It only takes one person to make one change. It only takes one person to make one discovery.
This was the message of Cindy Furse at the “Celebration of Women in Engineering at the University of Utah on September 29, 2025. Furse is a ACES Fellow Distinguished Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.
Students, faculty and staff gathered for the celebration to meet with mentors who work in engineering fields.
Furse acknowledged that women may find themselves as the only woman in an engineering class, laboratory, or workplace. The contribution of that one women matters.
“The one that comes together is many,” Furse said.
Furse went on to say that when the one reaches out to the other one, and then to another, “you will have a community.”
About a dozen mentors networked with students about a work that Furse calls “awesome, really hard, and useful.”
Among the mentors were ECE mentors Xiaoxin Chen and Kyla Coubrough.
Xiaoxin is the CEO of Sentiomed Inc., a startup company that develops the hydrogel and fabricate for implantable sensors.
Coubrough is a sales engineer at a firm that designs and manufactures an extensive portfolio of test and measurement equipment.