Women In Leadership Conference 2023

07 October 2023

ODIN Engineers Attend the Women in Leadership Conference 2023 

Senior Electrical Engineer/Project Manager Shannon Puthe and Design Engineer Dakota Bouret attended the Women In Leadership Conference at the Nexus at University of Michigan Engineering. Shannon was a presenter and discussed her journey to electrical engineering and the many facets that make a STEM career exciting and rewarding.

Shannon relates the following about the conference:

“The presentation went well, and I was asked plenty of questions at the end which was great to see how engaged the audience was. So far, we have met so many accomplished women but a few stuck out to me:

I met another Electrical Engineer who attended my presentation, Tony. She was previously the Vice President of Operations for Kia Manufacturing – she also loves softball and received a scholarship to play in college before suffering an injury which required reconstructive surgery on her face (from being hit with a softball).

The Dean of Engineering at Michigan, Lola, gave a powerful speech that was driven by data regarding women engineers and their recent research made in the medical field on breast cancer.

JD Marhevko is a Vice President of Quality for a German company called ZF Group. She wrote six books, speaks six different languages and lived in Antarctica for a month. She also teaches at Universities on the side at night and has two Master’s Degrees and a PhD.  She is a Mechanical Engineer.

I met a Dentist named Tsitsi who shared a great Ted talk during her breakout session about grit. I think the team would be interested in watching this video: The Power of Grit

ODIN is proud to be able to send our employees to attend various conferences, classes and other events that enhance skills and enable growth and opportunity.