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Celebrating Women in Engineering Highlights

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  • Duration: 1 min
  • Publication date: 08 Aug 2019

Abstract

An evening event for young professionals with talks given by keynote speakers.

The general theme is in line with the celebrations of the WES centenary "Celebrating the past, transform the future" with a special focus on Diversity.

The main talk will be a panel discussion where each guest speaker will give a short presentation around the topic "how diversity will transform Future Leadership". The panel moderator will facilitate with discussion and engage on a Q&A session with the audience.
 

Keywords:
  • #INWED
  • Career
  • Engineer
  • Engineers
  • Female Engineering
  • INWED
  • Inspire
  • LGBT
  • Women in Engineering

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  • Professor  Alice Gast

    Professor Alice Gast

    President of Imperial College London

    Professor Alice P. Gast became President of Imperial College London in September 2014.Prior to her appointment at Imperial, Professor Gast was the 13th President of Lehigh University from August 2006 to August 2014. Other leadership roles include serving as the Vice-President for Research and Associate Provost and Robert T. Haslam Chair in Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2001 - 2006.Professor Gast’s academic interest is in surface and interfacial phenomena, in particular the behaviour of complex fluids. She has co-authored numerous scientific publications and a classic textbook on colloid and surface phenomena. She was a faculty member at Stanford University from 1985 to 2001, being promoted to full professor in 1995. She was also affiliated with the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory.Professor Gast is a member of a number of UK and international advisory committees and boards including the Board of UK Research and Innovation; the Board of Trustees for the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST); the Academic Research Council for the Singapore Ministry of Education. She was made a United States Science Envoy to the Caucasus and Central Asia in 2010. In 2012, she was appointed to the board of directors of Chevron Corporation. Professor Gast is Chair of the World Economic Forum Global University Leaders' Forum (GULF) and is also a member of the Advisory Board for the World Economic Forum Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Professor Gast is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of the Académie des Technologies, France, and was a board member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science from 2006 - 2010. In 2017 she became a Fellow of The City and Guilds of London Institute. She has been awarded honorary degrees by the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Pierre and Marie Curie, and the University of Western Ontario. In 2017 she received an honorary professorship from Tsinghua University.
  • Mark Whitby

    Mark Whitby

    Whitby Wood

    Director Mark Whitby is a structural engineer and a key figure in the construction industry. He is a Past President of the Institution of Civil Engineers and widely known as a leader and educator.Mark is based in Whitby Wood’s London office, leading the design with our teams in the delivery of projects ranging from bespoke houses and footbridges to multi-million international developments.In more than 40 years in the profession, Mark has led design teams for a huge range of projects. Recently completed examples include the new extension to Tate Modern, the BBC Headquarters, and footbridges in Canning Town in London and Castlefield in Manchester. Past projects include the 1982 British Antarctic Survey base, York and Lancaster Millennium bridges, offices in Finsbury Square in London, the Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield, Mossbourne Academy in Hackney, the Craig Ellwood-inspired Brisbane bridge house in Australia, the competition-winning design for Bracken House in London, and British embassies in Dublin, Sana’a and Berlin.Mark co-founded and led the UK engineering consultancy whitbybird, winner of a Queen’s Award for Innovation. After the merger of whitbybird with Ramboll in 2007, he became chairman and director of Ramboll Whitbybird UK. In 2016 he founded Whitby Wood with SEBASTIAN WOOD, followed in 2017 by Whitby Wood Pritamdasani in India with Seb and MUKESH PRITAMDASANI.Mark is a visiting professor at the BARTLETT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, University College London, a co-founder of the built environment think-tank, the EDGE, and founder of the ENGINEERING CLUB in London. He is also a trustee of the construction charity CODEP, which works closely with the community in Waterloo, Sierra Leone, chair of ENGINEERING TIMELINES, and a trustee of the Whitbybird Foundation.— Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers— Past President of the Institution of Civil Engineers— Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering— Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects— Member of the Smeatonian SocietyLECTURE : Fukushima : the story of a nuclear disaster … listen online at WWW.ICE.ORG.UKTV : Mark has contributed to numerous news stories, including those immediately following the attack on New York’s Twin Towers, and worked closely on programmes such as the Secrets of Lost Empires series for the BBC, PBS, Nova and WGBH, and The World’s Most Extreme Bridges for the National Geographic Channel … watch the latter now WWW.YOUTUBE.COMTEL +44 (0)20 7442 2216m.whitby@whitbywood.com
  • Catriona Schmolke

    Catriona Schmolke

    Jacobs, Senior Vice President

    Catriona Schmolke is a Senior Vice President with Jacobs, a Fortune 500 company with 60,000 employees worldwide that provides technical and professional engineering services.Since 2016, her remit has been Global Head of Health, Safety, Environment and Security. Over the past 30 years, Catriona’s career has included various operational leadership positions and she has also participated in project teams, working with clients to identify safe, sustainable solutions to address their challenges. She built a multidisciplinary consultancy business to provide a platform for identifying environmental gain, driving innovation, improving operational efficiency and recognising the opportunities to bring sustainable principles into everyday engineered solutions.
  • Nike Folayan

    Nike Folayan

    WSP, Associate Director

    Chartered Engineer with a doctorate in Electronics Engineering. Significant skills, experience and knowledge in various telecommunications and systems engineering projects within and outside the transportation sector from concept to installation acting as owner’s engineer. Innovator, communicator and influencer with good interpersonal skills. Excellent stakeholder and relationship management skills Result driven, focused and enthusiastic. Comfortable working in both technical and commercial sides of the business.Current chairperson of AFBE-UK London representing the organisation on local and regional levels. Speaker on seminars on antenna design, communications systems in transport and infrastructure and diversity and inclusiveness. #Mentoringwithapurpose #drivenWinner of 2009 Precious ‘Inspiring leader in the workplace awards.Specialties: Communications System designs, Antenna Design, Electromagnetic Simulation Software, Diversity in Engineering
  • Christina Riley

    Christina Riley

    Kier Group, Senior Planner

    Winner of the prestigious British lgbt Awards Corporate Rising Star Award 2017 . Motivational Speaker to corporations on Equality Diversity Inclusion. Diva Power List 2019 . Senior Planning Manager at Balfour Beatty UK 2013 to 2018. Senior Planner at Kier London since June 2018 working on Royal College Of Art, Battersea. Construction News Awards 2019 presenter of Outstanding in Construction Award . Judge for Inspire Awards 2018 2019 Judge Construction News Talent Awards 2018 2019Founder of LGBTConstructNamed in the Top 30 LGBT OUTstanding Future Leaders published in the Financial Times 2015 to 2017. Pride Power List Top 100 2017 Published in The Times Newspaper. Co Chair of The Balfour Beatty LGBT & Allies Network. Member of CIOB Diversity & Skills Special interest Committee . Member of UK Construction Week Diversity Committee . Adviser on Diversity to London Build Expo .Speaker National Construction Expo 2018. Named in the 2015 Independent on Sunday Ones To Watch List. Motivational Public Speaker. Founder of The LGBT Construction Toolbox. Steering Committee Member of OFF SITE LGBT construction Network. Construction Rep for InterEngineering. Steering Committee Member for Student Pride. Scout Leader. Rep for The OUTing Event in Ireland. Member of Executive Board for Building Equality . Member of Executive cational Committee for Oxford Spires & South Oxfordshire District Scouts .
  • MW

    Mark Whitby

    Whitby Wood

    Director Mark Whitby is a structural engineer and a key figure in the construction industry. He is a Past President of the Institution of Civil Engineers and widely known as a leader and educator.Mark is based in Whitby Wood’s London office, leading the design with our teams in the delivery of projects ranging from bespoke houses and footbridges to multi-million international developments.In more than 40 years in the profession, Mark has led design teams for a huge range of projects. Recently completed examples include the new extension to Tate Modern, the BBC Headquarters, and footbridges in Canning Town in London and Castlefield in Manchester. Past projects include the 1982 British Antarctic Survey base, York and Lancaster Millennium bridges, offices in Finsbury Square in London, the Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield, Mossbourne Academy in Hackney, the Craig Ellwood-inspired Brisbane bridge house in Australia, the competition-winning design for Bracken House in London, and British embassies in Dublin, Sana’a and Berlin.Mark co-founded and led the UK engineering consultancy whitbybird, winner of a Queen’s Award for Innovation. After the merger of whitbybird with Ramboll in 2007, he became chairman and director of Ramboll Whitbybird UK. In 2016 he founded Whitby Wood with SEBASTIAN WOOD, followed in 2017 by Whitby Wood Pritamdasani in India with Seb and MUKESH PRITAMDASANI.Mark is a visiting professor at the BARTLETT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, University College London, a co-founder of the built environment think-tank, the EDGE, and founder of the ENGINEERING CLUB in London. He is also a trustee of the construction charity CODEP, which works closely with the community in Waterloo, Sierra Leone, chair of ENGINEERING TIMELINES, and a trustee of the Whitbybird Foundation.— Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers— Past President of the Institution of Civil Engineers— Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering— Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects— Member of the Smeatonian SocietyLECTURE : Fukushima : the story of a nuclear disaster … listen online at WWW.ICE.ORG.UKTV : Mark has contributed to numerous news stories, including those immediately following the attack on New York’s Twin Towers, and worked closely on programmes such as the Secrets of Lost Empires series for the BBC, PBS, Nova and WGBH, and The World’s Most Extreme Bridges for the National Geographic Channel … watch the latter now WWW.YOUTUBE.COMTEL +44 (0)20 7442 2216m.whitby@whitbywood.com
  • CR

    Christina Riley

    Kier Group, Senior Planner

    Winner of the prestigious British lgbt Awards Corporate Rising Star Award 2017 . Motivational Speaker to corporations on Equality Diversity Inclusion. Diva Power List 2019 . Senior Planning Manager at Balfour Beatty UK 2013 to 2018. Senior Planner at Kier London since June 2018 working on Royal College Of Art, Battersea. Construction News Awards 2019 presenter of Outstanding in Construction Award . Judge for Inspire Awards 2018 2019 Judge Construction News Talent Awards 2018 2019Founder of LGBTConstructNamed in the Top 30 LGBT OUTstanding Future Leaders published in the Financial Times 2015 to 2017. Pride Power List Top 100 2017 Published in The Times Newspaper. Co Chair of The Balfour Beatty LGBT & Allies Network. Member of CIOB Diversity & Skills Special interest Committee . Member of UK Construction Week Diversity Committee . Adviser on Diversity to London Build Expo .Speaker National Construction Expo 2018. Named in the 2015 Independent on Sunday Ones To Watch List. Motivational Public Speaker. Founder of The LGBT Construction Toolbox. Steering Committee Member of OFF SITE LGBT construction Network. Construction Rep for InterEngineering. Steering Committee Member for Student Pride. Scout Leader. Rep for The OUTing Event in Ireland. Member of Executive Board for Building Equality . Member of Executive cational Committee for Oxford Spires & South Oxfordshire District Scouts .
  • Professor  Alice Gast

    Professor Alice Gast

    President of Imperial College London

    Professor Alice P. Gast became President of Imperial College London in September 2014.Prior to her appointment at Imperial, Professor Gast was the 13th President of Lehigh University from August 2006 to August 2014. Other leadership roles include serving as the Vice-President for Research and Associate Provost and Robert T. Haslam Chair in Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2001 - 2006.Professor Gast’s academic interest is in surface and interfacial phenomena, in particular the behaviour of complex fluids. She has co-authored numerous scientific publications and a classic textbook on colloid and surface phenomena. She was a faculty member at Stanford University from 1985 to 2001, being promoted to full professor in 1995. She was also affiliated with the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory.Professor Gast is a member of a number of UK and international advisory committees and boards including the Board of UK Research and Innovation; the Board of Trustees for the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST); the Academic Research Council for the Singapore Ministry of Education. She was made a United States Science Envoy to the Caucasus and Central Asia in 2010. In 2012, she was appointed to the board of directors of Chevron Corporation. Professor Gast is Chair of the World Economic Forum Global University Leaders' Forum (GULF) and is also a member of the Advisory Board for the World Economic Forum Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Professor Gast is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of the Académie des Technologies, France, and was a board member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science from 2006 - 2010. In 2017 she became a Fellow of The City and Guilds of London Institute. She has been awarded honorary degrees by the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Pierre and Marie Curie, and the University of Western Ontario. In 2017 she received an honorary professorship from Tsinghua University.
  • NF

    Nike Folayan

    WSP, Associate Director

    Chartered Engineer with a doctorate in Electronics Engineering. Significant skills, experience and knowledge in various telecommunications and systems engineering projects within and outside the transportation sector from concept to installation acting as owner’s engineer. Innovator, communicator and influencer with good interpersonal skills. Excellent stakeholder and relationship management skills Result driven, focused and enthusiastic. Comfortable working in both technical and commercial sides of the business.Current chairperson of AFBE-UK London representing the organisation on local and regional levels. Speaker on seminars on antenna design, communications systems in transport and infrastructure and diversity and inclusiveness. #Mentoringwithapurpose #drivenWinner of 2009 Precious ‘Inspiring leader in the workplace awards.Specialties: Communications System designs, Antenna Design, Electromagnetic Simulation Software, Diversity in Engineering
  • CS

    Catriona Schmolke

    Jacobs, Senior Vice President

    Catriona Schmolke is a Senior Vice President with Jacobs, a Fortune 500 company with 60,000 employees worldwide that provides technical and professional engineering services.Since 2016, her remit has been Global Head of Health, Safety, Environment and Security. Over the past 30 years, Catriona’s career has included various operational leadership positions and she has also participated in project teams, working with clients to identify safe, sustainable solutions to address their challenges. She built a multidisciplinary consultancy business to provide a platform for identifying environmental gain, driving innovation, improving operational efficiency and recognising the opportunities to bring sustainable principles into everyday engineered solutions.
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