
Engineering Heroes
Welcome to the podcast portion of our Engineering Heroes series, where we recognize design engineers and developers who do amazing work that impacts countless lives around the world.
Episodes
8 episodes
Engineering Hero: The Bright Future of Bionic Limb Prosthetics
When you hear the term “bionic arm”, it’s very possible you think of something totally futuristic, or maybe even something robotic like you’d find in a factory. You probably wouldn’t think of a bionic prosthetic limb designed to fit a child and...
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10:40

Engineering Hero: Treating Brain Cancer by Targeting Mutated Neural Pathways
In this seventh installment of Engineering Heroes, sponsored by Wind River, we’d like to introduce you to Dr. Karisa Schreck, an assistant professor of neurology, oncology, and neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins, where she also co-directs the BRAF B...
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17:43

Engineering Hero: Simulating Sustainable Undersea Energy Solutions
In this fifth installment of Engineering Heroes, sponsored by Wind River, we’d like to introduce you to Anton Riström, a Department Manager at Aker Solutions, an engineering company that focuses on building infrastructure for renewable energy s...
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18:17

Engineering Hero: Using Sensors to Avoid IV Infiltration
In this fifth installment of Engineering Heroes, sponsored by Wind River, we’d like to introduce you to Samer Mabrouk, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Georgia Institute of Technology.Originally from Egypt, Samer grew up fascinated wit...
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15:21

Engineering Hero: An Early Start in Development
In this fourth installment of our Engineering Heroes series, sponsored by Wind River, we honor Levi Zima, an RF Microwave Engineer. Levi was born in Oregon, spent several years of childhood in Wisconsin, and currently resides in Florida, just n...
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10:58

Engineering Hero: Writing Code in the Midst of War
Writing firmware for a state-of-the-art embedded system is no easy task. Now imagine trying to accomplish that task with bombs going off in your country, and not knowing where the next one will hit. That’s the predicament Valentyn Hlukhotskyy a...
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13:17

Engineering Hero: You Can Run From an Earthquake
In the second installment of our Engineering Heroes series, sponsored by Wind River, we honor Nandini Kappiah, a Senior Director of Software Engineering at Google. Nandini grew up in Bangalore, India, an...
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16:37

Engineering Hero: From AI and IoT to the International Space Station
Welcome to the podcast portion of our Engineering Heroes series, where we recognize design engineers and developers who do amazing work that impacts countless lives around the world. They are not known to most and receive very little credit out...
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