WOMEN IN ENGINEERING

Members

 * Chairman

The Group produced an 8-minute video aimed at fostering and stimulating the inclination and passion for engineering among high-school students. The group members from Brazil also produced a  short video capturing the experience of different women engineers from all branches. The group has prepared a workshop kit to work with highschool students.  The activity video aims at breaking the paradigm that this is a male profession. In addition, during the workshop students get to know what is engineering, its branches while at the same time games and activities trigger their minds to see what engineering is all about.

A first presentation was given  in September at the Iribó College in Costa Rica, where a group of 15  girls from last year of high school participated, showing real interest in learning about what engineering is all about. The group plans on reproducing this experience taking it to other countries.

Mission

Promote engineering career as a competitive and desirable profession for women as well as helping to empower women to reach their goals and be successful in the engineering profession.
 

Vision

Consolidate a support and development platform for women's participation through mechanisms that generate the overall and professional development of women engineers in the continent.

 Objectives

• Promote recognition of engineering achievements and leadership of Pan-American women, and their contribution to improve society´s quality of life of.
• Generate a constant participative space in UPADI, projects in their respective professional fields, and UPADI´s member associations.
• Contribute to a new vision of women engineer in the continent, where society provides equal opportunities.
• Motivate the Pan-American girls to study engineering as a successful and contribution career, to development and quality of life of society.