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Women in Fluid Power – Talking Engineering Passion with Rachel Schmidt

By Mary Gannon | February 7, 2020

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In our latest edition of Women in Fluid Power brought to you by Fluid Power World, Mary Gannon chats with Rachel Schmidt, Application Engineer/ ISO 9001 Administrator with the Elwood Corporation’s Fluid Power Division.

Although fairly new to the industry, she has been active with the NFPA and IFPS and was featured in the Fluid Power Technology Conference’s Women in Fluid Power panel in 2018.

Here she talks about how she fell into the industry, but quickly fell in love with fluid power. She also discusses opportunities to engage more young people in the industry and more.

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Mary Gannon

Mary Gannon is editor of Fluid Power World. She has been a technical writer and editor for more than 13 years, having covered fluid power, motion control and interconnect technologies.

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