The Welding Institute launches group for women in engineering

The Welding Institute celebrated National Women in Engineering Day on June 23, 2016.

The Welding Institute, Cambridge, U.K., has established the Tipper Group especially for women in the engineering profession. Inspired by the success of the National Women in Engineering Day celebrations at parent company TWI on June 23, 2016, the institute has launched the group to provide events and networking opportunities to support and inspire female engineers in welding, joining, and associated technologies.

The group is named after Constance Tipper, the female engineer who investigated the wartime Liberty Ship fractures as a researcher in Cambridge. Through this work, Tipper became the first person to define the ductile-brittle transition curve to identify the temperature at which a metal becomes prone to shattering under load, rather than deforming.

Chaired by Dr. Philippa Moore, the Tipper Group committee includes TWI engineers and National Structural Integrity Research Centre PhD students from disciplines such as coating technology, polymers, fracture, inspection, manufacturing, and materials.