Fewer than one in 10 engineers in the UK is female(女性)—the lowest percentage in Europe. Latvia, Bulgaria and Cyprus lead with nearly 30%. Here, we will see one pioneering female engineer at Oxford University explain what drives her.
Priyanka Dhopade was named as one of the Top 50 Women in Engineering Under 35 in 2017. She grew up in Canada, where she studied for a degree in aerospace engineering. She completed her doctor course at UNSW Canberra in Australia, before moving to Oxford in 2013.
As a child she was very interested in planes, and how things fly in space. She wanted to be an astronaut. Her parents advised engineering, because it’s quite practical. She could use her enthusiasm and her skills to do something that really matters.
She does a lot of experiments to look at the movement of heat inside an engine and use those predictions to help design innovative cooling systems for modern jet engines. This helps to make the engine more efficient and safer as well, and reduces the environmental impact in terms of emissions(排放) and fuel consumption. If we help to make jet engines more efficient, that’s going to have a huge environmental impact.
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