#female engineer
December 20th, 2021
Soooo, back into another lockdown for the last week before the Christmas break.
As the project deadline is coming Friday, I’m quite stressed. I’ve worked on the report for quite a few hours today and will do the same tomorrow.
What is your favorite Christmas movie?
- Love actually! I love the whole mid 2000 England vibe in movies like this one and the Bridget Jones’ ones.
What is your favorite Christmas song?
- One of my current faves is Santa Tell Me by Ariana Grande.
What is a Christmas song that makes you cringe?
- I hate Baby It’s Cold Outside
What is your favorite and least favorite holiday/winter food?
- My favorite thing for dinner during holidays is “Gourmetten” where you basically have a small grill on the table and tiny frying pans and you cook your own miniature food. “Mixed vegetables” are my most hated thing.
December 16th, 2021
Yesterday I decided to take a mental health day, as I was noticing my sleeping pattern getting worse and I was feeling more emotional than usual. It helped a lot and I’m very glad I did it.
Today was another project day. I overslept, so I enden up being 35 min late to our meet up, but wasn’t the end of the world. I managed to get some good hours of work done. Tomorrow I’ll work on it some more.
Share a memorable gift-opening moment from your childhood!
- It’ll be one for Sinterklaas instead of Christmas: My sister and I ended up receiving a keyboard (piano), but we had a number of mysteries to solve before getting to the present. I ended up so happy I could cry! I didn’t however ever learn how to play the piano, so for the first two years I tried teaching myself how to play a few different songs, but after that I ended up not using it and we sold it.
December 14th, 2021
Tuesday = project day. I spend my entire afternoon working on the landing gear project today. As the deadline for the project is in 9 days, we are really focussing on getting the project finished asap so we have a bit more time for the final check.
When do you buy your Christmas presents?
- As a Dutchie, (my family and) I don’t really do gifts at Christmas, as we celebrate Sinterklaas at the start of December. It’s basically the gift side of Christmas and we even do something like secret Santa.
December 13th, 2021
Yesterday my friend and I handed in our assignment and we feel pretty good about it!
Today I mostly did project work, but I found out I need the input of the stuff the others are woeking on in order to start on that. Hopefully I can finish working on that tomorrow!
What is a cherrished family tradition from your childhood?
- Instead of a Christmas dinner, my family has always done a Christmas buffet, where every one brings some home made food. Unfortunately we didn’t do it last year and won’t do it this year due to the circumstances.
What is a favorite family Christmas memory that has stuck with you through the years?
- My favorite memory is pretty much renewed every year and it’s seeing everyone together, enjoying the food and in general just seeing everyone enjoy themselves
Does your family have any odd traditions during the holidays?
- Not anything I can think of right now.
Strategies for Retaining Female Engineers
Women earned 49 percent of allscience and engineering bachelor’s degrees, 43 percent of science and engineering master’s degrees and 40 percent of science and engineering doctoral degrees in 2014, reports the National Student Clearinghouse. Yet women make up less than 25 percent of the STEM workforce and only 10.5 percent of employed engineers. Researchers have found that workplace culture and women’s personal character traits play major roles in retention. So what are the things that make a difference?
Women prefer workplaces that are collaborative rather than hierarchical, explains Heather Metcalf, director of research and analysis at the Association for Women in Science. And they are more apt to stay in work environments that allow for creativity and flexibility, she says.
Conversely, women are fleeing companies that encourage employees to practically live at work, she says. While 71 percent of women with young children work outside the home, according to the Pew Research Center, women still shoulder more responsibility for child care and elder care than men. So living at the office to show they are committed to their jobs is not an option.
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A World of Help for Women Software Engineers
The career path of a woman in tech, Kunche thinks, can be lonely. “Sometimes being in a room full of men whether it’s at work or a in a classroom can make you feel like the odd one out, as though you don’t belong there,” she says. “It is important for women to know that they are not alone.”
That’s why, around the world, women software engineers have started all sorts of local organizations to support each other. Finding one of these organizations has mostly been a matter of word of mouth or surfing the web; Kunche found out about the Washington, D.C., group through a listing on Meetup.com.
Kunche decided she could help bring women in tech together simply by making it easier to find these support groups.
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She’s put them together into an interactive map; you can zoom in to a community, browse the available groups, and click through to their individual web sites for more information. (If you know of an organization that isn’t yet on the map, you can report it to her here.)
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5'11" (180.34 cm) tall fitness model and electrical engineer Kelsey Knoche
From:/r/FitAndNatural
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How To Become Deputy Administrator of NASA
If you’re anything like Dava Newman you start off a shoeshine business and work from there. She studied at the University of Notre Dame with a major in Aerospace and continued with 3 other degrees at MIT.
After completing a PhD, she taught at MIT as well. And then one day, she received a phone call from the White House…
Read the whole interview @ The Verge
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