Benita Mehra

Benita Mehra
Alma mater

City, University of London

Henley Business School
Organization Women's Engineering Society

Benita Mehra MBA, MSc, FIET, BSc (Hons), CEng, FWES, FIHEEM is a British engineer working in London. She is the current President of the Women's Engineering Society.

Education and career

Benita Mehra studied Electrical & Electronic Engineering at the City University London before completing an MSc in Construction Management at Heriot-Watt University.[1] Upon graduation she joined British Airports Authority (BAA) the airports operator and with their support attained chartered status, having been seconded from BAA into a manufacturing company.[2] In 2005, Mehra achieved an MBA in Henley Business School, allowing her to manage large groups of engineers.[3] In 2015 she became a Fellow of the Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estate Management, and the Institution of Engineering and Technology in 2016.

Diversity

In 2016 Benita Mehra became the President of the Women's Engineering Society.[4] Under her guidance, National Women in Engineering Day (NWED) became an international celebration.[5] She has campaigned for women to be more readily welcomed back into the engineering workforce after time taken out for maternity leave, and encouraging small-to-medium enterprises to explore job-sharing for mid career workers.[6]

Mehra works to inspire the next generation, working with teachers and girls to highlight careers in engineering.[7] She is a judge of the annual Top 50 Women in Engineering campaign run by The Telegraph newspaper.[8] She received an Honorary Doctorate for Science for her diversity work from Chichester University in 2017.[9][10]

References

  1. ↑ "Benita Mehra | Women's Engineering Society". www.wes.org.uk. Retrieved 2017-11-20.
  2. ↑ "personal-journeys-through-engineering". www.icheme.org. Retrieved 2017-11-20.
  3. ↑ "UCLWE International Women's Day Event: Personal Journeys through Engineering - Student Society of Women Engineers". Student Society of Women Engineers. Retrieved 2017-11-20.
  4. ↑ "Presidents Past & Present | Women's Engineering Society". www.wes.org.uk. Retrieved 2017-11-20.
  5. ↑ "Women in engineering goes international". Education Technology. Retrieved 2017-11-20.
  6. ↑ Matthews, Virginia (2017-02-23). "Why we are losing mid-career women engineers?". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2017-11-20.
  7. ↑ "We need more young women to think: 'Wow! That's the job for me'". Women in STEM. Retrieved 2017-11-20.
  8. ↑ "Top 50 Women in Engineering". International Women in Engineering Day 2017. Retrieved 2017-11-20.
  9. ↑ "Star performers! Influential figures lined up for prestigious accolades from Chichester University | Chichester News". Chichester News. 2017-11-01. Retrieved 2017-11-20.
  10. ↑ "Athletes among group honoured by university". The Argus. Retrieved 2017-11-20.


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