ICE London Ambassador of the Year: Civil engineer commended for work with Haringey students
A graduate engineer has received recognition for her work with students at Fortismere School, in Haringey at the first STEM Ambassador Awards from the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) London Region.
Dimple Rana, age 27, received the award at a special ceremony held at the ICE Head Office at One Great George Street, Westminster.
Director of ICE London, Miranda Housden, said: “Encouraging young people to consider a career in engineering is important if we are to have the right people designing and building our infrastructure for the 21st century and beyond.
“ICE London is involved with a lot of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) work in schools and colleges across the capital which can only be achieved by our members volunteering their time and expertise.
“To recognise that commitment we launched the ICE London STEM Ambassador Awards this year and we were delighted with the high standard of nominations received.
“Dimple is a Graduate Engineer from Arup’s Advance Technology and Research Group for her work with Fortismere School, Haringey. on the Engineering Education Scheme. Her commitment to the project, passion for her subject and ability to communicate with the student team has been a huge asset for promoting the profession to future engineers.
“For more than six months Dimple helped to implement a programme that provided hands-on work experience as part of a team, experience of problem solving and designing a temporary wind shelter for the Olympic sailing venue.
“That work was judged to be of such a high standard that we were pleased to present her with a Highly Commended Award as recognition of the inspiration she has provided to young people considering engineering careers.”
Dimple said: “I graduated from University College London in 2010 and have thoroughly enjoyed my career in engineering with Arup.
“The satisfaction you get from working on real world problems and actually producing solutions that work is immense.
“I am pleased to be able to work with ICE London to share my enthusiasm for engineering with young people as they make their career choices and I hope that as my own career progresses I will find myself working alongside some of the students who worked with me on these STEM projects and were inspired to also choose engineering as their career.”
ICE London has more than 8,000 members living and working in the city. More information can be found at www.ice.org.uk/London. You can follow ICE London on Twitter: @ICE_London