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WIE From Around the World: My Experience as the Chair of an IEEE WIE Affinity Group

June 1, 2021 by Urooj Shaukat

I was appointed chair of the IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Affinity Group of the College of National University of Sciences and Technologies at the Pakistan Navy Engineering College (NUST-PNEC) on 5 June 2020 amid lockdown due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. It was a great honor for me to become the leader of an international Society where my leadership and team management skills could flourish, but at the same time, it is a challenge to run an Affinity Group that has neither its team nor its financial assets in place.

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Urooj Shaukat

Urooj Shaukat the chair of the IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Affinity Group of the College of National University of Sciences and Technologies at the Pakistan Navy Engineering College (NUST-PNEC).

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