Three young and highly motivated women have made it to the finals. On April 21, one of them will be honored with the Young Engineering Award 2023 during the WomenPower Career Congress at Hannover Messe. The initiative is intended to boost motivation for women to take up a career in the STEM sector.
The three women nominated for the Young Engineering Award spoke with Control Design about inclusion and encouraging women in STEM studies and careers.
Lisa Ihde, from the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany, is a web designer, software engineer, design-thinking coach and author. As co-author, she was instrumental in writing "Learn how to implement games with the visual programming language Scratch". Because the games industry, like the IT industry in general, is heavily male-dominated, it’s important for women in the industry to get involved to a greater extent, in order to change the image of women in digital games. With her commitment, Ihde is a role model for all young women who decide to pursue a career in IT or game design and who need strong role models for these career choices.
Dr. rer. nat. Soraya Laghmari El Moussati works as a lead engineer for environmental technology at Bayer in Leverkusen, Germany. After studying chemistry at the University of Duisburg-Essen, she obtained her doctorate there before embarking on her career path. Laghmari is passionate about chemistry; she is involved in the Bayer Business Resource Group Merge and also volunteers as a mentor with Rock Your Life.
Carolin Neumann studied information technology at the Technical University of Berlin and is an associate application consultant at IBM, where she develops internal cloud services, as well as tools for managing various project software. Neumann is a role model at IBM events for female students. In addition, she is the founder of Byte Challenge, a digital, free and nonprofit platform for students and teachers.
