26: Chemical Engineer with a great varied career – Murthy Munagavalasa
Murthy Munagavalasa has a PHD degree in Chemical Engineering which he earned while working at SC Johnson. What is interesting is that Murthy was scared of Chemistry but comfortable with Math and Physics. It turns out the Chemical Engineering is more about math than chemistry.
While working at SC Johnson, he has had the opportunity to work with many customers and his ah-ha moments have come when what he thought would be a great prototype ended up not going over very well, and prototypes that he thought were not that great got great acceptance by the customers. – Always involve your customers during product development!
Back when Murthy was heading off to college, he really wish he had a mentor to help him figure out what was important and what was not.
Some advice while in your career is to take on projects that are critical to the companies success and you should always spread positivity.
He recommends listening to Ted talks and you should write a personal mission statement and review regularly to make sure what you are doing aligns with what is important.
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