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MBA Chronicles: Class of 2019 Mrs Enginerd

Leading from Behind

I’ve heard this term a lot recently, especially in business settings, because there is a need to let employees innovate and take charge of their own destinies while keeping in mind the bottom line. When you think about it, revolutions start behind closed doors, after many dissenting voices get organized from the back of the […]

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Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars

A few years ago I met a guy that works at JPL. We all treated him like a rock star and with reason: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is every engineering nerds dream job, right up there with Skunk Works and Disney’s Imagineers. My pal has pictures with every actor and director involved in space movies, […]

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#ILookLikeAnEngineer

Twitter went abuzz when an engineering firm decided to feature a woman on their company’s marketing campaign and out of the discussion someone wondered why pretty women decided to work in technical fields. This may be an oversimplification of the news but if you Google its origins you will find hundreds of articles in regard […]