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Women's Engineering Society eNewsletter
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Welcome to the newly formatted & mobile-friendly November edition of the WES newsletter!
In this month's newsletter we have included some upcoming events for your diary including the Engineering & Construction Recruitment Exhibition and the Young Woman Engineer of the Year Awards Ceremony. WES sends a big congratulations to Clare Lavelle for winning the Karen Burt Award 2016! WES also held the annual Student Conference on 18-19 November and it was a huge success. Read more about these in the WES Updates section.
Job listings are found in the WES Jobs section below or you can click here.
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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Clare Lavelle Wins Karen Burt Award
The Women's Engineering Society is delighted to announce the winner of the Karen Burt Award 2016 as the Energy Institute's candidate Clare Lavelle. This prestigious annual award for a newly chartered woman engineer, now in its 18th year, recognises the candidate's excellence and potential in the practice of engineering, highlights the importance of Chartered status, as well as offering recognition to contributions made by the candidate to the promotion of the engineering profession. Read more here
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Dawn Bonfield finalist for GEDC Airbus Diversity Award
in Seoul, Korea
The GEDC Airbus Diversity Award recognises the people and projects worldwide which have encouraged students of all profiles and backgrounds to study and succeed in engineering. Three finalists were selected to present their projects to a distinguished jury at the WEEF and GEDC Conference, held in Seoul, Korea from 6 - 10 November 2016. Dawn Bonfield was one of three finalists, selected for creating the National Women in Engineering Day, a UK national awareness campaign to raise the profile of women in engineering and focus attention on the exciting career opportunities available to girls in the engineering sector.
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WES Student Conference
This past week, nearly 120 students from 23 universities attended our 8th annual Student Conference. These students represent all major sub-disciplines of engineering including electrical, chemical, mechanical, product design, aerospace, environmental and civil engineering. The theme this year was 'Developing Professional Engineering Competencies', which the students gained through a selection of CPD sessions. Additionally, they were inspired by guest speakers discussing a range of topics, including technical leadership, role models and confidence. A highlight of the event was the banquet dinner, which provided an excellent opportunity for the students to network with the sponsors, as well as laugh their way through a very entertaining after-dinner talk by Rhys Morgan, Director of Engineering and Education at the Royal Academy of Engineering. A very special thank you to our sponsors: BAE Systems, BP, Finning UK & Ireland, FM Global, Instron, Leonardo MW, Mars Petcare UK and Proctor & Gamble.
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Lottie goes on an engineering tour with WES!
During Tomorrow's Engineers Week, members of WES council and Young Members Board took Lottie's STEM themed robot doll on a tour to show what an engineer does day-to-day. Lottie Doll visited companies including Instron, Airbus, Scottish Power and The Smallpeice Trust, and travelled to Egypt and Germany! She also got involved in some recent twitter campaigns including #9percentisnotenough, #ILookLikeAnEngineer and #WeAreMoreThanShoes. For more photos search #LottieTour on Twitter and Instagram!
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Internships
Graduate Programmes
- Mechanical Engineering Graduate | Tarmac
- Electrified Vehicle Product Development Graduate Programme | Ford, Essex
- Product Development Graduate Programme | Ford, Essex
- Graduate Electrical / Electronics Engineer | Airbus, Stevenage
- Airbus Flight Physics Graduate | Airbus, Filton
- Airbus Graduate Programme | Airbus; Filton, Bristol and Broughton, Chester
- Airbus Defence and Space Graduate Programme | Airbus; Portsmouth, Stevenage, Hawthorn, Guildford, Newcastle, Newport
Senior Positions
- Director, Engineering & Validation (Cell & Gene Therapy) |GSK, Stevenage
- EMEA HR Programs Manager, AEG | Eaton, Titchfield
- Finance Manager | Eaton, Titchfield
- Aftermarket Planning Supervisor | Eaton, Titchfield
- Country Sales Director | Eaton, Slough
- EHS Manager | Eaton; Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire
- Operations Manager | Eaton, Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire
- Manufacturing Manager | Eaton, Havant
- Vision System Engineer | Altera, High Wycombe
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Engineering and Construction Recruitment Exhibition
25-26 November 2016 | NEC, Birmingham
The UK's top engineering & construction employers will be actively recruiting professionals of all levels, from recent graduates looking for their first step on the career ladder, to experienced engineers looking to try something new. WES Council member Fiona Okonkwo will be speaking at the Women in Engineering Forum on Friday 25th November. Read more here
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The Young Woman Engineer (YWE) of the Year
Awards Ceremony
1 December 2016 | IET London, Savoy Place
Please join us to show your support for the incredibly inspiring and talented young female engineers of our industry. This event is a fantastic opportunity to network and be seen by our recruitment sponsors who are actively looking to recruit women. To register your attendance for free and find out more about the finalists, please visit our website at www.theiet.org/ywe.
The Women's Engineering Society Prize is also awarded at this ceremony to a young female engineer who is able to engage and inspire young people's involvement in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Find out more about the WES Prize here.
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Free event: Creating value from data through
statistics & engineering
5 December 2016 | London
This event is jointly hosted by the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Statistical Society. Join us at the Academy to hear our expert panel discuss how the fields of engineering and statistics, along with other disciplines, can work together to address future challenges around big data, and the many opportunities materialising at the interface of these disciplines. Read more here |
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Nissan & Infiniti Suppliers Day
13 December 2016 | Bedford
Motiv8 are delighted to announce the addition of Nissan to our Client Portfolio of OEM's and we are hosting our first In-House Technical Forum on site at the Nissan Technical Centre Europe in December this year. Read more here |
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Robots at the Science Museum
8 February - 3 September 2017 | London
Discover the remarkable 500- year story of humanoid robots. Opening in February 2017, our next blockbuster exhibition will explore the 500-year story of humanoid robots and the artistic and scientific quest to understand what it means to be human.
Read more here |
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2017 FDM everywoman in Technology Awards
9 February 2017 | London
The Awards encourage greater numbers of women to work in tech, driving awareness of career opportunities, as well as showcasing the breadth and diversity of talent contributed by women in tech across industries.
Read more here |
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SMASHfestUK 2017 call for engineers!
16-17 February 2017 | South East London
SMASHfestUK returns to South East London to entertain the young people of Deptford and their families.
In the wake of the SUPERVOLCANIC ERUPTION we will need your help to build a survival village for volcanic refugees. We need you to engage with the young people and get them involved in the project, so engineers give us a shout! We also need volunteers from all other fields to make this work so please get in touch if you can help save Deptford from its Volcanic Fate!
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Women in the workplace seminar
23 February 2017 | Central London
Guest of Honour: Caroline Dinenage MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Women, Equalities and Early Years
Key topics for discussion will include the gender pay gap; tackling sex and maternity discrimination; improving the availability of high-quality childcare provision and the challenges for increasing the proportion of women in leadership and executive management positions within the British economy.
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Terrific Scientists
The BBC needs you! As part of exciting new science campaign aimed at primary school children and their teachers BBC learning are putting together a series of videos called "Terrific Scientists" in which real life scientists have the chance to nominate their most inspirational scientific hero. They are looking for a mix of male and female scientists from across disciplines and nationalities. They can be world famous or lesser know, dead or alive but they must be inspirational!
If you would like to submit a video the closing date is the 30th November 2016.
Read more here
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All things engineering at Where Women Work
Where Women Work celebrated "Tomorrow's Engineers Week" by giving away copies of the inspiring children's book "Rosie Revere Engineer". They also covered at the House of Commons the University of Sheffield's exciting launch of the "Engineering Is" campaign that aims to challenge perceptions of engineering and inspire primary school children - particularly young girls - to consider studying engineering at university.
A big part of Where Women Work's focus is interviewing and profiling impressive women engineers and featuring them on their website, in newsletters and magazines. Read about some of the impressive female engineers from great companies like AECOM, Arup, Schneider Electric, GKN, Thales and more. If you'd like to be profiled and help inspire others about the world of engineering, please contact the Where Women Work editorial team.
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Women of Science Campaign
Women of Science is a campaign based around sharing the real stories of women working or studying in STEM. The campaign shares photos and quotes from women from all areas of STEM in an aim to give real role models to young girls interested in STEM subjects, to counteract the lack of these in the media and under-representation of women in STEM across educational institutions. The launch of the full website will be 5th December, sign up here to be the first get notified of our first story.
Also, follow us across social media to get a daily dose of stories from women in STEM:
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Questionnaire: Gender performances in the construction industry
Hannah Wilson is a third year Geography student at the University of Exeter looking for participants to assist in her dissertation research. Hannah's dissertation is focused on gender performances in the construction industry. She is looking to understand if there are prominent behaviours reinforcing gender inequality and to gain an understanding for experiences in which individuals have been excluded. If you are interested in participating in this study, the questionnaire can be found here.
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The Talent 2030 National Engineering Competition for Girls
For the fifth time the National Centre for Universities and Business (NCUB) is running the Talent 2030 National Engineering Competition for Girls. The competition is free to enter and is sponsored by Rolls-Royce, PepsiCo and Centrica. For the chance to win £1000, we invite girls aged 11-18 to submit their ideas for 'How can engineers solve the challenges of the 21st century?', giving them the opportunity to explore engineering as well as winning some fantastic prizes. Submission deadline is Friday 16th December and prizes will be awarded at the Big Bang Fair in March 2017
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Post Career Break Fellowship at CERN
CERN has launched a programme to offer full-time or part-time Fellowships to science and engineering graduates wishing to re-start their careers. This is an outstanding chance for you to update your knowledge and skills working for up to three years in an international environment at the forefront of research. Deadline to submit applications: 28 February 2017. Read more here
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We would like to thank all our Corporate and Education Partners for their continuing support of WES.
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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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