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24 June 2016
TWI celebrates National Women in Engineering Day
TWI celebrates National Women in Engineering Day

Heidi Allen, MP for South Cambridgeshire joined TWI’s Dr Isabel Hadley and around 60 staff to celebrate National Women in Engineering Day. The event also saw the launch by the organisation’s professional division The Welding Institute, of the new Women in Engineering Group.

Speaking to a packed room of engineers and innovators, Dr Isabel Hadley celebrated pioneering female engineers that have helped break down barriers and myths that women doing non-traditional roles had to face during the war and post-war years – from the ‘Rosie the Riveter’ campaign used as part of the war effort to encourage women into non-traditional roles, to the ‘Ladies Bridge’ (Waterloo Bridge) construction in London during the Second World War.

Isabel noted too that it has only been in recent times that women engineers have been raising their profiles and, celebrating the vital contribution to the sector, applauded their strides in driving change to address the UK gender balance for the industry, where just 6% of engineers are female.

Heidi Allen MP encouraged TWI staff to see themselves as positive role models for aspiring female engineers. Heidi shared her experience of working as an MP, facing challenges, bringing people together to find solutions, and highlighted parallels with a career in engineering. Heidi was keen to show that through outreach to schools and colleges, we have an opportunity to motivate young girls to see the many positives of a career in science and engineering. She praised the work of the organisation in its outreach work to schools, particularly fun activities such as The Welding Institute’s Welding with Chocolate programme.

TWI employees and postgraduate students studying at the organisation’s National Structural Integrity Research Centre (NSIRC) are in a strong position to make significant impact for the future employment of women in the engineering field. With over 60 female engineers currently working on materials joining and engineering projects for companies in industry sectors including medical, transport, and oil and gas, the work environment and culture at TWI encourages and inspires new recruits and an investment in senior staff with valuable core knowledge.

At least 20% of TWI's engineers are women, qualified or qualifying across all levels, from technician through to principal project leader and manager grades, while two in five NSIRC postgraduate student engineers are women. The new Women in Engineering Group launched by The Welding Institute will bring together these likeminded professionals and provide new opportunities for participation and achievement in the engineering field.

National Women in Engineering Day is an awareness campaign run by the Women’s Engineering Society to raise the profile of women in engineering and focus attention on the amazing career opportunities available.

Heidi Allen MP
Heidi Allen, MP for South Cambridgeshire, speaks at TWI's National Women in Engineering Day event
Dr Isabel Hadley
Dr Isabel Hadley, TWI Technology Fellow, highlighted women's achievements in engineering

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