Engineer a Career

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Helping you build a career in engineering.

  1. 4 days ago

    Formula Student to Formula One

    Episode 68 of the Engineer a Career Podcast, with Josh joined by TJ Scott, a Formula One engineer and fellow Glasgow Caledonian University alumnus. TJ grew up building fast, unlikely cars with his dad in the family workshop. That was where he first asked how you take something that works and design it properly on paper before cutting any metal. School didn't go to plan. His route through education ran through City of Glasgow College, two difficult years at Strathclyde, and a fresh start in first year at GCU, where he stayed through to his masters. At GCU he helped found GCU Racing, the university's first Formula Student team. He talks through starting it in 2019 and keeping it alive through COVID from his bedroom. The team restarted in 2023 with a store room, an old welder and five weeks to build a car before Silverstone. During powertrain design judging that week, a judge from Mercedes picked him out, and he went straight to a final interview. TJ joined Mercedes High Performance Powertrains as a graduate in 2024. Within months he was designing oil pump internals, and he went on to work on the hybrid system under the new 2026 regulations. The conversation covers what Formula Student teaches beyond engineering and why industry keeps hunting for ten years of experience instead of growing it. TJ also explains why he gave up his chance to drive the car so the team could run without him. His advice to students in any year is simple: find the society that is building something, and get stuck in. A conversation about false starts, sideways moves, and what happens when capability finally gets seen.

    Formula Student to Formula One

  2. 22 Sept

    Thinner Wires, Bigger Grid: Superconducting Cables and the Race to Rewire Britain | Superconducting Machines & Systems | Episode 2 - Power Transmission

    Professor Weijia Yuan, who is part of the University of Strathclyde's Applied Superconductivity Laboratory, joins Josh again to explain how superconducting cables can already replace copper in the grid at a fraction of the volume, why the real barrier isn't the technology but the economics, and where the UK could build a manufacturing capability rather than just watch this happen elsewhere. This is Episode 2 of the Superconducting Machines & Systems series with the University of Strathclyde, UKAEA and Engineer a Career.

    Thinner Wires, Bigger Grid: Superconducting Cables and the Race to Rewire Britain | Superconducting Machines & Systems | Episode 2 - Power Transmission

  3. 15 Sept

    Hotter Than the Sun: Engineering Fusion's Magnets | Superconducting Machines & Systems | Episode 1 - Fusion

    Professor Weijia Yuan, who is part of the University of Strathclyde's Applied Superconductivity Laboratory, joins Josh to explain how superconducting magnets, not the fusion reaction itself, are becoming fusion energy's hardest engineering problem, and why the next decade could see the first real fusion electricity hit the grid. This is Episode one of the Superconducting Machines & Systems series with the University of Strathclyde, UKAEA and Engineer a Career.

    Hotter Than the Sun: Engineering Fusion's Magnets | Superconducting Machines & Systems | Episode 1 - Fusion

  4. 8 Sept

    Building Regeno: An Engineer's Leap Into Deep Tech

    Every engineer's instinct is to chase efficiency: more power, better shapes, cleaner numbers. Adarsh Bhardwaj thinks that instinct is exactly what's holding the renewables sector back.In this special episode, Josh is joined by Adarsh, an engineer turned entrepreneur and founder of Regeno, the deep tech startup building a plug-and-play wind turbine that can be installed and maintained without a specialist team. From Formula One dreams to Rolls-Royce to raising serious investment, Adarsh shares why practicality beats performance, how logistics and deployment quietly kill renewable projects, and what he learned about backing yourself as a founder.A conversation for anyone in engineering who has ever wondered whether the real bottleneck isn't the technology at all.Follow Engineer a Career -LinkedIn: @engineeracareerInstagram: @engineeracareerTikTok: @engineer.a.careerYouTube: @engineeracareerWebsite: www.engineeracareer.co.uk

    Building Regeno: An Engineer's Leap Into Deep Tech

  5. 1 Sept

    Software Engineering Isn't Dead. AI, Careers and the Engineering Mindset.

    Josh sat down with Ryan to talk through his journey from the wee computer guy fixing the school projector to co-founding an AI advisory business, and how a career in software engineering shaped the way he now thinks about the biggest question in the industry. What stands out about Ryan's story is that the through-line was never really the code. It was the problem solving. From jailbreaking his iPod as a kid to building a Where's Wally clone in Visual Basic at school, the instinct was always the same. He got exposed to programming in fourth year of high school, fell in love with it, and never looked back. From there it built brick by brick. A placement year at BT that meant driving down to Ipswich in a beat up car for the assessment centre and living alone in a studio flat at twenty. Four and a half years at a startup where he was thrust into cloud infrastructure and told to make it happen. Then the audit world, and eventually founding Adastra with his co-founder Dan a few months ago. The heart of the conversation is a claim worth sitting with. A developer's job was never to write code. It was to solve a problem. It just so happened you had to write the code by hand to do it. Ryan makes the case that AI does not threaten that job, it sharpens it, and he reaches for the tractor and the arrival of animation software to explain why the fear of a new tool rarely matches what happens next. He is candid about the gap he sees in businesses right now. Everyone feels like an expert engineer overnight, but few understand the security, the scalability, or how to verify the thing actually works. His advice to students is the same thing he has said for years. Go build something, deploy it to the cloud, put it out in the world, because barely anyone can claim that and it is the real differentiator. The conversation also gets into why "we must use AI" is the wrong place for any business to start, why the younger generation's lack of preconceived ideas may be their biggest advantage, and why becoming literate in AI is the vocabulary of the future. If you are a student wondering how to stand out, a graduate weighing up the job market, or an engineering director trying to build an AI strategy, this is an honest conversation about solving problems and building a career without waiting to be picked. Follow Engineer a Career LinkedIn: @engineeracareer Instagram: @engineeracareer TikTok: @engineer.a.career YouTube: @engineeracareer Website: www.engineeracareer.co.uk

    Software Engineering Isn't Dead. AI, Careers and the Engineering Mindset.

  6. 25 Aug

    Applying for a Graduate Role? Ready.Steady.Go

    Applications open in weeks. The people who get the internships, placements and graduate roles are the ones who are ready before they do.In the last of four episodes for the new academic year, Josh shares what he'd tell any engineering student or graduate going after a jobTreat getting the job like a module and give it time every week. Build a base CV and tailor it to every role. Get in early, because some companies hire as applications come in and close when they're full. Josh is honest about a process he thinks is flawed: early-career recruitment is problematic, and it pushes too many good students to the back of the queue. He can't get you a job. But he can help you build towards one and these are the steps he'd take.Ready. Steady. Go.

    Applying for a Graduate Role? Ready.Steady.Go

  7. 18 Aug

    Start The Rhythm. Your Engineering Journal.

    The simplest habit in this episode is the one you'll wish you'd started sooner.Sixteen years ago, in his first job, Josh was told to keep a notepad. He still does over 25 of them now, filled with notes from across his career. When it came to becoming a chartered engineer, those notebooks were the record he built his whole submission from.This episode is about starting yours. Not a tidy diary, a working log. Josh walks through the rhythm he'd tell any engineering student or graduate to build now, before the new academic yearWhy writing it down matters more than where. Why keeping the record is the thing, not the tool.Why this one habit sits underneath everything that comes later, your applications, your interviews, your chartership years down the line.Recorded at the University of Strathclyde.Part of a four-episode series for the new academic year: Reflect (60) · Recognise (61) · Record (62) · Apply (63).—Follow Engineer a Career on LinkedIn, Instagram and TikTok, and come along to our events across Scotland this academic year.

    Start The Rhythm. Your Engineering Journal.

  8. 11 Aug

    Stop Underselling Yourself!

    Josh is back with more steps to build your way to a career in engineering. This one's about the skills you already have and aren't talking about. You go to university or college, you get the degree but the part-time job, the society, the volunteering, the side project are all building capabilities employers want. Most students undersell them, or forget they count at all. Josh breaks down where these skills come from, the bar job, the Formula Student team, running a society's finances, managing a golf team, the AI side project and why they belong in your CV, your applications, and your interviews. The message is simple: what you're doing right now is valuable. Tell your story before someone tells it for you. Follow the podcast on Spotify, YouTube, Apple, Instagram and TikTok and come along to an Engineer a Career event this academic year. Follow Engineer a Career -LinkedIn: @engineeracareerInstagram: @engineeracareerTikTok: @engineer.a.careerYouTube: @engineeracareerWebsite: www.engineeracareer.co.uk

    Stop Underselling Yourself!
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    Engineer a Career
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    70
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