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Women in Engineering: Challenges and Perspectives

Women in Engineering: Challenges and Perspectives

In this seminar we are going to present different issues related with activities being planned in order to bring more women to engineering courses, keep them in the job and the challenges of being a student of engineering or working as an engineer in a place where most of the employees are men.

Woman and Engineering Project

The Woman and Engineering Project is an initiative developed by members of the Faculty of Engineering of Eduardo Mondlane University. The project aims to increase women inclusion of women in engineering courses, promote jobs for female engineer graduates and disseminate the work done by the women engineer already in field. Many of these goals start with visits and talks in secondary schools in order to make the young girls realize that engineering is not a man field only. 

From unemployed to and entrepreneur

Neuza Linda Ricardo de Carvalho will tell us about her challenges for taking civil engineering course as a female student and after being graduated since even after completing the course, she was unable to find a job. In meantime she discovered her entrepreneurial identity, from where 2 companies emerged, “Artios Engineering” and “Charis Corporate”. Nowadays she has developed many skills and a resilience and wants to contribute to the economic development of women.

Experience of Facilitating an Educational Technologies course

In this presentation Leila Omar will be sharing her experiences as a young woman who has been a facilitator in an Educational technology (Edtech) course. According to statistics, the participation of women in these types of courses has always been lower in terms of learners and facilitator teams. While being a facilitator the young engineer come across some interesting impressions which she will be going to share.

Initially the female learners and facilitator feel like they are out of place but as time goes they can realize that they are treated equally and the most important is that a women engineer has insist on creating opportunities for women in technical areas.

Perspectives and Challenges of an Engineering Student

In this presentation Fatima, an engineering student will be sharing her motivation to select an engineering course, her challenges and her expectations and dreams about what to do after graduation. This is presentation is somehow related with the past of all women engineer already in a field.

Engineers VS OrDEM

This presentation will be doneb Carlota Salomao a member of Directive Board of Ordem dos Engenheiros de Moçambique (Engineers Council of Mozambique – OrdEM) and she will be talking about gender distribution among the members of the Ordem dos Engenheiros de Moçambique, known as OrdEM. 

She wants to show the how is the gender distributions happening in the last 3 years, compared to the initial year, 2004 when the OrdEM was created,  and present some ideas and actions being taken to change this scenario and bring more women in the organization, particularly young women. 

Presenters

Irene Stuart Torrié de Carvalho

Irene is Researcher and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at Eduardo Mondlane University, in Maputo, Mozambique, since 2019. She is the First woman to become dean of faculty of engineering at Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM), the biggest and oldest Public University in Mozambique, since 1962 when the UEM was founded. From 2015- until April 2019 she was Deputy-dean for Research and Extension at Faculty of Engineering at Eduardo Mondlane University. She has a PhD in Food Engineer from Lund University (Sweden- 2014), a Master degree in Food Technology and Quality from Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal-2007) and Chemical engineer degree from UEM (Mozambique-2004). She has experience of teaching since 2011 at undergraduate and in postgraduate level at Chemical Engineering and in Master of Food Technology at UEM in subjects like: Food Technology, Food analysis, Human Nutrition, Chemical Installations Projects and Scientific Research Methodology. Irene has authored and coauthored of some publications in scientific journals and also is reviewer.  She conducts research related with human nutrition and has supervising several final work from undergraduates, dissertation of postgraduate courses and is a team member of  one of the sub-programmes of UEM-Sweden Bilateral Cooperation Program 2017-2022. Since 2018 she leds the new strategic plan to promote the increase of the number of girls in engineering courses, at faculty of engineering, in project designed “Mulher e Engenharia”. She is an effective member of the order of Engineers of Mozambique.

Carlota Salomão

With a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from UEM (Eduardo Mondlane University) (1989), she obtained her MSc in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University in the USA (1994).  Carlota Salomão is currently the Secretary General of the Ordem de Engenheiros de Moçambique – OrdEM (Engineers Council of Mozambique). Previously she was member of the board of directors of the Mozambican Council of Engineers, for 4 years and was an adviser for the finance and administrative area. She has a large experience (over 20 years) on the industrial sector in Mozambique and owns a business in pharmaceuticals and real estate, in partnership. Carlota Salomão was the Deputy Director  of the Mozambican Chapter of New Faces New Voices(NFNV) ( 2016 to 2020), a Pan- African Advocacy group  that focuses on expanding the role and influence of women in the financial sector. It advocates the access of women to finance and financial services, NFNV is part of GMT Trust. C Salomão is a fellow of the ALI- African Leadership Initiative, 1st class of Mozambique (2005), and founding member of the ALI – MOZ association (2021).

Fátima Francisco Massicame

Fátima Francisco Massicame is a final year student in Computer Engineering at the Eduardo Mondlane University.

Fatima has been coaching primary and secondary school students since 2018 and participated as a mentor in a project called “Women in Engineering” funded by Mozal Aluminum company.

Leila Jossias 

Leila Jossias graduated in Environmental Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of the Eduardo Mondlane University and is completing her master’s degree in Hydrocarbon Processing Engineering at the same faculty.

She has been working as a lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering since 2017, and is currently developing teaching and research activities in the areas of risk management and assessment and management of environmental impacts. 

She is also coordinating the environment section of the Chemical Engineering department and is an activist  in the “Women and Engineering” project.

Leila Omar

Leila Omar is a Computer Engineer with seven years of experience in teaching subjects like Programming and Database in the Computer Engineering undergraduate programs. 

Leila Omar has also ten years of experience in software development. Fascinated by Education technologies, she is a facilitator of training on the use of digital tools for teaching. Currently, she attends a Master’s Degree in Educational Technologies at the University of Cape Town.

Neuza Linda Ricardo de Carvalho

Neuza Linda Ricardo de Carvalho graduated in Civil Engineering from Faculty of Engineering, Eduardo Mondlane University and Founder of Charis Corporate and Artios Eng. Mozambican woman with a degree in Civil Engineering, she is also most of the time Entrepreneur. Founder of Charis Corporate, Lda, a company that facilitates services in the corporate sector, she is the manager of the company where she is always ahead of existing projects. She is the founder of Artios Engineering, a consulting and construction management company. She is also a member of chambers of commerce in some foreign countries, and is a delegate of the Association of Women Entrepreneurs Europe and Africa – Mozambique. She always tries to add value to the people around her and she is in the process of Leadership training.

Roxan Cadir

Roxan Cadir graduated in Electronic Engineering from Engineering Faculty – Eduardo Mondlane University, pursued her Master in IT from the University of Liverpool and currently is in middle of PhD in Education. Roxan is a highly educated and experienced academic lecturer and researcher in telecommunication and IT. She has 20 years experience in delivering quality course content to undergraduates at Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) in Mozambique and other government Institutions. She has been Director of Computer Engineering graduating programme, Head of Electrotechnical Engineering Department and currently is holding a Deputy Dean for Research and Extension position at same Faculty. She has also been an activist in women and Engineering Projects years ago and now coordinating the project activities with schools and industry.

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