Yewande Akinola

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Yewande Akinola, Young Woman Engineer of the Year Award is to come to our Willesden Campus on Monday 21st March (2:30-3:30) to talk to students and staff.

Yewande Akinola is a chartered engineer who specialises in sustainable water supplies. She works as principal engineer for Laing O'Rourke and has hosted television shows about engineering for Channel 4 and National Geographic. Yewande has won the Institution for Engineering and Technology’s Young Woman Engineer of the Year Award and AFBE’s Exceptional Achiever Award.

Yewande featured in the Year of Engineering campaign Engineering Superheroes.