2025 NSBE Region 1 Fall Regional Conference - We're Designed to Be Robots: Black Woman Engineer Exposes What They Don't Teach in School with Onyekachi Akubue

Onyekachi Akubue, whose name means "No one is stronger than God", is a senior Electrical and Computer Engineering student at New York Institute of Technology. In this powerful interview at the NSBE Region 1 Fall Regional Conference, she reveals why she's pivoting from embedded systems engineering to technical product management, her eye-opening experience developing bombs at Boeing, and her PhD ambitions to create internet-free embedded technology for underserved Nigerian villages.