Come join WIE of Santa Clara in a
Panel Discussion for Women Engineers
on how to
Balance Career Goals & Family

Date:	Wednesday, October 27th, 2004
Time:	This talk starts at 7:00PM. Come join us at 6:30PM for social and refreshments
Location:	"Dragon's Den", Cogswell Polytechnical College, 1175 Bordeaux Drive, Sunnyvale, CA (directions)
RSVP:	This event is FREE, please e-mail Daisy Cheng to reserve a seat
About the talk:	Gain insight from successful women engineers on how to maintain one's technical skills and further contribute to the field without sacrificing the opportunity to have a family. Audience members will be invited to ask questions of the panelists.
About the Panel:
Panel Moderator: Lalitha Krishnamoorthy	Lalitha is a Staff Software Engineer at IBM Corporation. She works in the DB2 UDB Development Team. She is the Membership Director for IEEE SCV WIE.
Neha Choksi	took almost two years off to be with her child full time but is now back part time in the consulting world.  Her engineering background includes semiconductor device physics, sensor design, and nanoscale manufacturing.  She has worked in several start-up environments, consulted for McKinsey and Company, and has worked as an independent contractor.  Neha earned a MSEE from Stanford University and a B.S. from Vanderbilt University in electrical engineering and math.  She volunteers for the Program Committee of the IEEE-SCV Women in Engineering.
Maria de Graaf	is the President of Silicon Valley International
Dr Leslie Field	started MEMS Insight, a technical consulting company in 2002.  Prior to that, Leslie worked in Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) R&D at HP Labs/Agilent Labs for ten years, playing a key role in starting HP Labs' Micromechanics group. At Chevron Research Company, her work resulted in improved commercial refining methods for various petroleum-based products. Leslie obtained her PhD in Electrical Engineering from U.C. Berkeley's Sensor & Actuator Center in 1991. Leslie earned BS and MS degrees in Chemical Engineering from MIT.
Roxsana Hadjizadeh	has 21 years of experience in NPI / Manufacturing Engineering.  During her career, she has worked with semiconductors, computer peripherals, network computers, and networking equipment for such companies as GENUS Inc., Network Computing Devices, and WinCom Systems.  Most recently, she was the Director of Operations/Mfg Engineering/Quality at Quantum3D, Inc.  Roxsana earned her BSEE and MSEE degrees from S. Illinois University, Carbondale.  She is a Senior Member of the IEEE and was one of the original founders of IEEE-SCV Women in Engineering, now serving as the 2004 Chair.
Charan Langton	is the manager of the analysis and simulation group at Space Systems Loral.  She has more than 30 years of engineering experience both with large corporations and as an independent consultant. Charan earned a BSEE from Cal-Poly San Luis Obispo and now serves on the Industrial Advisory Board to Cal-Poly San Luis Obispo Engineering School, Aerospace Engineering Department.  She holds MSEE and MBA degrees from the University of Southern California.  Charan has also co-authored a book on how to teach children to read.
Dr Wendy Wong	is currently working for Intel as a senior system engineer.  She graduated from Cornell in 1996 with a PhD in Electrical Engineering.  Wendy is a former Program Chair of IEEE-SCV Women in Engineering.