11 SPRING 2015
Developing the young workforce
Magnificent Women and
their Flying Machines
OUR AERONAUTICAL
ENGINEERING TRAINING
CENTRE PROUDLY HOSTED A
‘MAGNIFICENT WOMEN AND
THEIR FLYING MACHINES’
EVENT IN DECEMBER, WHICH
AIMED TO GET GIRLS
THINKING ABOUT A CAREER
IN ENGINEERING.
Nearly forty second year pupils
from schools across South
Ayrshire arrived at the College to
take part in activities organised
in collaboration with Dumfries
House Education and the
Women’s Engineering Society.
The Girls Into Engineering event
was the Scottish Launch of the
Women’s Engineering Society’s
national outreach programme for
schools.
On arrival, the girls were divided
into three teams and given a tour
of our aerospace facilities. They
then heard a talk from female
engineer Linda Relly from GE
Caledonian and took a historical
look at prominent women in
aerospace and aviation over the
past century.
The teams were challenged to
build a STIXX aircraft wing
replica, becoming project
managers, designers, production
staff and planners and replicating
the roles played by female
aviation engineers during the
First World War.