International Women in Engineering Day Luncheon
International women in engineering day luncheon
The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) warmly welcomes you to celebrate International Women in Engineering Day. This year’s theme is MAKE SAFETY SEEN - celebrating the amazing work that women engineers around the world are doing to support lives and livelihoods every day.
Please join IChemE and your peers for a 3-course lunch to celebrate women on their journey and hear from a panel of speakers about their experience and observations of women in engineering and safety and how they are helping to build towards a brighter future.
The luncheon will include a discussion panel and networking session.
Date/time: Friday 23 June, 12:00 – 15:00 AEST
Venue: CENTREPIECE at Melbourne Park · Olympic Blvd · Melbourne
Tickets: Member $80.00, Non-member $100.00, Student $40.00
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Meet your panelists
Trish Kerin
Director, IChemE Safety Centre
Trish Kerin is an award-winning international expert and key note speaker in process safety and the inaugural director of the IChemE Safety Centre. She leads a team who help organisations share and learn in process safety. Trish leverages off her years of engineering and varied leadership experience to help organisations improve their process safety outcomes.She has represented industry to many government bodies and has sat on the board of the Australian National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority. She is a Chartered Engineer, registered Professional Process Safety Engineer, Fellow of IChemE and Engineers Australia. Trish also holds a diploma in OHS, a Master of Leadership and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Chelsie McLeod
Principal Process Engineer, Mott MacDonald
Chelsie McLeod is a Chartered Principal Process Engineer, with over 8 years' experience in industry. She currently works for Mott MacDonald, in the water and wastewater treatment team, and is also the Global ECP Lead for Water and Wastewater. Her key experience and skillset lie in process design, from optioneering, through to functional design, with a key focus on process optimisation and net 0. Whilst she is partial to a solid theoretical based calculation, or process simulation utilising BioWin, getting out in the field commissioning and optimising processes is a real highlight in her day-to-day work life. Her passion is around making the world a better place, and is a key reason she steered her career towards the water industry. She has also utilised her experience for the greater good by getting involved in not-for-profit organisations, contributing to projects run by the likes of WaterAid, and wishes to do more of this in the future
Alasdair Beveridge
Head of Engineering LHS, Cleanaway Waste Management
Alasdair is an experienced engineering leader with over 13 years across oil refining, waste-to-energy and waste management. Previously he was the Board’s Queensland representative and the Chair of the Queensland committee. Also with IChemE, he has helped organise Chemeca conferences, presented Continuing Professional Development events and conference papers, and has helped facilitate a number of workshops for the IChemE Energy Centre and in the process safety arena.Alasdair is a process engineer and is currently the Head of Engineering for Cleanaway’s Liquid Waste and Health Services division, managing a national team of engineers and chemists supporting sites around the country manage hazardous wastes. In this role, he is responsible for site operational reliability, optimisation and process safety, as well as driving early phase project development.
Minyu Miao
Process Safety Engineer, Lochard Energy
Minyu has over 15 years of industry experience. She started in process design, transitioned into operation support, and for the past 5 years, she has been working as a process safety engineer at the Iona gas. The Iona Gas Plant is an underground gas storage facility owned by Lochard Energy. Minyu's safety journey started accidentally. Her first process safety exposure was from working as a scribe for 4 week HAZOP, which started her interest in process safety. Then years later, she was asked to troubleshoot a misbehaving pressure relief device, this became the start of her transition from process design to process safety. In her career, Minyu has worked with many female engineers, who not only excel in their fields of expertise, but are also good facilitators, whose insightful questions and collaborative working style help make hazards understood and safety seen.