{"id":371,"date":"2020-07-01T16:46:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T15:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/?p=371"},"modified":"2020-07-02T17:16:39","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T16:16:39","slug":"inwed-day-2020-shape-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/2020\/07\/01\/inwed-day-2020-shape-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"INWED Day 2020 \u2018Shape the World'"},"content":{"rendered":"

The International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) is an awareness campaign launched by the Women\u2019s Engineering Society. Now in its seventh year, INWED celebrates the amazing work of female engineers and aims to raise the profile of women in engineering. <\/em><\/p>\n

To celebrate INWED this year, on Tuesday, 23 June 2020, WESBath hosted an online event on Microsoft Teams. The event was open to all and brought together over 50 people from Bath and further afield, including external students and experienced professionals from industry.<\/p>\n

Sticking to the INWED 2020 theme of \u2018Shape the World\u2019, we wanted to showcase some inspiring projects led by female engineers. We kicked off our event with three exciting talks from speakers who recounted their experiences as a female engineer and how their work is helping to \u2018Shape the World\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Our first speaker was Kate Caddick, the managing director of Koch-Glitsch UK and a Chemical Engineer with over 20 years of industry experience. Her project in Rwanda looks to improve access to electricity by generating power from the methane stored in Lake Kivu.<\/p>\n

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Our second speaker was Luiza Campos, an associate professor in Environmental Engineering at UCL and the Co-Director of the Centre for Urban Sustainability and Resilience. She is a Civil Engineer with 30 years of experience in both industry and academia, and her research focuses on water and sanitation.<\/p>\n

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Our final talk was from Rose Powell, a Mechanical Engineering student at the University of Bath and the new Mechanical Engineering rep for WESBath this year. Rose has just spent a year on placement at Atkins where she worked on various projects within the offshore structures team, and she shared the lessons she learned from placement.<\/p>\n

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Following the talks, we dived into an interactive panel discussion with the speakers in which attendees submitted their questions via the chat. The speakers elaborated on the details of their projects and shared their tips and advice for women pursuing careers in engineering. The key points to take away were:<\/p>\n