The Ontario Network of Women in Engineering has developed a new video to highlight the perspectives that young girls have about engineers. The video also highlights amazing female engineers!
Come join us for lunch and learn more about going on parental leave, whether you are a graduate student or faculty member. A group of knowledgeable panel members will be there to answer any questions!
The Women in Engineering (WiE) committee is organizing an end-of-term get together for female faculty, graduate students, and technical staff on Monday, December 7th, at 4:00-6:00 pm.
Come join us for lunch and learn more about going on parental leave, whether you are a graduate student or faculty member. A group of knowledgeable panel members will be there to answer any questions!
Join the ‘UW Women in Engineering’ Run for the Cure team!
The Run for the Cure is Canada's largest single day, volunteer-led fundraising event dedicated to raising funds for breast cancer research, education and health promotion initiatives. This year’s event takes place on Sunday, October 4, 2014.
As a young girl, Jennifer Howcroft loved science as much as she loved helping people so she always assumed she’d become a medical doctor.
But when she heard about biomedical engineering in her teens, Howcroft knew she had found her true calling. Biomedical engineering allowed Howcroft, now a doctoral student in Waterloo’s Department of Systems Design Engineering, to blend her passion for creating and building with her drive to improve the lives of people.
Alison Scott, a chemical engineering MASc candidate, has been awarded the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation's Vale Scholarship. Each year the prestigious scholarship of $10,000 is awarded to one woman enrolled full-time in an engineering master’s program at a Canadian university.
Scott, who graduated with her BASc in chemical engineering from Waterloo in 2013, is described as a great ambassador for engineering by Mary Wells, engineering's associate dean, outreach.
Go ENG Girl is an event that every school of engineering across the province hosts for girls in Grades 7,8,9 and 10 in October of each year. The Waterloo event will include speakers, a parent panel of existing students, a showcase information fair, opportunities to meet current female Waterloo Engineering students, cool hands-on activities, and a delicious free lunch! The only cost to attend will be transportation to the University of Waterloo.
Girls Club is for girls in grade 4 – 6 and engages participants through activities designed to dispel stereotypes about engineers and scientists and inspire girls to pursue these studies in high school and post-secondary education.
Girls club meets once a month on Saturday afternoons and explore a different topic with the help of a female role model currently working or studying in science or engineering.
Come and volunteer at a meeting and share your passion for engineering.