4th December, Royal College of GPs, 30 Euston Square, London
A discussion on the UK and Worldwide gender and general skills gap in engineering/technology and our role in tackling this as IET Fellows.
Kindly note, you do not have to be fellow of the IET to attend this event. However, If you are interested in Fellowship, then this may be a good starting pount for you.
Please e-mail womensnetwork@theiet.org to register your interest
Programme
09.30 |
Registration and Refreshments |
10.00 |
Welcome and Introduction |
Suzanne Flynn |
10:15 |
TBD |
William Webb IET President |
10.30 |
Defining the Gap, it is not just a gender issue TBD |
Professor John Perkins |
11.15 |
‘Sticky Notes’ (attendees write on sticky notes why they became engineers/technologist and who or what influenced them) exercise followed by refreshments |
Suzanne Flynn |
11.45 |
Getting them young! Education 5-19; Stem: Education: What is needed. |
Professor Helen Atkinson President of the Engineering Professors’ Council |
12:15 |
Discussion |
12.30 |
Lunch – “Role models” interviewing of various engineers with their role models and why that person/object was influential in the choice of engineering as career. Filmed by IET.tv |
Rhys Phillips MIET Radio Cardiff |
14:00 |
How the military are closing the gap. |
Air-Vice Marshal Sue Gray Director of Combat Air, RAF |
14:30 |
The issues and challenges of managing and IT infrastructure in a global environment |
Jayne Miles Director IT, Ford Credit Europe |
15:00 |
IET taster session, 10 mins each:
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15:30 |
Plenary – what do we, as individuals or as an organisation need to do? Where do we go from here? |
16:00 |
Close |
NB: We would like to offer the chance of any attendees to be interviewed (for no more than two minutes) about what, how and why you became an engineer – what inspired you, what/who was your role model. This will be on IET.tv so it will be used for promotional work within the IET.
Please e-mail womensnetwork@theiet.org to register your interest