Lahore, May 18, 2022 (PPI-OT):From tweaking the tiny microchips to designing robust electric motors, women engineers have played an invaluable role in influencing the world that we live in today. Women have paved their distinctively unique way in largely male-dominated engineering industry, accomplishing incredible feats. Ms. Eman Manzoor, hailing from the University of Lahore, is one of those successful female engineers who have proved that women can overcome tremendous obstacles and breakthrough discriminatory barriers to achieving their dreams.
Ms. Manzoor started her MS in Electrical Engineering at UOL in 2017. “Starting my MS Electrical Engineering degree at UOL was a fresh start to my journey of accomplishing my goals, and the outcomes surfaced right in the first semester with a GPA of 4.0”, she zealously mentioned.
Her journey took an avid turn when she cleared her NTS test and was appointed as Junior Engineer at Tarbela Dam in September 2017. “Theoretical power system optimization, protection, and control systems paved the way for me to enter the field by clearing NTS. Subsequently, I got appointed at Pakistan’s profound organization, WAPDA, and got posted at Tarbela Dam”, she narrates.
At Tarbela Dam, Ms. Manzoor is part of the team that is maintaining and operating 14 electricity generating units, handling the sound operation of all power transformers and excitation transformers, and ensuring the effective working of the current transformers. Ms. Manzoor and her team go above and beyond their capacity to vigilantly perform all the duties, leaving no room for any sort of fault.
Working at Tarbela Dam alongside her studies was not a piece of cake for Ms. Manzoor. She explained her struggle with juggling work and study in the following words: “5 days of work at Tarbela, then travelling almost 450 km to Lahore to attend classes on Saturdays and Sundays, and then again travelling for almost 8 hours to Tarbela to appear for duty on Monday.”
Ms. Manzoor completed her degree from UOL in June 2020 and she is pursuing her career as a professional engineer at the biggest power station in Pakistan. Nothing stopped her from advancing on the path of success, not even her marriage.
All the efforts, trials, and tribulations made Ms. Manzoor strong enough that now she is balancing her work and family life with ease and perfection. “If you are determined and passionate about your work, then you can manage to strike a balance between family and career,” she said.
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