\nOn the first day, after an introduction and presentations by engineers from Dialog Semiconductor<\/a> and Proctor & Gamble<\/a>, the group split to attend two different panel sessions, on \u201cAcademia or Industry?\u201d and electronics & materials, before a fun icebreaker session which focussed on psychology and ended with groups of students designing quick concentration experiments to do in the session. Later on we had a brilliant networking opportunity at dinner where the seating plan allowed students to interact with engineers from WES sponsors. We were lucky enough to listen to a captivating after dinner speech by Naomi Climer<\/a>, President of the IET<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Ten members of WESBath were given the opportunity to attend the WES Student Conference on 20th and 21st November at Aston University, Birmingham. This was a brilliant chance for us to meet inspiring engineers from industry and around 150 other...<\/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":[2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-wes-conference"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","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=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe second day began with a welcome back and presentations from the chair of the student WES committee at York University and two inspirational female engineers from Selex ES<\/a> and BAE Systems<\/a>. After refreshments, we took part in an interesting workshop run by a coaching expert on \u201c6 Pillars of Career Success for Women in Engineering\u201d. This was followed by a buffet lunch, after which an engineer on a graduate scheme at Selex ES presented \u201cCVs and Interviews with Impact\u201d.<\/p>\n
\nThe conference ended with a fascinating panel session on alternative engineering. Presenters from PolyPhotonix<\/a> and Mars Petcare UK<\/a> spoke about how they are involved in engineering that focusses on health and the environment.<\/p>\n
\nI think everyone who attended the conference came away feeling inspired and excited about a future in engineering. I would definitely recommend it to any student that has the chance to go next year!
\nLaura Grubb<\/p>\n![\"WESBath](\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2015\/12\/WESBath-students-300x169.jpg\")
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