Automotive & TransportOpportunities
A new scheme will offer schoolgirls work experience at Network Rail, who will hold open evenings to introduce females to the rail industry.
Careers Mechanical, Electrical
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The campaign will be launched in the Humber region next month and will target schools, students, employees and parents.
Automotive & Transport
Despite females outperforming males in science GCSE exams, fewer girls choose STEM subjects to continue with at A level.
Careers Mechanical, Electrical
Opportunities
Project Juno is run by the Institute of Physics and aims to address the issue of under-representation of women in physics, as well as improving the workplace culture.
Queen Mary University in London has been awarded ‘champion status’ for its commitment to gender equality in physics.
Opportunities
Scottish engineering firm Enermech has highlighted the success of its new scholarship, aimed at encouraging more women and ethnic minorities into the industry.
Energy & EnvironmentOpportunities
Around 110 pupils from schools in the North East celebrated National Women in Engineering Day by taking part in a “zombie challenge” organised by the Institution of Civil Engineers.
Careers Electrical, Chemical
Construction & InfrastructureOpportunities
Today is National Women in Engineering Day. There has been plenty of media coverage of the event and a particularly good piece in City A.M. authored by Roma Agrawal, a…
Careers Civil, Structural
Opportunities
The Times has run a profile piece on Sarah Haslam, Powertrain Engineering Manager at Ford Motors, in which she talks about her day-to-day work, her journey into engineering and the need to get more women into engineering.
Manufacturing
West Bromwich based foundry Aluminium Products Ltd has appointed a female MD Gina Steventon. Steventon has 28 years’ experience and has stated that the quality and performance of the firm…
Careers Manufacturing, Automation
HealthOpportunities
29-year-old Nicky Ashwell has been fitted with the world’s most lifelike bionic hand. The hand has been developed by prosthetic limb supplier Steeper using Formula One technology and a skeletal structure.
Careers Biomedical
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Two members of the Institute of Physics have been awarded Queen’s Birthday Honours. Editor-in-chief of Nature Philip Campbell has been made a Knight Bachelor for his work in science, including…