Engineers are changemakers. Whether we know it or not we have changed the world in ways that even we could not have imagined. I arrived at IIT Bombay a naïve teenager with what I thought I knew engineering was all about. I excelled at mathematics and science; my father was a leading engineer and involved in many exciting projects and I had heard that IIT Bombay was the place to be. I had no idea that engineering would provide me with the tools and capacity to change the world.
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Marlene Kanga
Marlene Kanga
Marlene is President-elect for the World Federation of Engineering Organisations representing some 100 engineering institutions and approximately 20 million engineers worldwide. She was National President of Engineers Australia in 2013 and is a board member of several leading organisations in Australia. Marlene studied Chemical Engineering at IITB and is a Distinguished Alumna.