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The Engineering Communication PodcastEpisode 34: Laura Moss Laura Moss is a Stability and Radiological Analysis Engineer at GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy. She has a chemical engineering degree from Virginia Tech Department of Chemical Engineering a master’s from NC State University Nuclear Engineering. We covered some fascinating topics during our conversation—everything from ethics and safety in nuclear engineering to why clear and concise documentation is critical in the field. Laura also shared some great advice for engineering students on how to stand out at job fairs and make a strong impression on potential employers.
2026-02-0426 minThe Engineering Communication PodcastCraig KeysEver wondered how engineering drawings and a few failures can shape an engineer’s career? In this episode of The Engineering Communication Podcast, we sit down with Craig Keys, an alum from Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering and a Senior Engineer at Caterpillar Inc. Craig takes us behind the scenes of designing drivetrain systems for small wheel loaders, shares why GD&T is a game-changer for engineering drawings and global communication, and explains why failure isn’t just inevitable—it’s essential. Beyond his technical expertise, Craig is passionate about giving back to the community. He served on the board of Lifting...
2025-12-0237 minThe Engineering Communication PodcastHannah Carroll, P.E.We’re thrilled to welcome Hannah Carroll, P.E. to the next episode of The Engineering Communication Podcast!Hannah brings a fascinating blend of engineering expertise and forensic insight to the conversation. With a bachelor’s degree from Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering and a master's degree from Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics at Virginia Tech, she’s built a career that bridges biomechanics, mechanical systems, and the legal world. Currently a Mechanical/Biomechanics Engineer at S-E-A, Hannah reconstructs accident scenarios and analyzes injury mechanisms using physics, lab testing, and simulation. Her work supports forensic investigations and safety evaluations in high-s...
2025-11-0424 minThe Engineering Communication PodcastDr. Ashley TaylorWhat happens when engineering meets health equity? In our latest episode of The Engineering Communication Podcast, we sit down with Ashley Taylor, Ph.D., MPH, a powerhouse in interdisciplinary research and inclusive education.Ashley brings a unique blend of expertise—holding degrees from Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering, Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, and Virginia Tech Engineering Education—and is currently a Collegiate Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics at Virginia Tech. Her work centers on community-based partnerships that aim to reduce educational and health disparities, and she’s passionate about amplifying the voices and lived experiences of marginal...
2025-09-2931 minThe Engineering Communication PodcastDr. Noel NaughtonEver wondered how an octopus or a snake could inspire the future of robotics? In our latest episode of The Engineering Communication Podcast, I sit down with Noel Naughton, Assistant Professor in Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering department, to explore his fascinating research in soft robotics—designed for hard-to-access environments.We dive into: 🔹 How nature’s movers (like octopuses and snakes) are shaping robotic design🔹 Why data visualization isn’t just pretty—it’s powerful (shoutout to University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign!)🔹 And the most important section of a research paper (spoiler: it’s not the conclusion 👀).Whether you're into engineering...
2025-09-0335 minThe Engineering Communication PodcastEszti VargaIn this season's final episode of The Engineering Communication Podcast, Aleem Ahmed talks with Eszter Anna Varga, a graduate of both Kevin T. Crofton Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering at Virginia Tech and Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering. She's currently an Aerospace System Safety Engineer at Honeywell. This episode has it all: working as an Aerospace Engineer in Europe (an uncommon field in Hungary); dealing with success, rejection, and failure as an engineer; and the importance of writing in engineering. Bonus feature: hear her behind-the-scenes story about her recent Ted Talk (hosted by TEDxDebrecen)!
2025-04-3033 minThe Engineering Communication PodcastJim HessWe have another episode ready for you! In this episode of The Engineering Communication Podcast, we talk with Jim Hess. Jim has an impressive resume, holding management and leadership positions at companies like Stanley Black & Decker, Inc., and Saft. He now spends his time as an Instructor for Engineering Capstone Programs in the Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering department. If you're interested in how to be an effective mentor over the course of your engineering career, you'll want to listen to this episode.
2025-03-3131 minThe Engineering Communication PodcastYedhartha Sai ChinnasaniWe're back with another episode of The Engineering Communication Podcast! In this episode we talk with Yedhartha Sai Chinnasani, E.I.T, a Rolling Stock Engineer at Mott MacDonald. Tune in to learn more about effective documentation skills and the benefits of volunteering for FIRST Robotics Canada!
2025-03-0423 minThe Engineering Communication PodcastDr. Walter LeeIn this episode of The Engineering Communication Podcast, we talk with Walter Lee, an Associate Professor in the Virginia Tech Engineering Education Department. Dr. Lee is also the Director for Research in the Virginia Tech Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity and serves as the Interim Associate Dean of Inclusive Excellence in the Virginia Tech College of Engineering. If you're looking for great research, publication, and writing tips (especially about professional correspondence and grant writing endeavors), this is the episode for you!
2024-12-0339 minThe Engineering Communication PodcastDr. Gurbinder KaurIn this episode of The Engineering Communication Podcast, we talk with Gurbinder Kaur, PhD, a Senior R&D Engineer at Mitra Chem. Dr. Kaur earned her doctorate at Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology and was a post-doctoral fellow in the Virginia Tech Materials Science and Engineering department. A prolific writer, Dr. Kaur has published numerous journal articles and three books (and edited four more!). Join us to learn more about the differences between short-form and long-form STEM publications, particularly when it comes to framing your argument. And, as an added bonus, you’ll get to hear us geek out over the...
2024-11-0735 minThe Engineering Communication PodcastDr. Durgesh ChandelIn the Season 3 premiere of The Engineering Communication Podcast, we talk with Durgesh Chandel, Ph.D., a Software Research Engineer/Scientist at Intel Corporation. Join us to learn more about Durgesh's career path that led her from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur to NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration to Massachusetts Institute of Technology to becoming the founder of WeLEAP Aerospace - Global, a nonprofit that supports women in Aerospace Engineering. Along the way, we learn not only about her engineering research but also the communication required in each position.
2024-10-1629 minThe Engineering Communication PodcastDr. Jonathan BoreykoIn our final podcast of the season, Johan J. interviews Dr. Jonathan Boreyko, a graduate from Trinity College-Hartford and Duke University, is an Associate Professor in Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering. Tune in to learn all about the innovative research he and his grad assistants are conducting in his Nature-Inspired Fluids and Interfaces Lab at Virginia Tech and how they translate their lab work into published journal articles (teaser: it involves intensive writing workshops!).
Thank you to everyone who supports this podcast! We’ve received a lot of great accolades from you all, and we hav...
2024-04-1026 minThe Engineering Communication PodcastJared WickerIn this episode of The Engineering Communication Podcast, we talk with Jared Wicker. Jared is a graduate of Clemson University and currently works at X-energy as an Environmental Licensing Engineer. If you’re an engineer who needs to write for a variety of audiences, this is an episode you don’t want to miss!
2024-03-2628 minThe Engineering Communication PodcastDavid AlsippiThe Engineering Communication Podcast is continuing its Start-up Series for this episode with David Alsippi, a Penn State University and University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate and founder and owner of ScanTek Solutions, a company that provides precision 3D inspection, reverse engineering, engineering design, and training services to maximize efficiencies across business manufacturing. Tune in to learn all about how Dave grew a very successful business based largely on his interest in a portable Coordinate Measure Machine (CMM) arm!
2024-03-1229 minThe Engineering Communication PodcastCaitlin ChamberlainIn this episode of The Engineering Communication Podcast, we talk with Caitlin Chamberlain. Caitlin has an Engineering degree from James Madison University and now works as a Junior Systems Engineer at Leidos. We cover everything from senior design projects to #technical #documentation (which Caitlin has to do a lot of!). This is a great episode for your morning commute.
2024-02-2019 minThe Engineering Communication PodcastDr. Dylan LoseyAs part of our new #AI series, this week’s episode talks with Dr. Dylan Losey, former post-doc at Stanford University and current assistant professor in the Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering department. Dylan runs the Collaborative Robotics Lab (Collab) at Virginia Tech where he focuses on human/robot interactions by creating learning and control algorithms for robots to help them interact better with their human counterparts. This episode covers everything from the ethics of AI to effective #datavisualization to the importance of approaching #technicalwriting writing as a #storytelling endeavor.
2024-02-0634 minThe Engineering Communication PodcastDavid MackanicAs part of our Start-up Series, we talk with David Mackanic, a graduate from both Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering and Stanford University and founder and owner of Anthro, a start-up that specializes in flexible batteries.
2024-01-2224 minThe Engineering Communication PodcastEmma WalkerIn this episode, we talk with Emma Walker, a graduate of Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering department and current graduate student in Virginia Tech Civil and Environmental Engineering department. Emma is working on an impressive research project right now that studies what new ideas look like in the brain to determine how people can increase their performance. This episode is filled with invaluable insights into civil engineering and neuroscience, communication, and mathematics (the latter of which Emma cleverly describes as “poeticism”).
2023-11-2925 minThe Engineering Communication PodcastJohan JallahFor this episode of The Engineering Communication Podcast, we thought we’d introduce you to Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering student and Technical Communication Program undergraduate assistant, Johan Jallah. Johan is a senior in mechanical engineering, where he is focusing his interests on renewable energy. This episode offers a glimpse into what it’s like to be an engineering undergraduate student, so if you know of anyone looking for college and major options, you’ll definitely want to check out this episode.
2023-11-0716 minThe Engineering Communication PodcastMichael FlemingThe Engineering Communication Podcast is continuing its Start-up Series for this episode with Michael Fleming, graduate of the Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering program and founder and former CEO of Torc Robotics (purchased by Mercedes Benz Daimler in 2019). If you’re looking for management and leadership advice or want to learn more about self-driving technology, look no further. Michael covers all of that and more in this episode.
2023-10-2435 minThe Engineering Communication PodcastFirst-Generation Round TableIn this round-table episode, Kelly sits down with three first-generation mechanical engineering students to learn more about their college experiences and why they chose Virginia Tech's Mechanical Engineering Program.
2023-10-1136 minThe Engineering Communication PodcastDwight JonesIn this episode of The Engineering Podcast, we talk with Dwight Jones, who graduated from Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering program in 2023 and is now a Product Design Engineer at Amazon. This episode is filled with a ton of advice about job applications, public speaking, and writing, because Dwight has had to do it ALL between his internship at Trane, his work with Virginia Tech’s Center for Vehicle Systems and Safety, his role at Virginia Tech’s Chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers | NSBE Professionals, and his time spent at the Summer Venture in Management Program at Harva...
2023-09-2825 minThe Engineering Communication PodcastLaura DemetrionIn our first episode of Season 2 of The Engineering Communication Podcast, we talk with Laura Demetrion, who offers a lot of insights into writing for your audience. Formerly a Lead Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton, Laura now works as an Operations Lead at Carbon A List (although she hadn't yet started her new job when we recorded the podcast episode). She has a wealth of knowledge when it comes to helping engineers communicate their research to various audiences, so this is one episode you won’t want to miss.
2023-09-1128 minThe Engineering Communication PodcastMegan BennettIn this episode of The Engineering Podcast, we talk with Megan Bennett, a Virginia Tech Bradley Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering graduate who is now a Space Frontier Foundation Board Member and an Advanced Electrical Engineer at Platform Aerospace. Tune in to learn how her team prepared an aircraft for a flight around the Arctic Circle (spoiler: it required a lot of clear communication and effective writing). Alexander Leonessa and the MIT Media Lab also get a few shout outs in this episode!
The Engineering Communication Podcast is going on a summer hiatus, so this will be...
2023-04-2530 minThe Engineering Communication PodcastIsaac PressgroveIn this week's episode of The Engineering Communication Podcast, Matthew talks with Isaac Pressgrove, a PhD student in Virginia Tech's Mechanical Engineering department. Tune in to hear hear what motivated Isaac to shift from an engineering role at General Motors to a graduate student role at VT (and the communication shift that was required with that change!).
2023-04-1131 minThe Engineering Communication PodcastMadeline PottsOn this episode of The Engineering Communication Podcast, we talk to Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering alumna Madeline Potts about her work in #engineering #sales at Trane. Sales and engineering may seem like unrelated fields, but they're closer than we might think (and both require A LOT of communication)! To hear how she got from one field to the other, and why she loves her position as a Systems Account Manager, give this episode a listen.
2023-03-3018 minThe Engineering Communication PodcastDavid HenryIn the second episode of our start-up series, David Henry, Chief Operating Officer & Co-Founder of Card Isle, joins us to talk about his path from engineering to entrepreneurship, the benefits of starting out small when it comes to a new business, and how his company started because he was "just chasing an interesting problem." This episode was a hard one to edit because of the great advice that David offers--be sure to carve out some time for this one.
2023-03-1428 minThe Engineering Communication PodcastScott GongThis episode of The Engineering Communication Podcast is the first of a two-part series on engineering start-ups. Our guest today is Scott Gong, who, by day, is a Project Design Engineer at ExxonMobil, and, by night, is owner and founder of Scott Gong Tutoring, a tutoring company that provides mentorship to engineering students at all levels of their education. If you’re an engineer and interested in start-up, tutoring, or are just really curious about how Scott juggles everything, this is the episode for you!
2023-02-2129 minThe Engineering Communication PodcastDr. David GrayIn this episode of The Engineering Communication Podcast, we talk with Dr. David Gray, a Collegiate Assistant Professor and Assistant Department Head for Undergraduate Programs in Virginia Tech's Engineering Education program (those are some titles!). Dr. Gray talks about industry, graduate school, and interdisciplinary work in this episode, and, as a fun fact, he was referred to us by several of his mentees, which is a sure sign that this episode is worth a listen!
2023-02-0923 minThe Engineering Communication PodcastThe Commonwealth Cyber Initiative in Southwest VirginiaThis isn’t your typical Engineering Communication Podcast episode! Rather, this is a brief announcement or pitch about the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative in Southwest Virginia and the amazing work they’re doing in interdisciplinary research and community outreach.
2023-02-0710 minThe Engineering Communication PodcastDarrell Roberts, US Nuclear Regulatory CommissionWe’re back and we have a great episode to start off the new semester! In this episode of The Engineering Communication Podcast, Darrell Roberts talks to us about all things nuclear, or at least as it pertains to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. You won’t want to miss this episode—it’s chock full of advice for both engineering students and professionals who are, or will be, navigating the career field. You’ll also learn how Darrell planned to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Michael Jackson’s Thriller!
2023-01-2627 minThe Engineering Communication PodcastDr. Pinar AcarIn Episode 4 of The Engineering Communication Podcast, Matthew Wood interviews Dr. Pinar Acar, an Assistant Professor in Virginia Tech’s Mechanical Engineering Department, who was the recipient of the 2021 Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award (congratulations, Dr. Acar!). Dr. Acar offers graduate school advice, discusses aerospace materials and structure, and presents tips for preparing engineering content for a public audience—this episode covers a lot of ground that you won’t want to miss!
2022-12-0127 minThe Engineering Communication PodcastMatt JamiesonIn this episode of The Engineering Communication Podcast, Matt Jamieson talks about all things government! From Bechtel to Booz Allen Hamilton to KeyLogic Systems to the National Energy Technology Laboratory, we gain insights into the collaborative nature of engineering work and how your communication requirements shift when you go from consultant to federal employee.
2022-11-1724 minThe Engineering Communication PodcastDr. David GonzalesIn this episode, David Gonzales, a Collegiate Associate Professor in Virginia Tech's Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering department, talks about his vast experience in industry at GE Aerospace and MIT Lincoln Laboratory and how the communication aspects of being an engineer changed throughout his career in industry and again as he transitioned to a career in academia.
2022-11-0321 minThe Engineering Communication PodcastThe Engineering Communication Podcast: PilotIn this episode, Kelly Scarff explains the purpose and goals of The Engineering Communication Podcast, and Matthew Wood conducts a brief interview with Kelly to better understand her area of expertise when it comes to Engineering Communication.
2022-10-1721 min
ITV PridecastMarch 2020 (with ITV's Lorraine Kelly)In this ITV Pridecast, Matt Scarff talks to presenter Sarah O'Connell about Trans Day of Visibility and joins Lorraine Kelly and Managing Director of ITV Daytime Emma Gormley on set of the weekly show.
2020-03-2318 min
Casa do CorvoCasa Do Corvo Podcast 076 – Ravens On The Clock 2019- Day AfterE agora já foi!! O maior evento da offseason finalmente se encerrou! Chegou a hora de analisarmos quem são e como ficarão os calouros que farão parte do elenco do Baltimore Ravens para a temporada 2019 da NFL Cleverton Linhares, Giba Perez e abrem os trabalhos junto com Deivis Chiodini para comentar o Draft do Baltimore Ravens de 2019 Nesse episódio: Round 1, N° 25 Marquise "Hollywood" Brown, WR, Oklahoma Round 3, N° 85 Jaylon Ferguson, EDGE, Louisiana Tech Round 3, N° 93 Miles Boykin, WR, Notre Dame Round 4, N° 113 Justice H...
2019-05-0557 min