For this year's INWED campaign, we will be celebrating with an afternoon of scheduled webinars including themes such as '100 years of WES' as our Centenary year comes to an end , raising topics to coincide with our campaign theme 'Shape the World' & celebrating this year's Top 50 Women in Engineering (WE50)

 

Speakers and event agenda will be released soon, so keep an eye out for announcements made on our website and social media.  The event will require pre-event registration via link. This will be available soon.

 

For more information, please contact Jo Weaver, Events Manager: [email protected]

McCann - Cycle to Spain

Many of our Partners have actively been getting involved in helping the nation with its current crisis. This may be through innovative engineering, lab testing facilities or indeed charity.

 

We are delighted to share that Partners McCann  have launched their 'cycle to spain challenge'. This is all to encourage their stagg to maintain positive mental and p[hysical health. Their initiative is to raise funds for the NHS and all donations will be doubled by McCann.  Click here to donate .

 

Laptop Donation

The coronavirus crisis has brought drastic changes to the way children and young people can access schooling, careers development advice and skills. Not every family has the technology to access online resources and support. To help plug this gap, WES Partner,National Grid are donating 1,000 laptops via  The Prince's Trust  and four other charities, helping to  support home learning and skills development click here to read more.

In 1930 Verena Holmes became the first practising engineer to serve as WES President. As part of the Centenary Trail, WES is asking its Members to read the transcripts of the Verena Holmes Letters that have been given to us and write their own thoughts about the content. In addition, these letters and the comments from today's engineers will be put in the WES Time Capsule which will be sealed on 23 June 2020, so that when it is opened in 2119 it will have three generations' perspectives of women engineers.  

If you want to be involved with this project, please email  Helen Close,  Centenary Trail Project Officer at [email protected].

This year is drawing to a close and lots of committee handovers are taking place virtually due to COVID-19. However, most of the student affiliated group have now selected their new committees for next year and are already beginning to create exciting plans for next year!

Loughborough has hosted the Loughborough University Female Engineer of the Year Awards to celebrate both undergraduate and postgraduate students' academic achievement, professional commitment and contribution to the engineering community. This year they had the honour to have Alexandra Knight (WES trustee) to announce the winners in a video that was shared on our social media. 

WES ECB members were interviewed on Twitter. Victoria, Sotira, Vera, Kate, Deborah and Laura talked about who they are, their career, how they got into engineering, the coolest projects they worked on and how getting involved with WES changed their lives! 

Follow their twitter page @WESECB1919 for future interviews with current and previous WES ECB members and other WES members.