As a woman running four lathes in a precision machining shop, 27-year-old Desiree Lambert has shattered a few stereotypes. She also shattered a window. The incident with the window happened early in Desiree’s tenure with Fort Wayne-based Aegis Sales & Engineering. After incorrectly setting up a drill, she fired up the machine, which spun and […]
Because she came from a family of engineers, Jessica Sink’s future seemed clear while she was going to Norwell High School in Wells County. Well, clear to everyone but her. “Everybody thought I’d be an engineer,” Jessica says. “But I was stubborn.” As it turned out, figuring out what she wanted to do would take […]
When he left Adams Central High School in Monroe, Jarod Bushroe wasn’t sure what he wanted to do, but he knew one thing: He didn’t want to go to college. He had seen too many other people automatically head off to college without knowing what they really wanted to study, and then come home unhappy. […]
Mackenzie Mulherin went off to college planning to heal people. It turns out her destiny was to heal the planet. A sustainability project manager in consumer packaging at Evansville’s Berry Global, Mackenzie spends her days working with teams seeking to increase the sustainability of things like plastic drink cups and lids, food packaging and beauty […]
When Eric Wildeman was wrapping up his degree in public relations, advertising and applied communication at the University of Southern Indiana, he didn’t know what he wanted to do next. So, he interviewed with a variety of organizations, one of which happened to be a logistics firm. But it wasn’t what the company did that […]
The path that brought Alex Goebel to her job as a lean digital data analyst at AstraZeneca was not a straight one, but it sure seems to have been the right one. Alex (short for Alexandra) laughs as she describes the course that brought her to where she is today. Coming out of Mount Vernon […]
You could call Carter Burnett’s career a turn-key operation. When he turns the key in the ignition of the truck he drives, Carter is on the job, piloting a $250,000 piece of equipment carrying a payload likely worth a lot more and tracking an endless parade of variables to make sure he gets products where […]
We’ve all heard those stories about engineers who started out as little junior engineers. When they were kids, they were always building things with Legos or tinkering with machines. Braxton Bragg says that wasn’t him. The future Product Innovation Engineer with Evansville’s Berry Global was more into sports. As he got older, though, the foundation […]
When Mary Jutzi joined Batesville Products Inc. (BPI) as a digital marketing associate in 2021, she knew the custom aluminum casting firm produced a variety of products for a number of industries. What she didn’t know was that she would contribute to something the 75-year-old firm had never produced: a children’s book. Colorfully illustrated and […]
Growing up, Thomas Speer really didn’t think manufacturing was for him. In part, that was because he thought a job in manufacturing meant taking a spot on the production line and spending the rest of his career there. And while he knew people in his hometown of Greensburg who loved the production line, he didn’t […]
