Women in engineering

The critical need for diversity within the profession prompted Engineers Ireland to develop a mini series highlighting the importance of women in engineering.

Below you will find four videos featuring four very different female engineers - Leanne Leonard, Roisin Howard, Gillian Cagney and Clodagh Moore.

An initiative of the Thomond Region of Engineers Ireland, each video tells of the challenges, excitement, satisfaction and variety of that comes with a career in engineering.

Leanne Leonard

In the video, Leanne describes her educational journey so far and what working as an engineer designing building structures entails. Leanne says she loves the challenges and excitement of working in a small design enterprise, where she gets involved in every aspect of the business

Roisin Howard

Roisin Howard, engineer and athlete, tells how her interest in Maths and Physics led to a career in engineering that challenges and satisfies her drive to solve problems

Gillian Cagney

Gillian Cagney explains how her engineering journey has brought her from mastering hands-on skills to team building, management and problem solving in major projects, often in challenging wilderness environments

Clodagh Moore

In this video, Clodagh shares both her love of engineering and her love of teaching engineering: “the less I speak, the more they learn”. In this short piece, Clodagh explains how engineering opens up a wide world of creative opportunity for her students at Limerick Institute of Technology

Why I became an engineer

This Engineers Journal series of articles profiles engineers from across a range of disciplines, who explain why they became engineers and the impact they are making on society.

Laura Burke, EPA director general

Laura is the director general of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). She was appointed to the position in 2011 and has served as a director within the EPA since 2004.

Caoimhe Mooney of Intel

Caoimhe Mooney is an AI software development engineer with Intel Ireland, which she joined in June 2020. She is a graduate in computer engineering from Trinity College Dublin.

Anita Earley of IFO

In 1999, Anita moved to Ireland Fab Operations (IFO) to embark on her career as an integration engineer. She has recently taken on a new role as the 14nm integration engineering manager.