Engineering Success - The Engineering Career Podcast

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My guest on todays episode of the podcast is a Mechanical Engineering graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and started her career designing components of the International Space Station. Yeah... that MIT... and that International Space Station. After a solid start to her career at Honeywell, Sue Wong then went to Motorola where she continued her career in Mechanical Engineering. Now Sue is at the center of the engineering and technology world, working as a Mechanical Engineer at ASM.

According to ASM's website:

"Chips (or integrated circuits) make the impossible possible. Technologies that were once unthinkable become real: from autonomous vehicles to the next gaming console. Our technology enables the production of those chips."

Sue has been making the impossible possible for her entire career, always holding a major role in achieving the cutting edge of all engineering throughout her career.

I had such a wonderful time interviewing Sue and hope you enjoy listening to this interview as much as I enjoyed hosting it!

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Daniel is a Mechanical Engineering graduate of Trinity University's B.S. in Engineering Science and currently works in Commercial Management in the Engineering and Construction Consulting Industry.

All views expressed on this podcast are his own and do not reflect the opinions or views of his employer.

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Listen to this episode if you: are an early career engineer, are contemplating a career change, or just like engineering career stories.

This Week in LinkedIn Lunatics:

⁠⁠⁠1. Ruin your marriage on day 1

College Questions

⁠⁠⁠1. Pursuing a Minor

2. Question to all Civil Engineers?

Career Questions

1. Internships

2. Is it normal for an intern to have to copy their manager on every email?

3. An old EIT reached out to use me as a reference. They were let go for not being very competent and being constantly late. I dont know how comfortable I am being their reference, but I also dont want to be an obstacle for them getting another job.

4. QA/QC Roles?

5. Woman at my work found out I’ve been talking to a coworker and is saying she’s gonna let my gf know?

6. Are senior engineers/large amounts of experience just not that valuable to employers? Does modern day mechanical engineering not require much depth?

7. How do you rebound after a bad week?

8. Guilty about working from home

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This Week in LinkedIn Lunatics:

⁠⁠1. How absurd is this? (entry level engineering salary of $35k)

College Questions

⁠⁠1. Why do so many engineers seem to hate their major?

2. Ego (in engineering students in college)

3. Today my pre-med friends argued that you can get through engineering through memory alone

4. What did you do to rectify the mistake of getting a BSME?

5. Do you think the average person could get through engineering school?

Career Questions

⁠⁠1. Is majoring in engineering a good investment right now?

2. Will I be too old to get a junior engineering role?

3. Help me understand T&M contracts

4. As a manager of a fully remote IT team what were your strategies on pushing out a team member under you?

5. How to not sound like a total idiot when hiring a civil engineering firm?

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This Week in LinkedIn Lunatics:

⁠1. People asking to “pick my brain” for free on LinkedIn

2. Is this job description a red flag?

College Questions

⁠1. What are the best study methods for engineering students?

⁠2. Why everyone advice against Mechatronics ?

3. How do I tell my parents that I already changed my major? Or should I change it back?

4. Is 40 too old to try and become an electrical engineer?

5. Virginia Tech vs Penn State and if name has any matter in finding a job

Career Questions

⁠1. Do employers actually give you a bigger salary if you show higher competence then expected?

2. Do you use Excel on the job much?

3. I got fired from a job I was planning on leaving this summer (after giving an extended notice)

4. [NC] Mid-Senior Level Employee Building Professional Appearance Outside of Work - Does Not Want Company Branding

5. People who work in project management/project engineering - how did you do it?

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Check Gina out at www.DeliberateDoing.com

My guest on today’s podcast is an experienced engineer, author, keynote speaker, and STEM life coach for aspiring engineers. Gina Covarrubias  graduated from Purdue University with her B.S. in Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering. She started her career in the defense industry, working for Orbital ATK (now part of Northrop Grumman), and continued her path as an Aerospace Engineer working for companies such as Belcan, and the Defense Contract Management Agency. 

Today, I’m so excited to host Gina on the Engineering Success podcast to talk about her engineering journey, career evolution and the exciting things she’s doing now with her coaching and speaking business, Deliberate Doing.

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This Week in LinkedIn Lunatics:

1. We're not the problem. The candidates are the problem. Damn WFH ingrates

College Questions

1. Is Taking 18 Hours First Semester of College Insane?

2. I'm an undergraduate and about to enter BME next year. Will I have to pull an all-nighter to study?

3. Is $130k in loans for an engineering degree from CUB worth it?

4. What am I expected to know entering my first year engineering?

Career Questions

1. Any fields in eee that require a diverse resume? (I had three completely different internships)

2. Any solid advice for a fresh Graduate Engineer?

3. Drug testing for engineers at utilities

4. Experience of people working in large EPC firms

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THIS EPISODE CONTAINS SPONSORED CONTENT FROM MAGIC MIND: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://magicmind.com/danield⁠⁠⁠⁠

In this episode, we turn the tables and host, Daniel Dahlinger, is interviewed by frequent guest, Luke Callahan about his career transition. We talk about the factors that Daniel considered when contemplating a career change, the questions he asked during the interview process, and lessons learned from a job change!

Listen to this episode if you: are an early career engineer, are contemplating a career change, or just like engineering career stories.

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LinkedIn Lunatics:

⁠1. please be a world champion if possible

Interview Question of the Week:

1. I make $30 an hour (around $65k annual) and I got an interview for a job that has a target base salary of $100k-130k per year. When the salary range question comes up, how do I answer?

College Questions:

⁠1. Private Universities for Engineering

⁠2. Those that have long since graduated... How many of you have to submit lab reports to your bosses with cover pages, etc...

⁠3. Dumb question: how much math do you use in your day job? And what kind do you use?

Career Questions:

⁠1. A Response to a Boomer Recruiter's Rant on LinkedIn

⁠⁠2. Management Track for Chem Eng

3. Experience needed for internship

⁠4. How hard is it to get a job without internships?

⁠5. Can you get an internship as an engineering transfer?

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LinkedIn Lunatics:

1. "Mic Drop" - "This is Not a Salary Range"

Interview Question of the Week:

1. Is there anything else that we need to overcome that would prevent you from leaving your current employer?

College Questions:

1. Should I get a double major? Construction Management and Civil Engineering

2. Charlie Kirk, a right wing talking head, claims engineers can graduate in 18 months if colleges don't make them take useless classes. Thoughts? Spoiler alert - NO.

3. Should I get a masters? Got a Physics Undergrad Degree.

Career Questions:

1. Internship vs. (Technician) Work Experience

3. Questions about Social Skills and Engineering

a. Is social skills a necessity in the ME work field? (NO, but WORK ON IT)

b. As some one with social anxiety is it a bad idea to pursue a career in EE? (NO, but WORK ON IT)

4. How to Make The MOST MONEY POSSIBLE as a Civil Engineer (GO WHERE NO ONE WILL GO)

5. Team member constantly asking for "approval' (The IMPORTANCE of building delegations of authority in your role)

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My guest on today’s podcast is an accomplished executive leader. Elizabeth Hoemeke graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology, or Georgia Tech, with her Bachelors of Science in Civil Engineering. She started her career in the energy industry, working as an environmental engineer, and then pivoted to information technology where she grew into executive leadership and leads software engineers and developers. Elizabeth’s career encompasses senior leadership roles in the fintech, payments and banking industries, culminating to her current role as the Chief Information Officer at One Inc., the fastest growing digital payments platform in the insurance industry.

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