22 November 2010

Women's Engineering Society meets in Sheffield

Some of the UK’s leading Scientists and Engineers met in Sheffield for the Women’s Engineering Society (WES) annual conference between 19 and 21 November.

This year’s event was titled, ‘Making Digital Britain - Inspiring future changes’ and looked at the role of women engineers, scientists and technologists in building Britain’s digital future. Speakers included Dr Nimbe L. Ewald from the Electronics Research Group at the University of Aberdeen and Clem Herman from the Department of Communication and Systems at the Open University.

The three-day programme included sessions on networking digital Britain, resource depletion in the digital future and connecting people, the environment and information in digital cities. The conference organizer was Dr Daniela Romano of the Department of Computer Science.

For more information see http://conference.wes.org.uk/.