Sanya Mathura is the Founder, Managing Director, and Senior Consultant at Strategic Reliability Solutions Ltd in Trinidad & Tobago. She specializes in reliability and asset management and works with global affiliates. Sanya holds a BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering and an MSc in Engineering Asset Management and is the first ICML-certified Machinery Lubrication Engineer (MLE) in the Caribbean. She was also the first woman globally to earn the ICML Varnish badges (VIM & VPR) and Mobius FL CAT I certification.
Sanya is the only registered MLE by the Board of Engineering Trinidad & Tobago. She serves on the Editorial Board of Precision Lubrication Magazine, is a digital editor for STLE’s TLT Magazine, and is a columnist for Equipment Today. Additionally, she is on the Lubricant Expo North America board and an external steward of UWI's Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Mainstreaming Committee.
She is the author and co-author of six books; Lubrication Degradation Mechanisms, A Complete Guide, Lubrication Degradation – Getting into the Root Causes, Machinery Lubrication Technician (MLT) I & II Certification Exam Guide, Preventing Turbomachinery ‘Cholesterol’ – The Story of Varnish. She was assigned the Series Editor of the series including Empowering Women in STEM, Empowering Women in STEM – Personal Stories and Career Journeys from Around the World, and Empowering Women in STEM – Working Together to Inspire the Future.
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What Is Microdieseling?
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What is Oil Viscosity?
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Women in STEM are constantly facing new challenges every day. By sharing their stories and ways in which they have overcome these hurdles, they can help others ... Read more.