Electronics & CommunicationsOpportunities
Long-term paraplegics, fully paralysed from the waist down, have experienced a partial recovery after training with virtual reality (VR) and robotic technologies.
Careers Electronic, Electrical
Construction & InfrastructureOpportunities
Dartmouth College, in the US, is celebrating granting 54% of its undergraduate engineering degrees to women.
Careers Civil, Structural
Aerospace, Defence & MarineOpportunities
Womanthologies recent interview with Eleanor Levitt (a graduate engineer at British Airways) showcases some of the ways British Airways is helping promote Engineering.
Careers Aerospace, Mechanical
Opportunities
Group dynamics within teams and internships have been blamed for discouraging women within the industry in a study co-authored by MIT sociologists.
Electronics & CommunicationsOpportunities
A survey by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and released on International Woman’s Day has shown that 78% of the British public think engineering is a good career choice for…
Careers Electronic, Electrical
Construction & InfrastructureOpportunities
Three Northern Ireland women, including two who are mature students and single mothers, have earned QUEST Technician scholarships to pursue their studies in civil engineering.
Careers Civil, Structural
Opportunities
Some of Britain’s talented young women in the engineering sector were invited to Buckingham Palace to attend a reception for a prize named after the Queen.
Opportunities
The ’25 by 25’ initiative at Texas A&M’s College of Engineering is on track, the plan being to enroll 25,000 engineers by 2025, but the number of women enrolling in…
Electronics & CommunicationsOpportunities
The Ada Lovelace Day was celebrated on October 13, an international celebration of the achievements of women in STEM.
Careers Electronic, Electrical
Opportunities
Naomi Climer was appointed president of the IET last week, the first woman to hold the position in the institution’s 144-year-history.
Energy & Environment
A third of girls in the UK aged 11 – 16 don’t think they are smart enough to become a scientist, despite it being one of their favourite subjects, according to a new study released today by EDF Energy.
Careers Electrical, Chemical
Opportunities
Naomi Climer, who will become President of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) on 1 October, says she hopes to help dispel the myth that engineering is a male profession.