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WIRES: Women's International Research Engineering Summit
Description:
Conference Date: 2-4 June 2009 in Barcelona, Spain
What is WIRES?
WIRES is the first annual international summit for women
who are interested in pursuing international collaborative researching
opportunities. The main objective of this summit is to enable
meaningful and sustainable research exchanges between female engineers
from around the world while identifying issues faced by females pursuing
careers in engineering that could benefit from a global strategy.
Who will be at WIRES?
Summit participation is limited to 50 US and 50
non-US women engineers. Since this event will be the first in a series
of such summits, it will focus on three research “clusters” or themes:
- Energy systems
- Micro/nanotechnology
- Simulation based engineering
Participants chosen to attend the summit will include female engineering
faculty, graduate students, post doctoral fellows, researchers from
industry, and program directors from funding agencies. All of the US
participants have been identified; however, we are still accepting
applications from non-US women engineers from universities and industry
and from Program Directors from organizations that fund research in the
areas of energy systems, simulation based engineering and
micro/nanotechnology.
