Past events

13th June 2019

Minerva Scientifica – Echoes from London

Echoes from London is the first English species of Minerva Scientifica's five-star Edinburgh Festival Fringe performance commemorating triumphs and histories of Superwomen of Science through a blend of music, song and spoken word. Featuring singer and composer Frances M Lynch, it has been specially created in collaboration with Stroud Green Festival, Stroud Green Primary School and the Women’s Engineering Society, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year.

13th June 2019

Women Automotive Summit

Over 200 automotive leaders come together for the Women Automotive Summit in Stuttgart, June 13th.

Women Automotive Summit is an event about women in the automotive industry; but not just for women. Listen to leading industry experts share their success stories; learn from their expertise; gain advice and insight of how you can improve yourself, network with your peers and discuss with other male and female attendees what needs to be done for future success.

12th June 2019

Talk: Airships, Steamships and Spitfires: 100 Years of Women in Engineering

Dr Nina Baker shares some of the terrific stories about amazing women engineers from her years of research into these hidden histories. Free event, part of the Glasgow Science Festival

12th June 2019 - 13th June 2019

International Business Days Le Mans 2019

Explore opportunities in research, innovation and co-design and gain a deeper understanding of the motorsport industry.

For more details please go here.

5th June 2019

Electrifying Women: understanding the long history of women in engineering - PUBLIC LECTURE

Elizabeth Bruton (Science Museum) and Graeme Gooday (University of Leeds) look at how the First World War created new opportunities for women to participate, as did the exciting new technologies of electrical power and lighting a whole generation earlier. There will be an opportunity for questions and discussion of how understanding the Women’s Engineering Society’s first hundred years might help to diversify recruitment to engineering today.

30th May 2019

Men as Allies – Approaching Equality Together, Cambridge Association for Women in Science and Engineering (CamAWiSE)

Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Clifford Allbutt Lecture Theatre, Biomedical Campus, 5:00 – 7:00pm

women at work on an electric alternator Parsons works advert 1921 in The Woman Engineer vol 1 pg 78

21st May 2019

Talk: Engineering a Place in History – celebrating one hundred years of the Women's Engineering Society

Join social history curator Ceryl Evans for a talk on: Engineering a place in history – celebrating one hundred years of the Women's Engineering Society. Tuesday 21 May 6.30pm to 8pm, Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building at LSE London.

18th May 2019

Extraordinary Women in Engineering: a WES Wikithon – LSE London

Join the Women’s Engineering Society, Heritage Open Days, and The Women’s Library at the LSE in London to edit and add information about women in engineering to Wikipedia. Help to celebrate some of the brilliant women engineers who deserve a more prominent place in the world's favourite online historical record.

15th May 2019

Wales Centenary Conference

Join us for an evening of celebration, reflection and networking at the Wales Centenary Conference on 15 May at the Senedd in Cardiff Bay. We have some interesting speakers lined up including Elizabeth Donnelly, WES CEO, a Keynote talk on Industry and Engineering in Wales with Ken Skates and Prof Karen Holford will be considering how we can increase the number of women engineers. WES Past President Dr Jan Peters will be chairing the panel discussion.

2nd May 2019

IET Scotland Dinner

IET Scotland Dinner hosted by Dr. Carol Marsh. This year's theme will celebrate Women's Engineering Society's 100th birthday with speaker Dr Nina Baker.

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