Maria Welborne (’90 B.S.E.I.S.E.) has a long local, national, and international career. At Ford Motor Company, she participated in the negotiation and launch of Ford’s first joint venture in China, Fu Hua Glass Works. She helped design the Ford Production System as part of a 25-member global team. Welborne also worked in the industrial products and chemicals sector at BASF Corporation and Eaton Corporation and is currently a project manager at the consulting firm Roland Berger. She established and helped to fully endow the UM-Dearborn African American Alumni Endowed Scholarship. She has also provided mentorship and guidance to students in the early stages of their engineering education through the alumni mentoring program and as an alumni board member.