WePower Track: A World Bank Initiative 2019 at ICASERT 2019
Venue: East West University, Dhaka
Organized by: IEEE Bangladesh Section
Women in Engineering Affinity Group, IEEE Bangladesh Section
IEEE Power and Energy Society Women in Power
Date: 4th May 2019
IEEE Bangladesh Section along with Women In Engineering Affinity Group as well as IEEE Power and Energy Society Women in Power organized a special session "WePower Track: A World Bank Initiative" on 4 May, 2019 on the occasion of Ist International Conference on Advances in Science, Engineering and Robotics Technology 2019 (ICASERT 2019) at East West University, Dhaka. The session began at 4:45 pm with a welcome speech and introductory session conducted by Professor Dr. Celia Shahnaz, Chair, IEEE Bangladesh Section.
After that, the first guest speaker, S. M. Noor Uddin, Chief Executive Officer & Director of Summit Bibiyana Power Co. Limited and Managing Director of Summit Sangu Power Co. Limited., took the stage and discussed the possibilities for the development of women entrepreneurship. He highly encouraged women to come forward with innovative ideas to start a business. His speech was followed by an interactive question-answer session. Prof. Celia also added that women engineer can perform better than other in tech-related business as they had already gained the technical knowledge. She urged all women engineer of Bangladesh that they should engage not only themselves but also other female members in their family to entrepreneurship. In this regard, she provided examples of some business ideas like transformer, solar lamp business.
The next speaker was Afroza Afrin, an Executive Engineer from Power Grid Company of Bangladesh Limited, told about her struggling to achieve that position where she is standing right now. Moreover, she motivated everyone to have determination in themselves which is considered to be an important criterion to be successful in their career. Another female engineer named Mahfuza Afroz from Power Grid Company of Bangladesh Limited also spoke at this event. She shared her experience about different power stations as she had visited most of the power plants of Bangladesh. Apart from this, she shared the story of how she prepared herself for the competitive job exam. Afterwards, Mst Sabina Sultana who work in Grameenshakti inspired everyone to come up with successful start-up ideas through her speech.
A short break ensued when everybody took part in a photo session and enjoyed the refreshment. Lastly, the participants took part in a quiz competition about power and energy. The purpose of this quiz was to make this event more interesting as well as to grow the interest of the participants for working in the power sector.
The event was attended by a total of 24 people, 5 professional organizations and 19 affiliated to different educational institutions.
