{"id":5041,"date":"2021-01-27T11:45:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T16:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/thought-leadership\/?p=5041"},"modified":"2026-03-26T12:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:09:15","slug":"dew-journals-the-women-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/thought-leadership\/dew-journals-the-women-force\/","title":{"rendered":"DEW Journal’s – The Women Force!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

DEW Journal<\/a> has published their January 2021 issue, promoting the excellence of women workers in energy and engineering domains in their series \u2013 The Women Force! This year\u2019s celebration promotes nine women from the oil & gas industry, the engineering industry and academia, but one of the honorees is part of the Siemens Digital Industries Software family. Congratulations to Nelia Mazula! With a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering, Nelia started her career as a process engineer for the Mozambican National Oil Company, eventually becoming a strategic consultant. Before joining Siemens, she also worked as an independent entrepreneur and inventor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not her first award in engineering either, Nelia has received five awards for her patents from the Society of Women Engineers on her work around 3D visualization processing. The specifics of the patents involved laser scanning, computer aided design and augmented reality. But Nelia sees her recognition not solely for herself, but as an opportunity to empower other women in the field:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI am a strong advocate of diversity in an industry that is only 15 percent women and in which women are passed over for promotions and underrepresented in leadership roles. I am active in organization and efforts to make sure that the environment is balanced and the playing field is level for women. You cannot sit on the bench and complain without doing anything to ameliorate the situation, even if it\u2019s in a small capacity. Others have opened up doors for me, and I want to be that person for other people\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This started with Nelia\u2019s first job in the Mozambican National Oil Company. With such a new project for the region, her role as the commissioning engineer afforded the opportunity to work with influential leaders of the industry. One of them being Esperanca Bias, Mozambique\u2019s minister of natural resources, who took Nelia under her wing as a mentee. Esperanca was ahead of her time, working very hard to make sure there was representation of women in the industry. Her attitude and the respect she was given made a huge difference in Nelia\u2019s view of how a woman could contribute to the industry as a whole, even if the demographics didn\u2019t represent our diverse society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another pillar of Nelia\u2019s career has been the journey of digitalization for the oil and gas industry. She has worked with companies to deliver solutions at nearly every level of digitalization from adopting digital engineering to complete virtual commissioning of plants through her work at Walkinside on virtual plant representation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was exciting to develop software for oil and gas at a time when some companies were still using pencils to do engineering, and we were able to offer a digital alternative, but it was a tough sale in this slower-moving industry.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Siemens Software is proud to have such an amazing engineer in our company, fighting the good fight. Not only in digitalizing the industrial world, but for creating a diverse working environment and proving to our next generation of engineers that everyone is welcome when we are providing innovation to the world. Congratulations Nelia!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Siemens Digital Industries Software is driving transformation to enable a digital enterprise where engineering, manufacturing and electronics design meet tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xcelerator, the comprehensive and integrated portfolio of software and services from Siemens Digital Industries Software, helps companies of all sizes create and leverage a comprehensive digital twin that provides organizations with new insights, opportunities and levels of automation to drive innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information on Siemens Digital Industries Software products and services, visit siemens.com\/software<\/a> or follow us on LinkedIn<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, Facebook<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Siemens Digital Industries Software<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Where today meets tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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