Greetings!
Welcome to this months newsletter.
WES has two events coming up later this year, see the article below and register your interest, the website will be live soon. We are also looking for volunteers to help with the events and a SEO person for the website details are below. If you think you can help or would like more information on how to please contact the WES office.
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
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Be behind the headlines!
Scientists, social scientists, engineers and clinicians can experience life in the heart of the newsroom by applying for a British Science Association 2012 Media Fellowship.
Spend 3-8 weeks this summer working with hosts including the BBC, Guardian and Nature to produce accurate, well-informed news about developments in science, and work alongside the UK's top science editors in the British Science Festival Press Centre.
Return to work with media confidence, contacts, and first-class communication skills.
"I came away brimming with ideas, skills and advice for my researcher peers and I met some amazing people with the same values and drive as me. It was extremely interesting, educational and fun I would recommend it to anyone with an interest in the world outside their research bubble."" Media Fellow
Apply online from 16 January - 11 March 2012
For eligibility criteria, experiences from past Media Fellows, and the online application form go to the website
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Non Executive Director Opportunity
WES has been approached to see if any WES members might be interested in applying a non executive director role, the details are below:
The search company are looking for an NED for a FTSE 100 engineering organisation and the criteria are:
Must be female with Civil Engineering sector experience.
Have a strong commercial background.
Have board level experience
If you are interested contact Jan Peters | |
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The South Africa Embedded & Electronics Industry Trade Show |
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National Electronics Week South Africa is coming up soon, with international exhibitors, and an array of free seminars, conferences and workshops.
This event will be bigger and better than ever and is supported by ADEC and the SMART Group as well as the leading South African and global trade press.
This exhibition if free to attend and pre-registration is open now. |
To see the seminar programme visit the website seminar pages
For more information about exhibiting or visiting click here | |
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The New Elizabethans
To mark the Diamond Jubilee, James Naughtie, from BBC Radio 4 will be profiling the 60 public figures who have made the greatest impact in these islands during The Queen's reign - men and women who have defined the era and whose deeds will stand the test of time.
But who are the great achievers of the past six decades? Who will stamp their names in the history books just as Shakespeare, Drake and Raleigh did before them? Who will be remembered down the years for changing the way we live and think, for entertaining and amazing us?
Radio 4 would like your help to find The New Elizabethans. They can come from any walk of life. Their impact must have been on these islands between 1952 and the present day but that doesn't necessarily mean they have to be British.
To register your nomination click here, and let's see Women engineers and Scientists on the list. Let the WES Office know who you have nominated.
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WES Volunteers Required
WES will be holding two events one in Glasgow and one in Birmingham in the near future. We need some help with registrations on the day and also in promoting the events to local businesses. If you can help with either event please contact the WES Office, Jan Peters for the Birmingham event or Carol Marsh for the Glasgow event. More information on both events can be found on the WES website. | |
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WES needs a SEO person.
Do you know about Search Engine Optimisation? Can you spare some time? WES in the process of updating and optimising its website and is looking for someone with SEO experience to help us. If you can help please contact the WES Office. |
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L'Oreal-UNESCO for Women in Science UK and Ireland National Fellowships 2012
The application for these fellowships is now open and the deadline is 23 March 2012.
For more information and to apply visit the website
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Global Marathon 2012
This year's global marathon takes place 5-10 March 2012.
The Global Marathon For, By and About Women in Engineering and Technology is an annual worldwide forum featuring daily, live webcasts to connect professional women and college students in conversations about education and careers in engineering and technology. It is a free, interactive web-conference over 6 days that connects women engineers of all disciplines of engineering; all career stages and in all nations. There is more information below but we now hope to build and audience and invite you to show you support for women engineer.
If organisations have someone suitable, they may still be able to provide a speaker. We specifically need someone to tell the GM12 audience about what companies do to recruit and retain the great women students who will speak before them. Sheryl Sandberg COO of Facebook said at the Grace Hopper Conference that the biggest issue for women in E&T is that women don't stay. She also said, 'the reason that women don't become engineers, is that women don't become engineers'. By seeing a different perspective around the world to this assumption we can influence the understanding of engineering careers. You can voice your support for GM12 and show that the lack of women engineers in high tech companies matters!
We invite women to join the Q&A -a live, interactive, video web-conf - with the great women students and professionals who will speak. It
will be followed by a second session that will for the first time connect many leading women's engineering and technology networks
around the world in a live conversation about how we can collaborate better and we hope that the audience will join in.
It is amazing that this provides a great, free and professional infrastructure to promote women engineers and yet so few know about
it. We appreciate any support you can offer.
Imagine the opportunity to connect with outstanding women in engineering and technology around the world! That's the Global Marathon. This 6-day free, live, interactive web-conference is the only event bringing together women engineers worldwide. We need your help in raising awareness of this unique event - it connects women of all disciplines, all career stages and in all countries.
GM12 is an annual worldwide forum featuring daily, live webcasts to connect professional women and college students in conversations about education and careers in engineering and technology. It voices the issues and challenges they choose to speak about. All are saved so that previous sessions can be viewed by women want to be inspired and informed by what women engineers do.
We hope this event will help influence the recruitment, retention and advancement of women in E&T careers by telling their amazing stories.
We particularly want you to help us build an audience of women students and in early career by announcing your support to your academic, trade and professional media. Your organisation could have great publicity for promoting an important event.
If you want to provide a speaker there is still time to join our programme. Please contact the European Chair -details below. Our European session will be followed by the first live, 'virtual' international forum that links Women's Engineering and Technology Networks around the world and the Closing Ceremony of GM12 chaired by Cindy Kou, Program Director at IBM in China.
The 2012 event, scheduled for 5-10 March, is the only one of its kind connecting women in engineering and technology worldwide across a
diverse range of disciplines, experience levels, ages, interests, backgrounds, cultures, industries and employers. There will be daily programs in each of six regions: U.S., China, Latin America, India, Middle East/Africa and UK/Europe. The focus for UK/Europe will be Saturday, March 10th featuring Imperial's multi-award winning E.Quinox on the theme is 7 Billion and Counting: Dreams, Ideas & Actions to Change the World.
As it grows each year, soon you will be proud that you were seen to support it. It connects women engineers of all disciplines of engineering; all career stages and in all nations. It is free, interactive and professionally produced -what more could you ask other than how to join in the conversation?
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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. |
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Are you a WES member?
If not click here to find out why you should be! It costs less than a pound a week! It helps us do our work to promote engineering amongst women and girls." | |
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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
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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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WES Technical Leaders Events
26th April 2012 - Glasgow
21st June 2012 - Birmingham
Our 2012 series of regional events brings WES style networking to you. A positive environment for technical women and men to connect and network. A panel of senior women engineers will talk about their careers and leadership insights with plenty of time for open discussion followed by networking and food.
The Davies' Review of Women on Boards in 2011 has set a challenge for the FTSE 100 companies to announce their plans to increase their board's gender diversity. WES is working on the talent pipeline to support women in their technical careers through MentorSET®, supporting the UCL led Set to Lead project and by continuing to develop its Technical Leaders events.
WES's Technical Leaders events help to share the insights and wisdom of women in leadership roles in engineering and technology about career, personal and interpersonal management strategies. Above all these women share their passion for technology.
Join us to be inspired, connect and meet others with similar interests and pick up some career management tips.
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| First mother and daughter to engineer a double act | 
Two female family members from Ayrshire in Scotland are believed to be the first ever mother and daughter to both gain a qualification in a profession dominated by male engineers.
Suzanne Flynn became a Chartered Engineer 35 years ago and her daughter Emily has recently gained the same status. Chartered Engineer is one of the most recognisable international engineering qualifications. Of the 191,224 Chartered Engineers in the UK, only 8,154 (four per cent) are female.
An electrical engineer, Suzanne, 64, is Principal Consultant at Cygnet Solutions Ltd, a professional IT services provider. Daughter Emily, 32, is an RAF Squadron Leader Engineering Officer, who has served in Afghanistan.
Suzanne said: "I am delighted that Emily has gained this prestigious professional qualification. Engineering is one of the most rewarding and varied professions and I am pleased that Emily can look forward to many years of career enjoyment."
Emily said: "I am really pleased to have been awarded my CEng and proud that my mother and I are the first mother-daughter to do so. Mum has been an inspirational role model. The RAF has ensured that I have been given the opportunity to gain the competences required and is a fantastic place to be an engineer. Hopefully, we can also be the first mother-daughter Fellows as well!"
Both Suzanne and Emily are members of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Europe's largest engineering professional body which awards Chartered Engineer to more recipients than any other institution.
Michelle Richmond, IET Director of Membership, and herself a Chartered Engineer, said: "Gaining Chartered Engineer status is a massive achievement in its own right. With engineering still a male-dominated industry, Suzanne and Emily join a very select group of females to have successfully achieved the qualification. We believe they are the first mother and daughter in the UK to both achieve this internationally recognised qualification and we are delighted for them."
Outside of the engineering world, Suzanne's interests include travel, opera, speaking Italian and beekeeping. Daughter Emily is a keen mountaineer and has been on two expeditions to the Himalayas. She is also Vice Chairman of the RAF Mountaineering Association and has represented the RAF, Combined Services and Scotland Under-18s in hockey.
Suzanne is also an active and long standing member of WES |
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TMP - 'Digital by Default Roadshow'
What's next for digital resourcing? Come to one of our events to find out how we're taking recruitment way beyond traditional digital routes. Register for one of their events and watch the video invitation by clicking here.
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ResearchGate
ResearchGate is a free resource and platform designed specifically for scientists and researchers to facilitate research collaboration internationally. We are eager for the members of the WES to know about us.
ResearchGate is the world's largest online scientific network with over 1.3 million members and we aim to provide a number of resources for scientists and researchers for free.
ResearchGate members can:
Search through 7 major literary database simultaneously (including PubMed, Citeseer & IEEE) and millions of open access databases
Gain access to over 45 million abstracts and download thousands of full publications for free
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