Guest Lectures
We offer engaging presentations on various topics to enhance your curriculum and inspire students.
We can cover a wide range of topics, from our decade of experience working in the industry to more specific subjects such as PID control with our EMB kits.
We can tailor our presentation to fit your specific needs and interests.
If you're interested in learning more about our guest lectures, please don't hesitate to reach out.
Lecture Examples:
Presentation Title:
A Decade in Industry, Some Lessons Learned
by Felipe Depine
Core Topics:
- Introduction and background (my story and career path)
- GPA
- Who cares about GPA?
- Advise to manage a poor GPA
- Education vs. Training
- MATLAB vs. Python
- Most used in engineering?
- Time Management
- Engineering vs. Design
- Prototyping
- Must have for job applications
- How the hiring process works
- Interview tips
- You work for your manager, not your company
- Keep things simple
- Learning curve
- Y-Career Path (Technical vs. Management)
- Example (Allan Mulally)
- Office Survey and result of key quality to succeed
- Q/A
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Additional Topics covered:
- Suppliers
- Ethics
- Learning after graduation
- Training after graduation
- Notebook
- Company politics
- Safety in Engineering
- Have Fun!
- Give back, helping others
- Drawings and Documentation
- 2 types of Assumptions, good and bad
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Q/A Example:
- How do you interview engineering candidates?
- 6-Figure Salary/Compensation package, how and when?
- Can’t fool Mother Nature?
- What is Glassdoor?
- Will I have to work more than 40/hrs per week?
- Startup or Large Company?
- Would you choose engineering again? What major?
Presentation Title:
Engineering and Prototyping
by Felipe Depine
Core Topics:
- Introduction and background (my story and career path)
- Education vs. Training
- CAD + Numbers
- Virtual Engineering Notebook - Example
- MATLAB vs. Python
- Most used in engineering?
- Goal Seek Calculations (Excel)
- Keep things simple
- GIGO
- Impact of Engineering on Product and Company
- CAD is Critical
- CAD Tip 0
- CAD Tip 1
- CAD Tip 2
- CAD Tip 3
- CAD Tip 4
- CAD Tip 5
- CAD Tip 6
- FEA
- Prototype-Design-Validation
- Prototyping Examples
- Prototyping Approach
- Rapid Prototyping - Tools 1
- Rapid Prototyping - Tools 2
- Product Prototyping - Example (start to finish)
- Hardware examples (physical items)
- Q/A
Presentation Title:
From Plant Model and System ID to PID Control
by Felipe Depine
Core Topics:
- Modeling a rotary or linear plant
- Transfer Function and State-Space
- Continuous and Discrete time
- Running experiment to get data for System ID
- Analyze Clean up and prepare data (data shared with the class)
- Run System ID, estimate plant parameters
- Compare model with experiment
- Design PID controller with model in simulation
- Deploy PID to hardware
- Compare results of PID simulation and experiment
- Deadband and saturation
- Tuning the PID gains
- Change a plant parameter (mass for instance) and compare results
- Q/A