Institution of Engineers honours twins
Meet the adorable twins who are engineers, Ing. Mrs May Obiri-Yeboah and Ing. Mrs Mabel Amoako-Atta (formerly known as May and Mabel Adjaottor), who were honoured as Fellows of the Ghana Institution of Engineers (GhIE) on April 1, 2016 in Accra.
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At the 47th Presidential Inauguration and Banquet in Accra, the two were honoured for their roles and accomplishments in the field of engineering, transportation planning, road safety, organisational development and local governance.
Subsequently, they have become Fellows with effect from April 2016.
Ing. Mrs Obiri-Yeboah is the Executive Director of the National Road Safety Commission (NRSC) and her twin sister, Ing. Mrs Amoako-Atta, is the Director, Management and Technical Services, at the Local Government Service Secretariat (LGSS).
Secondary education
The newly inducted Fellows of the GhIE had their secondary education at the Holy Child School, Cape Coast and obtained their BSc. Civil Engineering at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in 1987 and were associate members of GhIE until 1996 when they became corporate members.
Ing. Obiri-Yeboah holds an MSc. Transport Planning and Engineering from Leeds University and Ing. Amoako-Atta holds an MSc. Environmental Assessment and Management from Oxford Brookes University both universities are in the United Kingdom.
Their achievement was largely fuelled by their passion and desire to succeed in a field dominated by men.
“We had to prove a point most of the time. Some males could not accept the fact that we were studying Engineering with them and unfortunately this attitude has been carried into the work domain Ing. “We accepted the challenge that to be successful, it was vital to be enthusiastic about our work, so we grabbed the opportunities that came our way,” Mrs Obiri-Yeboah said.
Being confident and assertive
Ing. Mrs Amoako-Atta explained that being confident and assertive had helped her to be where she was today. She said her focus was on being an engineer rather than worrying about being a woman in a male-dominated environment. She advised upcoming female engineers not to be scared of committing mistakes, but rather be flexible to be able to fit into every role that would arise in the course of their work.
“Ditch the guilt of being a woman and focus on doing one thing at a time; give your best wherever you find yourself,” they advised.
May and Mabel said ironically that they had had most of their support throughout their career life from male counterparts, elder brother who is a materials engineer, their husbands, Samuel Obiri-Yeboah and Asante Amoako-Atta and their father, Nene Korle III of blessed memory. Each of the twin engineers has three children and is proud mother to boast of.
Ing. Mrs Obiri-Yeboah and Ing. Mrs Amoako-Atta ended by attributing all their successes to the strength they drew from Philippians 4:13, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.”