{"id":10364,"date":"2019-04-16T10:26:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T16:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.petersons.com\/blog\/?p=10364"},"modified":"2021-11-26T06:25:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T13:25:08","slug":"you-have-a-cool-job-episode-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petersons.com\/blog\/you-have-a-cool-job-episode-25\/","title":{"rendered":"You Have a Cool Job: Engineering and Modeling Leader at the National Renewable Energy Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"You Have A Cool Job: Engineering and Modeling Leader at the National Renewable Energy Lab\" width=\"770\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Whed_o4MVDs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>On this week\u2019s episode<\/b><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">On this episode of You Have a Cool Job, we talk to Kate Anderson, who leads the Engineering and Modeling Group at the National Renewable Energy Lab in Golden, Colorado.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Kate explains the world of renewable energy, sharing trends in the field and major projects she works on.\u00a0She talks about the combination of technical science work,\u00a0 leadership of a group of scientists, and energy consulting that her job requires.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">As Kate switched her career from aerospace to renewable energy, she shares her motivation and how working in such a pressing field is both motivating to her as well as her coworkers, creating a team that is passionate about the work that they&#8217;re doing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1><b>About the show<\/b><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You Have a Cool Job<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a podcast hosted by Taylor Sienkiewicz from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.petersons.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Peterson\u2019s<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. 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