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To celebrate International Women in Engineering Day, we asked Rachel Blair Winkler and Rebecca Bleeze, women engineers and current Construction Engineering Masters (CEM) students, to share their incredible work and some enlightening stories about their career paths in a traditionally male-dominated industry.

 

Rachel Blair Winkler

Vice President & Category General Manager at Trimble Viewpoint. Current CEM student.

"Bringing more women into engineering will create a more balanced and complete team of problem solvers. I am confident more diversity in engineering and construction is going to make the future better, faster and greener". 

Read Rachel's story

 

 

Rebecca Bleeze

Principal Structure Engineer at Stantec and current CEM student.

"The great thing about my job is every day is different with new challenges to solve. There is never just one answer, and there are several ways of looking at things". 

Read Rebecca's story

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