Women in Engineering

Ultimation Industries  announced today that the company was selected as the newest member of Rolling On Interroll (ROI), a unique partnership with global material handler Interroll. Ultimation is a woman-owned leader in the conveyor technology and automation industry and has been designing, manufacturing and installing machinery and equipment, automation devices, tire and wheel processing lines…

Mireya Spears is a product marketing specialist at Emerson. Spears has an MBA and a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from the National University of Piura in Peru. When asked about her experiences in engineering, here’s what she had to say. What about your company’s culture makes it supportive of women? I’ve always felt that…

While this is an opinion column, I generally stay away from things of a political nature. Instead, here I mostly focus on engineering, manufacturing and management topics. But the social upheaval and protests in the wake of the killing of George Floyd have surely caused many of us to think about these issues in our…

From young kids to engineering students and those already in manufacturing, hands-on opportunities are essential to demonstrating the attraction to a career in engineering. Ask most people in the workforce and they’ll agree — hands-on learning at a young age is what often drew them to a career and often, how they learned to excel…

This month, we are producing its second annual Women in Engineering special edition. This endeavor has been a labor of love for our staff, and we’re proud of how the issue turned out. (If you haven’t received a copy yourself, check out the digital editions, where it will be posted shortly.) Ironically, I’ve been in…

Anoosheh Oskouian • President & CEO | Ship & Shore Environmental Growing up in Iran, Anoosheh Oskouian was always challenged by her junior high chemistry teacher, sparking a genuine interest in the subject. When Oskouian came to the United States to attend high school, her passion for chemistry grew and continued through her university studies,…

Kimberly Gliebe is a chemical engineer currently working towards her materials science and engineering Ph.D. at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. We recently asked her six questions about her chosen career path. Here’s what she had to say. What first drew you to engineering? I think that it is hard to completely grasp what…

Camille Eddy • Robotics and software engineer | TIMBER IT Consulting During the first Black History Month she recalls as a little girl, robotics and software engineer Camille Eddy got to learn of NASA astronaut (and engineer and physician) Mae Jemison. Inspired by Jemison’s story as the first black female astronaut and work in space…

In her day-to-day, Rebecca Lorman manages technically complex projects — from the initial collection of design requirements to the coordination of teams and SWOT analyses through to scheduling, fulfillment, and invoicing. Many of the projects she manages are related to critical life safety systems — specifically fire alarms, suppression systems, and integrated security and emergency…

The Women in Robotics group now has more than 800 members across the globe and has been running informally since 2011. Well, it decided it was time to make things official. Its first board of directors are eight women who have contributed to robotics activities in many ways, from role models to spokespeople, from event…

Park Place Technologies is hosting two students from Cork, Ireland, in the United States for its first externship sponsorship with I WISH (Inspiring Women in STEM). I Wish (Inspiring Women In Stem) is an initiative to inspire, encourage and motivate young female students to pursue careers in STEM. I Wish has grown over the past…

In her new book WTF — Women Tech Founders on the Rise — tech investor Nisa Amoils profiles 13 female tech-company founders making a profound impact on their industries. These entrepreneurs discuss the processes of technological innovation and the role of venture capitalists in spurring new offerings to market. They also share their experiences in…

On my first day of spring break, I woke up to way more emails than necessary and a flurry of activity on my social media. Acquaintances from near and far wrote about “patriarchy,” “NASA seems to have a history of lady issues” and posted emojis of sad faces and encouragement to my students to fix…

As we celebrate International Women’s Day, the International Space Station also has plans to celebrate women with their first ever all-female spacewalk. NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Christina Koch will make history as they conduct their spacewalk outside the ISS, according to New Atlas. Although astronauts schedule spacewalks to perform maintenance tasks on the exterior…

  3DEO Inc., a Los Angeles-based metal 3D printing technology company, honors the contributions of women in the 3D printing industry in celebration of International Women’s Day and Women’s Month. In just over two years 3DEO has doubled in capacity delivering high-volume production metal 3D printing services. To maintain this rapid growth, 3DEO is committed […]

Is there a tech worker shortage? We’ve seen this sort of thing reported in the media a lot, but not as much about solutions or approaches to filling these jobs. When I spoke with former U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith for last month’s Leadership in Engineering profile, one area we discussed was the Tech…

Former Google VP and Obama’s U.S. CTO Megan Smith believes that greater diversity will make engineering teams stronger — and that data can solve some of our toughest problems.   When Megan Smith was in public school in inner city Buffalo, N.Y., her teachers created a mandatory science fair. The teachers didn’t want the students…

Laura Supra, Global Product Management and Applications Leader, GE Power and Rebecca Stoner, Senior Director of Engineering Interiors, Collins Aerospace For sisters Rebecca Stoner and Laura Supra, engineering was a natural choice. Both women credit their family’s influence with their decision to study engineering and even their younger brother, Brad Dittmer, said he chose to…

How to turn more women on to engineering When I was in college studying engineering more than 30 years ago, I was often the lone woman in a class. The World Economic Forum reported last year that only 11% of the world’s engineers and architects are women. I’m not surprised. In fact, I’m surprised the…

For Marianne Corrao, engineering is a team sport that should offer everyone — men and women — the ability to have a career they love and the flexibility to pursue that career to their fullest extent. Corrao co-founded Nexus Engineering Group LLC with her partner Jeff Herzog in 2005, after they both realized they could…

Lauren Wickert Head of Quality Vesco Medical, Columbus, OH For Lauren Wickert, the path to engineering came through medicine. Her grandfather had a leg amputated around the time she was in high school. After the operation he received a prosthetic leg. “The mobility and freedom it gave him was amazing and that fascination with the…

Erin Neiss Systems Engineering Manager Meggitt PLC in the Aircraft Braking Systems division in Akron, Ohio Erin Neiss is a graduate of the University of Michigan with a BS in Aerospace Engineering. She started her career at Lockheed Martin Corporation in Virginia as a Systems Engineer in satellite command and control. While working for Lockheed…

Dana Hankinson Mechanical Engineer Drive DeVilbiss Healthcare Berlin, PA For Dana Hankinson, a passion for math proved the pathway to engineering. When Hankinson was in 7th grade, her algebra teacher noted her math skills and suggested she think about engineering as a career. “At the time, no one in my family had ever attended college…

Yllka Masada President Silicon Valley Engineering Council (SVEC) From a young age, Yllka Masada was driven and focused to learn as much as possible — and as fast as possible. However, she didn’t simply want to learn the simple things. “I wanted to learn the toughest things first, the things that would seem impossible and…

Luisa Chinchilla Mechanical Engineer Forging Design Engineering Lead Alcoa Wheel and Transportation Products Luisa Chinchilla studied mechanical engineering at Ohio Northern University and graduated in 2010. From there, she went to work for what was then Alcoa in the forging design department for the wheels division. This division makes aluminum truck wheels for semi trucks…