Engineering Programs | Promoting Women in Engineering
Notable Achievements
• In 2006, Abigail Steel received the Claudettee McKay-Lassonde Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship recognizes a candidate who has acted as a leader in her community, who has dedicated her time and energy to promoting engineering as a career to young people, who is involved in research and teaching and who is enrolled full-time in a graduate engineering program at the PhD level.
• In 2005, PhD student Angela Tate was chosen as the recipient of the SWAAC Graduate Student Award of Merit, an award given out by the Senior Women Academic Administrators of Canada (SWAAC). The award was established to recognize women who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in their university and in the community while maintaining an exemplary academic record.
• The Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science sponsored a female engineering team in the 82nd Tely10 Mile Road Race.
• The Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science co-sponsored Memorial's first-ever female rowing team in the 190th Royal St. John's Regatta, along with the Chair for Women in Science and Engineering, Atlantic.
• The number of female faculty members in Memorial's Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science has grown from 3 to 8 over the past five years.
• Memorial's Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science has had two NSERC/Petro-Canada Chairs for Women in Science and Engineering, Atlantic Region. Dr. F. Mary Williams (1997-2002) and Dr. Cecilia Maloney (2004-09).
Connections and Collaborations
• Memorial's Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science collaborates with Women in Science and Engineering, Newfoundland and Labrador through its support of the Women in Science and Engineering SSEP Program and some of our faculty are members of the WISE NL Board. Our undergraduate academic program manager is the WISE NL president.
• Memorial's Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science collaborates with the Canadian Coalition of Women in Engineering, Science, Trades and Technology (CCWESTT), and more recently with The Canadian Centre for Women in Science, Engineering, Trades and Technology (WinSETT) Project.
Ongoing Strategies
• Memorial's Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science is initiating a CWSEA Legacy Pedagogy Project.
Looking to the future
Memorial's Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science is looking forward to more female faculty members joining the faculty.
Female student testimonial
As a female engineering student at Memorial University, I have thoroughly enjoyed the time I've spent working towards my mechanical engineering degree. Memorial University's undergraduate engineering program has given me the opportunity to achieve a degree in an environment that promotes women's involvement in engineering. The program has provided me with not only the classroom skills necessary to be an engineer but with the encouragement to participate in activities that make a complete undergraduate experience.
Jill Henderson
Third-year mechanical engineering