UCL Engineering celebrates INWED 2023

National Women in Engineering Day was originally launched in the UK on 23 June 2014 by the Women’s Engineering Society (WES), in order to celebrate its 95th anniversary. Receiving UNESCO patronage in 2016, the initiative became international for the first time in 2017, adopting its now familiar moniker, INWED, and enabling the celebration of women in engineering to become global.

As part of UCL Engineering's INWED 2023 celebrations, representatives from across our departments have been interviewed about their research, telling us how they are changing the world.

We'll be adding new videos throughout the week, so keep an eye out on this page! 

Dr Charlotte Maughan Jones  

Within UCL'S Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering department, Dr Charlotte Maughan Jones is researching how we can use X-Rays to better understand, diagnose and treat tendon injury.  

• View Charlotte's Profile 
• UCL Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering

Prof Eva Sorensen 

Prof Eva Sorensen (UCL Chemical Engineering) explains how mathematical modelling and computational modelling can be used to help solve some of the world's biggest challenges. Eva primarily focuses on modelling to help optimise and control separation processes to make them more sustainable, and also on pharmaceuticals to design better processes to make high purity medicines.

• View Eva's Profile
• UCL Chemical Engineering

Dr Ella Cockbain

Dr Ella Cockbain (UCL Security and Crime Science) explains how different STEM disciplines can combine to better understand human trafficking, smuggling and exploitation. This research can help inform effective and ethical responses to such a complex crime. 

• View Ella's Profile
• UCL Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science 
• UCL Security and Crime Science 

Carmen Salvadores Fernandez 

UCL Mechanical Engineering PhD student Carmen Salvadores Fernandez is working with healthcare professionals to develop a sensorised surgical glove, which will help clinicians better determine the orientation of a baby during birth, making interventions safer. 

• View Carmen's Profile 
• UCL Nanoengineered Systems Lab 
• Wellcome / EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (WEISS)
• UCL Mechanical Engineering 

Follow the #INWED23 conversation on our social channels:  

• Twitter: @UCLEngineering
• Instagram: @uclengineering 
• LinkedIn: UCL Engineering
• Facebook: UCL Engineering 
• TikTok: @UCLEngineering

Links 

• UCL Engineering departments 
• INWED website (external site)  
• Women's Engineering Society (external site)