{"id":2398,"date":"2002-09-15T18:03:39","date_gmt":"2002-09-15T22:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/?p=2398"},"modified":"2014-12-15T18:06:18","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T23:06:18","slug":"top-dolphin-classroom-boardroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2002\/09\/top-dolphin-classroom-boardroom\/","title":{"rendered":"A Top \u201cDolphin\u201d in Classroom and Boardroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2399\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 169px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/4_6005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2399\" src=\"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/4_6005.jpg\" alt=\"When Suzanne Jenniches \u201979 MSE received the highest award from the National Society of Women Engineers, the citation noted that \u201cOver a 10-year period, she created in excess of $1 billion of engineering programs with new products for new customers.\u201d\" width=\"159\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>When Suzanne Jenniches \u201979 MSE received the highest award from the National Society of Women Engineers, the citation noted that \u201cOver a 10-year period, she created in excess of $1 billion of engineering programs with new products for new customers.\u201d<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve used my engineering skills in the broadest sense: from the B-1 Bomber to FEDEX,\u201d says Suzanne Jenniches \u201979 MSE from her office at Northrop Grumman Corporation in Baltimore, where she is vice president of the Communications Systems business unit. \u201cI began working here as a test engineer in 1974. Although I moved around a lot within the corporation, my skills always served me well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A versatile pacesetter, after earning her master\u2019s in environmental engineering Jenniches went on to become an innovator in defense radar, high-speed package sorting, and manufacturing, to name a few of the areas. Her coaching skills and knack for finding cost-effective engineering solutions earned her a chapter in Swim with the Dolphins, the insightful book about how women succeed in business.<\/p>\n<p>Engineering is actually her second career. While teaching high school biology, she noticed an ad for the Johns Hopkins Part-time Programs in Engineering and Applied Science. So for two years, she taught science during the day and took classes in the evenings. \u201cI found engineering to be so fascinating that I didn&#8217;t think about how much work I was doing,\u201d she says. \u201cBut it was very important for me to get a new set of skills while still earning money to pay the mortgage and tuition. I don\u2019t think I would have been able to transition without the evening school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At Northrop Grumman, her experiences have included being supervisory engineer of robotic assembly factories and operations manager for the B-1 bomber\u2019s offensive radar. She was singled out from the group\u2019s 5,000 engineers to establish the division to develop mail processing and package handling equipment for the U.S. Postal Service and the Small Package Sort System for FEDEX. That \u201cwas a tremendous opportunity to change the way packages were sorted for a world-class company,\u201d she observes.<\/p>\n<p>The past president of the National Society of Women Engineers, Jenniches received its highest honor, the Achievement Award, in June 2000, for the standards she set in producibility engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Jenniches has become an ambassador for engineering through Northrop Grumman\u2019s outreach programs, as the 1988-89 president of the National Society of Women Engineers, and as chair of the National Academy of Engineering\u2019s web site aimed at attracting young women into the field (<strong>www.engineergirl.org<\/strong>). In May, she gave a well-received address at the Whiting School\u2019s Master\u2019s Diploma Award Ceremony. Last summer, she joined the Alumni Council of the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association, and plans to continue her outreach efforts. \u201cThere is a tremendous shortfall of people going into engineering compared with the need,\u201d she states. \u201cWe must have more young women and men entering engineering.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019ve used my engineering skills in the broadest sense: from the B-1 Bomber to FEDEX,\u201d says Suzanne Jenniches \u201979 MSE from her office at Northrop Grumman Corporation in Baltimore, where she is vice president of the Communications Systems business unit. \u201cI began working here as a test engineer in 1974. 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