Engineering Voices: Recent Episodes

Alex Friess

A podcast by and for engineers, aimed at offering experiences and insights around engineering design, entrepreneurship, innovation, and engineering education

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In this week's episode Emanuele Gillio, VP for Digital Supply Chain Surgery at Johnson and Johnson, shares his insights on his field, how he progressed to his current position, and even offers some thoughts on the status of the COVID19 vaccines and technology.  Emanuele also gives advice on how to make good choices when it comes to selecting a job as a junior engineer, with a key takeaway being to make sure to pick a good boss!

So join in and listen to engineeringvoices!

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"Harnessing the power of extreme velocity" - HyperSciences' slogan says it all!

This week's guest is Mark Russell, a brilliant engineer, an out-of-the-box thinker, and a successful entrepreneur and innovator.  Mark is the founder and CEO of HyperSciences.  Early in his career he has worked for some of the leading aerospace companies, participated in the X-Prize, and more, and then transitioned into launching his own companies, ranging from a pre-Uber ride-share concept to using hypersonic projectiles for spaceflight and high speed drilling.

Mark's passion about engineering innovation is inspiring, and he offers lots of very interesting insights about engineering innovation, hypersonics, and entrepreneurship!

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This is the second part of my conversation with Giovanni Greco, from Blue Origin.  In this episode Giovanni discusses his take on engineering innovation and design, and offers some good advice for new and aspiring engineers.

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This is the first of a series of two episodes presenting an interview with Giovanni Greco, the Senior Technical Director of the New Sheppard unit at Blue Origin.

Giovanni has had a very interesting career, working on cars and trucks, then becoming a senior engineer in the yachting world, to working on spacecraft for the past decade. 

He discusses some of his experiences and insights gained in this 25+ years of innovative engineering, and brings out many lessons for engineering students and junior engineers.

The second part of this interview will contain Giovanni's take on innovation and design.