Carolyn Toth, P.h.D.

Industry Experience: Carolyn Toth’s background in electronics was an integrated design lab manager in BiPolar technology and a design engineer working on arithmetic logic units and processors. She was then a development engineer in integrated circuit design doing circuit manufacturing lab management of the inspectors, development of a BiMOS process, and design of circuits. Toth has worked on Test procedures for the process and assisted other engineers, layout personnel, and management on their designs and test. She taught layout personnel to use schematics and to use CALMA (computer layout) and at the same time used computer modeling programs for the circuits she was designing. Toth worked at both Hughes Aircraft and Unisys before changing fields during one of the down turns where the type of work she had been doing was outsourced to India. She also enjoyed working with diverse populations and has also worked for years in Human Services including counseling and employment. Carolyn Toth worked under various grants and programs before going back for her doctoral degree. This work was interesting and very beneficial to her teaching in cross-cultural experience . She has owned and operated several small businesses, and changed fields to gain more knowledge and income. Toth moved to construction as a general contractor licensed in CA and enjoyed this work until she felt it was time to move on to higher education.