National Engineering Week: Let's discover the future women in engineering!

Montréal, February 26, 2007 - National Engineering Week is currently underway, lasting until March 4, and the theme this year is "Discovering the engineer in you!" This cross-Canada event highlights the important contribution of engineering and engineers to the improving society. www.new-sng.ca

The Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec is using this opportunity to pay special tribute to the 6,200 women engineers who prove every day that women belong in engineering! And in order to encourage more women to become engineers, the OIQ has launched a Web page just for girls - who will make up an ever growing percentage of the engineering students of the future. The site features some who have let the engineer in them be discovered and are willing to talk about it. "My decision to study engineering is based on my desire to create, invent and find concrete solutions. That's what motivates me," explains Julie Isabelle Morissette Mailhot, a computer engineering student. "Completing a project always gives me a great feeling of accomplishment." For more information, visit http://www.oiq.qc.ca/etudiants/filles-de-genie/en_index.html.

In participating in this year's National Engineering Week, the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec hopes to open new career horizons to teenagers. They can follow in the footsteps the 53,618 engineering professionals who contribute to the socio-economic development of Québec and whose achievements surround us in all spheres of human activity.

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