Engineers celebrate International Women in Engineering Day at gallery opening

UCL engineers celebrate International Women in Engineering Day at gallery opening A new Science Museum gallery highlighting world-changing engineering innovations and the diverse and fascinating range of people behind them includes UCL's Professor Rebecca Shipley and Professor Ilias Tachtsidis. Human stories are at the heart of the Engineers gallery, which aims to inspire young people to pursue engineering careers and challenges common misconceptions about who engineers are and what they do, offering a fresh perspective on the breadth and diversity of these important roles. Opening today on International Women in Engineering Day, the gallery also seeks to address the longstanding inequality in the  number of young women being accepted onto university engineering degrees (18%) and in the UK engineering workforce (16. By featuring young female engineers from different backgrounds, and their real-world solutions that help society to flourish, the free gallery inspires the next generation of girls to consider choosing engineering careers. Professor Rebecca Shipley, Director of the UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering, said: "Engineers don't just build bridges and buildings. We work across a wide range of sectors and cut across silos. I think there are a lot of young people who know they want to be inv olved in healthcare in some way and help people live healthier lives, but they don't realise the power that engineering has to enable that.