The Engineering Passion Express
Why does this podcast sound like a train name?
When you were a kid, it wasn’t electromechanical devices that peaked your interest in engineering, it was boats, planes, cars, trains, or other big interesting things. Those items triggered a passion for engineering that led you to where you are today, but what is going to carry you further than that?
Knowledge. Passion. Momentum.
Knowledge itself is like a train, with each discovery connected to those before it, the train grows longer.
Passion is the fuel of that train. A drive to understand, improve, and consider more than you could even perceive in the past.
And finally, as knowledge and passion grow, the weight and speed of that train increases and so does the momentum carrying us into a brighter future.
This is not a podcast about trains, but it is a podcast about engineering topics that increase knowledge or passion for engineers in a short and concise format, generally between 30-60 minutes.
In every bright future I can envision, engineers play a role to make things better for people, so my hope is this podcast helps makes things better for engineers everywhere.
I’m looking forward to sharing with you, so please hop aboard The Engineering Passion Express to begin our journey.
The Engineering Passion Express
The Journey from Academic to Entrepreneur
In this episode of The Engineering Passion Express, we take you on a journey from a time when there were no reliable weather forecasts. Ships, planes and even family vacations were ruined by the lack of understanding how weather systems form and evolve.
This story is told through the lens of Lewis Fry Richardson, one of the academic pioneers who worked on the mathematical foundations of weather prediction. He is a good foil to John Davis from episode 1 who invented the lane machine!
Join me and learn where Lewis Fry Richardson failed, and how he had come up with a fantastical factory concept for predicting the weather at a time when the idea of the modern computer hadn't yet been invented!
In this episode you'll get insight on how our values, and identities shape the kinds of problems we solve.
Show Notes and Links
The Engineering Passion Express is about growing knowledge and the passion for engineering.
It is my hope, that this grows into a powerful community where people share knowledge, or their passions and find happiness in their pursuits of making things better by thinking like an engineer.
The Engineering Passion Express is about growing knowledge and the passion for engineering.
If you are a conference organizer and are looking for an engineering or scientific speaker to inspire or educate in a keynote presentation, please reach out to me on LinkedIn. You can find my profile below.
Thanks for listening,
Brandon Donnelly
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