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This September, in its centenary year, the Women’s Engineering Society (WES) is taking part in the Heritage Open Days festival (13 - 22 September), opening doors and holding events in enticing historical venues around the country.

• Week set to showcase engineers on a mission and change image of engineering on This is Engineering Day
• Tomorrow’s Engineers Week takes place 4-8November 2019, with inaugural This is Engineering Day on 6 November  

Nominations are open for the Amy Johnson Inspiration Award and Men as Allies Award

Stirling Dynamics, a part of the Expleo Group of companies, is pleased to announce its company partnership with the Women’s Engineering Society (WES).

In celebration of International Women in Engineering Day 2019, the Women’s Engineering Society (WES) has announced the winners of the Top 50 Women in Engineering: Current and Former Apprentices (WE50).

During our Centenary Year WES is collaborating with the Royal Academy of Engineering to survey engineers about their career experiences through an Engineering Census. 

On 23 June 2019, exactly one hundred years after WES’ foundation, an interactive Centenary Trail Map will be launched at wes.org.uk/centenary-map celebrating the people and places that have played a key part in the organisation’s history.

For the fourth year, members of the Women’s Engineering Society (WES) will be posting photos of Lottie Dolls at work during Tomorrow’s Engineers Week (November 2019) to show the huge range of careers available in engineering.

In support of WES’s Centenary the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography have added four new biographies recording the lives of four of the early generation of women engineers: Eily Marguerite Leifchild Keary; Frances Beatrice Bradfield; Hilda Margaret Lyon and Beatrice Shilling.

The UNESCO PX Commission has declared that 4 March of every year will be World Engineering Day