Elaine Greaney Wins Prestigious Karen Burt Award for Best Chartered Engineer
30/09/2014 Women's Engineering Society (WES)
The Women's Engineering Society is delighted to announce the winner of the Karen Burt Award 2014 as the Institution of Engineering and Technology's candidate Elaine Greaney. This prestigious annual award for a newly chartered woman engineer, now in its 16th year, recognises the candidate's excellence and potential in the practice of engineering, highlights the importance of Chartered status, as well as offering recognition to contributions made by the candidate to the promotion of the engineering profession.Elaine Greaney, the 2014 winner, is a lead Systems Engineer for Qinetiq, working on electric systems for spaceflight. One of the projects that Elaine is proud to have worked on is the thruster design for the European Space Agency's mission to send a spacecraft to the planet Mercury in 2016, where she worked with a team of six engineers. Elaine's ambition is to be the lead engineer for a large spacecraft mission. She is also a keen promoter of engineering to the next generation, and regularly acts as a role model at STEM careers events at local schools and events organised by the IET.
Elaine says of winning the award "I am honoured to receive this award that recognises the achievements of female engineers, and I hope to use the support of the WES to publicise the number of exciting science and engineering career opportunities available to young people. I would also like to thank my employer QinetiQ for the opportunities that I have received during my career so far, and for their continued support with my outreach activities."
The Women's Engineering Society has a number of different mechanisms for supporting women in engineering, and through this award it recognises the importance of ensuring that women gain professional recognition of their achievements as early in their career as possible.
Linda Maynard, chair of the judges said "The candidates for the Karen Burt Award 2014 were of the usual exceptional standard with three nominees scoring very similar marks with the four judges. Elaine however proved to just have the edge and the judges were unanimous in considering her a very worthy winner of the award."
The award will be presented to Elaine on 29 October at a Prestige Lecture in London given by Professor Dame Ann Dowling, where Professor Dowling, Patron of WES, will talk about her engineering research work giving a lecture entitled 'Towards a Silent Aircraft' and will also give some insights into her historic Presidency of the Royal Academy of Engineering as the first woman President.
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