Women Engineers’ Day Celebration

BY PUBLICITY DIVISION (IESL)

Women Engineers’ Forum (WEF) of the IESL marked the International Women’s day by holding The Women Engineers’ Day 2024 on March 15, 2024 from 4.00 pm at the Wimalasurendra Auditorium. The Guest of honour for the event was Eng. (Prof.) Ranjith Dissanayake. Chief guest was Eng. (Dr.) Premala Sivasegaram and the keynote speaker was Prof. Kokila Konasinghe.

International Women in Engineering Day began in the UK in 2014 as a national campaign from the Women’s Engineering Society. Since then, INWED has grown enormously, receiving UNESCO patronage in 2016 and going truly global the following year.

National Women in Engineering Day was launched for the first time in the UK on 23 June 2014 by the Women’s Engineering Society (WES) to celebrate its 95th anniversary.

In 2017, National Women in Engineering Day became international for the first time due to the interest and enthusiasm developed by the international audience and participants in the previous years. International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) was born to enable the celebration of women in engineering to become global.