{"id":327,"date":"2019-03-07T09:41:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T09:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/?p=327"},"modified":"2019-07-18T10:21:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T09:21:50","slug":"wesbath-networking-event-what-you-havent-heard-about-my-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/2019\/03\/07\/wesbath-networking-event-what-you-havent-heard-about-my-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"WESBath Networking event - What You Haven\u2019t Heard About My Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\"Fantastic event, really felt the energy in the room and great to see it so well supported.\" \u2013 Jules Handy, Atkins<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To celebrate International Women\u2019s Day, we wanted to share an update on the networking event we held earlier in the semester.<\/p>\n<p>'What You Haven't Heard About My Journey' was an event that aimed to bring together experienced professionals and entry-level female engineers to share their experiences and how their career paths were shaped and developed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_329\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-329\" style=\"width: 471px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2019\/03\/WESBath-Group-Cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-329 \" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2019\/03\/WESBath-Group-Cropped-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"Members of the WESBath Committee and student group\" width=\"471\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2019\/03\/WESBath-Group-Cropped-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2019\/03\/WESBath-Group-Cropped.jpg 335w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The WESBath Committee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The event started with three keynote speakers: Jules Handy, Regional Practice Manager for Atkins, Cat Savage, MoD Chair in Naval Architecture at UCL, and alumna Kaz Self, Aerothermal Engineer at Rolls-Royce. While describing their journey they highlighted key tips they have for students; which included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Redefine success as sticking to your core values and having a work-life balance, rather than climbing the ladders.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t underestimate the importance of diversity of thought.<\/li>\n<li>Always try to be the best you can, passionate and honest; be a role model and people will follow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_331\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-331\" style=\"width: 471px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2019\/03\/Audience-resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-331\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2019\/03\/Audience-resize-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Audience listening to the speakers\" width=\"471\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2019\/03\/Audience-resize-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2019\/03\/Audience-resize-322x215.jpg 322w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2019\/03\/Audience-resize.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We had a great audience for the event<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The inspiring talks resulted in a great panel discussion where our panellists, Yolanda Carrillo from Rolls Royce, Samantha Rawle from Dstl and alumna Helen Liang from INSPHERE, joined our speakers to answer questions from the audience. Having a range of panellists allowed them to speak from the perspective of early, mid and established career viewpoints.<\/p>\n<p>The key takes from the discussion were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don\u2019t hold yourself back from leading and trying things you haven\u2019t tried before<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t be afraid to fail, you will become a better engineer<\/li>\n<li>Change challenging conversations into courageous conversations<\/li>\n<li>Your mentor does not have to be senior to you; mentor a friend and you can both benefit<\/li>\n<li>Empathy is a great tool for effective working. Always ask yourself: What if I were from this minority?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_330\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-330\" style=\"width: 479px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2019\/03\/Speakers-and-panel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-330\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2019\/03\/Speakers-and-panel-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Speakers and panellists\" width=\"479\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2019\/03\/Speakers-and-panel-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2019\/03\/Speakers-and-panel-323x215.jpg 323w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2019\/03\/Speakers-and-panel.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-330\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The speakers and panellists From left to right: Samantha Rawle, Yolanda Carrillo, Kaz Self, Cat Savage, Jules Handy, Helen Liang<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Following the panel discussion, we presented the awards to the winners of the STEM outreach competition, generously sponsored by ATKINS. We received many entries including mathematical problem-solving toys, modular breadboards and even an electronic duck kit to help children with maths.<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, there was a chance for students to network and talk to the speakers and the companies as well as each other. The companies that joined were Atkins, Rolls-Royce, Dstl, Gen3D. The Bath Rocket team also had a stand to advertise their team.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_328\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-328\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2019\/03\/Networking-resize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-328\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2019\/03\/Networking-resize-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Students networking in the Chancellors Building foyer\" width=\"470\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2019\/03\/Networking-resize-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2019\/03\/Networking-resize-322x215.jpg 322w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2019\/03\/Networking-resize.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-328\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students networking in the Chancellors Building foyer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We had a wonderful evening and organising this event was a rewarding experience. It wouldn\u2019t have been possible without help from the Alumni team who connected us with\u00a0Alumni and other industry connections. WESBath is supported by generous donations from alumni and friends which allows us to\u00a0hold WESBath events.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leen Jabban, Co-Chair, WESBath, MEng\u00a0(hons) Integrated Mechanical and Electrical Engineering (final year)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\"Fantastic event, really felt the energy in the room and great to see it so well supported.\" \u2013 Jules Handy, Atkins To celebrate International Women\u2019s Day, we wanted to share an update on the networking event we held earlier in...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3,14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-event","category-networking","category-news"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}