Английская Википедия:Dawn Bonfield

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Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use British English Dawn Bonfield Шаблон:Post-nominals [1] is a materials engineer and founder and director of Towards Vision,[2] a company which aims to work towards a vision of diversity and inclusion in engineering. She is past president and former chief executive of the Women's Engineering Society (WES),[3][4] and in 2018 was an ambassador for the Year of Engineering,[5][6] promoting engineering careers through a roadshow aimed at meeting parents.

Career

A materials engineer by profession, training and experience - having studied materials science at Bath University - Bonfield has worked at AERE Harwell, Citroen Research Centre (Paris), British Aerospace (Bristol), MBDA (Stevenage), and the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (London).[3]

In 2017, Bonfield was appointed a Visiting Professor of Inclusive Engineers at Aston University,[7] developing undergraduate content on inclusive engineering to equip the next generation of engineers with the skills and competencies they need to be inclusive. She also co-founded IncEng in 2017,[8] a platform to bring together under-represented groups in engineering.

Activism

Bonfield joined the council of the Women's Engineering Society in 2011 and was elected president in 2014.[9] She then became CEO in 2015.[3] Bonfield was the founder of National Women in Engineering Day in 2014 and in 2015 established the inaugural 50 Women in Engineering List with the Daily Telegraph.[3][10] She established and still runs the "Magnificent Women" schools outreach project and website,[11] and the Sparxx project to support STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) students.[12] She is a STEM ambassador who regularly promotes engineering and materials in schools.

Awards

In 2015 Bonfield won a WISE Award[13] and an Association Congress Award for the INWED campaign,[6] and in 2016 she won the SEMTA Skills Diversity Award.[14] In 2016 she was a Finalist in the Airbus GEDC Diversity Award,[15] and in 2017 she won the Women's Business Council STEM 'Starting Out' award.[16]

She was made MBE in the 2016 Queen's Birthday Honours list[17][18] for 'Services to the promotion of diversity in engineering'.

Membership of groups

Bonfield has been a member of the following groups:

References

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