Join us in person at the Round Table with WiE leaders with Maegan Spencer. She will be sharing her experience as an Engineering Manager at Apple. You are invited to join this conversation and listen to her story titled “From Astrobiology to Apple: how a STEM degree can take you anywhere”.
This event will be in-person on campus, please sign up to reserve your spot. This event will hold on Tuesday, November 8th, 12:00 PM-1:00 pm (EST) in the Engineering 7 Building, Room: 2357. All are welcome to attend this event! Free snacks and refreshments will be provided!
About the Round Table Discussions Series:
Round Table with WiE Leaders is a series of roundtable discussions which provide networking and mentorship forum for graduate and undergraduate students. At the Round Table, we hope to connect you to WiE leaders in academia, industry and government. We hope you will join us to listen to their stories and be inspired to overcome and succeed.
Speaker Profile:
Maegan Spencer is an Engineering Manager at Apple for the Health Hardware Product Design team. In this role, she leads a team of mechanical engineers in developing hardware toward health-related products. She has a non-traditional career, earning her BS and PhD in Chemistry, before shifting to Mechanical Engineering. Her PhD research was in developing laser mass spectrometry to study trace organics in extraterrestrial materials. In 2008, she joined the start-up Avinger as their 10th employee to help invent OCT image-guided surgical tools to treat arterial disease. After 5 years, she shifted toward consumer product design, working as an ME consultant at Whipsaw in San Jose, CA and mainly contributing toward Nike FuelBand engineering. She has been at Apple for over 8 years, spending 6 years on the Watch PD team and now 2 years leading Health PD.
Maegan earned a B.S. in Chemistry from UNC-Asheville and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Stanford. She holds multiple patents across various technologies and fields. Recently she moved up to the Santa Cruz mountains and currently lives in La Honda, CA.
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