13 September 2021

Celebrating women in engineering

The NUS Faculty of Engineering’s inaugural “Women in NUS Engineering” event saw a line-up of celebrated guest speakers; including CEO of Temasek Holdings Ms Ho Ching, Chairman of Shell Companies in Singapore Ms Aw Kah Peng, Senior Vice President of SkyLab Services Ms Eng Se-Hsieng, and Senior Manager of Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology Ms Wan Siew Ping, and Guest-of-Honour and Minister for Social and Family Development, Mr Masagos Zulkifli, who joined via video.
The NUS Faculty of Engineering’s inaugural “Women in NUS Engineering” event saw a line-up of celebrated guest speakers; including CEO of Temasek Holdings Ms Ho Ching, Chairman of Shell Companies in Singapore Ms Aw Kah Peng, Senior Vice President of SkyLab Services Ms Eng Se-Hsieng, and Senior Manager of Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology Ms Wan Siew Ping, and Guest-of-Honour and Minister for Social and Family Development, Mr Masagos Zulkifli, who joined via video.

NUS Engineering organised the "Women in NUS Engineering" event on Wednesday, September 8th, a hybrid live and online webinar event that brought together several of our most distinguished Engineering alumni to share their experiences with fellow alumni, NUS staff and students.

Guest of Honour Mr Masagos Zulkifli, Minister for Social and Family Development (Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award Winner) gave the keynote speech opening the event.

This was followed by sharing of personal stories and a panel discussion featuring outstanding women alumni:

  • Ms Ho Ching, CEO Temasek Holdings (Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award Winner)

  • Ms Aw Kah Peng, Chairman, Shell Companies in Singapore (Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award Winner)

  • Ms Wan Siew Ping, Senior Manager, Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (Engineering Alumni Service Honours Recipient)

  • Ms Eng Se-Hsieng, Senior Vice-President, Business Development, Skylab Services Pte Ltd (Outstanding Engineering Young Alumni Award Winner)

The event was held in support of 2021 as the Year of Celebrating SG Women. If you missed out or couldn't attend, please click this link to watch the recorded event on YouTube.

Minister, Mr Masagos Zulkifli addressing the attendees in his opening speech.
Minister, Mr Masagos Zulkifli addressing the attendees in his opening speech.
Each speaker is an award-winning NUS Engineering alumna, and shared inspiring stories from their time in university and their experiences navigating careers in engineering and other fields.
Each speaker is an award-winning NUS Engineering alumna, and shared inspiring stories from their time in university and their experiences navigating careers in engineering and other fields.
Ms Ho gave a show-and-tell of a Meccano set, the engineering equivalent of a Lego model, which piqued her love for the discipline as a child.
Ms Ho gave a show-and-tell of a Meccano set, the engineering equivalent of a Lego model, which piqued her love for the discipline as a child.

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