This is always a hard question to answer :)
My dad is a mechanical engineer and so when I was really young, I considered him my role model. He always had a great way of explaining problems and solve it in an analytical manner. He always encouraged me to think about engineering; he always said, "if you don't know what you want to do, become an engineer so you can begin to solve problems and along the way, you can figure out your passion!" This was solid advice and I stuck with it. I was always drawn to biological sciences as well, so the combination of engineering and enabling health sciences was something I took to heart. I completed my Bioengineering from Penn State University with a minor in Engineering Mechanics. I had several internships where I gained experiences in developing, testing medical devices. All that further embedded in me the need to be in the industry as quickly as possible. The internships that I held, here in the US and also in Singapore, allowed me to clearly see that I wanted to enable teams and development of products. So in senior year, I started looking and found a great job at Agilent Technologies and haven't looked back since.