Beers with Engineers

#2 - Jay Julian: Did hew say ramen spectroscopy? Today's guest, Jay Julian, is founder of Accelerate Design in Charlton, MA.  Out topics include: specialist vs. generalist, remote teams, mentoring, rock and ice climbing, big vs small company employment, and race cars.  Here is a link to Jay's company, Accelerate Design . Here is a link to Bert's company, Dexterity Engineering, LLC .  While I am ge...

#4 - Ken Stuber: When engineers go camping. My guest today is Ken Stuber, a friend I met when I lived in Kentucky. He worked for a few years as an engineer for RCA but most of his career was at a non-profit called the Christian Appalachian Project where he did home repair.  We talk about some of the things we built while camping, how his job and Kentucky have changed during his career, and differe...

#3 - Ralph Thibodeau: This one is for moose. Ralph is a program manager at Jabil Healthcare in Clinton, MA. We discussed some similarities between our colleges and how we decided what kind of engineer to be. advantages of trial by fire and doing a little of everything as a young engineer learning from everyone you work with big salaries can have bad consequences companies and cultures can change F...

#1 - Joe Paraschac: I am glad I didn't kill him. The first Beers with Engineers podcast talks with Joe Paraschac, a very experienced medical device engineer that I have known for over thirty years. Among our topics are: - the importance of design - serving customers - knowing when to say when at a job - second chances in engineering - changes in engineering management - a little about playing ukul...