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Shi Marcos is a product engineer at onsemi, an intelligent power and image sensing technology company, where she has worked for the past 15 years – spending her first seven years in the Philippines before transitioning over to the US. The mother figure of engineering
P rior to venturing into the world of But with her growing hunger for knowledge and discovery, it meant that her mind was constantly looking for new avenues to explore and would always question ‘what else is out there?’. Moving from an academic career where Shi had been offered an Assistant Professorship in the Science Department at her university was a big step – but one Shi couldn’t ignore – to an industry career with onsemi was “a culture shock, or a shock in general when switching from academia to industry, but it wasn’t bad. It was mostly interesting – like the discovery of new things and meeting industry, the award-winning engineer had her feet firmly placed in academia. new people with different backgrounds [from my own]. It was a good fit for me.”
“Product engineering is like a hodgepodge of so many things. It’s like we're the first line of defence and also the last line of defence, doing everything when clients don't know what to do; they always ask the product engineers. We have so many hats we put on. “In the Philippines, I managed a product engineering team for seven years – which mostly concentrated on manufacturing. Then I transferred to the US where I have been doing product engineering work for eight years; mostly for new product introduction, and cost capacity improvement projects, as well as customer support for returns, if there’s an undecided customer, we work on that together with our quality department and engineers who mostly handle customer concerns.” Shi manages a product from infancy – during the development stages – up to
By Sheryl Miles, Associate Editor, Electronic Specifier
Product engineering – bringing it all together
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