Episode 8: A Conversation with Alex Ju

6 Degrees or Less

I sat down with Alex Ju just weeks away from his graduation from the University of Texas at Austin to talk about networking, relationshiping, the job search process for a graduating senior, and how he managed to juggle multiple priorities during his time college career. Alex is a friend, a Texas Wrangler brother, and an all-around good guy who's got a very bright future ahead of him as he begins his career with Lockheed Martin in Littleton, Colorado. I especially appreciate his personal mantra - put yourself out there, stay humble, and be resilient.

About Alex Ju

Alex Ju was born and raised in Houston,Texas. After graduating from High School in 2014, Alex decided to follow in his parents footsteps and attend their alma mater, The University of Texas at Austin. While there, he studied mechanical engineering and economics. In addition to his studies, Alex was elected to be the President for Texas Wranglers, a Spirit Organization, focusing on community service in Austin. He led an organization of 108 college students to serve the school and local community. During the summers of 2016 and 2017, Alex returned home to Houston, Texas and interned with TechnipFMC in new product development and supplier quality improvement programs. The new product development internship, he was exposed to the product development process, including concept selection, detailed design, prototyping and functional testing. In the supplier quality improvement internship, he gained knowledge and skills in root cause analysis by assisting suppliers in quality improvement and learned the importance of building relationships with suppliers by working collaboratively with them to drive product quality improvement. During the Summer of 2018, right before his senior year of college, Alex interned at Ford Motor Company as a Process Engineering Intern at the Van Dyke Transmission plant in Detroit, Michigan. Alex was tasked to optimize production cycle time for machining transmission cases. By applying Six-Sigma principles, Alex collaborated with Union Automotive Workers to implement three improvement ideas to reduce the cycle time by 19%, resulting in a total cost saving of more than $4.5 million over the next five years. After graduating from college in 2019, Alex will move to Colorado to work for Lockheed Martin as a manufacturing engineer.

Alex can be found on instagram (@alex.xiaoju) and can be contacted at [e-mail]

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