The theme for International Women in Engineering Day, Thursday, June 23rd is “invention and innovation,” capturing “the best, brightest and bravest women in engineering, the inventors and innovators who dare to be part of the solution and are helping to build towards a brighter future.
If you’d like to join these efforts to look around, recognize, honor, and expand your knowledge of the visionary women engineers in our midst, look no further than the new Springer volume, Women in Mechanical Engineering: Energy and Environment, a collection of essays in which women mechanical engineers share their own stories of cutting-edge research, transnational career pathways, collaboration, and articulate inspiring new directions in the field.
The narratives gathered together in Women in Mechanical Engineering: Energy and Environment, co-edited by Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) faculty — Margaret Bailey, Ph.D., P.E., Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Laura Shackelford, Ph.D., Professor of English, provide a real sense of what it is like working in these fields and a rare glimpse into these contemporary women engineers’ inspiring accomplishments, as they provide their first-person perspectives and, often, nonlinear and bumpy journeys.
International Women in Engineering Day is a great reason to read and reflect on a few of their stories and the real-world models and diverse methods of working in Mechanical Engineering they describe. As co-editors of the volume, we think you will find their approaches to professional development, resilience, empowerment, self-advocacy, and purpose as engaging, perhaps literally moving, as their stellar accomplishments."