Industry Biography
Christina Schober
Chris is a Product Team Lead for Tactical Ring Laser Gyro in the Honeywell Aerospace Division. Recently, she supported multiple phases of the DARPA Atomic clock programs, resulting in 7 patents from her work. Earlier in her career she was a lead Process engineer in the successful transitions from design to production for both the Integrated Flight Management Unit (IMU+GPS), and the Stinger Roll Frequency Sensor.
At Honeywell’s Solid State Electronics Division, a Senior Design Methodology Engineer. She was in the MOS VLSI Design, as project lead for CMOS standard cell library development; and a CAD trainer for circuit simulation, logic & circuit design.
- 16 US patents, 24 foreign patents
- Professional Masters and Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota.
- Honeywell 2015 Outstanding Engineer award
- Honeywell 2005 Aerospace Quest for Excellence Team award
- Certified Honeywell Six Sigma Blackbelt
Recently a historical book and newspaper articles have come out about Honeywell's development of the Ring Laser Gyro written by James Lenz. Chris was a part of the design team in 3 of the RLG sensor product lines and Lead production engineer for two of the RLG based products. These were part of her 38 year career at Honeywell. Below is a link to the StarTribune article "Miracle on the Hudson" and the origins in Minneapolis.