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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
Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Oxford
Dr. Jo Douglas-Harris who organised the Young Members Board Poster Competition.
“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 diversityteam@raeng.org.uk
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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 Royal Air Force, 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).
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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.
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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 Defence Safety Authority in March 2019. and has managed the Conference Poster Competition for Early Career Engineers.
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Delegates List
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, British Army
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
Put your brain into action. Apply.
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
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 benefits that suit your lifestyle to engineering projects that are
Society Trustee Helen J Meekings UK Export Finance Jacqui Hawkes
Cath Heslop
Women’s Engineering Society
Women’s Engineering Society
the most advanced of their kind, you can fulfil your potential with us.
Sharon Duffy Transport for London Nikki Morre Allianz
Pauline Dumont Delta Motorsport David Moorey Allianz Eleanor Hill Women’s Engineering Society
Jen Durie
Rosie Echeverry
Cundall
Crux Product Design
Rachel Morath
Katie Murray
Dow
AstraZeneca
Lynn Postle
Jo Weaver
Editor - The Woman Engineer
Women’s Engineering Society
w w w.m bda ca re e r s.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.
8WES Centenary Trail
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
to some male engineers of the era. These dominated and only 11% of the British
and develop as we learn more about notable WES women who have left a
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
By Henrietta Heald
the Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company;
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
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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
10Institution 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
technology? Visit us at the IET Archives to find out more. We are open to WES members and This year International WomenThe Future”…
in Engineering Day (INWED) is
the general public, in person, via our website or by phone and email. For more information, “Transforming The Future”…
Sunday 23 June will mark 2019’s, International Women in Engineering Day (#INWED19).
go to the IET Archives website (https://www.theiet.org/publishing/library-archives/the-iet-
archives/), visit our blog (https://ietarchivesblog.org/) or follow us on Twitter (@IETLibArch
We will
Sunday 23beJune
encouraging
will markparticipants to show the world
2019’s, International how they
Women can #TransformTheFuture
in Engineering in
Day (#INWED19).
and Pinterest (https://www.pinterest.co.uk/ietarchives/)
pursuit of more diversity in engineering.
WeThis
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be during
encouraging participants to show the world how they can #TransformTheFuture in
The collections: our sixth INWED, and celebrating the 100-year milestone for WES, we hope you will
pursuit of more
join us in recognising the outstanding diversity
achievements of in engineering.
women 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 To register
join us in recognising theyour INWED event
outstanding please visit www.inwed.org.uk/events-2019
achievements of women engineers throughout 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 inwed@wes.org.uk
and even press cuttings. The Woman Engineer Drudgery’. The EAW wanted women to be Tolike
register your
journal is packed with interesting technical active and educated consumers. It also trained We would to thank our INWED eventon
early sponsors please
boardvisit www.inwed.org.uk/events-2019
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 inwed@wes.org.uk
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.
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