This panel will invite senior professionals to discuss their experiences, impact, career challenges, and ways to evolve in their profession continuously. It will bring together participants from different engineering disciplines and career stages—students, academics, and industry representatives—and offer networking and learning opportunities. A Q&A session will also be included to spark engaging conversations and enable the participants to discuss career obstacles and potential solutions to empowering future engineering leaders.

Pannel chair:  Claudia-Melania Chituc is Senior Software Engineer at Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education in Frankfurt am Main. Prior, she was an assistant professor at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, and at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal, at the Department of Informatics Engineering. She holds a PhD and M.Sc. in Computers and Electrical Engineering from the University of Porto, Portugal, and she pursued two licentiate degrees simultaneously, being a computer engineer and an economist.

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