This week we're sharing our final episode of the year. We sat down and chatted about how we got the podcast started, what we hoped to accomplish with it, and some of the common themes we found from 28 awesome interviews! Music, as always, by Shawn Lee IMPORTANT NOTE: We're looking for some people to take over the show and keep it going next year. I…

This week's episode features Karen Cirillo, a Computer Engineering student who worked at BiblioCommons for her PEY. She had a lot of interesting takes on pushing through academic challenges, injuries, to mental health issues. Enjoy! Music by Shawn LeeAv Ilya Kreynin & Arkady Arkhangorodsky

This week we spoke to Mechanical Engineering student Medhaj Athilkar, who shared with us some stories working in a few different kinds of roles, getting into management and consulting, as well as growing a big beard. Music by Shawn LeeAv Ilya Kreynin & Arkady Arkhangorodsky

This week, we present to you Robert Bazzocchi, a 4th year EngSci Robotics student who didn't quite do PEY, but instead broke his 3rd year in two so that he could pursue his passion for acting and dancing! He had a lot to share about how he balances the two sides to his life, and going deep into a passion while still meeting the demands of a challen…

This week was a first - since it's already March, we decided that we could talk to somebody who is currently in the middle of their PEY year! We spoke to Dhanyaa Sudarsan, an ECE student who is currently interning at AMD about her experiences she's had so far, and looked forward to the remaining months of her work term. Enjoy! Music by Shawn Lee…

This week's episode is one we've wanted to do for a long time - we've turned the tables and got a chance to hear from our beloved host, Ilya Kreynin! He had a great year working at RBC, The Poirier Group, and Disney! Listen to hear him talk about his first work experiences and what drew him to studying Industrial Engineering, how he went about look…

This week we spoke to an EngSci Aerospace student, Luke Foster, about his time working at record pressing company Viryl Technologies, as well as some of the other things he got up to during his PEY including archery and Dungeons & Dragons!Av Ilya Kreynin & Arkady Arkhangorodsky

This week we talked to Henry, a 4th year EngSci Robotics student who shared his interesting story of growing a lot over the course of his undergraduate studies, from starting a student learning startup and learning from failure. He had a lot of interesting insights he shared with us! 2:00 - coming to Canada in high school 6:25 - differences in how …

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This week we're talking to Adam El-Masri, a computer science student who worked at Orbis during his PEY, which took him to Vancouver and Bermuda. He's also done a lot of work towards trying to engineer for a good cause. He had a lot of interesting stuff to say about working during school, and being a part-time student. Enjoy! https://www.danaprojec…

This week we have a live episode for you, recorded in the Pit, speaking to Shivani Nathoo from the Engineering Science Energy option!Av Ilya Kreynin & Arkady Arkhangorodsky

This week we got to talk to the golden-voiced Paul Seufert about his year at ZS Associates and Sidewalk Toronto, that tied together physics, consulting, and urban design! In this episode: choosing between physics and math, stats & finance; kaggle projects; fractional staffing and working on multiple projects at the same time; what it means to be a …

We kick off the new year with an episode we've wanted to do for some time, talking to Arkady Arkhangorodsky (our producer), a 4th year EngSci robotics student about his time at Google, Rapyuta Robotics, and Shopify, that took him all around the world!Av Ilya Kreynin & Arkady Arkhangorodsky

In this week's episode we chatted with Sarah Chang, our first ChemEng student! She spent her PEY at Shawcor in Toronto; hear her talk about pipelines, lifting giant jugs of water, and becoming a beer connoisseur :) Notes 0:41 - Ending up in chemical engineering, growing up in a bunch of different countries, dealing with international cultures 3:20 …

This week's episode features Sneha Adhikari, a civil engineering student who got to work on an issue close to home, on the King Street pilot with the City of Toronto! Notes 0:46 - Working in Toronto, going towards civil engineering from originally wanting to do life sciences; what they might have in common 7:59 - Civil engineering as a social field…

This week we spoke to Raymond Lam from Mechanical Engineering about his work at Baylis Medical where he worked on developing products used in heart surgeries! Notes 0:19 - How he ended up choosing mechanical engineering; taking shop class in high school and doing the George Brown machining workshop 4:09 - Why he was looking to do 16 months instead …

This is an extra special episode, from a panel that we did for the 7th Conference on the Leader-Engineer, put on by Troost ILead. Ilya handed over the interviewing reins to Cindy Rottman, Associate Director of Research at ILead. We were joined by Deborah Raji (our friend from episode 3!) and Milan Malkjovic, a former engineering student, to talk ab…

In this week's episode, hear the person Ilya declared "the coolest person I know": Jenn Dixon (MSE 1T8 + PEY) about her time at Synaptive and also about her motorcycle. Notes 0:20 - Coming from an international school in Oman to deciding to study in Canada 4:58 - Finishing 3rd year feeling very burnt out 5:44 - Her extremely strategic approach to a…

This week's episode we have Oishe Farhan (ECE) sharing his experience combining his interests in neurotechnology and mindfulness in a year working at InteraXon, creators of the Muse brainwave sensing headband. Notes 0:21 - Going to high school at TOPS and how he ended up studying ECE, discovering neurotechnology through first years at UofT and star…

This week's episode features Alison Chow, an industrial engineering student who got to work as a product manager at Microsoft twice, as a developer at NVIDIA, and as a business intelligence engineer at a startup called Stylelounge in Hamburg! She had some interesting stories to share from career fairs, travels, and highly varied internships. Notes …

We're really excited to share this story - this week we got to talk to Abe Ratnofsky, our first computer science student! He had a really interesting year that took him from one startup to another in San Francisco, where he is still working. Notes 0:21 - Exposure to computer science in high school and not being so into it, but then coming back towa…

In this very eye-opening episode we talked to Olivia Mogielnicki, a mineral engineering student, who spent her PEY around Northern Ontario and Manitoba literally mining for gold! Notes 2:02 - Why she chose to study mineral engineering, some of her previous work experiences 2:58 - Living on the mining site working 12 hour days in 2 week rotations 4:…

Up this week is Sam Stuart, our first MSE student! She did her PEY at Synaptive Medical and did a research exchange in Liverpool, while also doing some intellectual property consulting on the side. Notes 0:00 - Being picky in applying for PEY jobs, interviewing for Synaptive Medical 1:50 - Canada Wide Science Fair, research background, ending up do…

This week Andrew Kidd (EngSci Physics 1T8 + PEY) takes us through his time working at two different consulting companies, ZS associates and McKinsey & Company. Notes 0:00 - First summer jobs, politics and government work, volunteering on campus 4:00 - What a consultant does 5:07 - Sales and Marketing consulting at ZS, working with pharmaceutical co…

In this episode we talked to former Mr. Blue and Gold, David Boroto, about working in civil engineering in Kenya and then Toronto! Notes 1:37 - Getting involved in Engineers Without Borders, taking an interest in international development 7:42 - First 4 months at Kwangu Kwako - building affordable slum housing in Nairobi 13:10 - Innovation in civil…

This week we spoke to Deborah, who split her PEY between 12 months at Clarifai in New York City and 4 months at the MIT Media Lab! Notes 1:20 - getting into engineering, previous work experience and first jobs at JR Deep and with Project Include, becoming interesting in working in tech 3:45 - developing skills through attending lots of hackathons, …

In this second episode we had the chance to talk to Anna, who did 12 months at RBC followed by 4 months at Apple working on the Siri team! Notes 0:00: Intro 2:09 - Working as an analyst at RBC on prediction automation 3:45 - Comparing "technical" and "non-technical" roles and companies 7:05 - Switching to a management role at Apple, getting the job…

We kick off the show by interviewing Mohammed, who has just come back from 4 back-to-back internships at Facebook, Drop, Facebook again, and Microsoft! Notes 0:00: Intro 2:05: Applying for many positions, getting himself to the point where he was ready 12:08: First internship at Facebook in Menlo Park 15:53: Internship at Drop, startups vs. large c…