Electrical Engineering | Career Pathways: An Exploration of STEM [Clip]

Electrical engineering. Working a lot with electronics. You can answer next. No, I was going to say that. I'm sorry. To be an engineer. I don't know that one. Try to build or invent stuff. Like one of those car things. Oh wait, no, that's car engineering. We'll be looking this up later. I probably still have a lab coat. Oh, you also have to like a button up shirt kind of. An engineer discovers and solves problems. In that way, we are sort of the technical assistance to the goals of a business or an industry. I was always interested in tinkering with things and how things work. I played a lot with Legos and K'nex and stuff when I was a kid. And through that, I knew that I wanted to build things and solve problems for a living. Ecovative is a materials company. And we replace toxic materials with non-toxic natural materials. What I did in school was a lot of math problems. I don't do math problems nowadays. The vast majority of things I do is practical problem solving. A college engineering education is really the confidence to believe that you can really solve any problem. As long as you have the time and the resources that are required to really be an engineer. The classes that I'm teaching are some fundamental classes and some, I call them concept classes. The fundamental classes are circuits, electric circuits, electric circuits 2, do some labs for electronics. The key that we want our students to understand at the technician level is to be able to learn one thing, to be able to learn another thing, and then be able to put two and two together on their own and figure something out. I think the kind of person who would do well in our program and in these fields are people who like to figure out how things work. A lot of it is some hands-on and understanding how machines work. Being able to actually do things and try things out. You learn about it in the class, but it's always great to be able to do it in the lab. I'm never bored, and that's really great. I've been able to work with a whole bunch of really talented and brilliant people. Everybody has a very can-do attitude, and we work very well together. It's very rewarding when you can build something that either answers a question or solves a direct need. It makes you feel very empowered.