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Every year, the Girl's Day Academy invites young female STEM talents to experience science in a very practical way and find out about studying. The participants were able to get to know transport and traffic sciences in two workshops.
Immerse yourself in the world of transportation and traffic science and try out being a scientist yourself - three groups of female pupils had this opportunity this week when they visited the “Friedrich List” Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences as part of this year's Girls' Day Academy.
Practical experience of transport and traffic research
The female pupils were able to visit the A320 flight simulator at the Chair of Air Transport Technology and Logistics, try out being a virtual pilot in the cockpit and discuss the future of air traffic. In another workshop held by the Chair of Traffic Process Automation on the topic of “The future of traffic lights - reinforcement learning for more traffic justice”, the participants were able to work independently in groups to develop solutions and then discuss them together. In addition to interesting facts about current research projects of the chairs, the workshops also offered the opportunity to find out about the range of study programmes and career prospects. Finally, the pupils benefited from the exchange with and personal experience reports from the female scientists.
Join in - discover MINT!
The Girls' Day Academy Dresden is a project for gender-sensitive career guidance that has been recognized by the national initiative “MINT Zukunft schaffen!”. The Girls' Day Academy Dresden offers female pupils practical insights and information about courses of study and career prospects in the STEM fields (mathematics, computer science, natural sciences, technology). Workshops, empowerment events and skills training sessions are also held.
The program of the Frauenförderwerk e.V. is aimed at female pupils in grades 7-9 in Dresden and the surrounding area and is free of charge.
Background: Promoting female talent at the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences
Susanne Wunsch, research assistant at the Chair of Traffic Process Automation and Equal Opportunities Officer at the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, welcomed the project and at the same time sees a need for further action to encourage women to study transport sciences:
The challenges of the transport transition can only be mastered with combined expertise and the will to implement, which requires diverse, female and male perspectives, but also multi-cultural perspectives. There is still a lot of room for female impulses.
The proportion of female students on transport studies courses is 20.5%. The proportion of women varies depending on the course. For example, the Master's degree course in Transportation Economics has the highest proportion of female students at 47.0%, followed by the Master's in Electrical Transport Systems (20%), Bachelor's in Transport Economics (19.4%), Diploma in Transport Engineering (15.1%), Master's in Railway Systems Engineering (15.5%) and Master's in Air Transport and Logistics (11.9%). (Status: 11/2024)
The proportion of female employees at the faculty is currently 28%, 16% of employees are female academic staff and 3% are postdoctoral research fellows. With Dean Prof. Regine Gerike, there is currently one female professor at the faculty. (Status: 10/2024).
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