the shop, and how, the way it interacts with chemicals, moisture, heat, so it is true - the closer you can be when you go into those materials, to your fabricator. Okay, those were three good ones. All right how about DFA wisdom? Okay, well one we see quite often, and I guess it's tempting for the designer to do this, because he thinks he's kind of found a shortcut and a way to use less PCB area, but you see a lot of guys trying to use what we call common pads, and these are pads that are so close together that they touch, rather than routing a thin signal from pad to pad. So these pads do share the same signal, but we don't want them to physically share the same space. That causes us problems with controlling what the solder does once it flows, so keep those pads apart, and run a just a small signal trace between them. And then we'll let the solder mask do the rest, and we can control the flow of the solder. So that's a real simple one, but we run into it a lot. Okay. I talked before about VM pad, we see a lot of designs where people don't fill that via. If the via is in the pad, it's got to be filled, and it must be plated over and planerized. Sometimes that's done properly sometimes it's not. There's a little dimple there... Yup. If there's a dimple in that pad and I place a BGA ball on top of that gas, it's gonna get trapped underneath the solder paste that I apply and there'd be a little air in that dimple and heated gas expands; it expands ferociously. It doesn't want to stay where it is and it'll blow all the solder right out of the pad at reflow time and you know I have customers argue with me against it, it is expensive to fill and planerize via, but it's the right thing to do. You have to do it if you want reliable BGA connections. These are leadless parts that we can't inspect visually, we have to use x-ray. It's not really practical to use a hundred percent x-ray inspection except on high-reliability applications like military, maybe medical. So we lot, we lot-sample these BGAs with X-ray and if we don't see any problems with a lot we carry on. So, I can't emphasize that enough, to fill those vias and fill those vias properly. And I would add further, that there's no point, you know, we have some people that are using thermal vias, these are vias really which are designed, not necessarily to conduct an electrical signal, although they do, but to conduct electricity from a hot part from maybe a ground plane, might be an inner layer or wherever, and you run into people who call out… so there has to be a filling to fill those vias before they're plated over. Right. And there's two types of filling: there's conductive and there's non-conductive. I strongly recommend never to use conductive. Non conductive is much less expensive. The benefit of using conductive fill from a thermal point of view is super minimal. I mean, the copper's doing all the work... Okay. -and if you need to draw or pull more current or more thermal energy, just create more thermal vias because the copper's doing all of the work. I mean, I'll give you some numbers: thermal conductivity is defined in wattmeters, a typical via is going to give you over 600 wattmeters of conduction, if you fill it with conductive fill you only get six more wattmeters. What's that compared to... Oh, yeah. -380 I'm sorry, 380's what the copper gives you. The non-conductive only has point six wattmeters.But the point is both of those are in the noise compared to with the copper's doing. Right. And last but not least. Good luck trying to get a printed circuit board fabricated in China with conductive fill they don't do it over there. Really? Right so well, maybe somebody's doing it but we're having a hard time finding any. Interesting hhm.Why is that? Because it's not, it's not... They just don't like it? It's not important so we're just not doing it? I don't think anybody should be doing it, it doesn't make sense to me, it's too expensive for the return. Interesting, I'd never heard that before actually, but it makes sense with those numbers. I'm kind of surprised it took root for a while. We recommended as far back as five years ago, at DDI, not to use conductive fill, I think it's a dinosaur that it's day has come and gone, but there's probably some engineers out there right now, going no! Huuu! [laughter] We'll see... Yeah well show me the data, you know, and when when there's enough good research out there and data people stop doing it. I'm sure. Okay, so along the lines of thermal vias, here's another tip. A lot of times a thermal via will be located in a big plane so you'll have the via, and the copper button around it will actually be in contact with the plane - this is a no-no. This makes it very hard to deal with the solder flow again. So what we ask our customers to do; is do a sprocket arrangement around that thermal via button and so basically that button will exist -  there'll be a gap between it and the plane around it, and then the sprockets are simply traces above, below, and the right and left and that - it's an arrangement of the sprocket - very good design practice, frequently missed and, it's not unusual that we have to go back and retool the board to add those in order to make it. Especially back planes with active components; you see a lot of that and they have to retool to add that feature to make it manufacturable. Well, these are good tips. You were concerned you didn't have good tips. I think these are really good tips actually. Well glad you do. I do, not that I spend all my days, you know, pondering DFA these days, but that's good. You know Jay, you and I worked together for a small bit of time and something I've noticed over the years I don't know... maybe five, ten years, it seems like there's been a migration of more EMS shops that go in to have PCB designers in their shop and not so much I guess, fabricators - at least that I've noticed, they may be there, of course they do with larger shops, but why do you think that is and why do you think that's a good idea? Well, I think it's a great idea for both the customer and the EMS. We, as I mentioned before, we want to do more for the customer than just assemble the circuit cards and if a customer, an Altium customer, finds themselves in a position where they need to outsource some of their design, maybe they you know, their designers are saturated, maybe they just need the resources. What better place to do it than at a guy that knows how to assemble the cards and really understands the issues about fabrication and about assembly. Your chances are that the design from your EMS provider is going to go right through new product introduction without a hitch, whereas if you do it internally and you're not aware of some of the issues you know, it won't go through it without a hitch. We may not catch the problem until it's too late. And we may see several tooling iterations, and you'll see a delay and nobody wants to delay during new product introduction - everybody's in a hurry to get their prototypes. And nobody wants to waste money because that's going to be expensive too - Yeah, but we think there's a lot of serendipity between that particular engineering function and getting to what we all want. Which is production of electronics. Well that does make sense in that, we both know Mike Brown, and Mike I trusted implicitly to know about fab and assembly and he would catch all that stuff so he did have a broader understanding than maybe, somebody who just does, you know has a consulting firm say, that does designs because he's around it all the time all, day long so there's certainly a lot of exposure there. So that makes sense. Well, first of all, welcome to the Altium family! You told me recently that your designer on-boarded Altium Designer 18, that's exciting for us. So thank you for that. What made you - I'm gonna go for a little pat on the back for Altium right here. I want you to tell us why you, why EIT chose to go Altium Designer over perhaps another tool? Okay. Well, we think some of the key features of Altium; first of all, it's an all-inclusive package so it's schematic capture and printed circuit board design. You don't have to worry about working with two different pieces of software. We like the fact that there's an e-CAD m-CAD interface which makes it really easy for us to do three-dimensional fit models once we place the components. We love the room creation capability which as I understand it, allows you to take a previous design, a piece of it, and then just kind of cut and paste it right into your new design. Yeah. So you don't have to reinvent the wheel. I think that's pretty strong and then, last but not least very solid DFM rules capability that you know, is really going to help us get to where we need to be. I mean the fact is these boards need to be designed to IPC standards and the fabricators have tailored their process to meet these standards; and when you send them something that's outside those bounds, the mechanism sort of locks up. It just doesn't work. You'll get a 'no-bid' or bells will go off, so those design rules are critical and that you have the ability to set them up in advance is a nice piece of insurance so; I think it's a reasonably priced tool compared to the other high-end tools as well. So we're pleased to have it. Good. Well, thank you again we're happy to have you on board and I'll needle you later about sending your designer to AltiumLive because we're gonna have a really good conference with some good training coming up. So your designer will probably enjoy going if you guys have the time and budget to do that. Well, keep me posted on when and where. I will it's coming up in October. So Jay, we're kind of wrapping up here, but if you've listened to these podcasts before, you'll know that sometimes I like to ask designers or engineers like yourself, what you like to do after hours, and we call this portion of the podcast designers after hours. So, I know you have a couple interesting hobbies...so why don't you tell those to our listeners because I think they're kind of fun? Well, I'm looking forward to 10 days in Montana and Wyoming this September, I'm a big hiker, and nothing is more fun than hiking up in the beautiful Rocky Mountains. So we're gonna hit three national parks; we're gonna do about two to six hours of hiking a day or as much as my legs can give me and just have just an awesome lifetime outdoor experience and hopefully not run into a grizzly bear along the way… my wife's really worried about that, by the way [laughter]. Bring your grizzly repellent! And then, I know you wanted me to talk about one other thing... My favorite... Yeah, as you know, we business development types are very competitive and what better setting to compete against each other than you know, in a pub throwing some darts. So I've been a dart player since I was 19 and took it very seriously for a while, and spent way too much time on it. Actually traveled every weekend to tournaments all around the United States and played in a couple of US Opens. But that was a long time ago, now I just play for fun on Monday nights. That cracks me up. You are the one and only competitive traveling dart player that I know... Okay, but my favorite part is - tell about the beer to success ratio of a good dart player. Oh yeah, so so we're throwing a 27 gram projectile at a target about the size of a dime and turns out, that if you get nervous or you try too hard, you're not going to be very successful with that. So, it turns out that, that second or third beer really kind of smooths out your stroke and you generally shoot a little bit better. At least that's what we rationalize. And what happens if you go over three? Yeah, that's that's a slippery slope indeed. You've got to be careful... That is so funny oh my gosh. Okay well, that is like one of my favorite, I think, designer after our hobbies yet. So when I come out, we'll find a place and throw a few. Okay. Alright, I'll get my three beers ready Okay! No, actually for me, I'd be like half a beer, like three beers you'd be putting me in an Uber and sending me home. I'm a wimp. So Jay, thanks so much for your time. These have been great tips and it's good to see your face my friend, and I wish you all the success at EIT, and we will certainly share all the links in the show notes and we'll also put the link to AltiumLive in the show notes and we'll encourage your designer to come out and join us as one of the new new beasts of the Altium family. So we'll include that as well. So thanks again for joining and we'll talk to you soon, my friend. Thank you Judy, it was my pleasure. Thanks again for listening to the podcast. This has been Judy Warner with the Altium OnTrack podcast and Jay Colognori from EIT, and we look forward to seeing you next time. Until then always stay on track.

Episode 221: ControlTalk NOW — Smart Buildings VideoCast|PodCast for week ending Apr 16, 2017 features an interview with one of the most venerated experts in the Building Automation Industry, Leroy Walden, President and Chief Consultant Highrose Consultants, LLC. Updated Ken’s Calendar details upcoming training, webinars, and major industry events; more 2016 ControlTrends Awards video highlights; new DLP pressure sensor from ACI; EasyIO’s Mike Marston and Lim Hoon Chiat discuss new product release and the upcoming EasyIO Global Conference. 2016 ControlTrends Awards Highlight: The PID Award. Join all the excitement, and I do mean EXCITEMENT, as the most exciting man in the smart buildings controls industry Roger Rebennack and Mike Marston from EasyIO (both former recipients of the PID Award) light up the crowd and announce this year’s PID Award winners. ControlTrends Keeps an Eye on 2017 Events with Ken’s Calendar. While it has been an amazingly busy and productive year so far, many more events are on the horizon. ControlTrends will continue to post the event information as we receive notice or become aware of the event. Please note that the information is gathered from various sources, and the times, dates, and locations may have changed. Be sure to visit the appropriate website or contact the event coordinator to ensure the most up-to-date information. Our interview this week is with Leroy Walden, LEED AP, President and Chief Consultant Highrose Consultants, who has worked in the Building Controls and Automation industry since 1978, beginning with Robertshaw Controls as an Applications Engineer. Leroy recently retired from a leading systems integration firm to pursue his passion for tracking the growing uses of technology in sustainable building operations. Listen in, as Leroy brings specific insights to smart devices and equipment and how open-source integration platforms will transform building maintenance in the coming decades. Contact Leroy ASAP (lcwalden256@gmail.com) — to take advantage of Leroy’s $100.00 discount for the 2017 Realcomm|IBcon Conference June 13th-15th in San Diego, CA. ACI’s Differential Low Pressure Sensor has Arrived — The DLP is Available Now! ACI is combining all the best features from multiple products to create an all-encompassing differential pressure option that should make a huge impact! Every aspect of this product was analyzed and designed to maximize the value it will present to you! Connexx Energy to Participate in US Department of Commerce International Trade Administration Smart Technologies Mission to Hong Kong and Taiwan. Lee’s Summit, Missouri, April 5, 2017: Connexx Energy (www.connexxenergy.com), a recognized developer and implementer of smart building, energy and IoT data management and visualization solutions, announced today that it will be participating in the Smart Technologies Business Development Mission to Hong Kong and Taiwan being organized by the United States Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration. 2016 ControlTrends Awards Highlight: The Light Commercial Control System of the Year. Light Commercial Solution of the Year Winners: KMC Commander and Proton, Optergy. KMC’s mission is to “provide innovative, intuitive building automation and Smart Buildings Controls solutions from responsive and supportive people,” and the KMC Commander delivers as an open building automation and Smart Buildings control system that is “open, secure, and scaleable.” “Proton by Optergy became the first true open supervisor and controller that can interoperate with any BACnet unitary controller and is 100% web based. It has all the needed tools to setup, operate and maintain the system, and has all of this at economical price points.” EasyIO’s Mike Marston and Lim Hoon Chiat Discuss the FW Wireless Controller “That Will Change the World!” This is the first video of a series from EasyIO’s Mike Marston and Lim Hoon Chiat, who share their visions of the FW Series wireless controllers — that they believe will change the world of Building Automation. Lim cites how WiFi, the defacto protocol for wireless networking, has been around for over 20 years, and because it’s so pervasive and each generation is inherently compatible, it’s ideally suited for the HVAC and Building Automation industry. EasyIO’s Mike and Lim Preview Next-Gen Smart Sensors and Introduce the Early Guns Education & Learning Program. EasyIO’s Mike Marston and Lim Hoon Chiat continue their discussion on the differences and nuances between M2M and IOT, smart sensors and edge devices, and the impact that wireless will have on the future of HVAC and Building Automation. Also, Lim’s amazing insight into programming starter kits and educational programs to kick start our next generation of system integrators and HVAC technicians. Let’s Go to England: Last Chance for Discount to EASY IO. Manchester (UK) May 21–23, 2017. This EasyIO Global Partner Event will unveil and officially release awesome new EasyIO products and features to further enhance building and energy solutions for all types of buildings. We’re gonna reveal all the secrets of our five(!) new controllers that are coming up: the WiFi controllers FW-14 and FW-8, the WiFi VAV controller FW-8V, the powerful FS-32 and the FR-02. Register Here! Haystack Connect 2017 Update! Keynote Speakers & Technical Program & The IBB is Getting Back Together! Make your reservations for Haystack Connect 2017! There are, technically, a lot of reasons to attend Haystack Connect 2017. Now, we added some fun ones! See below. Register Today! 3-Day Technical Conference at the Saddlebrook Resort Tampa: See the very latest software and hardware solutions for the Building Industry exhibited in the Vendor Showcase. Meet and network with leading experts in our industry that are implementing real solutions that combine diverse devices, systems, data and protocols. LIGHTFAIR 2017 PHILADELPHIA — PRE-CONFERENCE MAY 7-8, TRADE SHOW & CONFERENCE MAY 9-11. Trade Show + Conference + Networking = See It All. LIGHTFAIR 2017. The world’s leading manufacturers will be showcasing their latest products in IoT (Internet of Things), intelligent lighting, LEDs, decorative lighting, daylighting, exterior lighting and more. Experts from around the world will be leading courses on the forward thinking topics in lighting design and technology. DDC Training with the BAScontrol22: For Colleges and Training Centers Interested in Providing Direct Digital Control (DDC) System Training. April 2017 – For colleges and training centers interested in providing Direct Digital Control (DDC) system training, Contemporary Controls recommends using the BAScontrol22 unitary controller and the free Sedona Application Editor (SAE). The BAScontrol22 is an ideal controller for training technicians on programming DDCs and use of unitary building automation controllers. Increasing Efficiency for Better Business — New Siemens Website Launches Next Week! Mark your calendar for next week. That’s when the new Siemens partner’s website will launch! The new site will replace the Vantage, Beacon and Infolink sites which you may have used in the past. By the end of next week, all links will take you directly to the new site. What can you expect? A product-centric site that is organized around the products you sell and the information you need to succeed; Updated content and a systematic approach to managing important assets; and Account registration that has self-service capabilities. The post Episode 221: ControlTalk NOW — Smart Buildings VideoCast|PodCast for Week Ending Apr 16, 2017 appeared first on ControlTrends.

Guest:  Neil Desrosiers, Applications Engineer and Developer, Mazak. Interviewed by Senior Editor James Lorincz. SME’s Advanced Manufacturing Now talks to Neil Derosiers of Mazak about the coming digital manufacturing revolution in advance of the MC2 conference to be held April 19-21 in Dallas, Texas. Where is this Internet of Things headed and is anybody really exempt from the future of manufacturing?