b'Member News March 2020 19Diversity and inclusionOutstanding women celebrated at last years Young Woman Engineer of the Year AwardsGender Diversity Ambassador Award winner, Wing Four women were recognised as driving forces withinCommander Glynis Dean, with host Sandi Toksvig OBEengineering and technology at the 2019 ceremony, which took place on 5 December at IET London: Savoy Place.YWE 2019 Winner Ying Wan LohUniversity of Warwick, who is passionate about developing a curriculum which attracts female students. Finalists Charlotte Buffey, Amber OConnor and Shrouk El-Attar were highly commended, and all will play an ambassadorial role promoting engineering and technology careers to young people.New for 2019 was the Gender Diversity Our YWE 2019 finalists and winners! Ambassador Award, recognising an The Womens Engineering Society (WES)individuals hard work in achieving gender The Young Woman Engineer (YWE) of theAward was given to Dr Claire Lucasequality within the industry and won Year Award was given to Ying Wan Loh (28),by Wing Commander Glynis Dean. a Manufacturing Engineer for Rolls-Royce plc.(33), an Associate Professor of SystemsShe recognised that a growing gap in A keen STEM ambassador, Ying aspires toand Information Engineering at thethe availability of STEM skills nationally combine her passion in arts and engineeringwould impact the long-term future of the to engage and inspire the next generation. Royal Air Force, so founded and led the She said she was so honoured to receive theRAF Youth and Diversity Team from its award and aims to use this platform to raiseinception until she retired last year.the profile of women in STEM and captureThis years awards were sponsoredthe imagination of young girls everywhere. by Analog Devices, BAE Systems, Boeing, Our Mary George Memorial Prize forBP, BT, Collins Aerospace, Frazer-Nash, Apprentices was given to SamanthaGCHQ, GKN Driveline, Leonardo, MBDA, Magowan (21), an Applications EngineerOfcom, Protolabs, RAF, Royal Mail, RS for Dale Power Solutions who chose anComponents, Teledyne e2v and Wiley.apprenticeship to gain practical experience over a traditional university route. Dr Claire Lucas Samantha Magowan Learn more at: theiet.org/ywe'