Elizabeth Donnelly (engineer)

Elizabeth Donnelly (engineer) Elizabeth Donnelly (born in 1968) is a British engineer and executive. She is currently the chief executive officer of Women's Engineering Society United Kingdom. Donnelly was appointed CEO on 23 August 2018. A systems engineer by education, Donnelly worked with companies such as Rolls-Royce. She was a founding member of the Royal Aeronautical Society’s (RAeS) Women in Aviation and Aerospace Committee. Quotes Engineering is harder to get into as a girl. Schools will generally funnel girls towards law or medicine It is important to remember that still only 16% of the engineering workforce are women but in society, women make up 51% of the population The general public still doesn’t see engineers in the way it does doctors or lawyers. You see doctors and lawyers portrayed on television and in fiction, but engineering only has visibility in documentary formats, so Inwed has an important role to promote the profession.” Teachers and parents don’t see engineers in society. Most people who become engineers already have a family member in the industry I needed a third module to complete my degree and chose systems engineering, thinking that it was about computer systems,” she says. It was definitely not what she was expecting but in a good way and it moved her career firmly into the engineering sector. It is clear she now thrives on the opportunities engineering offers. External links Category:Living people Category:Engineers from the United Kingdom Category:Systems engineers Category:Businesswomen from the United Kingdom Category:Chief executive officers Category:1968 births Category:Women born in the 1960s Category:Alumni of the Open University