2008 Women of Color Honorees
Pioneer Award
Rosaura Corral-Perez
Site Leader
The Boeing Companyf
BS-Industrial Engineering, University of Texas
MBA, Webster University
Mexican-born Rosaura Corral-Perez spent most of her youth in El Paso, TX, and gradu-
ated from the University of Texas. As she looks back over a quarter of century, the
48-year-old industrial engineer says it has been a career accomplishment.
Corral-Perez is the first Hispanic female to oversee the manufacturing of electronic
products and components for Boeing’s integrated defense systems business unit in El
Paso. She has authority over 300 people and bears responsibility for cost, quality and
delivery. She also leads a company wide initiative to set up the first lead-free solder-
ing assembly process that will be implemented in 2009. “There is sense of fulfillment in
telling your children you are part of history,” she says. “I have added value to this site for
over twenty-three years.”
Outside of work, Corral-Perez’s greatest devotion is to her family. Her husband works as an industrial engineer in the automotive
industry. For their twenty-fifth anniversary next year the couple plans to tour Europe. The Perezes have a daughter, who holds
a degree in biology and chemistry, and two sons, one of whom is a college junior pursuing a civil engineering degree, and the
other is in high school.
“When I am not at work I am enjoying my family. That has always been a top priority, being a wife and mother,” she says,
Special Recognition Special Recognition
Jacklin A. Adams Laura J. Aguilar
Senior Technical Staff Member
Senior Systems Engineer II
IBM
Network Centric Systems
Raytheon Company
BS-Plastics Engineering, University of Massachusetts
BS–Electrical Engineering with Math Minor, University of Texas at San
Jacklin Adams likes being on
Antonio
MS–Systems Engineering, Texas Tech University
the technical side of plastics.
It’s why she earned a degree in
A passion for roller coasters led
polymer science. Her love for
Laura Aguilar to engineering.
engineering stems from a de-
In high school, she spent hours
sire to sustain the environment.
drawing the ultimate machine.
But Adams says the push is to
Aguilar hopes to design it some-
“drive environmental product
day, but now she tests and sup-
awareness and supporting
ports the design of electro-optic
technologies.” Besides her
technology. “Vision sensors used
technical prowess, she is a
by soldiers in combat situations
member of the American
are now used by firefighters to
Indian Science and Engineer-
see through smoke and locate
ing Society and IBM’s Native
people,” she explains. Aguilar
Diversity Network. A member
makes a difference beyond her
of the Wyandot tribe, Adams
career. She visits schools to spotlight the importance of a
says “all women in technology
college education. “My message is that there are obstacles.
face challenges but Native American women have even more
And there are [also] ways to overcome them. Challenges are
of a challenge because of the need to be more steadfast and
character-building,” Aguilar affirms. During her middle school
determined as well as clearly focused.”
days she tutored elementary-school students struggling with
reading and math.
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