• Question: have you got any other things in mind that you would like to do to help inspire young people to become an engineer?

    Asked by 688fuee29 to Chris, Paul, Priyanka, Ryan, Sarah on 14 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Christine Coonick

      Christine Coonick answered on 14 Mar 2016:

      I’m constantly thinking of new and inventive ways in which to give younger people a helping hand to understand the satisfaction and career diversity offered by engineering in all its facets.

      As a member of the Institute for Electrical Engineering I am helping my local University campus to set up a Women in Engineering Society group and arrange events with inspirational speakers from all engineering backgrounds.

      I’m also going to help a group of local high school kids on a project for this years The Big Bang competition – which is great fun, and I highly recommend it for all schools to get involved.

    • Photo: Priyanka Dhopade

      Priyanka Dhopade answered on 14 Mar 2016:

      Like Christine, I’m also keen to encourage young people to at least consider engineering as a career option.
      As you may have guessed, engineers traditionally were mostly men, so there are very few women engineers even today (they add up to around 7% of the total number of engineers). Lots of young girls don’t know that engineering can actually be a cool job and a normal job for women.
      I volunteer with the Women in Engineering group at Oxford University, where we try to show that engineering can be a successful career for women too, as well as organise talks by other inspiring women engineers around the UK who can be our role models.
      You can check out our video that we made ourselves for last year’s National Women in Engineering Day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCPElCsD780

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