The Women’s Engineering Society in collaboration with the Daily Telegraph has published a list of the top 50 women in engineering. This list features the UK’s top influential female engineers chosen from almost 900 nominations.

Dawn Bonfield, Chief Executive, Women’s Engineering Society said:

‘We had a very high response to this campaign and were hugely impressed with the entries. This list of amazing role models is a great way of raising the profile of our talented women engineers and making them more visible both within the industry and to the next generation.’

CIHT Members included on the list were:

• Dr Michèle Dix CBE, CEng, FICE, FCIHT, FCILT   Managing Director, Crossrail 2, Transport for London (TfL)
• Dana Skelley OBE   Director of Asset Management, Transport for London
• Rachel Skinner CEng, FICE, TPP, MCIHT   Director, Development, WSP Parsons Brinckerhoff

Sue Percy, Chief Executive, CIHT said:

“We are very pleased to have a number of our members recognised in this way. This initiative aims to boost female uptake of engineering roles and careers by celebrating the notable achievements made by women in the sector.”

“CIHT believes there needs to be a step change in the way that the industry engages with issues around diversity and inclusion as part of a long term skills strategy. We believe that initiatives such as this can help to inspire that step change.”

The full list is available here