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Pictured: At Turlough Hill Pumped Storage Station in the Wicklow Mountains are back row (l-r) Women in Engineering Programme participants Tanya O'Brien, Belle Edelman, Rebecca Kidd, Fatima Habib, Emily Flaherty, Dawn Lonergan and Katie Riley. Front row (l-r) Sinéad Long, Human Resources, ESBI and Majella Henchion, Plant Manager, ESB Turlough Hill.



		ESBI hosts Women in Engineering Programme ESB International hosted a 'Women in Engineering Week' during November. The Business Line provided seven transition-year girls from six Dublin schools with the opportunity to experience the working life of an engineer. The initiative was one of several ESB wide projects marking 2007 as 'the European Year of Equal Opportunities' and it was designed to encourage female students to consider engineering as a career option. During the week, students had the chance to take part in field trips to Poolbeg Power Station, the National Control Centre at EirGrid, Turlough Hill Pumped Storage Station, the hydro station at Poulaphouca and a 220kV substation in Finglas. ESBI female engineers from High Voltage, Power Plant, Civil and Structural, Environmental, Strategic Consulting and ESB Independent Generation were on-hand to demonstrate a day in the life of an engineer. Engineers Ireland also featured in a mid-week session dedicated to practical career path advice. "The week was a real eye opener for the students," said Sinéad Long, Human Resources ESBI, who organised the programme. "We approached a number of Dublin schools early in the summer and presented the concept to them. There was such great interest that we had to adopt a selection criteria in order to fill the limited places. In the end, we selected seven students who had a ESBI hosts Women in Engineering Programme keen interest in following engineering as a career and who had also intended taking honours maths and/or science for the Leaving Certificate examinations." The students selected were: Katie Riley, Caritas College, Ballyfermot; Dawn Lonergan, Dominican College, Griffith Avenue, Rebecca Kidd, Mount Carmel Secondary School, Kings Inn Road, Fatima Habib, Mount Carmel Secondary School, Kings Inn Road, Belle Edelman, Newpark Comprehensive, Blackrock, Emily Flaherty, Old Bawn Community School, Tallaght and Tanya O'Brien, Presentation Secondary School, Warrenmount. The programme ended on Friday, November 23rd, when Michael McNicholas, Executive Director ESBI, was on hand to present certificates of participation to the students.		Pictured: At Turlough Hill Pumped Storage Station in the Wicklow Mountains are back row (l-r) Women in Engineering Programme participants Tanya O'Brien, Belle Edelman, Rebecca Kidd, Fatima Habib, Emily Flaherty, Dawn Lonergan and Katie Riley. Front row (l-r) Sinéad Long, Human Resources, ESBI and Majella Henchion, Plant Manager, ESB Turlough Hill.