Rising to the Top: Global Women Engineering Leaders Share their Journeys to Professional Success

Rising to the Top: Global Women Engineering Leaders Share their Journeys to Professional SuccessEngineers are changemakers who play a critical role in solving the grand challenges facing humanityand its role will be even more important in the coming decades. Balancing gender representation in the field is a necessity for innovations to continue to evolve, and to ensure engineering advancements include all members of society. Rising to the Top provides an intimate and inspiring look into the experiences that have shaped the lives and careers of

Engineers are changemakers who play a critical role in solving the grand challenges facing humanityÑand its role will be even more important in the coming decades. Balancing gender representation in the field is a necessity for innovations to continue to evolve, and to ensure engineering advancements include all members of society. Rising to the Top provides an intimate and inspiring look into the experiences that have shaped the lives and careers of women engineering leaders from around the world, from Sudan to Chile to Malaysia, and many points in between. By openly sharing their personal journeys in these pages, the authors hope to inspire the next generation of engineering leaders and provide valuable insight into the challenges facing women engineers around the world, and the opportunities that are theirs for the taking. Rising to the Top makes it clear that women engineering leaders are not only essential for the advancement of all societiesÑthey are here to stay.