SARIC Rising Tide

ENCOURAGING ACCOMPLISHMENT T he SAR100 program is intended to prepare mid-career women engineering professionals for leadership roles in the energy integration and energy space. It is a rigorous 8-month program with ten 3-week teaching modules, each with a supervised practicum, and a capstone seminar at the AIT campus in Bangkok. For the 2022- 2023 course, participants were drawn from 7 South Asian countries: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Each participant accessed the program through online classes, with on-site practicums offering analytical problem-solving and a peer-learning approach that enhanced the learning experience. Designed to build leadership skills, networking confidence, and the technical capacity of participants, the curriculum aimed to help them manage the operations of their regionally integrated power systems with high renewable energy penetration. It was also intended to develop an understanding of the role of power markets in regional integration and the scaling up of renewable energy. 32 a rising tide : women , voices , and power Successfullycompleting theprogrammeant earning 16-credit equivalent professional credentials from the Energy Development: Systems, Management, and Technology (EDSMAT) program at AIT, Bangkok. KEY ACHIEVEMENTS 101 P A R T I C I P A N T S women engineers in the energy sector of SAR 66 T R A I N E R S leading authorities in the energy and power sector from four continents key achievements 30 H O U R S capstone project preparation 15 H O U R S intensive classroom lectures 16 C R E D I T S professional certification 33 140 H O U R S practical training sessions 13 M E M B E R S