Career Pathways Virtual Trailheads - Erika Sittler - Electrical Engineer
Channel: P-20 Network
Date: 2020-05-15

In this Career Pathways Virtual Trailheads episode, we interview Erika Sittler, who is an electrical engineer for the City of St. Charles (St. Charles, Illinois). Erika provides background about arriving in Chicagoland as a 14 year-old and entering Schaumburg High School before attending Harper College and then the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As she moved through her higher education experiences, she focused on electrical engineering--partially because she did not think she would be interested or successful with the type of hands-on work with machinery that is often part of mechanical engineering. Today, one of Erika's favorite aspects of her work is being in the field and helping to diagnose and fix broken equipment.