S1-E11 - 2019 Convocation- Experiences- Before, during and after uOttawa with Sarah De Carufel, Jerry Fengwei Zhang, Anita Popescu and Humam Abdul Karim Shwaikh

Make the Future - Ottawa's Tech Podcast

Episode 11

Today will be our final episode of this season. As we approach this year’s convocation we'll be discussing with several of our recent graduates and future graduates.

To offer students a look into what awaits them, we met with two of this year’s graduating cohort, one of our 2014 alumna and one of our current students. We got their view on what they expect to come next ,how they’ve fared so far with their professional experiences and what they would like to have known when they started their university journey.

Time Stamp Episode 11

3:25- Why go into engineering? How did you see it then, how do you see it today?
13:18- For Jerry: where does his interest in podcast come from and why did he start his own tech Podcast?
20:40- How do you deal with the heavy tech focus in Silicone Valley? Are you able to have other hobbies?
22:50- For Sarah: were you able to maintain that sport-life-work balance now that you’re working?
23:46- For Humam: how is your own work-life balance as a current student?
24:40- For Jerry: how different is it to start your own company than working for others?
27:00- For Jerry: how did you recruit engineers to be part of your start-up?
28:30- For Sarah: how is the diversity aspect within your team?
32:00- Talk about diversity within a construction-based company.
34:30- For the Dean: has the amount of women applying to engineering gone up?
35:30- For Humam: is there a lot of diversity within the Brunsfield Center (Mechanical shop).
38:30- For all: what would you tell yourself when you started engineering I university?

Produced by uOttawa Faculty of Engineering.

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