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Resource packs for NWED are now available, and we can send you a copy by post (which includes stickers for school students), or it can be downloaded from the new NWED website. We hope that you are organising something to celebrate this day - please let us know so that we can list it on the website and monitor activity.

Registration for the WES conference Women in Engineering: The Challenge is now available from the website. Speakers have all been confirmed and these include Jenny Willott MP; Meg Munn MP; Professor John Perkins, Chief Scientific Advisor at BIS; Frances Saunders, President of Institute of Physics; Barry Brooks, President of IET; Ruth Spellman, CEO of Workers' Educational Association; Paula Gwinnett, JCB University Technical College; Allan Cook, Chairman of Atkins and Selex; Gareth Humphreys, MBDA; Nina Skorupska, CEO Renewable Energy Association; Polly Williams, The Royal Society; Carol Marsh, WES; Helen Wollaston, WISE; Pat Morton, WISET; Anne-Marie Imafidon, Stemettes; Ellie Cosgrave, ScienceGrrl; Katie Perry, CEO Daphne Jackson Trust. WES membership discount applies, and early bird registration is available for non-members. BOOK NOW to secure your place. 

A WES Policy Forum is being set up as a think tank to develop WES' policies in order to lobby Government, organisations and policy makers to strive for equality and diversity, both in the workplace and in the promotion of engineering as a career.

This group will provide:

• Representation on Government Panels and Round Table Discussions Groups
• Partnership work with other groups, organisations and institutions to ensure collaboration
• Provide comment on Government policy and consultation documents
• Media presence to provide a voice for women in engineering and the promotion of diversity issues
• Providing ambassadors and speakers to represent women engineers at conferences, events & meetings

If you are interested in joining this group, please contact Sharon Kindleysides and also copy the WES office

The 2014 Karen Burt award is now open for nominations, and the forms are available on the WES website. Professional Engineering Institutions are requested to nominate their best newly qualified chartered engineer, and WES selects the winner from the nominated candidates. The aim of the award is to encourage women to apply for chartership as early as possible during their careers, and for PEIs to actively encourage their women members to apply. Statistics on the number of women members, chartered and incorporated engineers, technicians and fellows are also being collected and we urge PEIs to submit their data.

Volunteers are sought to write single A4 resource sheets to accompany our Magnificent Women outreach project, which document the life of one woman engineer. Aimed at school students, these sheets will form a series of useful resources with the intention of raising the profile of notable women engineers from history. If you are able to write a sheet or two on your favourite magnificent woman engineer (dead or alive!), then please get in touch. The first sheet on Dorothee Pullinger can be seen here.

In addition to this we are always looking for more volunteers, so please let us know if you would like to help us.

The Woman Engineer Journal for Spring 2014 has now been sent out to WES members, and if you are a WES member and haven't received yours yet then please contact the office to check that we have your correct address. If you would like to receive a copy of the WES journal, join WES here. We are hoping for 950 new members in this, our 95th year. You may also be interested to read the first edition of The Woman Engineer from 1919 - available here www.wes.org.uk/content/enewsletter-and-journal. 

We are delighted to report that two new volunteers have been found to further these two WES initiatives. The first is a relaunch of our mentoring and training scheme MentorSET, which had previously run successfully for over 10 years supporting women engineers through a cross-sector scheme which individually matched women mentors with mentees to provide career mentoring. The second - Young WES - is an initiative to support girls who have expressed an interest in STEM careers at schools through a junior membership scheme which will effectively continue to 'nudge' them towards careers in STEM, through continued contact with them. The ability to continue to reinforce the message that STEM careers are suitable for girls is something that is currently missing, and whilst point interventions in schools are common it is the continuity of the message that is so important in keeping girls on track to careers in engineering, IT and allied technologies.

Any companies or individuals who would like to support these initiatives, please contact us.

A new compilation of statistics for women in engineering has been compiled, which can be downloaded here

• 14 March: Magnificent Women Outreach activity at the London Metropolitan Archive
• 15 March: Big Bang Fair Talent2030 Award Presentation for National Engineering Competition for Girls, NEC
• 30 March: Nominations open for Karen Burt Award 2014
• 30 March: Nominations open for WES Prize entries at IET Young Woman Engineer Awards
• 4 April: NECR Women's Forum and Networking Lunch at NEC
• 23 June: National Women in Engineering Day
• 23 June: Women in Engineering: The Challenge Conference at IMechE, London
• 29 October 2014: The Graduate Engineer Show, Derby
• 14-15 November: WES Student Conference, Engineering Inspiration, Aston University
• December: Young Woman Engineer Awards, incorporating the WES Prize

Membership Subscriptions are due for renewal in April and we will be sending out renewal letters soon.

Last year we increased the cost of membership, if you pay your subscription by direct debit could you ensure that your direct debit instruction is for the new rates.

A new Cluster Co-ordinator in Essex is sought to replace the long serving Betty McCarthy (who would like to retire). If you are interested or would like further details please contact the WES Office

GSK Scientists in Sport is inviting students aged 11-14 to take the GSK-McLaren Pit Stop Challenge to be in with the chance of winning a once-in-a-lifetime trip to the brand new GSK Human Performance Lab and McLaren Technology Centre to see first-hand how science, technology, engineering and maths are brought together to help create a winning Formula One pit crew team.

The Challenge

Students will investigate the scientific factors that help the McLaren Mercedes Formula One Team pit crew stay at the top of their game throughout the Grand Prix season. Using the online 'Pit Test' students can measure key factors that affect the crew, including: concentration, coordination and reaction speed and come up with ways for the pit team to give their best performance in every race.

Sign your teams up now, all entries must be submitted by Friday 4th April.

Scientists in Sport is part of GSK's science education programme developed to inspire 11-14 year olds to think differently about science through using sport to show how exciting it can be.

Prizes include:

•  A trip to the GSK Human Performance Lab
•  Tour of the McLaren Technology Centre where Formula 1 cars are made
•  �1000 worth of vouchers for schools

This year BIG is offering 2-3 bursary places to attend the BIG Event taking place at Oxford University Museum of Natural History on 23-25 July 2014.

The bursary provides registration fees for the BIG Event and gives limited travel and accommodation support. This is open to BIG members who are in the first five years of their professional career and have not attended a previous BIG Event.

To apply for a conference place through the bursary, please download the form and guidelines from the website

Deadline for application: Wednesday 2 April 2014 (late applications will not be considered - sorry).

Submission of an article (approx 400 words) for BIG's enewsletter related to your conference attendance is a requirement of the bursary scheme and expenses will be issued on receipt of the article. We also hope you will be willing to give a hand at the conference where required; this gives you a great opportunity to create links with other delegates.

The Institute of Physics would like to invite you to a Lecture given by

Professor Heidy Mader.

Date: Thursday 10th April 2014

Venue: Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London, W1B 1NT

Time: 18.30 (registration from 18.00)

Our understanding of the processes operating during volcanic eruptions has advanced enormously in the last 50 years. This understanding has been driven by the application of fundamental science to the volcanic flows, which has seen volcanology develop from a field-based descriptive art into a highly quantitative, process-oriented scientific discipline.

This lecture will be an opportunity to hear first-hand about how physics, experimentation and modelling of eruptions is bringing us closer to the ultimate goal of achieving quantitative eruption forecasting.

Professor Heidy Mader is University Research Fellow in Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol. Her research interests cover a broad range of multiphase phenomena in the environmental sciences, specifically problems in volcanology and glaciology.

The full details about the lecture and speaker can be found here.

The lecture is free to attend and is open to all, physicists and non-physicists alike, so please feel free to pass this invitation on to your colleagues, relatives, students or anyone else whom you think would be interested. Places are limited, so for those wishing to attend, please register online

We look forward to seeing you there.

This lecture is part of the Opportunity Physics 2014 lecture series, to find out more about Opportunity Physics, please visit the website

A number of Glasgow-based engineers have recently set up a local branch for REDR. Their intent is to provide awareness of disaster relief issues by organising monthly talks and workshops. They  will be launching our first workshop on the 7th of April  in the Glasgow Atkins office at 18.15

The events we are planning are open to all branches of engineering/interested parties in disaster relief issues.  After the launch event, the sessions will be held monthly for all interested to attend. The speakers will be either REDR members, or people who have experience and knowledge in issues related to disaster relief.  The aim of these sessions is to provide background knowledge on skills that are key for those wanting to be involved with REDR, and disaster relief in general.

We have had a request from St Bernard's School in Westcliff-on-Sea for a delegate for their careers fair. The event takes place on Wednesday 7th May 2014 from 1.35pm to 5.00pm.

They look to raise the career aspirations of our students by holding an annual careers conference to which we invite career professionals, preferably female to talk to our students in an informal setting about their career journey.

The evening takes the form of delegates sat behind tables in our gym with posters, displays, power point presentations , leaflets or nothing to hand; just whatever they feel happy bringing along.

Students will have been briefed beforehand and will approach delegates with questions to ask regarding their career journeys, training, qualifications etc.

Year 9 and 10 students will be escorted to the fair by tutors throughout the school afternoon. Year 11 and parents will visit from 3.40 onwards and sixth form students will dip in and out during the afternoon and early evening.

If you can attend please contact the WES Office or Heulwn Davies at the school