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Women's Engineering Society eNewsletter
January 2012
Greetings!
 
Welcome to this months newsletter.
 
2012 is already shaping up to be a busy year forWES, we will be posting our events programme in the newsletter soon.

Don't forget if you have any events or stories you would like to share with the WES Community please get in touch.
 

The WES e-news team

 
In This Issue
Mission Discovery and WES
The European Platform of Women Scientists
EnterpriseWISE
WES and West of Scotland Circle
WES needs your help

Mission Discovery and WES

 

How do we inspire girls and young women to take up engineering? WES President Milada Williams has been looking to involve WES in a week long summer school programme that engages girls and young women in working for a week with female engineers, including astronaut Megan McArthur and astronaut trainer Michelle Ham. During the summer school week the young women will work in teams to come up with ideas and designs for an experiment that will be carried out in space. The teams will present their ideas to a panel of women engineers and compete to have their idea selected to be built and carried out on the International Space Station.

 

Miliada has been working with the International Space School Educational Trust (ISSET) to adapt the 'Mission Discovery' to focus on inspiring girls and young women to follow careers and study in engineering, please see www.isset.org for details. She and ISSET are exploring with WES's Professor Haifa Takruri MBE the possibility of holding the programme at the School of Computing, Science and Engineering, University of Salford in July. The programme would be enhanced by the participation of a range of female engineers as presenters or mentors during the week. If you think that you may be interested please contact Milada Williams.

 

 

 

The European Platform of Women Scientists is proud to announce the launch of its new website.

You can now find out more about our mission, our structure, and our history. You can stay informed about the activities and main issues concerning women in science, as well as learn about the topics that influence the policies. EPWS builds a structural link between women scientists and European policy-makers, and we are deeply committed to the achievement of equal and full participation of women in science and in science policy, in order to promote and safeguard European excellence and innovation in research.

We hope that you will enjoy our new home on the web.

 

 

 

EnterpriseWISE

 

EWISE

 

EnterpriseWISE is a course about enterprise and entrepreneurship beyond what you can read in a book. Last weekend, EnterpriseWISE brought together a diverse group of 23 women from in and around Cambridge University: MPhil students to Postdocs and beyond, at least 11 nationalities, and over 20 disciplines. The weekend was intense, action packed, thought provoking and the energy levels consistently high right to the last minute of networking.

The 10 facilitators and 25 contributors helped the participants to explore their assumptions and raise their self-awareness, the realities of organisations and teams, new business models, as well as negotiation (delivered by WES's Paola Cuneo), creativity, listening, and networking. It may sound like a gruelling schedule and in some ways it was in terms of content and timing but it was also undeniably fun with participation high and smiles visible all the time. The course had some additional quirks that added to cement the nurturing and mutually supportive environment:

Pink&Black notebooks were used in support of Breast Cancer Research, the wine was made by women and the woman behind the video-camera was a PhD student starting her own production company. The second weekend promises to be even more intense.

 

EnterpriseWISE is a course of the Centre for Enterpriseneurial Learning

 

 

And finally....
If you have any articles you would like to have featured please contact the WES office  by clicking here.
We'd love to hear your stories of your schools outreach activities or ideas to inpsire young people that we can share across our community.

Don't forget to forward on our e-newsletter to your friends and contacts, male and female and help to inpsire more young women to consider engineering and technology as a career.

With good wishes
the e-News team. 
 
WOMENS' ENGINEERING SOCIETY

West of Scotland Circle

 

2011 - 2012 programme of events

 

WES is a society for all disciplines of engineers and seaks to encourage women in Engineering. The Glasgow members try to meet up several times a year. Come and join us, it's a great way to meet other engineers and get some encouragement or advice.

 

We try to have a mixture of get togethers, technical meetings, visits and chats. This year we have decided to go en masse to some of the local engineering institutes' technical meetings and go on for supper afterwards.

 

 

17th Feb - Friday 2pm. Visit to the new Riverside Transport Museum. Meet up look at the exhibits and of course have tea and cake, kids are welcome to join us.

 

6th March - IMarEST - failures in diesel engines. Glasgow Nautical College, Thistle street. 6pm for 6:30. We will go for supper afterwards.

 

19th April - IET - Joint Institutions Prestige lecture " Design and delivery of the venues for the Olympic games"

 

18th May - Friday. A visit to Somerlee Museum of Scottish Life, kids welcome.

 

Please let us know if you are coming along to any of the get togethers so we don't miss you. To come along to a meeting or to find out more just e-mail Anne Madsen

 

WES needs your help

 

WES is run by a Council of volunteers and we currently have a number of vacancies. We are currently looking for the following

 

Event co-ordinators in the local regions and

 

Someone to organise and run two Technical leaders events each year.

 

If you can help or know someone who can particularly in the above roles please contact the WES Office.

 

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