Monday 23rd June 2014 is National Women in Engineering Day. The aim of the day is to raise the profile and celebrate the achievements of women in engineering, and encourage more girls to consider engineering as a career.

National Women in Engineering Day is the inaugural event organised by the Women’s Engineering Society to celebrate their 95th anniversary as a charity supporting women in engineering. It has been recognised that a skills gap in engineering is looming, and one way of addressing this is to get more girls to consider engineering as a realistic career option for them. This will have the dual benefit of creating more diversity in the engineering sector (where fewer than 10% of the workforce is women), and creating a bigger talent pool of future engineers from which to recruit.

To support National Women in Engineering Day, WMG could think of no better way of celebrating the achievements of women in engineering then by taking some time to look at the fascinating career stories from some of our own staff and students. We have asked some of our colleagues to tell us about their career paths and what they love most about engineering. The responses clearly show very different reasons and interests which led people towards engineering and the range of very different areas that engineers can pursue. What many of those profiled have in common are the reasons that they developed their enthusiasm for engineering – love of being creative in problem solving, understanding how things work and how we can make them better, and that amazing moment when you see the results of your work making a difference.

Read some of our staff profiles

Read some of our student and alumni profiles

You can follow the discussion of National Women in Engineering Day on twitter using #NWED

Visit the NWED website.