Half the year, she lives and works on a 100-meter offshore vessel tracking underwater bombs, creating nautical charts, and building islands. When the work ends and all the men onboard go home to dry land, she moves to her floating home—a 12.5-meter sailboat—on which she and her husband sail the world. Last year, Emeline Veit spent only 10 days on dry land. She wouldn’t have it any other way.

Rendela Wenzel is a female engineer and a reliability star in a global arena. A global consultant engineer for pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly & Company, Wenzel works with a variety of pharmaceutical-grade equipment, including bulk pharma pumps, tanks, agitators, vacuum dryers, chromatography columns, vacuum units, and buffer systems.

The Siemens program, Introduce a Girl to Engineering, offered to girls from fifth to twelfth grades, begins with a 30-minute interactive presentation that demonstrates the versatility and creativity of the engineering profession. This is where the girls are shown how things such as cheesecake, perfume, and stuffed animals require engineers to manufacture them.

Working as a water engineering director and as a centrifugal pump design and performance engineer helps Elena Rodríguez expand her knowledge-base every day. Here we hear how her varied experience has helped her to tackle complex water projects worldwide.

Gina Kittle, a successful female engineer, drives processes and programs for her company and for the Society of Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (SMRP).

Macko uses her curiosity and mechanical gifts every day with Geiger. As the team leader of the packaged-systems group, she does everything from taking customer calls to troubleshooting problems and testing equipment under construction. She also works with the quality-assurance program and spearheaded the company’s successful effort to achieve ISO9001 certification.

Festo Didactic’s Mechatronics Apprenticeship program connects theory, training, and opportunity to help close the manufacturing skills gap.