The IET’s Young Woman Engineer of the Year Awards

Biography

Charlotte Joyce
Aircraft Engineering Officer
4 Regiment Army Air Corps

A career in engineering has allowed Charlotte to combine her interest in technology and the way we interact with our surroundings with driven, intelligent personnel to make a change.

Charlotte supplies airworthy battle winning helicopters on world-wide operations and leads professional engineering soldiers in dangerous and challenging environments. Charlotte revels in meeting a different engineering challenge each day, whether it be restoring airworthiness following battle damage in the desert of Afghanistan, to investigating saline corrosion whilst embarked at sea off the coast of Libya. Charlotte draws on the basic engineering principles learnt during her degree studies, military engineering courses and working alongside a range of personnel.

Although Charlotte has been deployed on operations for the majority of the last year, she has also managed to maintain her interest and participation in downhill skiing, scuba diving, orienteering and Geocaching. As a qualified mountain leader she helps personnel within her unit organise hill walking expeditions and physically challenging events.

Charlotte is also an avid follower of low impact living initiatives and has recently completed livestock keeping courses to expand her knowledge base. Whilst at University she was involved in charity work for Bristol Volunteers for Development Abroad, taking part in a 2 month deployment to Rwanda working with rural Women’s Groups in remote locations to drive income generating initiatives and to improve their family diet through the building of a rabbit farm. She then led the team to Uganda to help implement basic water treatment technology, fuel efficient stoves and sanitation education.