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Our guests today are engineers Ayyana Chakravartula and Catherine (Cat) Sheane.
Ayyana is the Failure Analysis and Strategy Lead for the Devices & Services organization at Google. She leads a team of science-y detectives who work to understand why things break and how badly they are breaking, and how our phones and other devices do when people use them in general. The team looks at phones and watches, and other hardware that Google makes, at all stages of development from prototyping to the field.
Cat is the VP of Environmental, Social, Governance, and Sustainability at Parsons Corporation.
Among her specialties is guiding interdisciplinary teams through climate risk assessments and third-party sustainability certifications for large, complex civil infrastructure projects.
Cat is a passionate sustainability champion with 24 years of experience leading sustainability strategy development, action planning, and execution at the corporate and project levels.
In this mini episode, Ayyana and Cat share how their work relates to what a student might learn in high school science class. Ayyana talks about the microstructure of materials, and Cat talks about corrosion.
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