Women in Engineering and IT

Hello, my name is Ish and I'm the Student Engagement

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Officer at the Women in Engineering and IT at

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UTS. Our vision is to create and lead social change so that study

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and career journeys are not limited by gender. Some of our

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programs include primary and high school outreach,

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scholarships, and Lucy mentoring.

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Now you're going to hear a little bit more about our

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programmes for that limited engineering and it community.

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I'm currently in my third year of the Women in Engineering and IT

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Cooperative Scholarship in Software Engineering. And what

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that means is I have an industry placement every year closer with

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a company that is part of the programme and this has given me

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an insight as to how I can articulate my classroom based

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learning I guess, with the industry. That's a really good

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program because it allowed me to connect

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the industry, as well as understand or the different

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opportunities out

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there after I finish University.

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In this program you get paired up with a mentor and for 20

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weeks,

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I was able to connect with an industry professional from my

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field of study. So I got to learn about the professional

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workplace, expand my knowledge about the opportunities I have

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and connect with more people to to gain those opportunities and

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improve myself professionally and personally.

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In terms of outreach programmes, I've been out to visit many high

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schools and help students learn about topics from electrical

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engineering to solve panels to even just the basic mechanics of

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engineering and seeing their excitement of getting to be

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doing hands on programmes of engineering stuff that we do

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here. You Let's see, it's been so exciting and rewarding. So

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you really get the chance to develop your leadership and

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communication skills and work with a lot of like minded

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people. And that has been really great for me because I've been

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able to relate on

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top of the students my qhdc experience, and it's kind of

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been an opportunity for me to,

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like, tell what I would tell my younger self to someone else.

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You know, I've been coming to it ever since I was in first year

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and it's been a really good community and I know that I'm

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safe and I know I have support around me with my arm, you know,

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with the people involved with it with other students as well.

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I've met a lot of my friends through that and you know, has

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really gave me that safeguard coming into UTS. As a first year

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student, you know, straight out of high school, I was really

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scared but knowing that there's other women engineers around me

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with the same kind of issues that we're facing in industry

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and also on power going in university. Hundreds of casual

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catch ups every week has been really good.

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I just say just get involved with whatever activities you're

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passionately to to. There's so many and you can't go wrong,

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because if you don't find one, you can just move on to the

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next. The biggest mistake is just not doing anything.

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I would highly recommend coming and joining us here at UTS. And

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I think you'll find that the UTS community and we're ensuring it

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will really support you in exploring your interests, you

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will have the chance to diversify your connection with

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industry. We've had the chance to meet all the women and people

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to work with and there's many opportunities here for you to

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explore your field of interest as well.