We are celebrating International Women in Engineering Day by shining a light on its successful female engineers and encouraging young women to consider engineering as a future career.
This Women In Engineering Day, we hear from six extraordinary women across our business about life at Bentley.
Observed annually on June 23, International Women in Engineering Day is an international awareness campaign to raise women's profile in engineering and focuses attention on the amazing career opportunities available to girls in this exciting industry. It celebrates the outstanding achievements of women engineers throughout the world.
Bentley’s global ‘Extraordinary Women’ programme continues to expand with the next selection of extraordinary students, this time from the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia, visiting Bentley’s headquarters in Crewe, UK, as the final stage of its bespoke mentorship programme.
The ‘Extraordinary Women’ programme is designed to inspire the next generation of female talent from the fields of technology, engineering, design and business and encourage young females to consider careers in STEM and automotive. Building upon the success of the inaugural edition, the 2023 programme has brought together eight students and eight mentors from the UK and Saudi Arabia.
AN INSPIRING OPPORTUNITY
Bentley hosted four students from its partner universities in the UK - Loughborough, Bath, Warwick and Manchester Metropolitan University – as well as four from the Dar Al Hekma University in Saudi Arabia. While at the brand’s headquarters, they were able to go behind the scenes of Bentley’s manufacturing operations, meet with senior automotive leaders and pitch ideas to a panel of Bentley experts.
After undergoing a thorough selection process earlier this year in collaboration with Bentley's partner universities, the eight students were chosen to participate as mentees and were then assigned a specially chosen mentor, known as a Bentley Pioneer, for regular engagements ahead of the week-long visit to Bentley’s facilities.
In the UK these Pioneers included: Amanda Levete, the RIBA Stirling Prize-winning architect; Megane Montabonel, product manager at Focal & Naim and Hayley Hunton, Head of Financial Planning at Bentley Motors. The Saudi Pioneers were represented by: Mishaal Ashemimry, aerospace engineer and founder of MISHAAL Aerospace; Noha Zagzoug, Associate at Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Nadine Attar, designer and founder of Nadine’s Jewellery, and Nicola Gough from the Bentley Motors product strategy team.
A WORD FROM THE BOARD
Member of the Board for Human Resources at Bentley Motors, Dr Karen Lange, explained: “This is the second edition of the ‘Extraordinary Women’ programme, and we are delighted to welcome again inspirational young women to our head office this year. The programme complements our Beyond100 goals, as we extend our efforts to increase female participation in the industry. I’m particularly pleased to welcome a second group of students from the Middle East. Empowering the future generation of female leaders remains a key focus for us, going far beyond the automotive sector.”
In the Saudi Arabia chapter, the four Dar al-Hekma University students involved were: Nada Ayman Alzahrani, majoring in Computer Science; Sarah Nahill Alrawi, majoring in Finance; Joud Mustafa Zahran, majoring in Graphic Design; and Reem
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