Carissa Pajel is an expert in sealant material technology and the technical lead engineer of Boeing’s Seattle Sealants Group.

Pajel’s work ensures the safety of the flying public and those protecting our nation. Aircraft parts are protected from corrosion and electromagnetic effect thanks to her.

She qualified fast cure sealants reducing the cure time by 82 percent and the time taken for sealant qualification from 18-24 months to five months, providing a cost reduction for 787 airplanes.

Pajel won Boeing Performance and Innovation awards in 2014, 2018, and 2021. She was nominated for the Corporate Engineering Organizations Team of the Year Award in 2022. She holds 19 patents in her field.

She retains membership in the Boeing Asian and Pacific Association, Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE), SAE G9 Sealing Committee, and the Society of Women Engineers (SWE).

“Her expertise, innovation, and teaming across disciplines enabled her achievements, and her reputation within my team is one of technical expertise and integrity,” wrote Tia Benson Tolle, director of advanced materials and sustainability, Boeing Commercial Airplanes.

Hui-ping Wang has distinguished herself as a technical fellow in manufacturing systems research at General Motors. She’s invented 66 intellectual properties with 32 being implemented into production.

She was GM’s lead in the Automotive Composite Consortium Crashworthiness Team from 2004-2007, technical chair for the 2014 American Welding Society Sheet Metal Welding Conference, and an associate editor for the Journal of Materials Processing Technology.

Wang is the technical lead of a team of 20 professional researchers and manufacturing engineers who have transformed the laser welding process. Her invention of the spatter-free laser spot welding process was the 2016 R&D 100 award winner and was first implemented on the 2018 Buick Enclave and 2018 Chevrolet Traverse.

This technology saved GM $24 million in addition to an $819 million profit improvement opportunity. Wang won GM’s highest R&D innovation award, the McCuen Award, in 2007, and GM’s highest innovation award, the Boss Kettering, twice—in 2017, and again in 2019. She has authored 98 peer-reviewed scientific publications with over 2,500 citations.