Women in Engineering

In celebration of International Women in Engineering Day 2019, the Women’s Engineering Society (WES) has announced the winners of the Top 50 Women in Engineering: Current and Former Apprentices (WE50). Now in its fourth year, the WE50 continues to showcase the extensive female talent across the sector, this year focusing on women currently serving as apprentices or those who have previously undertaken an apprenticeship.

  A panel of experts from the worlds of engineering and enterprise have convened at the University of Southampton to discuss the barriers to women’s participation in both environments, ahead of International Women in Engineering Day (Sunday 23rd June 2019).

AESSEAL, the Rotherham-based manufacturer that specialises in the design and manufacture of mechanical seals and support systems, has announced the appointment of former Institution of Mechanical Engineers President (IMechE), Carolyn Griffiths, to its board. Griffiths, a senior professional from the rail industry who established and was the first Chief Inspector of the UK's Rail Accident Investigation Branch, is vocal in her support for change within the engineering profession. She joins AESSEAL as a Non-Executive Director.

The world’s only manufacturer of vinyl playing jukeboxes is celebrating International Women in Engineering Day on June 23 with the announcement of two females to its senior management team. In contrast to the predominately male industry in which it operates, Sound Leisure is keen to encourage further female personnel to its team of innovative manufactures and senior leaders to help drive the company forward.

Farnell is celebrating International Women in Engineering Day by speaking to female professionals in the industry and highlighting the work they do. One lady they interviewed, Claire Garside is a co-founder from The Foundation for Digital Creativity and a postgraduate researcher at Leeds University. Her teaching background was broad as a Technology subject specialist in secondary education, before transitioning to link with special educational needs as a senior leader in school.

To mark International Women in Engineering day, Farnell is celebrating current women and future generations of females in engineering, and has interviewed some very talented women. As part of this series, Farnell spoke to Christina Wang of Cypress Semiconductors about her experiences in the industry and how she became inspired into the tech industry to begin with. 

Thousands of young women and girls have had the chance to explore the world of science, engineering, and light technologies thanks to a European photonics research consortium that has created their girls in STEM ecosystem, a series of 33 workshops and 11 Photonics Challenger projects across 10 European countries in a bid to tackle the underrepresentation of women in science.

As International Women in Engineering Day approaches, to mark the occasion Farnell is celebrating the leading women and future generations of females in engineering, with interviews from talented women. With the aim to explore how we can build a gender-balanced industry. Starting with Claire Duffield, a Digital Engagement Librarian at Leeds Libraries and despite the quiet atmosphere one would traditionally expect in this kind of working environment, she has had a hugely positive impact on those in her community.

A team of second year students from Leeds Beckett University has won the grand Engineering for People Design Challenge prize, with their idea for a women’s community hub built of locally sourced natural and affordable materials. The annual competition is organised by Engineers Without Borders UK, a charity dedicated to inspiring the engineering community to serve all people and our planet better than ever before.

GMB, the construction union, has revealed it will take nearly 200 years to achieve gender equality in the construction industry. The analysis, revealed at GMB’s annual Congress in Brighton today, shows at the current rate of growth, the number of women in construction will equal men by the year 2194.