#16 - Mike Warznie: When in Germany, Be Like Mike
Mike is an engineer for Nissan outside of Detroit.
- Mike is right 95% of the time
- He became an engineer to be cool.
- Decided he liked engineering only three years ago.
- Fatigue failures – find your own k factor and are tough to solve
- Don’t trust your memory – write everything down.
- Evaluating silicone seals can be unexpected.
- Doing lab reports in college is actually a useful skill
- Physics doesn’t lie
- Working in the shop is great experience
- Rockets, salts, and airbags – all at one company
- Everything is more complex and harder than it seems.
- Applying FEA to playground equipment.
- Engineering is a 24/7 job.
- If a Japanese engineer says it may be difficult, it is probably impossible.
- How to out German the Germans.
- It is good to do no-thing.
- Fictional engineering characters – How many can you name?
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