Welcome to the July edition of the WES newsletter.
This month we look at some of the highlights from National Women in Engineering Day, the launch of the 50 Influential Women in Engineering and the formation of the WES Young Members' Board.
The Women's Engineering Society is committed to supporting women in engineering. Click through the following link for more information on being a WES member. It costs just a pound a week and helps us to do our work to promote engineering and technology amongst women and girls.
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National Women in Engineering Day 2016 an amazing success
A huge thank you to everyone who participated in National Women in Engineering Day 2016. This was the third year of the event and we were extremely pleased to see so many organisations and individuals involved and we received some great coverage. The theme for 2016 was 'raising profiles' and we certainly achieved that!
The inaugural list of the Top 50 Women in Engineering was launched, in collaboration with the Telegraph and partners The IET, Scottish Power, Jaguar Land Rover, Prospect Union, Mars Petcare, SEMTA and BAE Systems.
You can read a full summary of this years impact or sign up for next year on our website nwed.org.uk
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GSK Ware celebrating NWED 2016
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WES Young Members' Board Launched
On 23 June 2016, National Women in Engineering Day, the Women's Engineering Society (WES) announced the formation of their Young Members' Board (YMB). The WES YMB consists of twelve women under the age of 30 who are working, training or studying in an engineering field.
The aim of the YMB is to make WES more accessible to younger members, to reflect their concerns and priorities and provide input to the WES Council, allowing the voices of younger women engineers to be heard. The women making up the YMB will also act as role models for young women considering engineering and applied science.
The board will be supporting the "100 for 100" campaign, part of the WES Centenary activities. WES will ask one hundred companies to commit to a stretching set of actions to support diversity and inclusion in engineering during 2019, the one hundredth anniversary of WES. To find out more visit our website.
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| | Board Members, left to right starting on the top row: Khadejah Begum, TfL, Emma England, Airbus, Sophie Hutchins, Leonardo, Maeve Higham, Instron, Jo Douglas, University of Bath (Chair), Holly Goodwin, Scottish Power, Yasmin Ali, Premier Oil, Emma Herbert, Arcadis, Caroline Carslaw, SSE, Sharon Ross, Mars, Annabel Downing, University of Leeds, Kate Mactear, BAE Systems |
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WES' activity and attendance at external events 20 June - 20 July
- Dr Sarah Peers was a guest speaker on "The Leaky Pipeline of Women In Engineering", at the Cummins Europe Women In Technology - Technical Excellence conference, Peterborough, 21-23 June
- Benita Mehra was a guest panellist and speaker on Supporting the Female Pipeline at GHC/1 London - a 1-Day Grace Hopper Celebration event, London 22 June
- Attendance at the L'Oreal Women in Science Awards at the Royal Society, 22 June
- WES held an event at the IET for supporters and friends to outline future WES Strategy and introduce the WES Centenary Plans on National Women in Engineering Day 23 June
- Attendance at the LOROL (London Overground Rail Operations Limited) Women's Network meeting with the theme "Quotas: do they work?", 23 June
- Roseni Dearden and Milada Williams led the INWES European meeting in London, 24 June with several other WES Council members in attendance
- Participation at Inspire event for Year 11 girls, Warwick University, 27-29 June
- WES Young Members Board (YMB) had its first meeting hosted by Transport for London on 30 June
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Attendance at Shell's Powering Progress Together 2015 conference on Collaborating for a Successful Low Carbon Economy, at the Olympic Park, 30 June
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Attendance in Highways England NWED event "Shifting the Needle: Accelerating the pace of change in attraction", in London, 1 July
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Dr Sarah Peers spoke on "Gender & Humanitarian Engineering" at Warwick University, Symposium of Humanitarian Engineering, 4-5 July
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WES stand supported by WES volunteers including Helen Thomas at The Big Bang, London South West, Sutton Grammar School 4 July
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WES stand supported by WES Schools Outreach Manager Natalie Ford at The Big Bang, London Central, Westminster Kingsway College 5 July
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Attendance at The UK Infrastructure Policy Summit 2016, London, 7 July
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WES stand supported by WES volunteers including Emily Spearman at The Big Bang, London North, Uxbridge College, 8 July
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WES Sparxx invited to participate in Royal Institution Engineering Masterclass Celebration for 13/14 year olds, London, 9 July
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Elsa Ekevall Sparxx Project Manager delivered a STIXX activity for the Engineering Masterclass Celebration Day at The Royal Institution, London, 9 July
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Dawn Bonfield was invited to take part at the Royal International Air Tattoo with a WES stand supported by Dawn Elsom and Kanchana Gamage in the Technozone on the weekend of 9 July. WES also featured in the RIAT Innovation Trail with a question on Tilly Shilling, a WES legend.
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Dawn Bonfield attended the Farnborough Air Show - Futures Day with a WES stand on 15 and 16 July
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Attendance at the Royal Society of Chemistry 175th year Summer Party at the Royal Academy of Arts, 21 July
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Bring your children along to an IET Engineering Open House Day this July and help nurture their interest in STEM
This summer, as an integral part of the IET's 'Engineer a Better World' campaign, for the second year, the IET is running Engineering Open House Day. Engineering Open House Day is designed to be a fun day out for parents and kids to get a better idea about choosing careers in engineering and technology, by providing them with a rare opportunity to go behind the scenes at a number of venues around the UK.
Most of the events take place on Friday 29 July but some are on a different date.
You can find out more and register for the events happening across the country here.
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Engineering Change: New Strategy for Engineers Without Borders UK
 Engineers Without Borders UK has recently launched a new five year strategy 'Engineering Change'. The strategy sets out an ambitious, new and exciting direction for the organisation that has had a major presence in universities and companies up and down the country for the past 15 years. The strategy lays out a path for Engineers Without Borders UK to lead a movement that inspires, enables and influences global responsibility through engineering and is well worth a read. The organisation is committed to continuing to inspiring generations of people, and more diverse people, to join the engineering community united behind the idea that engineering can catalyse sustainable human development.
Inspiring the next generation of engineers - Engineering Open House Day
Friday 29 July marks the second annual Engineering Open House Day. The day is designed to be an educational, fun day out to encourage parents to support their children in choosing careers in engineering and technology, by providing them with a rare opportunity to go behind the scenes at some of the UK's most celebrated innovate engineering and technology organisations.
Engineers Without Borders UK is offering two opportunities on the day for young people to explore how engineers have shaped the world around us and made human lives better at our office in London.
If you have a child and would like to find out more and sign up, please visit our website
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Women in innovation: apply for infocus funding award
The infocus Awards from Innovate UK will celebrate and reward women working across 4 key sectors - Materials & Manufacturing, Health & Life Sciences, Infrastructure Systems, Emerging & Enabling Technologies.
Twelve women will benefit from a valuable tailor-made package of support and four of these will each receive a £50,000 grant to get her brilliant idea up and running.
Could it be you? Could it be someone you work with? Who do you know who could fly the flag for women in innovation?
The deadline for registration is noon 24 August 2016
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 Launch of RAEng Ingenious awards
The latest round of Royal Academy of Engineering Ingenious Awards is now open and the closing date for applications is Monday 17th October at 4.00pm.
If you or your colleagues have an imaginative idea that could help engineers to communicate their expertise and passion for engineering to a wider audience, we want to hear from you. You could be an engineer interested in running your own project, or a science/engineering public awareness professional keen to explore ways to provide public engagement training and opportunities.
The aims of Ingenious are to :
inspire creative public engagement with engineering
stimulate engineers to share their stories, passion and expertise in innovative ways with wider audiences
develop engineers' communication and engagement skills
create debate between engineers and people of all ages to raise awareness of the diversity, nature and impact of engineering.
If you're an individual or an organisation with an Ingenious idea, apply now for funding for between £3,000 and £30,000. Please feel free to share this email with any colleagues that may be interested in applying.
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Discover new ways to share your passion for physics. Train to teach.
The IOP Teacher Training Scholarship will support you on your journey to becoming a great teacher of physics. We are awarding 150 scholarships, each worth £30,000, to the most talented physics teacher trainees starting in September.
The final application deadline is 1 August for the IOP Teacher Training Scholarship..
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Are you the ultimate engineer?
Can you build something new from something old?
Are you amazing at problem solving?
Maverick TV are developing an exciting idea for major terrestrial broadcaster and are looking for elite engineers willing to take on the ultimate survival challenge. This is the show where ingenuity, resourcefulness and endurance are pushed to the maximum.
Instead of attempting to survive, in Escape people have to get out of it!
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Exciting graduate opportunities for women in STEM
We're looking for impressive women graduates to access Where Women Work's insightful "Graduate Assistance Programme". The complimentary programme helps female graduates understand the difference between corporate employers and their graduate programmes, what's on offer and where certain graduate strengths and interests can best fit.
To request assistance via the programme, which has a specific focus on STEM careers, email info@wherewomenwork.com with "Graduate Assistance Programme" in the subject header and include either a LinkedIn profile weblink, CV or paragraph summarising your studies, career interests and any experience to date. Be quick as numbers limited. In the meantime, research some exciting graduate opportunities here.
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Girls and Technology
 CHILDWISE recently carried out research for the Tech Partnership, to help throw fresh light on the long standing problem of attracting girls into digital education and careers.
CHILDWISE also carried out research for Girlguiding / Microsoft to understand more about girls' involvement with digital technology
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Government commits to a new vision for science, engineering and technical education
A long awaited report by Lord Sainsbury on technical education Post-16 Skills Plan has been launched this month. This report by an independent panel presents carefully argued proposals to improve technical education. It suggests clear dual academic and technical pathways of equal standing, where the technical pathway is being radically simplified while still linked closely to requirements for skills in industry. The Government have committed to implementing the recommendations.
WES warmly welcomes this report as one where diversity and the issues in STEM education post-16 and in technical apprenticeships are explicitly addressed within the report, as exemplified by the quote below, and by the extensive accompanying Technical education reform: assessment of equalities impacts document.
"We want to make sure that girls are able to choose from a broad range of careers and are not hindered by stereotypes. In particular, we want to encourage more women to go into science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) occupations, which carry a significant wage premium."
The report and proposals for overhaul of technical education is being welcomed by many in the engineering and technology sectors, as noted by The IET's E&T magazine and the IMechE Professional Engineering. And as the Science Council comment - this clearer vision for technical education is also good news for science. Read the latest blog from the Science Council here.
To download the official report from the Government website, click here.
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Could you provide information on the impact of disabled women in engineering?
Catherine Cobb a disabled engineer herself is looking for help with her current research project on disabled women in engineering.
So what is she looking for in this project? Basically any disabled women that have taken up Engineering roles, past or present, what sort of Engineering, their disability and age. If they have come across barriers to achieve their goals and what support they have received. Contact Catherine by email or call 07854 244 298 (mobile) or 0114 2613 210 (work).
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Keep up to date with all the latest news from Women in Transport.
The July issue covers updates from NWED2016 and other recent events along with all the latest news.
Download the July issue now
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FREE OU Returning to STEM course
This course is to help returners get back to work in Science,Technology, Engineering or Mathematics. The course is intended for anyone who wants to get back into STEM work after having a break, whether to care for family, because of redundancy or for other reasons.
There are case study videos placed throughout the course to show you how other people have navigated their own unconventional careers. Importantly, you will hear about how they have got back to STEM employment after a career break.
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Want a rewarding experience alongside your job?
 Then consider MentorSET, WES's mentoring scheme for women in STEM. We are still seeking new mentors to ensure the perfect pairing with our mentees. Mentoring is a great way of providing development opportunities for mentors, not just the mentees as well as great personal satisfaction. Being a mentor can improve your leadership skills and enable you to learn from alternative approaches and different ways of thinking. It can be challenging, inspiring and enlightening.
So if you think you have the skills and can see the benefit that mentoring can do, please do get in touch and consider joining here.
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New Scientist Live - the UK's biggest festival of ideas and discovery, launches this September
 22nd - 25th September 2016 at ExCeL London
For four days this September, New Scientist Live will be like nowhere else on Earth. The inaugural New Scientist Live event, courtesy of the team behind the world's most popular science weekly, is a four-day festival of ideas and discovery taking place at ExCeL London.
Rooted in the biggest, best and most provocative science that touches all areas of human life, the show will feature over 200 exhibitors, 120 speakers, 5 theatres and 4 immersive zones covering Brain & Body, Technology, Earth and The Cosmos to showcase how science, technology and engineering drive our economy, shape our culture and improve our lives. See, hear and touch the future at New Scientist Live; it's science as you've never seen it before. Book your place now and save ££s  If you are a member of WES you can get an exclusive discounted rate on tickets* With this offer, tickets for Thursday or Friday at the show are just £20 - saving £9 per ticket on the door rate, and tickets for Saturday or Sunday at the show are just £22.50 - saving £6.50 per ticket on the door rate.
To book quote WES16 on the booking page or call 0844 581 1295
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Calling all engineers to join the Inspiring Women Campaign
 The national Inspiring Women campaign launched October 2013 and already has 20,000 amazing women ready to talk with girls in state schools about the 'job they do' and route they took. Our ambition is to see these women from a wide range of occupations going into state schools collectively talking to 500,000 young women. We already have 20,000 women so let's make it 30,000 by 2017.
To find out more information and to see how pledging just one hour of your time a year can make a difference, read more here.
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Young Chemist in Industry 2016
SCI is pleased to announce that registration is now open for Young Chemist in Industry 2016. The event will take place at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Abingdon, Oxfordshire on Thursday 10 November 2016. Following the success of previous meetings, this year's event promises to be of interest to chemists working in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology or agrochemical sector. Find out more.
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And the winner is...Champions of national STEM competition announced
What will cities look like in 2050? How will they be powered to be vibrant, healthy and clean places to live? That's the question Shell asked secondary school students aged 11-14 through The Bright Ideas Challenge, its cross-curricular schools competition launched to inspire the scientists and engineers of tomorrow.
12 regional winners received £1,500 to supersize science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) in their school, plus a tablet for each team member. In addition to the prize money, they were all invited to Make the Future London, Shell's festival of ideas and innovation, hosted at the iconic Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The regional winners received VIP access to the exhibitions and activities on offer and even a photo opportunity with celebrity TV presenter and STEM champion Rachel Riley. The highlight of the day was the The Bright Ideas Challenge awards ceremony, which saw the team from Queen Elizabeth's School in Barnet crowned national champions. They took home a total grand prize of £5,000 to improve STEM learning at their school. The students came up with the unique idea of installing transparent tubes filled with algae onto the sides of city buildings to instantly transform them into clean, energy-generating power stations!
With over 400 entries from 120 different schools, the competition was a huge success, sparking some truly incredible ideas that could shape the answers to the energy challenges facing future cities. Read all about the regional national winners' ideas at www.shell.co.uk/brightideaschallenge. Think your school could rise to the challenge in future years? Email ShellSchoolsTeam@hopscotchconsulting.co.uk and for more information on forthcoming competitions. |
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Team 'Algae to Power' Queen Elizabeth School National Champions
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The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining: IOM3 - Awards ceremony 2016
On 12 July, winners of the IOM3 Awards were invited to a ceremony to celebrate their achievements at IOM3 HQ in London, in the aptly named Bessemer Suite. The annual awards recognise both personal triumphs and outstanding contributions of companies within the materials cycle. Awards presented on the night included the Premier Awards, a full winners list can be found here.
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Dr Dame Sue Ion OBE FREng CEng FIMMM receiving the Platinum Medal from IOM3 President Mike Hicks
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WES Corporates News:
We have a number of renewals we are also extremely pleased to tell you about: Arup and DP World (London Gateway) have both renewed as Company Members and FM Global renews as a Company Member Plus member, sponsoring the WES Student Conference this year.
A huge thank you to all our Corporate and Education Partners for their continuing support of WES.
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Have you read the WES Journal - The Woman Engineer?
Back issues of the WES journal are available here. Become a member and get your own copy delivered to your door.
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WES Partners and Sponsors
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Amy Johnson Festival
01/07-04/09/2016
The Amy Johnson Festival aims to raise awareness of Amy Johnson's achievements as an aviator, as an engineer and as a woman of her time.
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London Design and Engineering Fesitval
23/07/2016
A free one day festival celebrating all areas of Design and Engineering
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Women in Engineering
31/08/2016
A free three day career enhancing programme
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XII. International Conference on the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms
6 - 8/09/2016
Held in Liberec, Czech Republic, It is organised under the auspices of the Czech National Committee IFToMM and Czech Society for Mechanism.
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Women engineers in the First World War
11/10/2016
This free one day collaborative project will look back at the role of women in engineering and technical disciplines during the First World War and beyond.
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New Models in Engineering Higher Education
18/10/2016
This one day workshop will take place at the Warwick Manufacturing Centre.
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Educated Yorkshire
10/11/2016
Educated Yorkshire 2016 (builds on the success of last year with 3 seminar halls and around 60 exhibition stands.
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WES Student Conference 2016
18 -19/11/2016
The annual WES student conference taking place at Aston University
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Robots at the Science Museum
08/02 - 03/09/2017
Discover the remarkable 500- year story of humanoid robots.
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WES Event Partners
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Electrical/Mechanical Technicians - London Gateway
DP World, Stanford-Le-Hope, Essex
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Senior Teaching Fellow: Development of CPD Programme
UCL Engineering, London
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PhD Vacancies at NSIRC
Five new PhD topics at NSIRC in, Cambridge
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Regional Manager Mechanical
Bureau Veritas, Home based North
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Area Manager Electrical
Bureau Veritas, Home based South of England
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Algorithmic IP Engineer
High Wycombe, Altera
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Software Engineer DSP Builder
High Wycombe, Altera
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SPARXX
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