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.

Upcoming Event

WIE Forum for Women to Play Active Roles in Regional Development

Date: Wednesday, 28 October, 2009
Time: 14:40-
Place: Iwate Prefectural University

Details will be announced here soon.

Career Development Workshop for Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Building up your skills during student days - For success in society

The workshop was successfully held on Saturday, June 20, 2009 at Kogakuin University. Detailed report is coming soon.

Change the World! - Power of Women Scientists and Engineers (20 March 2009)

WIE Japan cooperated with the event for high school girls entitled "Change the World! - Power of Women Scientists and Engineers" which was held on 20 March 2009 at Chuo University.

For more details, read Japanese page and Chuo University Site.

Software Japan 2009 IT Forum Session

IT Diversity Forum, " Mentoring Activities for Diversity Promoting"

On January 27, 2009, WIE Japan co-hosted a lecture meeting "Mentoring Activities for Diversity Promoting" (one of IT Forum sessions of "Software Japan 2009" hosted by Information Processing Society of Japan) with IT diversity Forum of Information Processing Society of Japan. In the meeting, three speakers gave their keynote speeches. There were Mentoring promoters who are from enterprise that talked about many topics related to the significance and promotion of Mentoring. Also, there were talks from pundits of mentoring activities that covered concrete key points for developing and achieving careers based on diversity with mentoring activities.

Software Japan 2009 IT Diversity Forum Program

Chair(Coordinator): Doi, Miwako (Toshiba Research and Develop Center, Chief Fellow)

10:30-11:00: Keynote Presentation (1)
"The Significance of Mentoring in Enterprise"
Kiyomi, Junko (Ricoh Leasing CO., LTD., Corporate Senior Vice President)
Considering Mentoring to be essential for improving the intellectual productivity of enterprise from the management perspective, Mrs. Kiyomi is running Mentoring Activities centering on counseling based communication. She talked about how to bring up self-reliance specialists with examples from her company.
11:00-12:00: Keynote Presentation (2)
"Support for Individual Adapted Mentoring"
Fujii, Sawako (Socio-tech Institute CO., LTD., Consultant)
Women who are trying to deal well with Work-life Balance and to construct their careers may sometimes feel lost for choosing necessary support and mentors (consulter). In such situations, it is important to build up their own carrier by utilize "own efforts" and "others' helps". The speech will introduce the necessary skills for mentors (adviser), present situation and characteristic features for women, as well as their difference with the case of men.
12:00-12:30 : Keynote Presentation (3)
"Practical Mentoring Activities for Women Engineers in IT Enterprise"
Sugahara, Kayoko (IBM Japan, Ltd., Distinguished Engineer)
In the speech, activities, achievements as well as practical examples of mentoring from IBM Japan were introduced. Additionally, it also covered many global examples. Mentoring is important for self improvement. The speech introduced how to make use of mentoring in career development no matter in what place and in what situation.

[reported by Emi Yano (WIE Japan Treasurer), translated by Jien Kato (WIE Japan International Liaison)]

News

WIE Japan received 2008 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)