Last Thursday, June 23rd, Cummins Inc. celebrated International Women in Engineering Day (INWED). Each year the company honors exceptional achievements of women engineers worldwide. This year’s theme was to celebrate innovators and inventors.
This week the company spotlighted Cummins Business Manager for New Power Business-Hydrogen Technology, Magdolin Mikhail, and her journey as a woman in engineering.
Before joining Cummins, Magdolin graduated with distinction from the Faculty of Engineering at the Alexandria University in Egypt. From this point on, she knew she wanted to go into electrical engineering, as being a woman of few in the industry motivated her even more.
With over 12 years of experience, Magdolin has spent her last 7 years working at Cummins. Cummins commitment to diversity and inclusion is one of several reasons that she chose to join the company.
“Cummins has demonstrated a commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion (DE&I) for many decades. They were recently featured on Forbes’ “the Best Employers for Diversity 2022”. All these recognitions and years of work behind advancing equality in the workplace has certainly helped Cummins attract great talent and that was part of the reason I joined Cummins,” Magdolin said.
For the past two years, Magdolin has been working on an assignment that focuses on leading business development activities for Cummins’ New Power segment for the Middle East Region.
In this project she is responsible for discovering new growth opportunities in the hydrogen unit by working closely with key end-users, stakeholders, government, and industry bodies in the region.
“I champion the technical solutions we offer to our customers, end-users, and partners. Every now and then I participate in research work for new projects pertaining to the New Power segment. That is followed by a lot of internal collaboration, internal goal setting and assigning tasks to the teams based on the requirements received from the customer,” said.
Magdolin
Being a woman in the middle east, Magdolin has faced several challenges when it comes to being a woman in engineering.
One piece of advice that she would like to give to young girls in school who want to pursue a career in engineering is to never let themselves.
“It can be hard, but focus on self-growth and keep feeding yourself with the right information and never stop learning. Most women have gone through the same challenged, be someone the other young girls will look up to,” Magdolin said.
To see the other women that Cummins featured visit their company website.
