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34 DESIGN007 MAGAZINE I MARCH 2019 try. I quickly learned that the PCB industry is a mature industry that's never going away and there are a lot of opportunities. Shaughnessy: Absolutely. We need people your age. I bet you're always the youngest one in the room. Teta: That's typically how it is. It's not uncom- mon for me to be the youngest and the only female, which isn't much different from col- lege either. Shaughnessy: Where did you go to college? Teta: Rutgers University. Go Scarlet Knights! Shaughnessy: Did you have any friends in school who were doing anything in electronics? Teta: Because I came from the chemical engi- neering side and not electrical engineering, most of my peers ended up in pharmaceuti- cals or working for Johnson & Johnson. I don't know anyone who ended up working in elec- tronics. It's a very small industry that most people don't know about, which is part of the challenge. You have all these students graduat- ing, and we have a big need for young peo- ple in this industry that nobody knows about. Also, it's an older industry, so it's harder to find outlets to get younger people interested in this field. TTM does a great job recruiting interns and students from college, and other facilities do a good job, too, but a lot of compa- nies don't. There's a huge need for engineers at just about every level in electronics, from design to manufacturing and assembly. Shaughnessy: Did companies have job fairs at your school? Teta: Merck and Johnson & Johnson both had a big presence. There were a couple of other big corporations that went to all of the job fairs too.