But Seriously, What is Engineering‪?‬ The University of Queensland

For our final episode of 'But seriously, what is Engineering?' for Season 2, we invited four of The University of Queensland's Women in Engineering Student Leaders to answer your questions about studying engineering, choosing your specialisation, and planning for the future! This is a fun, candid chat with our incredible student leaders, and is a great way to get an insight into university life. Perhaps you'll find that engineering might be the perfect career path for you too! This epis...

Today, we’ll be talking to Dr Terese Milford. Dr Terese is a Senior Engineer working in the Intelligent Grid New Technology team at Energex and Ergon Energy. Energex and Ergon Energy are Queensland’s distribution networks with a team that develops business solutions to improve customer choice and provide cost competitive alternatives to traditional network investment. Dr Terese is currently working on solutions to dynamically manage Distributed Energy Resources (batteries and rooftop solar) t...

Riley O'Donnell graduated from The University of Queensland with the University medal, studying a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) specialising in chemical engineering and a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in finance. After graduating, Riley co-founded Endla, a startup company that develops core technology to lower the cost of physical engineering assets with Software.In this episode we ask Riley about his experience and advice with starting a startup, and we discuss how to approach impo...

Professor Kate O’Brien will be joining us as our guest for today’s podcast. Kate is the Director of Teaching and Learning for the School of Chemical Engineering at The University of Queensland (UQ) in Brisbane, Australia. She studied Maths and Engineering and UQ, then worked in an aluminium smelter in NZ before completing a phD in environmental engineering at The University of Western Australia, before returning to UQ as a Lecturer in Chemical and Environmental Engineering. In fact, she was o...

Often people visualise buildings or bridges when they think of engineering, however there are endless specialisations within engineering, and countless career pathways within each of these specialisations! As one of these specialisations, civil engineering works across multiple sectors. You could work in erosion control, designing airports and even flood mitigation works to name a few. Today, we’ll be talking to Ella Hingston, exploring just one of the unique career pathways available within ...

This episode is a perfect example of how engineering can bring about a freedom in your career that you didn’t know possible. The freedom to choose from an endless list of disciplines and roles, and the freedom to ‘pivot’ your career outside your specialisation into a direction you had never considered. Today we are joined by Clare Lavrencic as we talk about the unique freedom of engineering and the endless opportunities within engineering.Clare graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engin...