Rana Tehrani Yekta is bright, ambitious and an inspiration for women in engineering. The civil engineering master's student is the newest $10,000 Vale Master’s in Engineering Scholarship winner and joins the list of impressive women who represent the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation (CEMF) and Vale in encouraging youth and promoting engineering as a profession to women across Canada.
The scholarship is awarded annually to the most promising woman in a graduate engineering program at the master’s level in Canada and comes with a work place opportunity with Vale.
Tehrani Yekta was selected as the 2012 scholarship recipient for her volunteer and leadership work in the community. She has encouraged women recruitment in engineering through programs such as Go-Eng-Girl, and her position as one of the director's of Canadian Association for Girls In Science (CAGIS). In 2006, she began volunteering for Women in Engineering (WIE) and in 2011 was selected as the graduate representative for the organization. She is also a tutor for high school and university students.
Tehrani Yekta and other scholarship award winners will be recognized at the CEMF annual Awards Ceremony to be held in Niagara Falls in June.