What’s in your soft skill toolbox? Eli Hughes is a true full-stack hardware engineer and a co-founder of Tzero Brew. He joins the OnTrack podcast to share his insights on how to foster innovation, manage upstream failure, build trust with your fellow engineers and stakeholders, and develop your soft skills—and other non-technical skills we use to communicate with each other and solve problems effectively. 

Altium 365: Where the World Designs Electronics

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Show Highlights:

Intro to Eli

Meeting the challenges of working remotely

A lesson in engineering from a kindergartener

”Soft skills for hardware”; humanity in engineering 

Timing and Perception: Shifting targets as customer needs change

Too easy to be negative; finding positivity in global challenges

How constraints foster innovation

Wants vs Needs: building trust with fellow developers

Jeremy Blum’s take on ‘Empathic Engineering’

You make it, you fix it: managing upstream failure

Believing in the Mission: how ordinary people do extraordinary things

The Part vs the Whole: Lee Ritchey’s homemade Apollo 11 boards

Elon Musk & Tony Stark: the power of unification

Expanding your sphere of influence by thinking holistically 

How students at TU Delft is helping paraplegics walk again

Mining Sci-fi and fantasy reading for soft skills

Now is the time: get out of your comfort zone!

Links and Resources:

Eli Hughes AltiumLive Presentation: Crossing the ChasmAltiumLive 2020 PresentationsJeremy Blum AltiumLive 2018: Empathic EngineeringOnTrack Insight with Lee RitcheyAltium Stories: Project March (Exoskeleton)Eric Bogatin Amazon Author PageOnTrack Insight VideosArticle:  5 Essential Soft Skills for a Successful Career in Engineering

 

Altium 365: Where the World Designs Electronics