
Ricardo Lara
Specialty Engineer
Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
Redondo Beach, CA USA
“Keep yourself curious. You only have as much power as you have knowledge.”
Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
Redondo Beach, CA USA
“Keep yourself curious. You only have as much power as you have knowledge.”
Specialty Engineer
I design systems that prevent the existence and growth of contamination on sensitive surfaces.
I check my email and respond to urgent emails. Go to the high bay and check in with the Test Conductors and understand what work is going on. Perform tests and inspections of flight hardware. Attend meetings and participate in design and decision reviews. Do paperwork at my desk and check emails again. In contamination, we are focused on designing protocols to ensure we don't cause any contaminations (or can fix them) so that no valuable data or function is lost.
Here's the first step for college students
Prepare an elevator pitch about what you can bring to the table. Socialize in engineering circles and get an internship as soon as possible to figure out if this is what you love to do.
"You have a lack of confidence in meetings, need to take more ownership of tasks and need more knowledge of chemistry."
University of California, Irvine students and alumni