Call for Nominations IEEE WIE Awards 2022
The IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) awards program recognizes WIE members and WIE Affinity Groups who have made outstanding contributions to IEEE WIE, their community, and the engineering profession, through their dedication and involvement in projects or activities directed toward fulfilling the IEEE WIE goals…
International Women’s Day March 8
Only 30% of women who earn bachelor’s degrees in engineering are still working in engineering 20 years later International Women’s Day (March 8) is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action…
February 11th: International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Less than 30 per cent of researchers worldwide are women On 22 December 2015, the General Assembly decided to establish an annual International Day to recognize the critical role women and girls play in science and technology, through Resolution A/RES/70/212. The International Day of Women…
Ana Cigarán Romero speaks at IEEE Region 8 Today and inspires us
The Chair of IEEE Region 8 Women in Engineering , Ana Cigarán Romero shares inspiration and motivation about women and young girls to get closer with engineering and technology A woman, a mother, an engineer, an IEEE volunteer. It sounds like a variety of…
NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir are scheduled to conduct the first-ever all-female spacewalk
“Women are approximately half the population, but have not historically represented half of the astronaut corps,” says IEEE Senior Member Ella Atkins. NASA astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir are scheduled to conduct the first-ever all-female spacewalk this week to make an important and urgent…
Enhancing and Retaining Women in Power and Engineering. How do we take part?
IEEE PowerAfrica 2019 PES Women in Power Panel Session The demand for energy supply is progressively on the rise in this age. We are at a time when many activities that we rely on are machines operated. Indeed the Industrial Revolution is here with us….
Leadership: Women Speaker Series 3
Continuing of the Women Speakers Series was initiated by RIT Dubai – Rochester Institute of Technology, the third session was hold on Tuesday 26th February 2019 under the theme of Leadership in celebration of International Women’s Day. The first session can be accessed through: Disruptive Technologies: Women Speakers…
Pink Ring: Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign
October is the Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a worldwide annual campaign involving thousands of organisations, to highlight the importance of breast cancer awareness, education and research. In this order, I received an article from Roua Guesmi, Chairwoman of WIE ENET’COM student Affinity Group. “WIE ENET’COM student…
Perspektywy Women in Tech Summit
On 27 November the eyes of the tech world will focus on Warsaw, which will host an international congress for women in technology, the “Perspektywy Women in Tech Summit.” The biggest event in Europe intended for women in the IT and TECH industry will be…
Meet the winner of The first edition of the IEEE Region 8 Women in Engineering Awards!
Read a special interview of IEEE Region 8 Outstanding WIE Student Affinity Group of the Year Award winner: WIE Yeditepe University AG, Turkey. A group of passionate, dedicated and talented members who were never afraid to put all their hearts and souls into their WIE…
Disruptive Technologies: Women Speakers Series
Under the theme, Lead beyond: Accelerating innovative women who change the world, we are glad to announce Women speaker series – WSS that will be held every last Saturday of the month at RIT Dubai – Rochester Institute of Technology from 4-6:30 pm. The speaker series will…
Lead beyond borders
Did you heard about the Women In Engineering International Leadership Summit first edition in Tunisia? If not, you missed a lot. I attended this leadership summit because I was curious about its rich program and the themes of the workshops were so interesting. I had…
Disable to Possible : Understanding Special Needs through Technology by Dr. Ramalatha Marimuthu
Dr. Ramalatha Marimuthu is a senior member of IEEE and founder chair of Madras IEEE WIE Affinity group (2007 – 2014). She was Region10 WIE Coordinator for 2008-2010 and Chair, the IEEE WIE Committee for 2011 and 2012. She launched an exclusive project “Sangamam” for…
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