Abstract
Ella Podmore, winner of the 2020 IET Young Woman Engineer of the Year Award, is a Materials Engineer for luxury British supercar maker McLaren Automotive. She is responsible for all the material investigations in the business across all development phases of the company’s supercars; from concept drawings, all the way to customers in the field. Balancing her time between experiments and leading technical meetings, Ella created this department from the ground-up and plans to demonstrate the importance of materials in the automotive industry even further. As the leading STEM ambassador for McLaren, Ella helped launch the recent competition McLaren Automotive ran with BBC Blue Peter asking children to design their ‘supercar of the future’ and was one of Autocar’s Top 10 ‘Rising Star’ in 2019. Winner of the 2020 IET Young Woman Engineer of the Year Award, Materials engineer, Ella Podmore Which field of engineering is good for women? - All of them! So why are there so few women in engineering? Help break the stereotypes! I am an Engineer: Ella Podmore IETywe #IETywe Inspiring woman engineer
