NAFEMS Webinar Celebrates Women in Engineering Day

NAFEMS will celebrate Internation Women in Engineering Day on June 23 with a special webinar titled "Breaking Boundaries: Celebrating Women’s Success in Simulation Engineering."

The webinar, which kicks of at 11 AM Eastern time (U.S.), will feature Agnes Blom-Schieber, PhD, Technical Fellow at Boeing. According to NAFEMS, Blom-Schieber will talk about her journey from being an engineering intern to her current position at Boeing. She’ll discuss how her success is based on the combination of technical excellence, hard work, being pro-active, and “luck”. She will provide some examples of the types of problems she has worked on and her engagement with organizations outside Boeing.

She will also address the career opportunities at Boeing for engineers who would like to follow a technical career track.

Blom-Schieber holds a BSc, MSc and PhD in Aerospace Engineering from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. She is an expert in the design, analysis and manufacturing of composite structures, in particular in the area of fiber placed laminates. Her current focus is on design for manufacturability, model-based engineering, multi-disciplinary analysis and optimization; and data analytics. She is the Product Development Structures focal for thermoplastic primary structure. She is an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington (UW) Mechanical Engineering department. Previously, Agnes worked in the R&D department at Fokker Aerostructures. She has been a member of the technical advisory board of the TPRC (ThermoPlastic composite Research Center) since 2011. Agnes holds 38 US patents and 10 Boeing trade secrets.

The event is being organized by the NAFEMS Women in Simulation Engineering subcommittee (WISE). You can register here.