The Engineering Communication Podcast

In this episode of The Engineering Communication Podcast, we talk with Jared Wicker. Jared is a graduate of Clemson University and currently works at X-energy as an Environmental Licensing Engineer. If you’re an engineer who needs to write for a variety of audiences, this is an episode you don’t want to miss! 

The Engineering Communication Podcast is continuing its Start-up Series for this episode with David Alsippi, a Penn State University and University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate and founder and owner of ScanTek Solutions, a company that provides precision 3D inspection, reverse engineering, engineering design, and training services to maximize efficiencies across business manufacturing. Tune in to learn all about how Dave grew a very successful business based largely on his interest in a portable Coordinate Measure Machine (CMM) arm!

In this episode of The Engineering Communication Podcast, we talk with Caitlin Chamberlain. Caitlin has an Engineering degree from James Madison University and now works as a Junior Systems Engineer at Leidos. We cover everything from senior design projects to #technical #documentation (which Caitlin has to do a lot of!). This is a great episode for your morning commute.

As part of our new #AI series, this week’s episode talks with Dr. Dylan Losey, former post-doc at Stanford University and current assistant professor in the Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering department. Dylan runs the Collaborative Robotics Lab (Collab) at Virginia Tech where he focuses on human/robot interactions by creating learning and control algorithms for robots to help them interact better with their human counterparts. This episode covers everything from the ethics of AI to effective #datavisualization to the importance of approaching #technicalwriting writing as a #storytelling endeavor. 

As part of our Start-up Series, we talk with David Mackanic, a graduate from both Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering and Stanford University and founder and owner of Anthro, a start-up that specializes in flexible batteries.

In this episode, we talk with Emma Walker, a graduate of Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering department and current graduate student in Virginia Tech Civil and Environmental Engineering department. Emma is working on an impressive research project right now that studies what new ideas look like in the brain to determine how people can increase their performance. This episode is filled with invaluable insights into civil engineering and neuroscience, communication, and mathematics (the latter of which Emma cleverly describes as “poeticism”).

For this episode of The Engineering Communication Podcast, we thought we’d introduce you to Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering student and Technical Communication Program undergraduate assistant, Johan Jallah. Johan is a senior in mechanical engineering, where he is focusing his interests on renewable energy. This episode offers a glimpse into what it’s like to be an engineering undergraduate student, so if you know of anyone looking for college and major options, you’ll definitely want to check out this episode. 

The Engineering Communication Podcast is continuing its Start-up Series for this episode with Michael Fleming, graduate of the Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering program and founder and former CEO of Torc Robotics (purchased by Mercedes Benz Daimler in 2019). If you’re looking for management and leadership advice or want to learn more about self-driving technology, look no further. Michael covers all of that and more in this episode.

In this round-table episode, Kelly sits down with three first-generation mechanical engineering students to learn more about their college experiences and why they chose Virginia Tech's Mechanical Engineering Program.

In this episode of The Engineering Podcast, we talk with Dwight Jones, who graduated from Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering program in 2023 and is now a Product Design Engineer at Amazon. This episode is filled with a ton of advice about job applications, public speaking, and writing, because Dwight has had to do it ALL between his internship at Trane, his work with Virginia Tech’s  Center for Vehicle Systems and Safety, his role at Virginia Tech’s Chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers | NSBE Professionals, and his time spent at the Summer Venture in Management Program at Harvard Business School. This is one episode you don’t want to skip.