Catherine Ramsdale, Pragmatic Semiconductor’s SVP Technology, was recently elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering – one of the highest national honours an engineer can receive. Here, she considers what the role means to her and how it guides her actions within the workplace and beyond.
For an engineer, being elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) is a huge honour, and represents an unequalled level of validation and recognition … but it’s also a significant responsibility.
The role of a Fellow is to promote the charitable aim of the Academy – or, as the guidelines put it, to promote, “the pursuit, encouragement and maintenance of excellence in the whole field of engineering to useful purpose in order to promote the advancement of the science, art and practice of engineering for the benefit of the public.”
