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. If you think you'd be interested, we'll post a form on the Facebook page to fill.

That Thing I Did For A Year

Finale: That Podcast We Did For A Year

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 Lee

26: Karen Cerullo - Pushing Through, Digital Libraries

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 Lee

25: Medhaj Athilkar - Putting The G in P&G and TPG

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 challenging school program. Cotton Candy Club: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSp0yuHawiYSG8vKTEDgAnA

24: Robert Bazzocchi - Dancing Your Way Through Engineering

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

23: Dhanyaa Sudarsan - Stalk the Intern

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 looking for work, and what sorts of lessons he took from the work. Enjoy!

22: Ilya Kreynin - Job Scrambles, Design, Quality Work

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!

21: Luke Foster - Vinyl Records, Archery, Dungeons and Dragons

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 Chinese international students approach internships/career things 8:00 - learning to code 16:10 - What the process of raising seed funding, talking to 100 investors, mostly in China, growing to 60 people 19:00 - Running out of money 28:30 - Going Cali or bust, applying to tech and management consulting 35:43 - technical interviews, and how failing management consulting interviews helped 36:46 - working at Wish, the “typical silicon valley startup”, making data driven decisions 40:30 - 40:30 - seeing old friends and being back at school again

20: Henry Zhang - Lessons From Moving To Canada, Founding A Startup, and Interning Everywhere

19: Nirali Patel - Chemicals, Pharma, Personal Impact

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.danaproject.org/ Adam on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamelmasri/

18: Adam El-Masri - Engineering for Good

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

17 (LIVE): Shivani Nathoo - All About Energy

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 fast learner; getting really good at writing emails; the value of human intuition; urban design; learning that it's not all about the money; procrastination. Sidewalk Toronto fellows report - https://sidewalktoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/SidewalksTOFellowsReport_Final_webcopy.pdf Paul's LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/seufertpaul/ Gift of Education - https://giftofeducation.ca/ Music by Shawn Lee

16: Paul Seufert - Creating VALUE at Sidewalk Toronto & ZS

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!

15: Arkady Arkhangorodsky - Robotics, from Switzerland to India

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 - Some extracurricular involvements, Skule orchestra, EWB 9:01 - Background on Shawcor, working on pipeline coatings 10:30 - Being among the only women on her team 27:10 - Life outside of work, rock climbing , muay thai, beer 39:00 - Going back to 4th year Links UConnect: https://uoftengineeringconnect.ca Music by Shawn Lee

14: Sarah Chang - Pipelines, Muay Thai, and Beer

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 11:45 - Applying to PEY; putting non-engineering things in her portfolio 15:30 - 2 crappy interviews that were good learning experiences 17:40 - Work on pedestrian projects, more on the King St. Pilot 26:45 - Most fun day at work, getting roasted by her teammates 36:20 - Salad club 38:35 - Transportation planning 40:42 - Bringing the urban planning perspective from Toronto to Nepal and back 44:45 - Being on the grad school train 49:00 - Advice Links King Street Pilot: https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/planning-development/planning-studies-initiatives/king-street-pilot/ Jane Jacobs: http://janeswalk.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Jane_Jacobs_One_Pager_1.pdf Tuk-tuks: https://c1.staticflickr.com/6/5734/30997492635_dbf0ab2a56_b.jpg Music by Shawn Lee

13: Sneha Adhikari - Making a Better Toronto

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