{"id":1217,"date":"2015-04-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericaleeconsulting.com\/proud-to-be-a-p-eng\/"},"modified":"2015-04-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T04:00:00","slug":"proud-to-be-a-p-eng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onwardbusinessmechanics.com\/staging\/4922\/proud-to-be-a-p-eng\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m Proud to Be A P.Eng."},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m very proud of the\u00a0P. Eng. behind my name.<\/strong><\/h1>\n

That’s not a surprise for anyone who already knows me… but what many may NOT know is that my engineering interests began to surface at quite a young age. I think if I go back to being a small child, maybe 8 years old, I can identify some \u2018early warning signals\u2019, as I like to call them.<\/p>\n

I grew up\u00a0with\u00a0an extraordinary fondness for playing in the rain.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

We lived out in the country, and\u00a0I loved digging in mud. There was something so fulfilling about excavating intricate series of canals and tunnels between puddles. I realized a real zest \u00a0for digging things up and moving them around, making them different or better\u2026 I loved to get in there and get dirty, literally.<\/p>\n

As I got older, part of my chores were to put the dishes away.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

My engineering side raised its head yet again, and I decided to invent a machine that would put them away for me. It was a truly elaborate system of conveyor belts that magically stayed up in the air without support\u2026 Self suspending conveyor belts. Looking back, I can see that I loved to conceive of new things. \u00a0(And no, I never got the dishes putting away device actually working\u2026 truth be told, the first prototypes have yet to be created\u2026)<\/p>\n

In high school, I fell in love with the idea of the periodic table.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Sounds incredibly nerdy, I know, but think about it! The Periodic Table is really \u00a0a master key to the universe\u2026 everything that everything is made up of is listed on that table! It\u2019s a complete listing of the most basic elements of everything we see around us! I learned through the Periodic Table that I love the process boiling things down to their constituent parts. I love to understand what they\u2019re made of, and make them better.<\/p>\n

My college years.<\/h3>\n

Digging in the dirt is civil engineering, and anything to do with conveyor belts is mechanical engineering but in college, I chose to specialize in materials and metallurgical engineering. I learned all about ceramics and polymers – a cool mix of old school and new school materials. It was actually my metallurgical background that got me my first job in manufacturing. I learned piles – and became fascinated with powder metal process. It\u2019s VERY cool… a whole other blog post, truth be told.<\/p>\n

I believe that engineers do important work.<\/b> <\/strong><\/h3>\n

Engineers\u00a0enable the quality of life we enjoy these days. Many of the\u00a0luxuries people\u00a0take for granted are due to engineers.\u00a0I feel a great sense of pride and kinship with my fellow engineers, and am thrilled to be in the company of people committed to making things better!<\/p>\n

For more about my venture that specializes in telling great stories about engineering, and inspiring others to do the same, check out Engineers Of Tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A short reflection on my engineering title, and how I showed early warning signs of being an engineer long before university!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,186],"tags":[225,106,226,227],"class_list":["post-1217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insight-and-inspiration","category-small-biz-startups","tag-engineering","tag-engineers-without-borders-canada","tag-inspiration","tag-reflection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onwardbusinessmechanics.com\/staging\/4922\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onwardbusinessmechanics.com\/staging\/4922\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onwardbusinessmechanics.com\/staging\/4922\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onwardbusinessmechanics.com\/staging\/4922\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onwardbusinessmechanics.com\/staging\/4922\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onwardbusinessmechanics.com\/staging\/4922\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onwardbusinessmechanics.com\/staging\/4922\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onwardbusinessmechanics.com\/staging\/4922\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onwardbusinessmechanics.com\/staging\/4922\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}