The Electronic Engineering department is hosting a FREE day-long event aimed at inspiring the next generation of female engineers.

Since its founding, Royal Holloway, University of London has had a long history in women’s education. The Department of Electronic Engineering is proud to continue this tradition and give to as many women as possible the opportunity to make a difference through engineering.

For these reasons we would like to invite you to our annual “Girls into Engineering” event with the main purpose of getting a taste of being an engineer for 1 day (and we hope for many more other) and get an inside view of the challenges and opportunities that women face in the engineering world.

The event is mainly dedicated to girls in year 11-12 (parents welcomed) and includes:

• an inspirational talk given by the Women in Engineering representative of the Industrial Electronics Society, Lucia Lo Bello (bio below)
• hands-on lab activities (building circuits to create timing pulses, writing Python code, creating prototype circuits, etc)
• chats with some of our recent graduates and current undergraduates
• a tour of the Electronic Engineering Department (that includes the fabulous Fab Lab!)
• a packed lunch plus refreshments. A selection of vegetarian and vegan options will be available on the day – just let us know. If you have any allergies, please bring a packed lunch of your choice.

****Limited places! To book, contact Matthew Bryan on matthew.bryan@rhul.ac.uk

Campus map here.

After a similar event in the summer when asked how the day went, one student said: “Very supportive teachers and students, great opportunity to learn about electrical engineering first-hand. Thank you!”

Our main guest speaker, Prof Lucia Lo Bello said: 

"Engineering does not have a preferential gender. A career in Engineering is good for all the people who are open-minded and curious about technology. Those who are born engineers, for example, wish to understand the physical world and how to act on it for the benefit of mankind and the planet. They might want to work towards things such as, improving the utilization of natural resources to produce energy, pursuing efficient industrial production with low impact on the environment, fostering the evolution of Information and Communication Technology to improve the quality of life of the citizens, etc.

Girls who share these interests shall definitely consider a career in Engineering. Work-life balance is achievable - not a stroll, but a thrilling path. Anyway, it’s worth it!"

Lucia is Associate Professor at the University of Catania, Italy, where she leads the Real-time Systems and Networks research group. She received the M.S. degree in Electronic Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Catania, Italy. Lucia was a Guest Professor with the University of Malardalen, Västerås, Sweden (2014) and a Visiting Researcher with the Department of Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, South Korea (2000-2001).

Her research interests include automotive communications, Time-Sensitive Networking, industrial networks, real-time embedded systems, and wireless sensor networks. She has authored or co-authored more than 190 technical papers. Dr. Lo Bello was the Chair of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) Technical Committee on Factory Automation for two terms, from 2014 to 2015 and from 2016 to 2017 and now she is the current IES Secretary and the IES representative within IEEE Women in Engineering.