Lucy Mentoring Program Launch

The 2012 Lucy Mentoring Program was launched on the evening of Wednesday 23 May, and was kindly hosted by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia at their Darling Park offices. Empowerment, support and development were the themes of the Lucy Mentoring Program Launch, an industry event launching a four-month-long partnership of creativity and professional development between current female Engineering and IT students, and females...

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Rear Seat Development Part 3

Previous blog posts about the new rear seat discussed the requirements and then the prototype design and testing, now we head towards certification and production. With the data from the sled testing, and feedback from the mock up we went through another round design iteration.One of the surprisingly more complicated design aspects was the...

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National Association of Women in Construction - upcoming FREE Career Talk at UTS

The National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) are conducting career talks on Wed 30 May at UTS (see attached flier below for details). NAWIC aims to:*           To raise the profile of women working in the construction industry.*          ...

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SWIEIT Visit - Cheltenham Girls High School

The team from the Sydney Women in Engineering & IT Speakers Program paid a visit to Cheltenham Girls High School on Wednesday afternoon, to speak to the Year 11 girls at their form assembly. UTS scholars, Sijjal (ICT - Telecommunications) and Rochelle (Information Technology) spoke about their interests and experiences in high school...

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Flap Relay Update

I last updated the flap relay progress with this post in January. I reported then that we had vendor selection issues and that continued through the rest of the winter. Progress with a new vendor was good but slow, but I would much rather take a few extra weeks to get the design right than rush something into production that doesn't work...

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Engineering & IT Hands on Day for Smarter Futures

If you were around the UTS city campus last Friday 27 April 2012 then you were probably wondering why there were so many students around during Vice Chancellor’s week. Don’t worry, you didn’t miss a memo and class didn’t start back a week early- it was just one of the Women in Engineering and IT's bi-annual ‘Hands on Days’. The Women in Engineering and IT (WiE&IT) team invite schools from all across New South Wales to...

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