Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the very first loss a pre episode of the engineer your career podcast. I'm Brennan Tim racquet. And with me is my co-host

Speaker 2: Troy Bauman. That's right, TYC.

Speaker 1: Yeah. We're excited to be doing this Troy and I decided to do this podcast are not a couple of months ago as a way for us to talk to people across the engineering spectrum and all sorts of different disciplines and careers and jobs and all sorts of things

Speaker 2: review engineer your career, your career as is important, like looking at Your career path. I don't know if it's really hard to like find exactly what type of engineer you want to be. And I think we found that annoying our lives in like listening to the stories of others that it's kind of crazy how people find their ass and sometimes it's just like maybe one person or like one class or one situation or one experience that drove them to like become the this type of engineer and I think that's that can be so defining so impactful that we wanted to just talk to a bunch of Engineers. They got to learn about their jobs and out of it. I see a lot of cool opportunities for people to learn about New Paths with a podcast like this

Speaker 1: definitely so I won't go into the full bios about myself, but Troy and I are both the mechanical engineers by education and have had somewhat different career routes so far and I'm sure that will probably do some individual episodes with ourselves to talk about it, but the reference right now, so I work in the automotive industry. I'm a calibration engineer intestine most of my . So when I think about what I want to do in the future or different careers, I'm interested in I don't necessarily have a wide breadth of understanding for a lots of those cuz I think there's a lots of ways especially mechanical engineering button. Lots of lots of the engineering disciplines. There's not just one path. I have to go down or one thing they have to go down and especially in today's age with new new job titles being created and new technologies coming up. There's always a lot of growth in that area. So it's going to really interesting as we go through this to talk to people who are doing. Nobody traditional engineering roles are new engineering roles. Can you go out how they got there any kind of the pluses and minuses of some of those roles were Industries are companies that they're working in and I think it's all going to help us a little bit more about about the profession to do.

Speaker 2: Yeah, I think for me brother like it's like I said, Nick. Okay. Well I go to the other types of jobs in mechanical engineering which is a discipline. I have a master's degree in I feel like I can tell you the general categories like okay like fluids thermal like all these different things but I can't tell you what anyone actually does if you if you actually focus in fluids, like what is equations that use that I can't tell you what their birthday today is like and I for all I know it could be awesome. Like it could be something that I really would like to do. But you don't you don't really get exposure to that to like what the what the actual job is like if you're in college, you're not first you're picking you and you think I'm okay. I'm going to pick my sub-discipline. If you're lucky enough to know already what your main area of engineering is it will like what You don't actually learn like what the jobs actually are or what they're going to do what you just learned like, okay. Well, I like my fluids class. Okay. So I like these equations. I like the idea of like modeling food interactions. But what does that mean? I'm going to like the jobs like Avon if I could even list for you the titles of jobs that are typical for fluids engineers and it's like it's just crazy to me cuz it's just crazy to me because if I know so little about that, like I just think imagine expanding that to all the disciplines of engineering and I think this is a cool opportunity to try to explore some of that and kind of shortly or quickly educate people on that.

Speaker 1: Yeah. I definitely agree. I think in in my Rawls I work kind of on the edge of controls engineering and like in college. I had no interest in controls. And now I'm I'm working very tangentially to it and I realize that it looks nothing like what we learned in class and so it's like with the disconnect between what do engineers are learning in college and coming out with horses. What? Are doing in the real world and actually applying it like I don't really know. I can probably count on my hands the number of times. I've used the Engineering Equation in the past three years of work just cuz it's so different than what we're learning in the classroom. And so I'm interested to find out what position is. There are out there were people are like heavily equation based vs. More kind of experiential jobs in what they're doing. So, I think I think I'm going to have a lot of interesting people come on here and learn a lot of different stuff about what people are doing. I'm interested about the day today. What a job is right

Speaker 2: like yeah so much more than the equations. Ironically one of the things that seems to me that you find out it's just you know, you go through school and you think you're going to pick what you want to do based on the type of equations. You want to interact with or like how you want to think about the world but the job is just what it's like to actually execute the job. How much paperwork are you doing? Where do you have to live geographically these questions that don't ever get asked. I mean you don't you don't even really think about them to all the way like through the job. Fairview you like I bet there's many people that have accepted jobs. That would not tell anyone what they're going to do the job description of a pillar in Peoria, Illinois. I can't tell you what I'm going to do on. My first day I can tell you is I might use these equations in this book.

Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, you get to the job interview and some of it like some of the questions that all your ass in one of those would be asking me like you let me explain the job to you and it's the fact that you have to be getting an interview and going through it before you actually get a full understanding of what the job is it's kind of crazy cuz it's all of us going out there, you know, what find a job kind of different things but only knowing what you're getting on like if you have one page equivalent amount of texts on a description on the website somewhere and then you yell at your liking you get an interview then you might actually learn about it. So caring for people who actually doing it. I think it's so much better

Speaker 2: to just kind of help give exposure cuz I can the same way that you might think. I go. I want to come into a job from I like these equations. It seems more logical to me that you come into a job from hey, I've heard that these this title does these things I really like that that sounds like a job. I'd really enjoy. Okay. Yeah, I need to learn controls are ya I need to learn these equations to be able to do that job, but it just seems that that idea of coming to the job is so abstract other than mentors, right? I mean like I think that's one of the powerful things about mentors. Is it one way for you to get a real-life? Hey, this is what the job is like and I think it's one of the many advantages of a mentor but I think it's just crazy that there's just so many people that they have they have no way to be able to figure out what it is. They're actually visit you everyday and their engineering

Speaker 1: job. Yeah. Yeah. Definitely it's so I think for for this podcast over all I like we're really trying to Target if you refer to people that they cover a wide range she want one as we are trying to do I'm across the hall light. Discipline. So even though we're mechanical engineers my background. We want include a cookie booth across all the disciplines with us mechanical electrical software chemical environmental civil whatever and we have to have everyone on here and we hope for people are listening for four people are in college students are in college. We're trying to figure out maybe what they want me to go into people early in their career who are idiot one job in there. They've been there long enough for the ready to move on to something else, but they don't know a so, hopefully some of the other people have that will come on the show interview. I'm hoping their stories can help those people I gain an idea for me what they want to do next as well as people or even further on their careers. Maybe there's a sequel to change to change careers halfway through I'm either looking for something new and maybe it's you want to be still in a technical engineering but you want to try something else even though stories will be helpful for people. I think I think that's trying to get out with this.

Speaker 2: Yeah. I know I agree. I think it's really all kind of about this idea of like career path. Send me nights are tagline that we kind of came up with his help Engineers explore potential career paths by listening to the experiences of others. And so we haven't repented that whenever they said explicitly talking to other engineers and talking about their lives and Ustick really trying to give them a microphone. That's like actually give them a microphone to be able to talk about their career in that have others listening. You know, who knows? Maybe it's something that really interesting and maybe it's something that's like, oh, wow. I didn't realize mechanical engineers could do that. I didn't realize you know for the civil engineering degree to become a doctor like that. There's a lot of different different ways to kind of learn about things and I think they're just not really great resources engaging resources to do that. And we hope that this podcast can kind of become that for the

Speaker 1: community. Yeah. That's a really good points on what you said about like what can a mechanical engineer do I clench near f***** industry. I'm in people who are doing mixed with same exact exact. Now that I'm doing are people who have mechanical engineering electrical engineering chemical engineering degrees like the degrees we get do not have to necessarily forces to be in one field or one specific job the other side. That's a really good point of, you know hearing these stories about people as you know, how I started out with me no X degree and now I do why or whatever so it's going to be really interesting. Listen to I'm really excited about this

Speaker 2: Yeah Yeahs likewise likewise even maybe getting into this idea of like business and engineering and my Talking Angela we are doing business. Now, we're talking to business people are doing Engineering Management or different types of things. Like I think there's been a lot of a company's is this like technical past management path talking to people about how they decide what they want to do cuz it again it's another situation of you have no idea what the day today is like it's like a pick another path, but you don't know actually what your day today is going to be like going down either path. Maybe you can see your boss going to a lot of meetings news. Okay. Well, that's what the management track looks like or Joe the technical. Specialist he just sits at his desk all day that you can actually without going and asking to hear the stories of this is what the day today of the management path. Looks like these are the goods in the baths and vice versa and I think being able to explore some of those things would be really important to

Speaker 1: yeah. I totally agree. I think it's an is going to be a fun Journeys we go down this so anything else before I wrap up toward us in trouble so they can think of

Speaker 2: no, I don't think so. Yeah, I guess just we have a website UIC podcast.com. We hope that you guys check that out. That's what we'll post episodes in addition to an all the mainstream's on but if you have questions, are you certain job titles that you're interested in us or you want us to bring someone on in that title? Let us know maybe we'd love to help make this whenever the community really needs

Speaker 1: definitely anyone out there listening so free to reach out we have a list of people we want interview, but we're always looking for more more variety or Industries more jobs or anything. So yeah hit us up on the website UIC podcast. Do you have any ideas for a sore, sore feedbacks about what you heard so far, but that would help to have a a full interview episode 4 episode 1 out here at the next couple weeks. Thanks for listening to another episode of engineer your career with Troy Bauman and Brennan Tamarack. For more information about the show visit our website at byc podcast.com there you can find show notes for each episode of get in touch with your right eye if you or someone, you know are an engineer with an interesting or even not so interesting career journey, I would like to be on the show go on the website send us a short bio and we made it to invite you to come on and share your story. And finally if you want to show your support, please rate review like or subscribe to the show on your podcast player choice.