Aims & Objectives
FEM aims to promote and support females in engineering. FEM does this through our 7 aims of:
(1) creating a support network to help the female identifying minority group enrolled in the Faculty of Engineering with university and early professional life;
(2) promoting a commitment to gender diversity and inclusion within all club relationships (including, but not limited to, students and staff in the engineering faculty and industry representatives);
(3) educating, involving and promoting all genders in engineering to become future leaders who support diversity in engineering, in particular, gender diversity;
(4) increasing awareness of FEM and the purpose of FEM to students, other relevant clubs and industry;
(5) raising awareness about the issues faced by female identifying engineering students amongst male identifying engineering students;
(6) providing a data driven approach when consulting on changes to policy involving gender diversity;
(7) promoting engineering as a career for female identifying students