Society of Women Engineers Honors Erika Lyn Edgerly with 2006 Emerging Leaders Award in Manufacturing and Construction

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) today announced Erika Lyn Edgerly the recipient of SWE’s 2006 Emerging Leaders Award for her demonstrated leadership in manufacturing and construction.

“She transferred into a leadership role of a struggling organization and drove a complete performance turnaround, in a short period of time. Her enthusiasm, professionalism and sound management practices infuse every aspect of her work.”

Erika Lyn Edgerly is the Fab 11 manufacturing engineering manager for Intel Corporation’s New Mexico site. In this role, Edgerly manages a department of 42 industrial/manufacturing engineering and ergonomics professionals with responsibility for capacity, layout, and cost planning for the worlds’ largest semiconductor factory. The team is responsible for strategically planning the capacity for future manufacturing processes as well as current manufacturing capacity. In addition, Edgerly manages a team of ergonomic engineers responsible for developing, implementing and sustaining ergonomics standards and programs for the factory and office areas.

“Erica’s engineering abilities, coupled with very keen people skills, are crucial in her success as a manufacturing engineering manager where she manages more than 40 professionals,” says Jude Garzolini, president of the Society of Women Engineers. “These specific skills enable her to drive major capital projects and organizational change.”

Edgerly began her career at Intel in 1994 as a capacity planning industrial engineer where she was responsible for the strategic capacity planning for all areas of the factory, which covered approximately 60 different tool types across seven semiconductor manufacturing process areas. Then, she was named factory capital engineer where she partnered with engineering groups across the factory as well as the Intel finance organizations. The scope of the requests included capital equipment procurement and install as well as building construction and modifications and ranged from $200 million to $1.5 billion. Edgerly also worked her way up the ranks, serving in management positions as planarization manufacturing engineering group leader and photo lithography equipment engineering group leader.

“Erika has demonstrated that she is also willing to take risks, both for the good of the company and to advance her own career aspirations,” says David A. Baglee, Ph.D., vice president, Flash Memory Group for Intel Corp. “She transferred into a leadership role of a struggling organization and drove a complete performance turnaround, in a short period of time. Her enthusiasm, professionalism and sound management practices infuse every aspect of her work.”

Outside of the professional arena, Edgerly donates a significant amount of her time to her local community, serving as a representative on the New Mexico State University Deans Advisory Council and is the chair of the Intel United Way Women in Philanthropy Society. She has also been an active member of the Intel Mentoring Program since 2000, an active alumnus of Zeta Tau Alpha, and is an active SWE member.

Edgerly received her B.S. degree in industrial engineering from New Mexico State University, and her M.B.A. degree from the University of New Mexico.

The Emerging Leaders Awards honor women engineers who have demonstrated outstanding technical excellence as an individual resulting in significant accomplishments in the following areas: academia; manufacturing and construction; procurement/logistics; product research, design, and engineering; quality; safety, health and environment; and sales and marketing.

The 2006 Emerging Leaders Award will be formally presented Friday night, October 13 at the Society of Women Engineers’ National Conference Achievement Award Banquet in Kansas City, Missouri. The National Conference, “Women Blazing Technology Trails,” is being held at the Kansas City Convention Center. October 12-14. The more than 4,000 attendees include professionals from every discipline of the engineering profession and a large number of engineering students and educators. The 2007 Conference is scheduled for October 25-27 in Nashville, Tennessee.

About SWE

The Society of Women Engineers (SWE), founded in 1950, is a not-for-profit educational and service organization. SWE is the driving force that establishes engineering as a highly desirable career aspiration for women. SWE empowers women to succeed and advance in those aspirations and be recognized for their life-changing contributions and achievements as engineers and leaders. For more information about the Society please visit www.swe.org or call (312) 596-5223.