Engineering Conversations
Engineering Conversations has one simple goal... to promote engineering. By having conversations with engineers about their backgrounds and careers, we will showcase a wide variety of industries and explore the types of jobs that engineers perform when they finish university.
These conversations may help young people understand what it is that engineers do in their day to day work. As young people learn about these types of careers, they may be inspired to become and engineer and help make the world a better place.
Engineering Conversations is hosted by David deMontigny, an engineering professor at the University of Regina.
The University of Regina is situated on Treaty 4 lands with a presence in Treaty 6. These are the territories of the nêhiyawak (nay-hi-yuh-wuk, Cree), Anihšināpēk (uh-nish-i-naa-payk, Saulteaux), Dakota, Lakota, Nakoda, and the homeland of the Métis/Michif Nation. Today, these lands continue to be the shared territory of many people from near and far. They are an important part of our past, and an even more important part of our future.
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Engineering Conversations
Infrastructure and Project Management: Penny Popp
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Have you ever thought about starting your own business? There are a lot of engineers that end up starting their own consulting firms after they have gained sufficient experience in industry. Pursuing an entrepreneurial path allows engineers to focus their skills and talents in areas they find both challenging and rewarding.
In this episode we sit down with Penny Popp to learn about her career in engineering. Penny has a background in Environmental Systems engineering and over 25 years of experience working on infrastructure projects. In this conversation she tells us about some of the large, complex engineering projects she worked on while in government, and we learn how she decided to start her own firm, Pyvot Consulting, which provides engineering and project management services to clients. Penny also offers advice to young people who might be thinking about studying engineering at university.