This week we get to continue our education in to UHPC with a discussion with Joe Bunkers from Gage Brothers. Gage Brothers is a group of precast experts helping move the needle on UHPC production and use, take a peak at the links below for a

Episode 87 - How strong is your understanding of UHPC?

May 7th, 2024 38m 32s

This weeks episode is about one of the most unique materials we have had in a while. Now you may say this is concrete, which we've been pretty good at since 1300 BC, and while that isnt incorrect, we say its so much more than stone, clay, and

Episode 86 - Succesfully Engineering A Career

Apr 23rd, 2024 33m 4s

We are lucky enough to have one more episode with Scott Johnson this week. Scott was our primary host at Louisiana Pacific and works in the construction services sector. We had a short conversation with Scott about his career path and quickly

Episode 85 - Long Spans And Short Timelines

Apr 2nd, 2024 1h 5m

Welcome to another exciting episode of The Structural Engineering Podcast! Today, we have the pleasure of chatting with Scott Collins, an innovative engineer whose remarkable work caught our attention in a recent article in Modern Steel. Join

Episode 84 - MF Vs BF, Pick your team

Mar 19th, 2024 48m 54s

This episode of the structural engineering podcast is a showdown of epic proportions, BRACE yourself, or maybe reserve a MOMENT to listen to the show? Zach and Max compete for the best R=3 system and discuss where they hold advantages. So pic

Episode 83 - Engineering Sales: Curiosity's Role

Mar 5th, 2024 1h 31m

In this episode of the Structural Engineering Podcast, we explore the crucial yet often overlooked topic of sales in engineering with consultant Mark Wainwright. Discover how curiosity enhances both engineering and sales skills as we delve in

Episode 82 - Financial Engineering

Feb 23rd, 2024 1h 2m

This week is unique for us, as it's not a direct structural engineering resource but it's a topic that I am certain you need to understand while you plan out your career. Zach and I are talking with Ryan Sullivan, an engineer who left his des

Episode 81 - Keeping The Fire Out

Feb 9th, 2024 48m 16s

This Episode we continue our series of conversations at Luisiana Pacific and this time we get to learn all about fire design. We are talking with Scott Johnson who made the transition from consulting structural engineer to a whole host of tas

Episode 80 - The future of Mass Timber - Countless Reasons To Learn

Jan 23rd, 2024 42m 31s

In this installment, we delve further into the realm of Mass Timber design. As the popularity of this material rises, we're looking forward to continuing out education and helping spread the conversation. Our guest for this episode is Mark Ro

Episode 79 - The Engineering of Building Science

Jan 9th, 2024 38m 52s

This Episode will be the first part of our Louisiana Pacific series put together when Zack and Max visited LP at their Tennessee headquarters and tried to learn everything we could manage in a few short days. This first conversation is with N

Episode 78 - Done With The Podcast?

Dec 1st, 2023 41m 53s

After 4 years we decide if we've hit the end...is the SE podcast done? Join in while we talk about that, some great management discussion, CA PE, SE tests, and so much more.Reach out to us:InstagramLinkedInEmail: info@theengineeringpodcast.co

Episode 77 - Open Source

Nov 6th, 2023 1h 10m

In todays episode we get to talk with a group of people that are each doing amazing things in the computer programming space as it relates to structural engineering and sharing their work in an open source platform. Listen in to learn about P

Episode 76 - Building Tall

Oct 19th, 2023 56m 10s

This episode we get the chance to continue our conversation with Jordan Jarrett and learn about a unique design challenge that very few engineers get the opportunity to work on, but we all "literally" look up to. We're talking about tall buil

Episode 75 - Equity, Education, and Growing in Your Career

Aug 16th, 2023 36m 25s

This week we get to talk with Jordan Jarrett, an engineer with an impressive career spanning a renowned technical firm to teaching at a college, she's seen a broad spectrum of the resources we have for education beyond college, and shares som

Episode 74 - Starting with 2050

Jul 31st, 2023 39m 2s

This episode is with Connor Lewer, a structural engineer with Professional Engineering Consultants out of the Colorado office. We're talking with Connor about their steps in the SE2050 movement and take the chance to ask a lot of introductory

Episode 73 - Negotiating Your Career

Jul 17th, 2023 53m 41s

This Episode is unique in its guest but relevant and valuable in content. This week we get the chance to talk with Dan Oblinger, a hostage negotiator, and business coach focusing on the engineering side of things. Zach has had Dan come to his

Episode 72 - Building With The Future in Mind

Jan 9th, 2023 1h

This episode is with Ethan Fogle of HGA Architects and Engineers about some of his work and an itroduction for us regarding sustainability and embodied carbod as it relates to structural engineers. This is a theme that we've wanted to share

Episode 71 - Dampers, How to Shake it up and Slow it Down

Dec 13th, 2022 51m 29s

This episode we're talking with Trevor Haskett of motioneering, motioneering is one of the worlds premier firms managing damping systems. If you've ever seen the picture of the large golden ball pendulum type structure in Taipei 101, motionee

Episode 70 - School-Masters-Your First Job

Nov 14th, 2022 52m 52s

This week we talk with David Wu, a new engineer recently completing his undergrad, and now finishing up a great internship before grad school. We talk with David about what new engineers can expect from the working world, and we ask about how

Episode 69 - The Art of Mass Timber

Nov 1st, 2022 36m 39s

This week we talk with Robert Malczyk, an experienced engineer on the forefront of mass timber design and the founding principle of Timber Engineering Based in Vancouver BC. We talk about what type of Architect/Engineer relationships we may w

Episode 68 - Should you be a sales Engineer?

Mar 15th, 2022 37m 50s

This week we talk with Jason Hoover, he's the senior director for structural solution with MITEK. After listening to the episode let us know if you would ever switch over to engineering sales or if you currently are in engineering sales let u

Episode 67 - Pultruded FRP

Feb 8th, 2022 51m 42s

Zach and Max sit down with Jake Althouse, an FRP enthusiast, certainly an expert by my standards, and head of advanced materials at Frost Engineeeing. Jake gave us the run-down on all things FRP. If you've ever wondered when, how, and why to

Pultruded FRP

Feb 8th, 2022 51m 43s

Zach and Max sit down with Jake Althouse, an FRP enthusiast, certainly an expert by my standards, and head of advanced materials at Frost engineeeing. Jake gave us the run-down on all things FRP. If you've ever wondered when, how, and why to us

Episode 66 - GC and SE walk into a bar...

Feb 2nd, 2022 53m 12s

This week we talk with Chris Whittle a project engineer at a construction company. It's taken some time but we got a contractor to join us on the show. Let us know what your thoughts are on the episode and any questions you might have! Websit