WES Annual Conference 2019 Celebrating the Past, Transforming the Future

Friday 15 March 2019 RAF Museum, London

Celebrating one hundred years of the Women’s Engineering Society #WES100 WELCOME

Welcome to the Women’s Engineering Society’s Centenary Conference, held at the RAF Museum, London. Celebrating leading WES chose the 2019 theme, Celebrating The Past, Transforming The Future to women in engineering reflect on the last 100 years and to look forward to what our future might hold. You will find a celebration of our heritage in the Exhibition Hall with the WES Centenary Trail The Academy showcases inspirational women in engineering to and a display of a fraction of our historic collections cared for by the IET Archives. Though celebrate the diversity of the profession www.raeng.org.uk/IWD2019 it would be easy just to enjoy our rich legacy, it comes from the many women pioneers who looked to their future and WES continues to look forward with the Poster Competition organised by the Young Members’ Board. The display showcases the talents of the early career engineers who will play a key role in transforming our future.

Our wonderful range of speakers bring their inspirational experiences and support of women Dr Hayaatun Sillem FIET is CEO of the in engineering to our Conference and the afternoon breakout discussions look at key issues of Royal Academy of Engineering the future: “Vision for WES – the next 100 years”; “Men as Allies?” and “Breaking the Mould”. “Through engineering, you create wealth, you create jobs, you These will enhance WES’ future planning, so please do contribute your thoughts to these create products and services that benefit people. Engineering and important discussions. technology play a significant role in so many aspects of our lives.” We are very grateful for the generous support of the Royal Academy of Engineering, our Headline Sponsor, and Meggitt, our Exhibition Sponsor. Our thanks go to Sally Sudworth who has chaired the Conference Planning Committee over the past two years, and to Professor Anne Trefethen FREng is Dr. Jo Douglas-Harris who organised the Young Members Board Poster Competition. Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Oxford “I like everything about being an engineer – after all, engineers invent, design, build, and analyse all kinds of neat stuff. What’s not to like? Of course, you also get to meet other engineers.” Elizabeth Donnelly Dawn Childs Chief Executive Officer President Women’s Engineering Society Women’s Engineering Society Dr Barbara Lane FREng is a Director and Technology Group UK leader at Arup

“No day is ever the same. I can’t ever remember feeling bored at work or feeling like it’s ‘just a job’. I am genuinely inspired and motivated by the scale and scope of the ideas and initiatives that we can participate in.” CONTENT

Since 2011, the Academy has been leading a programme to enhance diversity and inclusion across engineering. We are working towards our vision of an inclusive profession that attracts and retains people from diverse backgrounds by partnering with 2 The RAF Museum engineering employers and institutions externally, and Fellows and employees internally, 3 Agenda of the day to remove barriers and develop more inclusive cultures. 4 Speakers Biographies 8 Delegates List 10 WES Centenary Trail 12 IET Archive For more on the D&I Programme, visit www.raeng.org.uk/engdiversity To find out more email [email protected] 1 Follow us on social media @RAEngNews #EngDiversity Agenda 9.30am Registration

PART ONE - OUR CHALLENGE 10.00am Welcome and Introduction Elizabeth Donnelly, Chief Executive Officer, Women’s Engineering Society

10.20am KEYNOTE: Leading from the front through changing times Mandy Hickson, Ex-fighter Pilot, RAF and motivational speaker

10.50am Facing the facts Eva Tutchell and John Edmonds, Authors of ‘Man-Made: Why So Few Women Are in Positions of Power?’ (2015) and ‘The Stalled revolution: Is equality for women an impossible dream?’ (2017)

11.30am Tea and coffee break and networking leading into poster session

PART TWO – OUR POTENTIAL 11.45am Poster session: Engineering a better world Thanks to the WES Young Members’ Board for coordinating this session WES Heritage Display showcasing the WES Centenary Trail (funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund) and the WES archives care for by the IET’s Library and Archive team

The RAF Museum 12.30pm Lunch (poster session and WES heritage exhibition continues)

The RAF Museum will be showcasing the new STEM and Heritage Programme which 1.30pm Transforming the future - Panel discussion: Chaired by Jan Peters Panel: Sophie launched in September 2018. Expanding an already popular History-based schools pro- Hutchins, Chair, WES Young Members’ Board, Rachel Higham Managing Director of IT, gramme, new interactive STEM workshops and activities ask students to explore ques- British Telecom; Air Marshal Sue Gray, RAF. tions such as ‘How do pilots stay alive in the air?’, ‘Should drones be allowed in our skies?’ and ‘Do you have what it take to engineer a successful supply drop?’. Come and discover 2.00pm Parallel sessions: Attendees should choose between the below 3 sessions: what the Access & Learning team in consultation with local schools and STEM specialists Breakout session 1: Vision for WES – the next 100 years and with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund have developed. Breakout session 2: Men as Allies? Breakout session 3: Breaking the Mould

2.30pm Tea and coffee break. View the findings from the other break out groups and add your thoughts to their flipcharts.

RAF Stories… PART THREE: OUR FUTURE 3.00pm KEYNOTE: 30% Club – Promoting Diversity Emma Howard-Boyd, Chair, RAF Stories is a digital project that engages both contemporary and historical interpretations Environment Agency of the RAF. The aim of RAF Stories is to collect stories and memoirs, from anyone with any experience of the , whether serving themselves, a veteran, family connections 3.30pm WES: The next 100 Dawn Childs, WES President or enthusiasts. The project records this intangible heritage and makes it available for an expansive and diverse range of audiences across all the Museum’s public-facing digital DRINKS RECEPTION 4.00pm until 6.30pm channels, including online, in gallery, mobile and social. The project consists of a website Networking Drinks Reception In the RAF Museum’s new RAF at 100 displays (rafstories.org) and story collecting mobile app (www.rafstories.org/participate/get-the-app).

2 3 Speakers Biographies

Mandy Hickson Elizabeth Donnelly

10.20 am - “Leading from the Front” 10.00 am - Welcome and Introduction.

Finding a love of flying early in life, Mandy fought hard to achieve her After an early career in IT, Elizabeth graduated from the Open University, ambition to be a Royal Air Force pilot. She was only the second woman specialising in systems thinking. She was awarded Membership of the to fly a Tornado GR4 on the front line, completing three tours of duty Royal Aeronautical Society as a result of her work with Rolls-Royce and and 45 missions over Iraq. She became the Squadron’s Combat Survival went on to lead skills policy in the aerospace industry. Elizabeth chaired and Rescue Officer, working closely with the US, instructing Squadron the RAeS Education and Skills Committee and was Deputy Chair and members on Escape and Evasion tactics. Throughout her time, Mandy founder member of its Women in Aviation and Aerospace Committee. was the only female aircrew and later learned the lessons of juggling Elizabeth also founded the RAeS Amy Johnson Named Lecture. Later, life as a working mother of two young children. Now a civilian, Mandy Elizabeth established her own consulting company, graduated with an draws on her experiences to train and inspire others, covering the core MSc in Systems Thinking in 2017 and in 2018 was appointed CEO of areas of human factors; decision making, communication, leadership, the Women’s Engineering Society. behaviour, workload, conflict, fatigue and stress management. She is a highly sought after keynote speaker in the business and education sectors. Since leaving the RAF, she continues her support for the services in the Volunteer Reserve (VR), through flying on the Air Experience Flight, passing on her experience and enjoyment of flying to Air Cadets. A keen sportswoman in her spare time, Mandy enjoys playing tennis, Eva Tutchell & John Edmonds spinning, cycling and hill walking. In the winter the slopes often are calling to her for some fast paced skiing! 10.50 am - The Stalled Revolution: Is Equality for Women an Impossible Dream?

Eva Tutchell is an expert on gender issues, advising public authorities on challenges and solutions. Starting out as a secondary school teacher, Sally Sudworth Eva’s work has covered all age groups. Her book, Dolls and Dungarees is recommended reading for primary school teachers; she has researched Conference Chair the attitudes of teenagers and particularly of teenage boys; she has Sally is a Fellow of the Women’s Engineering Society and a Fellow of published guidance for schools and colleges on disordered eating and the Institution of Civil Engineers. She is a chartered civil engineer and has developed and taught a module on gender for use in university chartered environmentalist working at the Environment Agency as MA courses. National Program Manager for Asset Management. She is also the lead for sustainability for flood and coast. Sally is passionate about delivering John Edmonds is a trade unionist and specialist in work organisation. sustainable low carbon solutions for the benefit of communities both in For nearly twenty years John was General Secretary of the 700,000 the UK and in sub-Sahara Africa (through her work with engineering member GMB trade union where he increased the representation of charity Engineers for Overseas Development ( EFOD)). Sally is a trustee women throughout the union. He also served as TUC President. More for WES and currently is honorary secretary. She is also the chair for the recently John has focused on environmental issues and on campaigning judging panel for the Karen Burt Award for best female recently char- for a more inclusive system of education and training. He is a Visiting tered engineer. “I find my work incredibly interesting and rewarding and Fellow at King’s College, London, where he studies labour markets and take every opportunity to share how a career in engineering and the gender equality, and a Visiting Professor of Durham University environment can be #bestjobintheworld “ Business School.

4 5 Speakers Biographies

1.30 pm - Transforming the future - Panel Discussion Emma Howard-Boyd

Jan Peters 3.00 pm - 30% Club – Promoting Diversity Dr Jan Peters MBE was the UK National Expert on Women in Science Emma Howard Boyd is the Chair of the Environment Agency, an Ex to the European Commission from 1999 to 2003 as Head of the SET for officio board member of the Department for Environment, Food & Rural women team at DTI and has been instrumental in changing the policy and Affairs, and has recently been appointed as the UK Commissioner to the knowledge landscape for women in STEM. Jan now leads the dialogue on Global Commission on Adaptation. Emma serves on a number of boards cultural transformation in engineering as a consultant to higher education and advisory committees including ShareAction, Menhaden Capital and industry. She is a Royal Academy of Engineering visiting professor PLC, The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability Project and the Green of Cultural Transformation in Engineering and author of the 2018 report Finance Institute. She has worked in financial services for over 25 years, Designing Inclusive Engineering Education. in corporate finance and fund management. As Director of Stewardship at Jupiter Asset Management until July 2014, Emma was integral to the Sophie Hutchins development of their expertise in the corporate governance and sustainability fields. Sophie is the Chair of WES Young Member’s Board (YMB) and a member of WES council. She is passionate about promoting careers in STEM to future generations and is a champion for diversity and inclusion, especially in Engineering. Sophie is a Systems Engineer at Leonardo where she manages Dawn Childs research and development programmes, developing cutting edge technology for military fast jets. 3.30 pm - President’s Address The next 100

DAWN CHILDS MA MBA BEng CEng FICE FIMechE FRAeS FWES Dawn Rachel Higham Childs is the Group Engineering Director for Merlin Entertainments Group Rachel Higham, Managing Director of IT, BT Group Plc Rachel is a with responsibility for engineering delivery, standards, practices and technologist at heart with a life-long passion for the arts. She has spent processes of the worldwide portfolio of more than 120 theme parks, resorts her 23 year career leading technology transformation in the financial and attractions. Prior to Merlin she was the engineering lead at Gatwick services and telecoms sectors with ABN Amro, M&S Money, HSBC, ACE Airport and served as an engineering officer in the Royal Air Force for Group, Vodafone and BT. Rachel is BT’s Managing Director of Information over 20 years. She is a Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor Technology, leading a team of 14,000 across the UK, South East Asia, for aviation and also holds several Non-executive positions as the President Europe and USA. Rachel is passionate about building diverse and inclusive of the Women’s Engineering Society and a Trustee for World Skills UK. teams and is the Executive Sponsor of BT’s multi-award winning TechWomen programme helping BT’s female technologists reach their potential and building a female talent pipeline. Dr Jo Douglas-Harris Air Marshal Sue Gray YMB Poster Competition organiser Air Marshal Susan Catherine Gray, CB, OBE, FREng engineer and senior Dr Jo Douglas-Harris is a Product and Applications Scientist at Venator. In Royal Air Force officer. She served as Director of Combat Air at Defence 2015 Jo joined WES council and became Student Groups and Universities Equipment and Support in the Ministry of Defence (2014–2016), and as Air Liaison. In 2016, she formed and chaired the WES Young Members Board, Officer Commanding No 38 Group (2016–2018). She was recently promoted a group of 12 early career female engineers. Jo has organised #LottieTour for to Air Marshal, becoming Britain’s first ever female three-star officer. She will three years, growing it from 10 WES volunteers to over 150 engineers in 2018 become Director General of the in March 2019. and has managed the Conference Poster Competition for Early Career Engineers.

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Dr. Judith Abolle Edinburgh Napier University Rachael Eynon University of Strathclyde Arabella Nock Open University Laura Adams EDF Energy Kristen Ferma WSP UK Limited Harriet-Rose Noons Abbott Diabetes Care Helen Addis Cordant Engineering Anna Flockett Electronic Specifier Dr Anne Nortcliffe Canterbury Christ Church Jane Ali QinetiQ Asha Gage IET Archives University Glyn Amphlett Allianz Emelia Galkowska BAE Systems Kanwulia Okafor Airbus Nigel Armstrong Pi Partners Ltd Sasha Gallagher Lloyd’s Register Lynne Palmer MOD Mel Armstrong The Manufacturing Technology Centre Stephen Gill SGA Dimitra Papazoglou Cadence Design Systems Natalia Awodeji SCTE Jennifer Glover Loughborough University Jo Parker Watershed Associates Pip Ayton Women’s Engineering Society Professor Graeme Gooday University of Leeds Linsey Perry Network Rail Sukhpreet Bansal Airbus Ellie Gormley EG Project Services Dr Jan Peters MBE Speaker - Katalytik Alison Baptiste Infrastructure and Projects Authority Nicola Grahamslaw SS Great Britain Andrianne Philippou LUBE MAGAZINE / UKLA Victoria Barbour-Smith Arup Victoria Gratte Gratte Brothers Sharlene Phillips Pfizer R&D Claire Bate United Kingdom Accreditation Service Petra Gratton Brunel University London Carol Porter HICSE Deborah Beddow BT TIm Green Imperial College London Jane Priston MKC Training Nadia Beleno Uniper Catherine Gruber Water & Wasterwater Benonia Quist Cranfield Alison Benn AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals Engineer (M&E) Helen Ramsay Abbott Diabetes Care Lorna Bennet Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult Isabelle Haigh National Grid Rosti Readioff Keele University Sue Bird Women’s Engineering Society Professor Sarah Hainsworth, OBE Aston University Grace Reidy Transport for London Sadiqa Ali Firstco Carley Hale East Sussex County Council Angelika Reinhard Eisenmann Hilda Blount Women’s Engineering Society Catherine Hallett Highways England Vickie Roberts Lloyd’s Register Rhianne Boag International Nuclear Services Beth Harrod University of Sunderland Caroline Roche Capula Ltd Dawn Bonfield MBE Aston University Freya Haworth Three Helen Rogers Cundall Betty Bonnardel AB5 CONSULTING LTD Giselle Hayward Brunel University Janet A Sackey Firstco Barbara Bourgade Loughborough University Katie Hebborn Swansea University Deanna Sharma Nestle Faye Bowser Siemens Alice Henderson East Sussex County Council Cathy Sinclair FM Global Jess Boydon Royal Air Force Museum Ursula Heng Procter & Gamble Mirka Singh WSP UK Limited Anni Broadhead Support Network IMECHE Genevieve Hibbs PhD G M Hibbs Associates Imogen Stevenson Siemens Caroline Brown BAE Systems Mandy Hickson Hickson-Experience Monica Stancu Royal Academy of Engineering Jayne Bryant BAE Systems Applied Intelligence from the Front Line Sally Sudworth Environment Agency Samantha Buckell IOR Women in RACHP Rachel Higham BT Katie Tavini University of Sussex Dr Susan Bullivant Women’s Engineering Society Dr Adrienne Houston Eurovacuum Products Ltd Heather Taylor Environment Agency Grace Carey University of Kent Emma Howard Boyd Environment Agency Samantha Terry National Grid Pat Carey University of Portsmouth Sophie Hutchins Leonardo/Chair of WES YMB Becky Thomas Leonardo MW Barbra Carlisle Arcadis Anna Jackson BAE Systems Helen Edwards Intel Corporation Megan Carmichael Gratte Brothers Mivy James BAE Systems Dimitra Tsakmakidou Loughborough University Ruth Carter MWES Hedieh Jazaeri The Open University Eva Tutchell Conference Speaker Sarah Castle RAF Museum Grace Johnstone BAE Systems Sarah Valentine East Sussex County Council Anna Catheya Procter & Gamble Monira Kaouech IHEEM Rhiannon Vaughan-Jones EMCOR UK Johana Chandrakanthan BAE Systems Aspa Karanasiou Cadence Design Systems Rallia Velliou University College London Mamtha Chandrasekaran Meggitt Airframe Systems Christopher Kehoe EMCOR UK SSgt Babs Vinden-Cantrell 170 (Infra Sp) Jennie Chapman EDF Energy Kelly Kendall Cordant People Engineering Group, Niharika Chaturvedi University of Sunderland Kathryn Kesselman EDF Energy Hayley Wakeford Portsmouth Water Dawn Childs WES President/ Merlin Entertainment Dr K J Kirk - Kate Ward Spartacus Associates Limited Randi Christensen Lower Thames Crossing Laura Knowles Environment Agency Grazyna Whapshott IET Magdalini Christia PTA Consultants Lara Lewington University of Brighton Dr Alice White Wellcome Collection Lauren-Xante Claassen UWE Helena Livesey Uk Atomic Energy Authority Deborah Whitworth-Hilton Uniper Joanna Collingwood University of Warwick Anne Locker IET Milada Williams Women’s Engineering Society Sarah Cooper Leonardo Dr Helen Lockett The Open University Jane Wilkie SPEnergyNetworks Mrs Lucy Corrie East Sussex County Council Ameni Lounissi NSIRC Dr Connie Wilson BAE SYSTEMS Holly Craven Royal Engineers Dr Ann Lourens Nelson Mandela University Anita Woolf Harper Adams University Dr Katherine Critchley Safran Seats Bethany Lowe BAE Systems Inge Woudstra Expert in Gender Balance Zoe Davidson University of Bristol Helen Loy Allianz Kirsty Wynne Crux Product Design Tymele Deydier Loughborough University Johnny Lyttle Environment Agency Shia Yamamoto Uniper Put your brain into action. Apply. Alison Dodd NSIRC Nuria Manuel Cummins Sarah Yates Freelance Researcher and Editor Joanna Donegan-Edwards Dartford Science and Emily Marston Meggitt Technology College Betty McCarthy Retired Women’s Engineering Society Staff MBDA can offer you a great career whichever way you think about it. Rebecca Dorey National Grid John McCollum BAE Systems Elizabeth Donnelly Women’s Engineering Society Jo Douglas-Harris Women’s Engineering Marnie McKay University of Strathclyde Ceryl Evans Women’s Engineering Society From benefi ts that suit your lifestyle to engineering projects that are Society Trustee Helen J Meekings UK Export Finance Jacqui Hawkes Women’s Engineering Society the most advanced of their kind, you can fulfi l your potential with us. Sharon Duffy Transport for London Nikki Morre Allianz Cath Heslop Women’s Engineering Society Pauline Dumont Delta Motorsport David Moorey Allianz Eleanor Hill Women’s Engineering Society Jen Durie Cundall Rachel Morath Dow Lynn Postle Editor - The Woman Engineer Rosie Echeverry Crux Product Design Katie Murray AstraZeneca Jo Weaver Women’s Engineering Society www.mbdacareers.co.uk John Edmonds Researcher and writer Su Nandy Imperial College London Jo Yates Women’s Engineering Society Amy Edwards Leonardo Dr Nida Naveed University of Sunderland Alina Erkulova Hurtwood House Samantha Neame East Sussex County Council Jessica Grace Photographer Kim Everitt Aston Martin Lagonda Grace Nolan Rapid News Olga Evstafyeva Amey Strategic Consulting Communications Group - Women in Plastics A number of delegates have asked us not to share their details.

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For our Centenary year, WES have created an exciting new heritage project that Britain, yet she is only known to subject Come and take part in a Wikithon and add works to highlight the history of women in engineering in the UK. Our specialists, rather than being a famous name to the visibility of influential women. The Centenary Trail Map will be an interactive online resource designed to grow with films inspired by her work as happened engineering sector remains heavily male and develop as we learn more about notable WES women who have left a to some male engineers of the era. These dominated and only 11% of the British are just a few examples of WES women who engineering workforce is female; less than legacy of engineering achievement. Launching in June, it will plot the locations do have a Wikipedia page but whose stories 18% of Wikipedia biographies are of women. of these women as their biographies are added to Wikipedia, the world’s largest should be more widely celebrated. Help WES to do its bit and set the record free encyclopaedia. By recording and sharing the history of WES with a wider straight – women engineers have always public, we will be building an audience for women’s history and encouraging Many other inspiring women have yet to been a force to be reckoned with! girls, as well as boys, to think of engineering as an exciting and valuable career. be added to Wikipedia. Their stories can be found in the WES archive, hosted by the IET Our next Wikithons are planned for April 3rd Archives (see their article on page 12) including at UWE Bristol and May 18th at the LSE in Supported by the National Lottery Heritage From the start, WES was created by a team the WES supported digitisation of our Journal London. Check @WESCentenary on Twitter Fund, and inspired by a growing movement determined to encourage women to enter the ‘The Woman Engineer’. We are asking as or @wes_centenary on Instagram for more to add to the pages of women in STEM onto profession of engineering. Those first pioneers many WES members as possible to take part information. Wikipedia, the fifth most visited website in of women’s technical abilities included Laura and research this history. the world, we are running Wikithons across Annie Willson MBE, who co-founded an the UK, training volunteers in the skills they engineering works in Halifax; Lady Margaret need to create and update Wikipedia pages. Moir OBE, social campaigner and lathe Working in partnership with Heritage Open operator in WWI; Caroline Haslett DBE, Days, we can highlight individual stories and WES’s first Secretary and mainstay as well link them to events in different regions. as a founder of the Electrical Association for Mapping these events onto our Centenary Women and powerful advocate for women Trail will encourage members of the public to in engineering; and Rachel Parsons, one of MAGNIFICENT WOMEN & THEIR REVOLUTIONARY MACHINES get involved and learn more about the history the first women to study Mechanical Sciences The True Story of Britain’s Early Women Engineers of women in engineering. (Engineering) at Cambridge and a director of the Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company; By Henrietta Heald The WES Young Members Board are taking as well as our first WES President. part too, expanding this year’s #WESLottieTour and asking volunteers to recreate scenes Women often pursued opportunities in This fascinating book is available to pre-order from the publishers Unbound from women’s engineering past and contrast newer technologies, such as aeronautical and Order a first-edition book and get your name printed in the back as special thanks them with current day working practices in a electrical engineering. Margaret Partridge Get 10% off with the code WES #ThenandNow theme, using accessories and was an electrical contractor who once wrote Ends 7 April 2019 workwear created for us by the Lottie Doll’s “for sheer exciting experience give me a town manufacturers, Arklu Ltd. to light”. She set up apprentice schemes for VISIT UNBOUND.COM/BOOKS/MW women, helped change the International WES has a proud history of supporting women Labour Organisation convention on night into employment and education across a wide work for women and encouraged the use of range of careers. And yet the names of very the electricity in the home to alleviate few women engineers are widely known. Pilot domestic drudgery. Beatrice ‘Tilly’ Shilling, Amy Johnson is perhaps the most famous one of her apprentices, went on to invent a member of the Women’s Engineering Society, modified valve for Spitfire and Merlin engines but we know that many more women have (rather vulgarly nicknamed Miss Shilling’s contributed to the success of British industry Orifice by the RAF) which played a significant and achievement. role in Britain’s ability to win the Battle of

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Institution of Engineering and Technology Archives This year International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) is Interested in finding out more about the history of WES and women in engineering and “Transforming The Future”… technology? Visit us at the IET Archives to find out more. We are open to WES members and This year International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) is the general public, in person, via our website or by phone and email. For more information, “Transforming The Future”… go to the IET Archives website (https://www.theiet.org/publishing/library-archives/the-iet- Sunday 23 June will mark 2019’s, International Women in Engineering Day (#INWED19). archives/), visit our blog (https://ietarchivesblog.org/) or follow us on Twitter (@IETLibArch #TransformTheFuture and Pinterest (https://www.pinterest.co.uk/ietarchives/) SundayWe will 23 be June encouraging will mark participants 2019’s, International to show the world Women how they in Engineering can Day (#INWED19).in pursuit of more diversity in engineering.

We will be encouraging participants to show the world how they can #TransformTheFuture in The collections: This year during our sixth INWED, and celebrating the 100-year milestone for WES, we hope you will join us in recognising the outstandingpursuit of moreachievements diversity of inwomen engineering. engineers throughout the world! Women’s Engineering Society (NAEST 092) Electrical Association for Women (NAEST 092) We look forward to hearing about your events & together making #INWED19 the best year yet! Discover the history of the Women’s The Electrical Association or Women (EAW) This year during our sixth INWED, and celebrating the 100-year milestone for WES, we hope you will Engineering Society, from its foundation in was founded in 1924, focused on encouraging join us in recognisingTo register the your outstanding INWED event achievements please visit www.inwed.org.uk/events of women engineers throughout-2019 the world! 1919 to the current day. This collection includes women to use electricity in the home. One We look forward to hearing about your events & together making #INWED19 the best year yet! minute books, correspondence, photographs of its early slogans was ‘Emancipation from Visit our website- www.inwed.org.uk, if you have any questions please contact [email protected] and even press cuttings. The Woman Engineer Drudgery’. The EAW wanted women to be To register your INWED event please visit www.inwed.org.uk/events-2019 journal is packed with interesting technical active and educated consumers. It also trained We would like to thank our early sponsors on board for INWED 2019, including; articles and news of members, and thanks domestic science teachers and electricity to a digitisation project headed by WES, it is showroom demonstrators. Visit our website- www.inwed.org.uk, if you have any questions please contact [email protected] available as a full-text digital resource via the Archives website. (https://www.theiet.org/ See also… We would like to thank our early sponsors on board for INWED 2019, including; publishing/library-archives/the-iet-archives/ The history of women in engineering doesn’t the-woman-engineer-journal/) end with the collections above. More work is being done on identifying and researching Dame Caroline Haslett (NAEST 033) women in all areas of engineering, from the Dame Caroline joined WES as its first secretary electrical engineer Hertha Ayrton (elected in 1919. She would go on to become the first a Member of the IEE in 1899) to the women editor of its journal, WES President, founder employed by companies such as STC. If you’d and Director of the Electrical Association for like to conduct your own research, we’d love Women and the first woman to sit on the British to hear from you. Electricity Authority. Her personal papers show her extraordinary career, not only with WES but also in her government and voluntary work. 12 13

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