DAWEG Victoria EVENTS
June 23, 2025 Breakfast meeting to Celebrate International Women in Engineering Day. Our Speaker is Dr. Mina Hoorfar, Dean of Engineering at the University of Victoria. Registration is UP at https://bcseg.ca/event/international-women-in-engineering-day-dr-mina-hoorfar-resilience-representation-and-community-in-engineering/ Registration closes June 16 so register early. $29 per person plus GST and $19 for students.
Victoria Branch Save the Dates:
Branch events are now posted on BCSEG.ca and as External Events on EGBC.ca
Previous Victoria Events
May 4, 2025 Mini golf and Picnic at Mattick’s Mini Golf and Farm.
Jan 17 to Jan 19, 2025 Ski Weekend at Mt. Washington Alpine Resort in Courtenay BC.
Dec 6 2024 Breakfast to commemorate the Dec 6 Ecole Polytechnique Massacre. We booked the entire restaurant, Chunky Kitchen, and sold out. It was solemn and moving to hear about the different stories about how this impacted them from everyone who attended. There were those of us who remembered and those whose parents were influenced.
Oct 22 lunch at Six Mile Pub We were finally able to give Anita Mathur her Role Model of the Year take home award from 2019. We are slow but thorough!
Aug 27th lunch. Stonehouse Pub, 2215 Canoe Cove Rd
August 18th Hike
East Sooke Park, Iron Mine Bay trail hike
Jun 21, 2024 International Women in Engineering Day Breakfast meeting
We had a great speaker in Kezia Devathasen, Program Manager for INSPIRE UVic. Kezia combined her degree in software engineering with a minor in Psychology and she is now a PhD student focussing on the human aspects of both practice and education. Her research aims to bridge the gap between technical capability and human-centred design in software development. Together with Dr. Daniella Damien, they run this program for 30 lucky students who come from underrepresented communities (including women) in Engineering. The students get credit and a co-op work term and have to come together as a true team to solve real life community relevant problems.
May 9, 2024 Future of the Women in Engineering and Geoscience Division Discussion
The purpose of this hybrid event was to discuss challenges and opportunities for women engineering and geoscience in BC now that the WiEG division has been shut down. All EGBC women in engineering programs will now fall under their EDI umbrella.
Our starting panel was Michelle Mahovolich, current Chair of the Board of Directors of EGBC, Daphne Sidaway-Wolf, current branch rep for the Victoria Branch, Bridget Cassidy, Self-appointed Social Coordinator for the Women Engineers/geoscientists in Victoria and Robyn Quinn, founder and board member of iWIST. Our moderator was Dr. Katherina Tarnai-Lokhorst. We had a good lively discussion which will hopefully continue over the coming months.
2023 Events
June 21, 2023 INWiED “Feminism, the ‘F-Word in Engineering, It’s not just about Women”
Speaker Dr. Katherina Tarnai-Lokhorst, Past President of Engineers and Geoscientists BC shared her research on how feminism has changed in the last 100 years, the four big waves.
April 22, 2023 Hike to Jocelyn Hill to see the spectacular view which was completely fogged in. No photos were taken.
February 18, 2023 BC Aviation Museum Tour. This is quite an interesting museum and we were fortunate to be on site when they started up the old Coulson Air Tanker that they had outside.
2021/2022 break for Covid
2020 Events
June 23, 2020 INWiED Outside Lunch at Splash Park! in Langford
January 16, 2020 Winsett Centre workshop: Working with Challenging People.
2019 Events
Oct 29, 2019 Dragonfly Telephoto Array: Photographing the space between the Stars. This was a presentation by PhD student Debra Lokhorst as part of our Lunch and Learn series
Sept 29, 2019 Meet the Dean (Peter Wild), temporary Dean of Engineering, organized by Michelle Mahovolich at Langford City Hall
June 23, 2019 International Women in Engineering Day breakfast celebration Dr. Lesley Shannon from SFU and holder of the NSERC Chair for Women in STEM introduced us all to Unconscious Bias in a fabulous workshop.
May 26, 2019 Paintball with UVic ESS members in conjunction with the Victoria Branch
February 5, 2019 Deyanira Mendoza-Domingues presented Engineer on Two Wheels, an accounting of two years on motorcycles from Alaska to Argentina. Part of our Lunch and Learn series
2018 Events
Oct 11, 2018 Women in STEM Golf Event in conjunction with Island Women in Science and Technology. This was a round of 9 holes at The Ridge Golf Course in Cordova Bay followed by a BBQ at the club house. The lucky first 10 women to sign up also got a free lesson.
Aug 18, 2018 Pickle Pub Tour We spent a great afternoon riding the Victoria Harbour Ferries to visit the various pubs and restaurants that participate in the Tour. Thanks to our DDs for getting us all home safely.
June 22, 2018 INWiED Update on the 30×30 Initiative by Kathy Tarnai-Lokhorst
May 27, 2018 Paintball with UVic ESS. Only one gently sprained ankle!
2017 Events
May 23, 2017 Panel Discussion: We are Not all Dilbert, Attracting Women to Engineering
July 16, 2017 Paintball at TNT Paintball with the UVic Engineering Student Society
2016 Events
May 15, 2016 Paintball with ESS
