Event Description

To energize the female students in engineering education, 26th February 2021 IEEE East West University Student Branch arranged a webinar on "Women Contributing to the Engineering-Based Profession and Research".

In the First session (7.00-8.05 PM) speaker was Dr Maheshi B. Dissanayake, Chair, IEEE Sri Lanka Section (2021/2022 Session), Immediate Past Chair, IEEE WIE Affinity 2021, Senior Lecturer, Department of EEE, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. She talked about “Why are girls still not attracted to a career in Engineering?”

In the Second session (8.15-9.30 PM) speaker was Samantha Lubaba Noor, Chair (WIE AG, IEEE BDS, 2016 & 2018), Graduate Research Assistant (Nanoelectronics Research Lab, School of ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology), Former Senior Lecturer (EWU, 2017-2018). She talked about Plasmonics which is the new hope for ultrafast computing.

There was a 5 to 10-minute Q/A session inside the 1-hour time span occupied for each session.

After the First Session, there was a 10-minute break session. In this webinar total participants were about 30-32.

In future, we hope IEEE EWU SB will organize more informative and effective webinars.