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Volume II RISING to the TOP Volume II RISING TO THE TOP GLOBAL WOMEN ENGINEERING LEADERS SHARE THEIR JOURNEYS TO PROFESSIONAL SUCCESS VOLUME II - INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION SOCIETIES & GLOBAL ENGINEERING DEANS COUNCIL Copyright © 2020 by IFEES Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any manner without written permission of the copyright owner except for the use of quotations in a book review. First Volume: October 2019 Second Volume: November 2020 Published by the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies and Global Engineering Deans Council www.IFEES.net | www.GEDCouncil.org ISBN Hardcover 978-1-716-35215-7 ISBN Paperback 978-1-716-35214-0 ISBN eBook 978-1-716-42296-6 Jacket design by 5mediadesign.com Cover illustrations Shutterstock.com Edited by Bonnie Munday Interior design set by Kayla Hellal Production Editor: Aliki Pappas Project Coordinator: Salma Wahba A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO THE COORDINATING COMMMITTEE Soma Chakrabarti Stephanie Farrell Hans Jürgen Hoyer Khairiyah Mohd Yusof Bonnie Munday Prathiba Nagabhushan Şirin Tekinay TABLE OF CONTENTS ARÇELIK INTRODUCTION..............................................VIII Oğuzhan Öztürk COORDINATING COMMITTEE INTRODUCTION..............X Soma Chakrabarti, Khairiyah Mohd-Yusof, and Şirin Tekinay JOURNEY 1........................................................................ 1 Together, We Are Stronger, by Valerie Agberagba (Nigeria) JOURNEY 2...................................................................... 15 Secrets of Success: Balance and Self Discipline, by Raida Al- Alawi (Bahrain) JOURNEY 3...................................................................... 33 Where They Stand, We Stand Out, by Carlien Dorcas Bou-Chedid (Ghana) JOURNEY 4......................................................................49 Never Stop Reaching for the Top, by Barbara P Chan (Hong Kong) JOURNEY 5...................................................................... 63 Developing a Life, Developing a Country, by Maria Teresa Dalenz Zapata (Bolivia) JOURNEY 6...................................................................... 75 Commitment and Leadership: Lifelong Lessons, by Stephanie Farrell (United States of America) JOURNEY 7...................................................................... 93 Versatility is Crucial for Success, by Irene Campos Gómez (Costa Rica) { iii } JOURNEY 8................................................................... 103 Becoming an Agent of Change, by Jun Dongol Hada (Nepal) JOURNEY 9................................................................... 121 A Serendipitous Journey, by Masoumeh Nasiri Kenari (Iran) JOURNEY 10.................................................................. 137 Twists, Turns—and No Regrets, by Aneta Magdziarz (Poland) JOURNEY 11.................................................................. 151 The Twists and Turns of a STEM Career, by Gail Mattson (United States of America) JOURNEY 12.................................................................. 165 Uncertain Roads to My Destiny, by Reine Essobmadje Mbang (Cameroon) JOURNEY 13.................................................................. 181 Being a Woman, Being a Professional: Our Gifts are Many, by Elisa María Ruiz Navas (Spain) JOURNEY 14.................................................................. 195 My Life Among, and For, Engineers, by Tatiana Polyakova (Russia) JOURNEY 15.................................................................. 215 On Obstacles, and the Resilience of Women, by Ariunbolor Purvee (Mongolia) { iv } JOURNEY 16.................................................................. 227 The World Needs Women Engineers, by Niranjanie Ratnayake (Sri Lanka) JOURNEY 17.................................................................. 243 Engineering Pedagogy: I did it My Way, by Tiia Rüütmann (Estonia) JOURNEY 18.................................................................. 259 Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Journey of a Female Engineer, by Reem Sabouni (United Arab Emirates) JOURNEY 19.................................................................. 277 The Engineer, The Trailblazer, by Lydia G. Tansinsin (Philippines) JOURNEY 20.................................................................. 297 A Woman Engineer in Myanmar: My Journey, by Khin Sandar Tun (Myanmar) JOURNEY 21.................................................................. 309 Moving from Strength to Strength, by Loreto Valenzuela (Chile) JOURNEY 22.................................................................. 319 Engineering Without Borders, by Lidia Zakowska (Poland) AFTERWORD................................................................. 335 Hans Jürgen Hoyer { v } { vi } A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO ARÇELIK, WHOSE GENEROUS SUPPORT HAS HELPED MAKE THIS BOOK POSSIBLE www.arcelikglobal.com { vii } INTRODUCTION BOOK SPONSOR OĞUZHAN ÖZTÜRK Chief Technology Officer, Arçelik Extraordinary times create extraordinary solutions that disrupt the global norms and mindsets. Going through the COVID-19 pandemic, we have especially witnessed the increased urge and necessity for open innovation, bringing academicians, universities, institutions, start-ups and companies from multiple sectors and disciplines together in a network of unprecedented interaction. Women’s abilities in collaborative networking, creating value, welcoming change and coping with crisis have strengthened females’ role and leadership in fundamental, applied and experimental research organizations. The struggle to find a vaccine for the virus has reinforced the importance of fundamental sciences, creating opportunities for fields where women researchers are exceptionally powerful. Whether remotely working from home or personally working in laboratories and offices, women researchers and engineers have also shown superb social skills in maintaining work-life balance and fulfilling their professional and maternal responsibilities simultaneously. This period has been specifically difficult as the children and all the members of the family are at home. I can wholeheartedly say that women’s contribution to the well-being of our planet has been globally recognized and appreciated during the pandemic and hope that the stories of women engineering leaders shared in this book will inspire more women to pursue careers that will create a world of difference. { viii } A special thank you goes out to our sponsors, without whom this great initiative would not be possible. https://www.mathworks.com/ https://en.coe.pku.edu.cn/ https://emergingtechuniversity.com/ https://emergetech.org/ { ix } INTRODUCTION COORDINATING COMMITTEE MEMBERS SOMA CHAKRABARTI ŞIRIN TEKINAY The first volume of the book “Rising to the Top” was published in 2019. Since then, we have had numerous occasions when young women engineers came to us and said that how much hope and dreams the book and each one of its chapters brought to them. That was beyond gratifying. It meant a lot to all of us who were involved in the making of Rising to the Top and searching for women engineering leaders’ journeys -- their stories. We realized that our work did not end there. In fact, it just started. We identified 22 more women engineering leaders from different countries from all different corners of the world– from Hong Kong to Bahrain to Poland to Myanmar to Estonia – and invited them to write their journeys for this new volume. They did. They wrote their life stories, their struggles, their challenges, their aspirations, and triumphs for the world to know. Each one of their journeys is different yet, once again, the common thread of overcoming challenges and realization of dreams is palpable. Each is an inspiration itself. Each will encourage little girls to succeed as an engineering leader. We present this new volume – with the first forms a compilation of journeys of 54 global women engineering leaders --to you with the hope that { x } it brings as much joy to you as it has brought to us. We are humbled to have ushered this book through its journey from conception to materialization to share it with you. It has been a true labor of our love. We will be completely remiss if we forget to thank the man behind this book – our very own Professor Hans J. Hoyer. His untiring effort in giving life to the book was contagious. We also would like to thank Bonnie Munday for her marvelous editing and to Aliki Pappas for coordinating the project. Enjoy! You are holding in your hands a collection of journeys taken by different women from all the different continents, women from backgrounds and environments that differ in more ways than can be counted, including culturally, educationally, ethnically, and generationally. What weaves the collection together is that the authors are engineering leaders, mostly from academia, and several from industry, who have “made it” or are role models. At least, that was the initial idea: to have women engineering leaders from around the world contribute to this project by sharing their personal journeys. We ended up with not just that, but much more. It started with candid conversations initiated by Prof. Hans-Jürgen Hoyer, Secretary General of the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES) and Executive Secretary of the Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC). He had become inspired after reading a piece written by Tagwa Musa, of Sudan, about her journey in academia (a piece he had requested). This led to those candid conversations with women engineering leaders,
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