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Caroline Gumble to become TWI’s first woman CEO

Published: 07/02/2025

The Welding Institute (TWI) have announced that Caroline Gumble has been appointed as their new CEO and will take up the role in July this year. She will make history as the first woman to hold the position in the organisation’s history. …

Sign up for the WES Annual Conference 2017

Sign up for the WES Annual Conference 2017

Published: 05/04/2017

The Women’s Engineering Society (WES) will hold its Annual Conference in May, including guest speakers, interactive workshops, sessions on different topics and networking opportunities …

Review of UK engineering profession published

Review of UK engineering profession published

Published: 03/04/2017

A review of the UK engineering profession commissioned by three professional engineering institutions has been published …

Semta Skills Awards celebrate best of British engineering

Semta Skills Awards celebrate best of British engineering

Published: 23/03/2017

Winners of the Semta Skills Awards were announced across nine categories, including 23-year-old engineer Philippa Dressler-Pearson who scooped the overall Best of British Engineering award …

Hawley Award helped past winner boost her venture to reduce food waste

Hawley Award helped past winner boost her venture to reduce food waste

Published: 21/03/2017

As 2017 Hawley Award dealine looms near, on Tuesday 18 April 2017, last year's winner Solveiga Pakštaitė talks of how important the £5,000 prize was for her project Bump Mark …

Free recruitment fair for engineering and construction professionals

Free recruitment fair for engineering and construction professionals

Published: 20/03/2017

The National Engineering and Construction Recruitment Exhibition is taking place from 31 March and 1 April at the NEC in Birmingham …

Rise in number of professionally registered women engineers and technicians, according to Engineering Council report

Rise in number of professionally registered women engineers and technicians, according to Engineering Council report

Published: 16/03/2017

The Engineering Council’s Annual Registration Statistics Report shows that the number of women who became professionally registered last year increased by over 19% compared to 2015, with women representing almost 11% (1,072) of all new registrations in 2016 …

Nominations open for top 50 women in engineering

Nominations open for top 50 women in engineering

Published: 15/03/2017

The Telegraph has opened for nominations to find the Top 50 Women in Engineering. The list, supported by the Women’s Engineering Society (WES), will be published to coincide with the International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) on 23 June …

EngineeringUK Chief Executive to step down

EngineeringUK Chief Executive to step down

Published: 13/03/2017

The Chief Executive of EngineeringUK, Paul Jackson, has decided to step down after eight years in the role and will leave the organisation in July 2017 …

Last chance to give views in industrial strategy survey

Last chance to give views in industrial strategy survey

Published: 07/03/2017

The UK engineering profession is preparing a collective response to the government’s green paper Building our Industrial Strategy. An online survey, which closes at midday on Monday 13 March, is gathering engineers' views to inform this response …

EngineeringUK publishes 2017 state of engineering report

EngineeringUK publishes 2017 state of engineering report

Published: 21/02/2017

EngineeringUK has published its annual report analysing the state of the engineering industry in the UK. It provides some positive signs for Apprenticeships but ongoing concern over the need to attract and retain more people in the industry …