I volunteered to write up my first blog on the IET Women's Network on the topic of the confidence a women needs to sustain in a male dominated engineering society. I believe confidence in one's abilities to present engineering ideas play a very important role in succeeding as an engineer. It's imperative while we work with majority of males around.

It is perceived that majority of females divert to other careers due to lack of confidence in their engineering concepts. I could recall that out of nearly 16 female students in my undergraduates class, hardly 5-6 took engineering as a profession, and only one (myself) went to do a masters and then a Phd. The sustainability of female engineers in engineering careers is under question and it is quite obvious from the fact that we have very few engineering managers. Till date, I have no met any female engineering manager. I'm aiming for it.

Ladies, what is your take on this influential quality, and how you sustain confidence to develop your engineering career.



A very big thank you to Miss Jaspreet K Bhambra

Doctoral Researcher at IVHM Centre Cranfield University, for sharing this blog with us.



www.cranfield.ac.uk/ivhm