Egyptian Women In Engineering Affinity Group

Egyptian Women In Engineering Affinity Group is holding its first forum to raise awareness of women working in science and technology with the importance of work-life balance, to come up with innovative ideas for companies to help women -in science and technology- achieve work-life balance and to show how could work-life balance save the industry under financial crises.

We are proud to be part of a nation-wide movement to promote work-life balance awareness. We hope to benefit our community and further the cause of engaging more women in the science and technology field. In doing so, we envision more women sharing in the cycle of development.

The forum will be held on 3rd of August,2009 at Cairo International Conference Center -in Nasr City- during the EED "Egyptian Engineering Day" one of the biggest Engineering events in Egypt under the auspices of three Egyptian ministers. The Event is a gathering for Academia, Media, NGOs and Industry.

Forum Detailed Schedule is Now Available here

Greetings,

IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) is the largest international professional organization dedicated to promoting women engineers and scientists, the mission of IEEE WIE is to inspire, engage, encourage, and empower IEEE women worldwide.

IEEE WIE envisions a vibrant community of IEEE women and men innovating the world of tomorrow.

With the support of our dear professors; a group of energetic young women engineers started WIE affinity group in Egypt in June 2008, since that time the core team has been busy setting tracks, goals, and plans for the Egyptian affinity group

And as the volunteers are the heart of any non-profit organizational work, Our strength is a result of the time and effort provided by those who volunteer to serve their society, we are announcing volunteering opportunities in Egyptian WIE Affinity group as we are working in several areas starting from Work life Balance, Social Engineering, Mentoring, networking to Unleashing kids abilities which are the direct concerns of all Egyptian women engineers

If you want to become part of the WIE volunteer team, now is the time to let us know. We have volunteer opportunities at our coming conferences and programs. If you have experience, passion and a willingness to share, we hope that you will consider participating as a volunteer with us. Our goal is to have volunteer groups that represent the diversity of backgrounds, experience and demographics of our community.

To learn more about the available opportunities, and to tell us how you'd like to be involved, register here

Best regards,

Egyptian WIE Core Team

In a recognition of her contributions and efforts in IEEE and GOLD activities in the past few years, Shaimaa Yehia the current Vice chair of the Egyptian WIE executive committee was appointed as the new Region 8 WIE Coordinator;

Following the recommendations by the N&A Committee and OpCom, I have a great pleasure to appoint you the 2009 R8 Women in Engineering Coordinator. I hope you will derive a lot of personal satisfaction from this position and will significantly contribute to the success of the entire Region.

Best regards,

Jozef Modelski

Region 8 Director

Congratulations Shaimaa , We are dead sure that you are a value added to the new position ... we wish you all the success and keep moving forward :-)

Egyptian WIE Family