Recognising and celebrating outstanding female engineers has never been so important. Recent statistics from the IET’s Skills and Demand in Industry survey showed that women represent 9% of the engineering workforce in the UK.
Former winners of the Awards include Orla Murphy, an audio engineer at Jaguar Land Rover, Naomi Mitchison, a senior hardware engineer at Selex ES and Abbie Hutty, a spacecraft engineer currently working on Europe’s first Rover mission to Mars.
President of the IET, Naomi Climer, said: “Women are woefully underrepresented in engineering. In a profession with a serious skills shortage, this represents a problem for the economy as well as for diversity. To coincide with International Women’s Day, we want to make it clear that engineering is a fantastic career for women.
Current IET Young Woman Engineer of the Year, Orla Murphy, said: “My favourite subjects at school were music, maths and physics so by doing engineering I was able to combine all of those subjects into a degree and now a job that I absolutely love.
The deadline for entry 30 June 2016.
