From scholarship recipient to designer: ‘Every day I’m learning something new’

About this episode

Juan Moreno shares his journey from being a scholarship recipient to becoming an electrical designer at IMEG.

This episode is a conversation with Juan Moreno, an electrical designer at IMEG and a past recipient of the firm’s engineering scholarship program. Juan received one of the thirty $10,000 scholarships awarded when the program was launched in 2023. Born in Miami, Juan spent his childhood and teen years in Colombia. In 2021 he enrolled at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, where one of his older sisters, a UNF graduate, was living at the time. Engineering, he explains, was always a likely path as the profession runs in his family. “My dad is a civil engineer and one of my sisters is also a civil engineer. So I always knew I was going to go the engineering route,” he says. His interest in electrical engineering took root after taking an electrician course while still in Colombia. “It really got me into the electrical side of engineering,” Juan says, adding that electrical courses at UNF sealed the deal. “Every lab in college, it was super fun, because it was hands-on.” Juan learned about the IMEG Scholarship Program in 2022 from a friend who was working as an intern at IMEG’s Jacksonville office. Juan soon applied, saying the process was “pretty straightforward and…

People in this episode

Guest: Juan Moreno

Topics covered

• engineering
• scholarship
• education
• career development
• electrical design

Keywords

• engineering scholarship
• electrical engineering
• IMEG
• University of North Florida
• career path

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: IMEG, University of North Florida

Places: Miami, Colombia

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