 - I'm Liam Rogalski,
  I'm a controls engineer at
  Pearson Packaging Systems.
 Code writing was a big part
 of my interest at Eastern.
  I went into the electrical
  engineering department,
  but I took as many
  coding classes as I could
to try and find
something in that field,
 and this offered a level of
 coding that is very hands-on.
  So, I get to play with the
  machines and write code
  that I get to see
  execute in person.
 So, I found the opportunity to
 intern on the assembly floor
  and took the chance to go
  work around some machines,
and work with my hands,
 which is something
 that I find important.
 So, I spent three months
 just building case sealers,
 same machine, a couple times.
  I really enjoyed the work,
 and I really enjoyed
 the environment
 that was present at Pearson,
and was offered the
opportunity to come back
 the following summer to help
with the applications department
 and just kinda work
 through solutions
 to how systems would handle
 product and then package it.
My internship at Pearson
helped me decide exactly
 how I wanted to use my
 degree to get a job,
 meaning I got to see people
 that were writing code
and actually seeing it
in action on the floor.
 I think, sometimes code
 writing jobs can pull you away
 from the physically watching
 something happen, you know?
 And so, getting to see
 what I do and I write,
  have a direct physical
  reaction spurred me to go,
 oh, that's a way that I want
 to see my work present itself.
Yeah, we've got an open
desk plan in Pearson,
  so I'm surrounded by
  other controls engineers.
 If at anytime I feel like I
 don't how to complete a task,
 I can always turn to
 Dan, or turn to Tyler,
 and ask them how to
 complete the task that I'm,
half struggling with, you know?
I've always got a team
that I can ask for help.
  One of the best moments I
  had here was I got to take
 a small system over for an
 engineer who was on the road,
 doing support for a customer.
 So, I got to program
 an erecting machine
  into a hand pack station,
which fed into a sealer
and was controlled
  by a PLC to keep the
  boxes going around a turn
 without touching each other.
 So, I got to spend the
 better part of a week,
 coding every piece of this
 system through a single PLC.
If I were to tell a
bunch of high schoolers
 what I felt made my job cool,
 I'd just tell them
 that you're getting
 to see your individual work
 go into a professional field
 where the code that you write
  is actually making
  machines move,
 it's actually making
 things happen.
 And you get to see,
 you get to see your
 work come to fruition,
  making machines
  move in a system,
  collaborating with a
  bunch of other engineers.
