This is the first C-Suite Conversation, a quarterly interview with a current or former senior executive female engineer. Over the next three weeks, I'll share my interview with Diane Gulyas, former President of DuPont Performance Polymers. For a quick reference of Diane's career, see the post from January 16. What attracted you to engineering? I am trying to take myself back 40 years! Like most girls of that era, I was good at math and science, I went to an engineering camp a

Hello Steel Toe & Stiletto followers! I promise I haven’t forgotten about you and I apologize it has been a few weeks since our last post! I have been working hard on something new, exciting, and inspiring (hint) to add to the blog, and I hope to have it launched and officially announced by mid-June! On another note, my husband and I have also been doing spring cleaning and preparing the yard for summer! When we lived in Houston, we had a townhouse that didn’t have a yard, so

Today's guest blog post features my fellow ND chemical engineer and best friend Rachel Levy! Rachel and I met sophomore year at Notre Dame and we gravitated toward one another with our similar interests, commitment to academics, and love of our families. Rachel and I moved to Houston to start our careers together and lived together in our first big girl apartment. We've been through a lot together, and I'm excited to be a bridesmaid in September when Rachel Levy becomes Rache

For the past 20 weeks, I have been working on my first project with Arconic at our Davenport Works (DPW) facility in Davenport, Iowa. The plant is massive, with a footprint of over 6.5 million square feet, and produces a variety of plate and sheet products for the aerospace and automotive markets. For example, in aerospace, DPW supplies aluminum products that are used for the fuselage and wings in multiple Boeing and Airbus aircraft models, and DPW even supplied aluminum used

I don’t quite recall the age I had heard of engineering as a career path, but I was in middle school. In my naivety and sheer youth, the first and only thing came to mind was that an engineer was someone that drove trains. That was it. That was all I got. My mom was a chiropractor, my dad was a teacher, and none of our close family friends were engineers, so I was not exposed to the world of engineering beyond Thomas the Tank Engine from when I was five years old. Fortunately