Congratulations to Gopika Sajit, Dallas SWE’s September Member of the Month!
Gopika is a Senior Manufacturing Engineer at Emerson in Sherman, TX. She completed her Mechanical Engineering B.S. at the University of Texas at Dallas in 2015. Gopika has been involved with SWE since college and has also been actively involved in Women in STEM, Emerson’s company-wide program that focuses on professional development and social networking for current employees and outreach activities for the community. For Women in STEM, she has hosted internal resume workshops, STEM activities on Kid’s day and panel discussions with inspiring women at local community college.
Her first job out of college was working at Emerson in Houston as an Application Engineer, creating proposals for metering skids. She wanted moved back to Dallas, so she transferred to Emerson in Sherman as a Senior Manufacturing Engineer for a plant that assembles Fisher valves and instrumentation. One of her favorite things about her job is doing digital process improvement projects and her proudest accomplishments so far has been completing her Lean Six Sigma Green belt and Blue Prism Developer certifications. She is also a citizen developer at her plant for the Intelligent Automation program and has taught over 150 global employees on how to use Microsoft’s Power applications such as Power BI.
Gopika loves to read and travel. Her favorite books are the Harry Potter series and her most memorable trips have so far has been to Ireland and Japan.
“One thing I learned from SWE is to say YES to opportunities even if you hesitate. I am fortunate enough to say I love my job because of those opportunities that have opened up.”
Gopika Sajit
