Volunteering - Carol Marsh

Volunteering Roles

IET
I've been a volunteer with the IET since I became a Fellow in 2013. Positions:

Vice President
Trustee
Chair of the Volunteer Engagement Board (VEB)
Member of the Nominations and Succession Committee
Past Chair of Engineering Policy Group Scotland (EPGS)
Past Chair of the IET Council
Past member of the Membership and Professional Development Board
Past member of the Monitoring Governance Working Party
Represented Scotland on the History Working Party
Past Chair of IET Scotland
Professional Registration Advisor
Professional Registration Interviewer
Fellow Advisor
IET Mentor
Past Chair of the Scotland South East Local Network

Boards

First Female Deacon of the Hammermen of Edinburgh
Member of the Edinburgh Convenery
Governor of the Edinburgh Trades Fund
Chair of the Edinburgh Napier University Industrial Advisory Board
Member of National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS)
Member of the Institution of Engineers (IES) in Scotland Board
Member of the Association For BME Engineers (AFBE Scotland) Advisory Board
Treasurer of Engineering Scotland
Vice President of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts (RSSA)

STEM Ambassador

I've been a STEM Ambassador since 2007. I have been a judge at the F1 in Schools challenge and GO4SET events, volunteered on the Lab in a Lorry, helped at Science Festivals, STEM fairs, career events and Rampaging Chariots

Judge

2025 IET Young Women Engineer of the Year
2023 - Present AFBE Young BME Engineer of the Year
2022 - Present  TechWork Awards
2021 - Present  RAEng Amazon Future Engineering Scholarships
2023 - 2024 Primary Engineer
2022 - 2025 IoP Technical Skills Award
2022 - 2024 First Lego League (FLL) Scotland and West Lothian Finals
2014 - 2019 IET Present Around the World
2023 IET Volunteer Core Value Award
2023 Glasgow City Region Innovation Accelerator Review
2022 IET Teamwork Volunteer Core Value Award, Hackerthon, PresentIn 10
2019 WES 100 Essays
2017   Plantworx Innovation Awards
2016   WICE awards in 2016
2015 UKESF Summer School Project

Programme Committee / Sub-reviewer

2024 - Present International Federation for Information Processing Information Security and Privacy (IFIPSEC)
2023 - Present IEEE HISTELCON
2007 - 2014 Southern Conference on Programmable Logic (SPL)
2008 IEEE Potentials
2008 International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing

Past Volunteering Roles

WES
I was a Director and Trustee of WES from 2006 to 2015, serving on the WES council. Positions held:

President from October 2013 to November 2014
Raised funds to digitise the WES Journals
Chair of the WES Female Engineering Student Conference from 2012 to 2015 with the responsibility for the program and sourcing speakers
Manager of the "Doris Gray Awards" and "Lady Finniston Awards"
Organiser of the Girls into STEM event and the Doris Gray Student Conference in 2009
Organised "Primary Girls Introduction to STEM " events for Primary 7 girls for schools local to Leonardo
on the National / International Women in Engineering Days 2014 to 2018

Others

Treasurer of the 287 Squardon Air Training Corps (ATC) from 2013 to 2016

Member of the Construction Equipment Skills Advisory Board

Member of the Program Committee for the Southern Conference on Programmable Logic

A member of the Balgreen Primary School Board and on the interview selection panel for the

Head Teacher and Business Manager
Chair and treasurer of the Balgreen After School Club for 4 years
A first aider with the St Andrew First Aid for 6 years