For the Career Mentorship Session, we invited several young professionals and students in the engineering field to share their experiential as well as professional knowledge with the students.

The session took place on the 27th of November 2021 and as opposed to the earlier planned 2-hour session, the amount of content and eagerness to learn and patience from the students saw the session spill over to 3 hours.

The session was attended by representatives from industry, Angaza Elimu, IEEE Kenya Student Branch representatives, IEEE YP Kenya Section and IEEE WIE Kenya Section 

The speakers who attended the session include:
1. Ms. Bernice Waweru – Electrical & Electronics Engineering University qualification requirements, experience and day to day life of an engineering student and opportunities
2. Ms. Dorcas Litunya – IOT, embedded systems engineering and PCB fabrication
3. Mr. Hampton Macharia – EV mobility, IOT and robotics research and application in the workplace
4. Mr. JP Maina – Mechanical and production engineering, automation and intelligence in the production industry and 4IR
5. Mr. Edwin Muema – Cyber security careers, requirements and opportunities
6. Ms. Njeri Ngaruiya, WIE Chair IEEE Kenya – soft skill requirements for engineers with an emphasis on communication and interpersonal skills
7. Mr. Kithinji Muriungi, IEEE YP Kenya Chair – opportunities in engineering professions and tech entrepreneurship”

To culminate the virtual class sessions we had with the students, some of the schools i.e.: Juja Senior School and Nairobi School, were hosted at Gearbox for an industry visit to demonstrate practical applications of the content they’d been learning.

The students were taken through Through-Hole and Surface-Mount PCB fabrication technologies as well as 3D Printing and Rapid Protoyping.

This fit in perfectly with the mission to foster the next generation of technology innovators with IEEE TryEngineering partnering with Angaza Elimu and Gearbox.