Drake Manufacturing Services Co. has recently hired Olguta Marinescu as a product development engineer. She has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from University “Dunarea de Jos”, Galati, Romania, and a M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan. She was the recipient of a Socrates-Erasmus Scholarship at the University of Coimbra in Portugal. Her academic focus was in the area of vibration and acoustics.  Marinescu authored six papers relevant to these subjects, the most significant relating to the development of a novel methodology to collect accurate and precise vibration measurements at high frequencies where the wavelength of the component mode shapes is small. In addition, she has organized and presented at technical conferences worldwide on topics related to vibration and acoustics.