Virginia Keister

Virginia Keister is a Manufacturing Equipment Engineer at Wolfspeed since September 2022, previously serving as a Manufacturing Engineer at Ontic where responsibilities included supporting production of electromechanical instrumentation and writing work instructions for aircraft components. Virginia also worked as a Technical Writer at Firstmark Aerospace and as an Undergraduate Researcher at North Carolina State University, focusing on image analysis of acoustic wave patterns in composite materials. An engineering design project at Caterpillar Inc. involved collaboration with international students to redesign mechanical linkages, achieving a 16% reduction in cross-sectional area while maintaining safety factors. Virginia holds a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering from North Carolina State University, earned in 2021.