Rapid-fire questions with inspiring women in engineering

The women include:

Suravi Karmacharya
Suravi is a Senior Business Manager in the industrial and healthcare business unit at Maxim Integrated. She uses her technical and field expertise to generate product line strategies and gathering ideas from the field to develop new products for the industrial market. Suravi has also worked as a Design Engineer and Field Application Engineer for several years.

Birgit Pingel
Birgit began her career with the former Hitachi in 1991 and went on to excel in electronics engineering, with particular expertise in product management and sales. She is currently Product Specialist at Renesas Electronics, a global leader in microcontrollers as well as analog, power and SoC products used in a wealth of industries and applications.

Hanneke Krekels
Senior Director of Test, Measurement & Emulation Markets for Xilinx, Hanneke is highly skilled in setting up new businesses and achieving rapid growth. She not only holds an MS in Industrial Design Engineering from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands but has also won the Tribute to Women and Industry award from the Silicon Valley YWCA.

Amanda McGregor
Amanda is a Global Product Marketing Manager for NXP’s i.MX applications processors. She has driven the definition, enablement and adoption of i.MX applications processors for over a dozen years and is currently leading the development of NXP’s 14LPC FinFET applications processors for consumer, industrial and IoT applications.

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