Engineering Seed: Recent Episodes
Declan Scott
Declan talks with Chris from GSES, an Australian renewable energy company that specialises in training. Listen to hear the fantastic work that they are doing in the industry and also great practical advice for young engineers.
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Declan chats with Greg from ACE EV about the Electric Vehicles that will be designed and manufactured in Australia!
You can check out their website here:
https://www.ace-ev.com.au
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Declan is joined by Bryan who is currently running a personalised food ordering app called Streamplate which is in the development stage.
Bryan talks about his journey into entrepreneurship, how creativity is so important in STEM and breaking the education paradigms that many subscribe to. He also shares thoughts on where he thinks there is growth opportunities for software #engineering in Australia. As always, thanks for listening! Please leave a review and comment if you got value out of this.
Connect with Declan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/declanscottofficial/
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John joins the podcast and gives great insight into the industrial engineering sector in Australia. He is now a consultant but his career has taken him overseas to start factories and at the forefront of industry technologies.
Connect with Declan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/declanscottofficial/
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Overcast - https://bit.ly/engseedovercast
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Andrew Mears is a Clean Energy Innovator and Entrepreneur who has started SwitchDin which integrates and manages fleets of distributed energy resources (DER). We also discuss his extensive career in the renewable energy that has taken him across the world to deliver energy solutions to many countries. Click here if you want to learn more about SwitchDin or Eighteen04.
Connect with Declan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/declanscottofficial/
Listen to the Podcast on your favourite app:
Apple Podcasts - https://bit.ly/engseedapple
Google Podcasts - https://bit.ly/engseedgoogle
Spotify - https://bit.ly/engseedspotify
Overcast - https://bit.ly/engseedovercast
LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/engseedlinkedin
Instagram: http://bit.ly/engseedinstagram
Anna is the Power Systems Director for WSP in the UK.
She gives great insights into the grid in the UK and how it is going renewable. She also discusses some really interesting projects and tips for growing your career quickly!
Connect with Declan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/declanscottofficial/
Listen to the Podcast on your favourite app:
Apple Podcasts - https://bit.ly/engseedapple
Google Podcasts - https://bit.ly/engseedgoogle
Spotify - https://bit.ly/engseedspotify
Overcast - https://bit.ly/engseedovercast
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Marc founded Cranfield group. He has great experience in the engineering recruitment space. He gives great insight into growing trends in Australia and also ways to put your best foot forward.
Connect with Declan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/declanscottofficial/
Listen to the Podcast on your favourite app:
Apple Podcasts - https://bit.ly/engseedapple
Google Podcasts - https://bit.ly/engseedgoogle
Spotify - https://bit.ly/engseedspotify
Overcast - https://bit.ly/engseedovercast
LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/engseedlinkedin
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David Cameron is the Engineering Director at Bench, a marketing and advertising business in Sydney. David talks about his journey from studying mechatronics to software engineering managerial positions. We talk about where software engineering is now and where it is going over the next decade.
Connect with Declan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/declanscottofficial/
Listen to the Podcast on your favourite app:
Apple Podcasts - https://bit.ly/engseedapple
Google Podcasts - https://bit.ly/engseedgoogle
Spotify - https://bit.ly/engseedspotify
Overcast - https://bit.ly/engseedovercast
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SkyCiv is an Australian software company that has Structural Analysis software and runs as a service in the cloud. Sam and Paul created this software during university. They support startups at UNSW and through mentorship and this is a discussion about Sam's career giving insights into starting a business and tips for students and professionals.
Connect with Declan:
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Today's podcast, Declan sat down with the Chief Technology Officer of Bionic Vision Technologies, Brian Gordon to talk about commercialising a bionic eye and what he looks for in people he hires; especially graduates.
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Jonathan Carroll, a partner of Electrical Projects Australia in Newcastle - an integral company for the engineering industry in Australia.
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Got to sit down with a good friend around a beer and discuss about what got him into software engineering, what he does as a graduate and informal chat about university.
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Anna is the team leader for the ATN Solar Car Team for 2019. We had a great discussion talking about the team and what she is doing for her PhD.
00.00 - Overview of the ATN Solar Car and the Solar Challenge
09.25 - What it is like leading a combined university Motorsports team
11.00 - What engineers need to improve on in team environments
13.00 - Anna's PhD and what a future from that looks like
17.00 - Simple tips for students to excel into a career
20.10 - What Anna is thinking about when considering a career
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/engineeringseed/
Website: https://www.engineeringseed.com/
Introduction - Alex's backstory and how he got into engineering
08.00 - Mindset you need going into subjects
12.00 - Collaborative learning is the best way to transfer knowledge
15.40 - Cycle of learning
17.40 - Self Education gives the most valuable assets
20.45 - Finding a Mentor is the best way to accelerate learning
31.30 - Mistakes people make in university and gives the best tools to learn
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/engineeringseed/
Website: https://www.engineeringseed.com/
Rowan Smith is the CEO of Tech Gym. This was a great podcast getting into what it is like running a startup.
00:00 - Rowan's Background and how he got into Engineering
05:00 - Tech Gym Background
11:45 - What practical skills you need for business
15.30 - Where Tech Gym is currently
19.00 - Where Tech Gym is heading
20.50 - Get mentorship
24.30 - Get around like minded people
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/engineeringseed/
Website: https://www.engineeringseed.com/
Declan is joined by Andrew Le Livre from Cochlear to discuss how to put your best foot forward when applying for jobs in such a competitive field.
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Website: https://www.engineeringseed.com/