Vrunda Patel is a Chemical Engineer who recently started her career as a Sales Engineer for Emerson Electric. She holds an Engineering-in-Training certificate and was actively involved in the UCI chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, where she held the position of Communications Chair for their annual Western Regional Conference. Vrunda enjoys her position as a Sales Engineer for the Fluid and Motion Control division.
Dhrumil Shah is a Software Engineer currently working with Haas Automation as IT Project Coordinator. With over 6 years of experience, he has worked in all phases of the Software development lifecycle from Impact Assessment, Design, Development, Testing, Deployment to Post-Go-Live Support working for clients from different sectors like Utilities, Metals, Iron ore, Pharmaceutical, Food processing, Petrochemicals and CNC manufacturing located in Australia, UK, Turkey, Malaysia, Netherlands, Germany, India, and the USA. For his outstanding performance he has been awarded as performer of the month several times and been recognized as Distinctive Achiever.
Trisha Satish is a Bioengineering Master's student at UC San Diego focused on the convergence of health equity and cardiovascular medical devices. Additionally, she serves as a NAE Grand Challenge Scholar and leads the Global Changemaker Scholar Program within the Center for Global Sustainable Development. In her free time, Trisha enjoys fashion curation and digital scrapbooking.
Ashish Patel is Lead Retrofit Engineer at Boeing. An accomplished engineer, experienced in maintenance, production and research environments. Highly organized, results-oriented, team player, and enjoys learning about all facets of a project. I recently graduated from the Boeing Leadership Next Program with the intent to combine my engineering and leadership/project management skills in the next challenging and exciting opportunity. Awards: • Boeing Customer Support ‘Be Like Tim’ Award (2020) - Employee voted award for the person displaying the Boeing Behaviors and honoring the late Senior Manager Tim Hendrix • Mission Success Award (Aerojet) for reducing cost and production cycle time. (2013) • Scaled Model Aerospace Research and Testing Laboratory Award (UC Davis, 2010) for leadership, design, testing, and contributions to team and individual projects. • Los Alamos National Lab Symposium Winner for excellence in presentation in engineering. (2009) • Teen of the Month for the City of Stockton (2004) - Recognition for involvement in many Community Service/Volunteering activities for the City of Stockton.
Sanjay B Dalal is founder & CEO of oGoing.com. A community volunteer, digital marketer, author, speaker and serial entrepreneur, Sanjay loves small business, family, friends, humor, marketing, innovation, mentoring and networking, not to mention nature hikes in sunny California.
Mahesh retired as an Aerospace Executive in 2018 and has been involved with technology related start-ups and equity investments. Co-founder of AWEARE Technologies, G3, SRI and KPS Essentials, where he currently serves as an advisor, board member and helps oversee company operations to bring new products to market. Proven leader at execution of complex development & production programs. Strong track record of accomplishment; reputation for on schedule, high quality work/product lines. Excellent familiarity with all aspects of product development life cycle – design, development, test, integration, certification, production, and delivery. Managed multi-billion-dollar business with over 1,000 employees. Four U.S. patents issued in optical sensors and RF technology.
Focused Design & Manufacturing Engineering Professional with strong work ethic and experience designing and supporting manufacturing of Industrial Automation, Biomedical and Aerospace Equipment’s. Enjoys hiking on weekends.
