Women make up 15.7% of the UK engineering workforce, and people with disabilities just 11% of it.
So when you add into the mix that student Elena Brake also originally studied Fine Art, you could say that her engineering pathway seemed unlikely.
But as a natural problem solver who realised her passion for coming up with innovative ideas within her creative projects, she explored engineering at the University of Plymouth to make her ideas happen. Now she has won a coveted scholarship from the Royal Academy of Engineering and is using her voice to amplify those of people less likely to go into the profession.
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