CV Woman Engineer Receives Honors

Castro Valley resident Garland Dughi was honored with the 2023 Women MAKE Award, chosen by The Manufacturing Institute (MI).  Women MAKE Award Honorees have accomplished success within their companies and have proven to be leaders in the industry as a whole.  

Garland is the Vehicle Integration Director at Lucid Motors, an electrical vehicle manufacturer headquartered in Newark, CA. The role of vehicle integration is to balance the various dynamic attributes of vehicle design and their effects on cost and performance.  Her team also designs prototypes of new vehicles, building prototypes by hand.

Formerly with Tesla Motors and Ford Motor Company, Garland earned her BS at CalTech and MS at Stanford.  She is also the founder and President of Castro Valley Science (CVscience.us), a non-profit organization of like-minded parents that promote student STEM programs in the city of Castro Valley. Under her inspirational guidance, the Castro Valley High School Science Olympiad team, for the first time, has advanced to the National tournament, where they will face 60 of the top science teams in the country.