A video message from UWindsor Engineering acknowledges the importance of diversity among its students, faculty and staff.

With its release timed to coincide with International Women’s Day, the video is a collaborative effort by the Women in Engineering Club, Engineering Student Society and Faculty of Engineering and repeats the theme #YouBelong.

Women account for an average of 19 per cent of engineering students in Canada, a participation rate essentially unchanged since 2013, says Eleane Paguaga Amador, president of the Women in Engineering Club and a third-year industrial engineering major.

“We not only believe in supporting all the women and gender non-binary students in our faculty, but also want to remind future engineering students that there will always be a place for them in our community,” she says.

“We hope that in the years to come, the Faculty of Engineering will grow to become more gender-diverse because this world is too vast for us to encourage stereotypes of what it means to be an engineering student.”

Watch the video: