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“Engineers think critically; they have true visions; they are at the forefront of science and technology.” |
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Gisele Azimi |
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“It is exciting to see your work being used on a spacecraft going to Mars.” |
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Sheila Bailey |
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“I loved engineering but wished to understand how to make the system of graduate engineering education more fruitful for graduate students. My work is important and I love every moment I spend thinking about it.” |
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Catherine Berdanier |
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“Engineering is everything as it involves research and innovation which makes human life comfortable. ” |
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Manjula R Bharamagoudra |
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“What inspires me most is the fact that with engineering we can actually make things happen not just once and in a limited amount, but several times and at different orders of magnitude scales. ” |
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Daria Boffito |
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“Please follow your mind, try to do what you want and be whom you want to be. No intelligence difference is observed for women and men in field of engineering. The only difference is how far you want to go.” |
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Wenquan Che |
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“Engineering requires people with a wide variety of interests, skills, & perspectives... there’s room for everyone. ” |
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Kendra M. L. Cooper |
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“Most scientists/engineers are inspired by nature. However, our device-driven research is directly inspired by the diseases of our family members and dear friends, and indirectly by humanity at large.” |
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Canan Dagdeviren |
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“I’m really grateful for the Young Woman Engineer Awards – I hope to use this platform to promote engineering as an exciting and creative career choice for young people.” |
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Ozak Esu |
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“Scientific results are more effective when they are achieved with an application in mind.” |
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Lucia Faravelli |
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“Being a role model for women inspiring them to undertake careers in science and technology would be great.” |
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Antonella Ferrera |
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“I always found it fascinating how things work.” |
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Rosalba Galvan Guerra |
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“My research is to understand how radiation affects the structure and properties of materials.” |
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Amy Gandy |
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“I like that all the time new projects come with a feeling of doing new things.” |
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Hannele Holttinen |
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“I love the fact that engineers can make something from nothing.” |
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Zeinab Hosseini-Doust |
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“I would say that girls can become good engineers and that they can solve any problem they put their minds to.” |
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Diana Inkpen |
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“I believe that people have the right to privacy protection in technologies, to be treated with dignity and to preserve autonomy. The empowerment of the individual is the core to my work.” |
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Nesrine Kaaniche |
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“I’ve been performing experimental studies that analyze heat transfer.” |
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Su-Hyeon Kim |
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“ Be true to yourself and do what you love. And: Yes, you can! – a fact that females often tend to forget.” |
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Bettina Lotsch |
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“I have always admired the technology inventions of engineers. Technologies we think of as common today are nothing short of magical. Just imagine someone who lived two hundred years ago time travelling to the present time.” |
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Jia Li |
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“Bioinspired robots could help humans in being more sustainable.” |
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Barbara Mazzolai |
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“The research is challenging but rewarding... we can contribute to society to better the world.” |
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Marie Oshima |
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“I was inspired by an old myth. There seems nothing too difficult; the engineer is always looking for and finding a technical solution.” |
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Ina Pertermann |
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“See that the field, in all its forms and aspects, is properly merging with many disciplines – I can say that is evolving in the right direction.” |
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Annamaria Petrozza |
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“Find what you like, what you’re good at ... what drives you.” |
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Lucia Rapanotti |
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“If you like problem-solving and coming up with solutions, then Engineering is really good.” |
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Ita Richardson |
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“I have always been truly driven by wanting to contribute to questions of energy conversion and storage, and supporting with material science and tech in the race against climate change.” |
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Jennifer Rupp |
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“As an Engineer you can contribute to solving important problems and by doing so, you may also truly make an impact on earth.” |
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Natalie Stingelin |
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“I like to simulate anything and see through the infinite world, any imaginative world.” |
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Nadia Thalmann |
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“The beauty of this job is that there is no typical day. Every day is different, exciting and unpredictable.” |
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Magda Titirici |
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“When the saying was changed to girls will not do good math at high school, I started to laugh about that.” |
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Yan Wan |
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“I suggest more and more girls should study engineering.” |
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Shufali Ashraf Wani |
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