Dahlia López is a recent graduate from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Certificate in Manufacturing and Design.
Raised in San Antonio, Texas, Dahlia is strongly tied to her identity, and strives to always be a fierce supporter of diversity and inclusion in the field of STEM. As a TECHNOLOchicas Ambassador, Vice President for Pi Sigma Pi Minority Engineering Society, and alumna of multiple Out4Undergrad Engineering Conferences, Dahlia constantly seeks opportunities to advocate for fellow minorities in engineering.
Her love for creativity grew with her love of dance, theatre, and the arts, and her love for engineering emerged as she led an all-female robotics team in high school. Dahlia is constantly finding ways to keep busy, whether it's making laser cut jewelry boxes for her friends, CAD designing furniture, or scribbling ideas in her various notebooks. She's even gone so far as to mix crafting and engineering with the development of her homemade jewelry business "tlanetxli"; which specializes in 3D printed earrings.
Dahlia spent the Summer of 2018 in Valparaiso Chile, interning at ReUso, an environmental sustainability company focusing on creating and maintaining reuse and recycling solutions at the home, institutional, and industrial level. While at ReUso, she led a project focused on finding ways to reduce waste by reutilizing multimedia polyethylene and aluminum food packaging materials.
Most recently, Dahlia interned at Universal Studios Hollywood, as a Ride & Show Engineering intern on the Universal Creative team. Her main project involved designing and creating a new standard of machine guarding for various Show Action Equipment for the upcoming Nintendo project expansion.
Currently, you can find Dahlia crafting, dancing with her friends, or cuddling with her cat.
Associate Product Development Engineer
STEM is a widely fascinating field that encompasses so many different areas, and it's always growing and changing, meaning that it is engaging to so many different kinds of people. There isn't just one component of STEM that you can pin down, but rather a multitude of fields ranging from programming and computing to building rockets and robots that explore deep space. There is such beauty in creation and innovative thought, and there is so much that we have yet to discover or create - with more Latinas in STEM, more discoveries could be made and more opportunities are waiting.