We have another great opportunity for a panel of two female Alumni who work in the Computing / IT area to serve as keynote speakers to produce a talk to final year engineering students at the University of Portsmouth.
Date:
March 18th 2014
Location:
University of Portsmouth
Aim:
To speak to final year female and male engineering students to encourage them to pursue a career in engineering
Timings:
14:00 - 16:00
Topic:
Open to suggestions on this but should include information on your journey into the engineering profession, achievements, challenges that you overcame, benefits of working in engineering.
Examples of topics could include:
Opportunities to travel with a career in engineering
Balancing a family
Working in a male dominated environment
The importance of recognising unconscious bias
The diversity of roles in engineering
The benefits of networking
Length of talk:
20 minutesTBC
Format:
Panel of speakers. If you would like to do a presentation, please let me know.
Travel and accommodation, if required, will be covered by the IET.
If this is something that you are interested in, please e-mail me at womensnetwork@theiet.org with your CV and a brief introduction about you.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Kind regards,
Jo