WIE Japan
IEEE Japan Council Women in Engineering Affinity Group
About Us
IEEE Japan Council Women in Engineering affinity group was officially
established May 2, 2005. ;This is the first WIE affinity
group in Japan.
- Executive committee members are updated for the 2010-2011 period.
- Activity report of the 2008-2009 period is released.
- IEEE WIE ExCom Meeting 2010 Minites
Events
IEEE JC WIE General Meeting 2011
IEEE Japan Council WIE was established 2005 and this year will be our sixth year. Please accept our warmest thanks for all of your support. We are happy to announce that we will organize the first general meeting. We welcome you to participate in the meeting for networking with members and discussing about WIE activities.
For more details, visit English Page.
The 5th Career Development Workshop for University Students and Young Engineers
Read more details in Japanes and apply.
Panel Discussion "Women's career development in Asian countries" in TENCON 2010
We would like to invite female leaders in the field of science and engineering from IEEE R10 member countries to join our plenary discussion. We would like to request them to share the experience of building their own careers and to discuss about the status of women participation in the field of science and engineering, the existing challenges and the best practices in their respective countries. In addition, we would like to request them to give some advice for accelerating the slow progress of the activation of women engineers and scientists in Japan.
For more details, visit English Page and TENCON2010.
The 4th Career Development Workshop for University Students and Young Engineers
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Panel discussion "Global Career Development for Women in the Scientific and Engineering Field - Learn from APEC economies -"
in the 15th APEC Women Leaders Network Meeting Side Event
On September 22nd 2010, the panel discussion Global Career Development for Women in the Scientific and Engineering Field - Learn from APEC economies - co organized by IEEE JC WIE, was held at the "Center for the Advancement of Working Women" as a side event of 2010 APEC women leader's network. Six panelists from Japan, China, Australia and Chili along with around 200 active participants in the fields of academia and industry were engaged in discussing the problems of womens career advancement.
Read detailed report in English.
Panel discussion "Fostering Women Leaders in the Scientific and Engineering Field"
in the 15th APEC Women Leaders Network Meeting
IEEE JC WIE planed the Workshop Fostering Women Leaders in the Scientific and Engineering Field, which was held on September 20th 2010 in the 15th APEC WLN meet at Keio Plaza Hotel, Tokyo. This workshop targeted for engineers and scientists was the very first of its kind for the APEC WLN meet.
In this workshop, which was organized in the form of panel discussion, IEEE JC WIE invited six women leaders from Japan, China, Australia, Chili and the Philippines and they gave a talk regarding the situation of women engineers / scientists, their problems and strategies to promote young generation. The meeting was concluded with some important messages after an active discussion.
Read detailed report in English.
IEEE Japan Council WIE 5th Anniversary Meeting
This year marks the 5th anniversary of the founding of IEEE Japan Council WIE.
We held a lunch meeting to celebrate our 5th anniversary and deepen exchanges between members.
Third Career Development Workshop for University Students and Young Engineers
The 3rd Career Development Workshop for Young Students and Professionals was held in the Tokyo Denki University (Kanda campus) on 5th June 2010. This workshop was mainly organized by the IEEE Tokyo GOLD Affinity Group and the IEEE Japan Council Women in Engineering Affinity Group, and was coorganized by four student branches in Tokyo Denki University, Yokohama National University, Tokyo
University of Science and Keio University.
This workshop is targeted for young students in undergraduate, master and doctoral level in order to help them to think about their career paths as well as the skill sets. Topics include "expectations for an engineer", "important matters on working oversea", "contributing to the society as an engineer" and "career development for female engineer and cooperating with male engineer" are being discussed in the workshop. Through these topics the workshop can help students to think about and prepare their career in advance.
Read detailed report (PDF) in English or in Japanese.
Panel discussion "CHANGE! Yes, we can! Past, Present, Future of Women in Information Technology"
The panel discussion, + CHANGE! Yes, we can! Past, Present, Future of Women in Information Technology ;, was held at Tokyo University as a part of the program of the the 50th Anniversary of Information Processing Society of Japan, co-sponsored by IEEE JC WIE (IEEE Japan Council Women in Engineering), on March 9th 2010.
Read detailed report in English.
News
- WIE Japan receives this year's IEEE WIE Affinity Group of the Year Award
- Dr. Hideko Kunii, Vice Chair of WIE Japan, wrote an article
entitled "Gender Equality Activities in Ricoh R&D Group" in the
Journal of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers.
Hideko Kunii: ``Gender Equality Activities in Ricoh R&D Group'',
J. IEICE, pp.565-566, July 2007 (in Japanese)
- IEEE WIE Japan received an honorable mention in the 2006 WIE
Affinity Group of the Year Award.
- Dr. Hideko Kunii, Vice Chair of WIE Japan, received "IEEE Tokyo
Section Women Pioneer Award" from Dr. Harashima, Tokyo Section Chair.
- Our activity has been reported in the April 2006 issue of the Journal of the
Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers by
Prof. Kaoru Arakawa. See
Kaoru Arakawa: ``The Situation of Women Engineers in Germany : From the
First Lecture of IEEE Women in Engineering Japan'', J. IEICE,
pp.339-340, Apr. 2006 (in Japanese)
