Engineering Pack Pod
Engineering Pack Pod is a podcast that celebrates the resilience and triumphs of the NC State community. Hosted by Marcy Bullock, it features inspiring stories of students, alumni, and professionals who have faced challenges and achieved success.
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First-Gen, Not Alone: Finding Belonging Beyond the Hidden Curriculum (opens the original)
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“You don’t know what you don’t know, and you don’t know to ask what you don’t know to ask.” For many first-generation students, college and graduate school come with unwritten expectations that everyone else seems to understand. How do office hours work? How should you interact with faculty? What does networking look like in graduate school? And how do you begin seeing yourself not simply as a student consuming information, but as a scholar and professional producing it? In this episode, Marcy t
The Key Change: "Pop" Your Old Mindset (opens the original)
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In this very first episode of our new segment, the Key Change: Belonging Boost, we finally catch our grad student editor as the guest on the other side of the camera. Just as a key change in music can transform the feeling of a song, life’s expected and unexpected transitions can change how we see ourselves. Our very own Mady Pennino is a master's student in the Operations Research program, but is full of many other surprises. In this episode, Mady shares how a key change in mindset helped to le
Key Change Belonging Boost: Finding Belonging in Life’s Messy Middle (opens the original)
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Change can be exciting, frightening, confusing or all three at once. In this solo episode, host Marcy Bullock introduces Key Change: Belonging Boost, a new Engineering Pack Pod segment exploring the major transitions that reshape our identities and sense of belonging. Just as a key change in music can transform the feeling of a song, life’s expected and unexpected transitions can change how we see ourselves. Whether you are beginning college, approaching graduation, starting a new career, naviga
"The Vision" of Accessibility in Tech (opens the original)
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We are joined this week by Ed Summers (and his seeing-eye dog, Loki) for his perspective on accessibility in tech. Ed progressively lost his sense of sight as an undergraduate computer science student, but he didn't let functional blindness diminish the vision he had for his future. Previously a software development manager and accessibility director at SAS, and now the Head of Accessibility at GitHub, Ed shares the impact of continual growth in accessibility from a tech-based perspective, both
The Playbook to a Successful Engineering Career (opens the original)
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Get ready for NC State's upcoming Fall Engineering Career Fair with your coach, Todd Hay. Todd is a seasoned professional engineer with over 30 years in the game, and in this episode, you will find his playbook to success in an engineering career. A resource for all aspiring AND early-career engineers, Todd offers his senior leadership perspective on what really matters, what can help you stand out and get ahead, and why first impressions still matter in the current workforce. Find more informat
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