Women in Engineering Interview Series – Lori (L.A.) K.
This month I had the opportunity to interview automation engineer and author, Lori Kefalos. I find Lori’s story very interesting because she has had a long and fulfilling engineering career, but she took a short break from engineering to pursue another field....
The DoSeum visit | San Antonio Children’s Museum Review
During my family’s road trip to San Antonio in early January, we spent a morning at the DoSeum. I have been enjoying taking my kids to educational and STEAM focused children’s museums during our travels, so I was excited to find that San Antonio has a...
Explora visit | Albuquerque Children’s Museum Review
My hometown is Albuquerque, New Mexico. My husband is also from New Mexico, so we visit home often. We spent a week in Albuquerque over the holidays, and we were looking for entertaining activities to do with the kids. Several of our local friends suggested we take...
My top 8 tips for traveling with two young kids
Summertime is definitely my favorite time of year. From wearing light clothes and sandals everywhere, to pool and splash pad days, to endless watermelon and salads, to long sunny days – I can’t get enough. And like many families, summer is our favorite time to...
Women in Engineering Interview Series – Diane L.
I’ve been lucky enough to have a few awesome female engineering mentors over the course of my career. With so few women in engineering, looking back I find it pretty amazing that I’ve had a woman mentor for at least half of engineering roles. When I moved from the...
End of Summer Break
Happy Labor Day! I’m happy to finally have some time to write for my blog again! This summer has flown by – I feel like I blinked and it’s over. I think it flew by quicker than normal for me because I was so busy all summer. I took several trips traveling for...Traveling for work
As I have discussed previously in my Plant Engineer post, earlier in my career I travelled frequently for work. I was traveling at least monthly on overnight trips for two years. After awhile, all the staff at the hotel I stayed at knew me by name. Sure, it’s nice to...Traveling with a toddler
My husband and I love to travel, which is a good fit for our jobs as engineers in the oil & gas industry because we’ve had to move every three years so far in our careers. We like to travel as often as we can and set aside money from our paychecks to our travel...Welcome Home
Much like our flight to Australia, our flight back to the US was filled with nervous-excitement. If I had to take the world’s longest flight while 10 weeks pregnant, at least it was in business class. Boarding the flight I had a sense of deja vu, we were on our...Welcome
Hi, I’m Emily. I’m an engineer, mom, and wife. I encourage kids to love STEAM and motivate women to find personal happiness in their career and motherhood journeys.
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