Experience Working at Apple and Tesla | Behind the Career: Manufacturing Engineering

Ever wonder what a career in Manufacturing engineering would be like? Crystal interviews Erin, a current engineer, to talk about her experiences with school and her career.
0:00 Tell us about yourself, your current position, academic background...
0:47 What does a typical day at work look like for you?
1:33 What made you decide to pursue this career and what are your goals?
2:32 What are three habits/skills for highly successful engineers?
3:36 What have been some of the most memorable/valuable events in your career?
4:21 What were some of the challenges you faced in deciding your career?
5:08 What are your most memorable experiences from university?
6:23 If you could give a piece of advice to your younger self, what would it be?
6:53 What is your favourite part about being an engineer?
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[@kaifrahman2703]

U missed the most vital part out about the skills of a successful engineer, that is creative and analytical thinking that allows an engineer to solve problems of his/her respective field.

[@EngineeringStories]

You're right, that is definitely important and well highlighted in our other videos! Most of our Behind the Career Interviews were actually quite long so we had to cut them down and couldn't fit all of the great things our interviewees had to say.

[@kaifrahman2703]

@@EngineeringStories ok, I understand.

[@logmathe]

isn't that kind of trivial?

[@lllukiosas59]

This is awesome. Good job.

[@jm14777]

Thank you! Love the video

[@_amieur]

We use this video to work in class ;) In France 🇫🇷 ❤❤

[@armandmatossian2081]

Cool video!

[@EngineeringStories]

Thanks!!

[@MM3OG]

I'm just curious even though it's not super Important but why is there more females in manufactured engineering compared to other engineering fields. Is it because this focus is less blue collar specified and more white collared or am I wrong just curious.

[@lucaseduardo9321]

Maybe because it's a more design-related area, that requires more creative skills

[@MM3OG]

@@lucaseduardo9321 so then it's basically a white collar job and I don't get why does society look down on males having white collar jobs?

[@lucaseduardo9321]

@@MM3OG that's not about society, that's about personal interests of each one

[@MM3OG]

@@lucaseduardo9321 it is though because people judge me for getting a white collar job with a degree in information systems because when I was in the Navy I was a mechanic. Now that I'm out I wanted to change fields and my friends/family now look down upon me

[@EngineeringStories]

UBC just started our degree in Manufacturing Engineering a few years ago and currently, the program has very few women, though it is still quite a small program. This channel specifically works to highlight the role of underrepresented populations in engineering, especially women, since they only make up about 20% of the population of practicing engineers in Canada. Hope that helps!