'Lack of female role models' in engineering
Photo credit: Newsday / Alejandra Villa | Lian Lin, who came from China in 2002, is an engineer at AAR Corp., an aircraft parts company in Garden City.
When Lian Lin stood up last Monday morning to speak to a group of students at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, she made sure to note that being a female engineer in the defense industry is still something unusual.
Lin, 37, is the only full-time female engineer at AAR Corp., an aircraft components company in Garden City with about 200 employees.
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