S2E52 Robert States | Solving Failures and the “Been There Done That” Engineering Strategy

Dec 10, 2021

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Robert States shares how he started as a plastics engineer and his experiences working with multinational corporations. You should check out the part where he shares his experiences that led to him joining his current company. We also tackle what his life has been like now, which he describes being highly focused on driving the careers of his team members.

Robert holds a bachelor’s degree in plastics engineering and an MBA from Penn State. He is a principal at Stress Engineering Services, where he and his team provide comprehensive design, analysis, and testing services to industries from Plastics to Packaging, Materials to Testing, Medical to Pharmaceutical, Pipelines to Power, and Measurements to Forensics.

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