Upcoming Event - UTS Engineering & IT Careers Fair

On Wednesday 10 October from 2pm-4pm, UTS will host a careers fair for Engineering & IT students. We encourage all students who are looking for internships, vacation roles and graduate opportunities to attend. Even if you are not actively looking, it is good to make an appearance and gain familiarity with future potential employers....

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Glad it was nice out

A couple of weekends ago, a friend and I decided to take a saturday afternoon and act as safety pilots for each other and practice some instrument approaches. It was a beautifully clear day with enough wind to make approaches interesting, but not so much that it was super bumpy.So we take my airplane up (fresh from the CAPS repack) and did...

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RMS site visit: Transport Management Centre for NSW

Today, the WiE&IT Team took almost 30 UTS students on a site visit to the Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) Transport Management Centre for NSW. The Transport Management Centre is situated in Redfern, and is the centre for traffic control for all state roads in the whole of NSW- that's 18,000km of road! We were invited into their presentation...

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UTS Women in Engineering Alumni Event

It’s a rainy afternoon in Sydney, but the inside of the Powerhouse Museum is warm and alive with music and the smell of good food. Guests were welcomed in front of a giant 1920’s steam train and invited to take a look at the museum's Engineering Excellence Awards technology exhibition. Engineers from around Sydney, UTS alumni and staff were...

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Oleo Strut Sag Check

A good question was posed to me yesterday about how to tell if your oleo strut is properly charged. We began installing oleos with the SR22T introduction with the SR20 and SR22's following shortly afteward. So they have been in production a few years now.It is common for manufacturers to list an exposed amount of chrome to indicate a properly...

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WiE&IT Semester Spring Lunch

Each semester, WiE&IT hold a special luncheon to celebrate yet another round of exams, internships and hard work. In 2012 our Spring Semester Luncheon on 12 September saw almost 60 students and Faculty of Engineering and IT staff members in attendance. After networking over food and refreshments, the Director of the UTS Women...

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Integrated Fuel Level Display

The last analog gage in the cockpit has been the fuel level gage. All the other gages had been integrated into the Garmin Perspective system, so obviously this is another one that we wanted integrated to complete the system.One problem we ran into was that we had used up all the available analog inputs into the Perspective system. So to use...

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September Speakers Workshops at UTS

Between February and July this year, the Sydney Women in Engineering & IT (SWIEIT) Speakers Program have engaged with 25 schools and over 1000 school girls from years 8 to 12. This program is jointly sponsored by the Roads and Maritime Services (RMS), NSW and GHD professional services firm. More information can be found on SWIEIT...

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Zonta Club of Sydney Breakfast - 'Women in Engineering' Award

This morning, students and staff of UTS were invited to breakfast with some of Sydney's most influential women in business, hosted at Westpac Place. Zonta International is an global initiative that is aimed at advancing the status of women in numerous fields. Once again this September, Zonta is celebrating the history of achievements of women...

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