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A WISE HEAD ON YOUNG SHOULDERS
Fleet woman collects top engineering
award
15th December 2003 - Helen Marson from Fleet
has collected one of the UK's highest awards for women
involved in Science, Engineering and Technology. The
WISE (Women Into Science and Engineering) Excellence
Award was presented to Helen by HRH The Princess Royal,
the Royal Patron of WISE, at a ceremony at the Engineering
Employers' Federation in London.
The award is presented to women judged to have played
a significant role in raising the profile of engineering
and sciences among young people in the UK.
Helen, senior process safety engineer at global gases
and chemicals company, Air Products, said, "Engineering
offers great opportunities for development - in fact
a growing number of women work in engineering, although
we are still a relatively small minority. It can be
a very exciting area to work in and with the ongoing
support of colleagues and my manager I aim to do even
more work to raise the profile of engineering."
The WISE campaign has helped to double the percentage
of female engineering graduates from 7% in 1984 to
15% today.
Helen is Chair of the British Chemical Engineering
Contractors Association (BCECA) Graduate Committee.
It is her work with the BCECA - to encourage graduate
to choose engineering as a career - which has been
instrumental in her winning the prestigious WISE award.
Commenting on Helen's achievement, Joe Pietrantonio,
president - engineering Air Products in Europe, said,
"Helen is a great ambassador to promote excellence
in engineering and we are extremely proud of her achievements."
Last year, Helen received the Karen Burt Memorial
award from the Women's Engineering society and was
voted onto the council of the Institution of Chemical
Engineers (IChemE), as an industry representative.
Helen joined Air Products in 1997, after graduating
from Loughborough University with a Chemical Engineering
Degree.
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