ENGINEERING CHANGE® PODCAST

Engineering Change is an education and professional practice podcast about changing engineering from the inside. It starts from systems. Dr. Yvette E. Pearson treats engineering not only as technical problem solving, but as work produced by institutions, teams, incentives, credentials, and lived experience. The show is analytical, but not detached. Episodes often begin with a concrete tension: fear inside an organization, confusion about ABET, anxiety around AI, or the persistent dismissal of people-centered skills as somehow secondary. From there, the argument widens. AI becomes less a miracle tool than an amplifier of existing organizational conditions. Accreditation becomes less a fixed barrier than a structure that can be read, interpreted, and sometimes misused. Merit becomes a question of what engineering cultures choose to measure, reward, and ignore. The show is especially strong when it connects engineering education to workplace behavior, showing how communication, teamwork, leadership, and inclusion affect whether projects succeed. It also gives serious attention to access and representation. In the episode with Dr. Marcus Huggans, graduate funding and fellowship pathways become part of a larger argument about who gets to become an engineering researcher, professor, or problem solver. Quincy brings a practice-side perspective in conversations about team effectiveness, decentralized leadership, and the conditions that allow diverse ideas to surface. The podcast can be personal, especially when it addresses emotional labor, silencing, and the cost of difficult organizational seasons. It remains disciplined. The recurring question is not whether change sounds good, but how people measure, evaluate, strategize, and act when the system itself needs redesign. That gives the show a distinct place among engineering education podcasts. It is less about celebrating innovation and more about examining the human machinery underneath it. The best fit is a listener who works in engineering education, academic leadership, organizational change, or engineering management and wants sharper language for problems that are often treated as cultural side issues. Engineering Change makes those issues central.