Our friends at IET have sent us some inspiring profiles of the finalists of the Young Woman Engineer of the Year Award, including the winner Yewande Akinola. We thought we would share these with you. The awards themselves tool place on 7 December 2012 and were presented by none other than the Beeb's Gabby Logan. The event seeks to recognise the very [...]
On television or visiting schools, Roma uses her experiences working on projects including The Shard to highlight to students what a career in engineering can offer. Roma, a senior structural engineer at WSP Group, was an Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 2012 Young Woman Engineer of the Year award finalist. Taking a fairly unusual path into engineering, Roma focused on physics [...]
As an apprentice Philippa helped achieve a Guinness World Record. She currently works on the Joint Strike Fighter F-35 Lightning II aircraft, promotes women in engineering and has even represented Great Britain at ice hockey. Philippa, 25, a manufacturing engineer at BAE Systems, was an Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) 2012 Young Woman Engineer of the Year award finalist. Currently working [...]
A STEM ambassador, an entrepreneur and an innovator: Jessica, 18, was rewarded for her many achievements at this year’s IET Young Woman Engineer of the Year award ceremony with the 2012 Intel Inspirational Award for Entrepreneurship. Jessica recently began her astrophysics degree at Cardiff University. Although she’s very much at the beginning of her career, she already has a wealth of [...]
Joining BAE Systems as a 16-year-old apprentice, Charlotte had already been promoted to leading hand by 19. A keen volunteer, she’s worked to promote engineering locally as well as taking a sabbatical to volunteer in Fiji. During those first three years she gained invaluable experience within the aerospace engineering industry and was a finalist for the company’s 2010 Apprentice of the [...]