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For this IWED, join us in celebrating just some of the inspirational women in our community and the empowering work they do for women everywhere. In this series, we feature women from across our network and the empowering work they do.

This IWED, we’re celebrating some of the inspirational and empowering women in our community who work within the engineering field. Amee Meghani is Director of Engineering, South Region at GoEngineer and is a huge advocate for STEM, aiming to show young children the variety of career options available in STEM fields.

This IWED, we’re celebrating some of the inspirational and empowering women in our community who work within the engineering field. After being inspired by her dad from a young age, Julie went on to attend the University of Sunderland to study Automotive Engineering. She now works at Jaguar Land Rover and has recently been recognised as Automotive News Europe’s, rising star 2022.

This IWED, we’re celebrating some of the inspirational and empowering women in our community who work within the engineering field. Tracy Wettig is Mid-Atlantic Technical Manager at TriMech. During her time at TriMech Tracy has achieved so much and is a great advocate for STEM.

This IWED, we’re celebrating some of the inspirational and empowering women in our community who work within the engineering field. Betty Baker is Domestic Casegoods Product Engineer at Ashley Furniture. Betty was the only female mechanical engineer to graduate from her class. She was also the first female product engineer hired at Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc., over 35 years ago.

This IWED, we’re celebrating some of the inspirational and empowering women in our community who work within the engineering field. In her current job role, Christine leads all the engineering efforts within the CEMA business at BAE Systems. Christine is also the proud founder and coach of the FIRST® Robotics Competition team 4905.

This IWED, we’re celebrating some of the inspirational and empowering women in our community who work within the engineering field. Simone is the owner and engineer at ConfiCreate and shares the path that led her into STEM and setting up her own business.

This IWED, we’re celebrating some of the inspirational and empowering women in our community who work within the engineering field. Currently, Ashley is transitioning from one role to another inside Regal Rexnord. Ashley was the Manager of Engineering Projects – Automation for their Energy (coupling products) sector and is now moving to become the Program Manager for the new Industrial Powertrain team.

This IWED, we’re celebrating some of the inspirational and empowering women in our community who work within the engineering field. Colleen Coble is an Enterprise Services Specialist at Hawk Ridge Systems. In this role, she focuses mainly on DriveWorks projects for their customers. Colleen graduated from Millersville University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Applied Engineering.

This IWED, we’re celebrating some of the inspirational and empowering women in our community who work within the engineering field. Leah is a design and systems engineer at ColePak Inc. She is responsible for optimising company processes and workflow, as well as aiding in the creation of product drawings.

On June 16th, we hosted the 2nd DriveWorks Drivers meeting of the year. During these meetings, we hosted technical presentations from the UK, France and the US. We had over 70 users registered for these meetings and some really good discussions were had on some of the technical insights being shared. Here’s what we got up to during the meetings.

Every year we hold a fundraising bake sale at DriveWorks HQ. This year’s took place on Wednesday 25th May, and we were fundraising for another cause very close to home. Thanks to the generosity of fantastic bakers, and everyone who joined in and donated, we raised a fantastic total and look forward to more fundraising activities throughout the year.

Brad Meador from the Star City SolidWorks User Group and Adam Ebernickel from the WNC-Asheville SolidWorks User Group join us to talk about an event that they’ve had in the works for a couple of years now – IronSWUG. IronSWUG is happening the week of July 18th and will follow these two User Group Leaders as they travel (by motorcycle) over 2,000 miles to present at 6 SOLIDWORKS User Groups that span 4 states. Find out how you can get involoved.

DriveWorks is sold worldwide and supported locally by authorized and certified DriveWorks value-added resellers. We work closely with our resellers, and at DriveWorks World, took the opportunity to thank and recognize those that excelled in 2021.

The Let’s Chat About sessions aim to help DriveWorks users to learn more about DriveWorks, improve their technical knowledge and get the most from the software. This new series of Let’s Chat About sessions is following on from the technical sessions held at DriveWorks World 2022. Join our team as we dive further into your favourite DriveWorks topics.