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Speaker Opportunity - University of Portsmouth

Former Community Member
Former Community Member
Hello!



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