Suma Latha

  • Mother inspired her to be an engineer, started science and math early, math and science was a strong help when she started engineering
  • Engineering is based off of science and math : if you are good at math and science you should
  • Engineering can make a lot of monkey, requires teamwork, can be very useful in society
  • Starting salary is very good when compared to other industries
  • Engineers solve the most challenging problems of the world
  • Latha was inspired to become an engineer because of her skills in math and science and because of the potential money
  • Biomedical, robotics, structural, software, industrial, civil, nuclear, electrical, and hardware are all types of engineering
  • wanted to implement electronic problems into software
  • Focused on electronics in her college experience
  • In the corporate world, they offer training in order to support the new graduates. Latha was assigned a mentor and the mentor was able to really help her with her workload
  • She was able to work on latest technology in her first job
  • At Qualcom they work to make chips, smartphone chips, wireless communication, semiconductor, GPUS, artificial intelligence projects, machine learning, automobile technology
  • Plays tennis, and other games,

    Nisha Sethia

  • Has two young kids, very busy taking care of her kids
  • As a kid she was fascinated by how kids used engineering
  • She was extremely thrilled to work on computers however she had limited access to computers
  • Very confused and had troubles so she worked on networking
  • mainly drived by her fascination for enegineering
  • She asked a lot of questions and this helped her find her passion
  • Her first job was at a 2G job as an assistant test engineer: She would verify and approve of designs and projects
    • Worked there for two years
  • in 2011 she moved the US more specific, san diego the headquarters of qualcom
  • How do you know what side of engineering you want to pursue?
    • Keep growth mindset You need get exposure and try different fields
  • Hardest challenge was having troubles priortizing her work and her personal life
  • She had lack of representation during parts of her education, finding a mentor or a leader to help her

Suma Latha

  • Use google to find out the jobs of each specific job
  • Hardware designs the chips
  • Software write the software for the electronics and any other machines
  • California has great colleges with good engineering programs
  • Biggest challenge she faced was when she had her first kid she took a leave from her job, this made it very hard to come back to work because she was dealing with motherhood as well as work
  • Mentors and managers helped her manage her work when she had her first child
    • Hardest challenge was managing her personal life along with her work life

Shirley Yager

  • Software and hardware works together in order for the product to fully work
  • Software degrees are very good to have, jobs like google and apple require software.
  • Google has a headset that uses software to create a virtual reality environment
  • Fitbit is a watch that requires hardware as well as software
  • It is important to take hard classes in school, take engineering classes. Robotics programs
    • Since the West coast schools do not take SAT it is important to have extracurriculars involved with the preffered major
  • She advocated for taking classes for STEM
  • Use school clubs to apply your learnings For example robotics clubs work and can help you apply your stem learning.