Sponsors
AECOM
Alcoa Australia
Arup
AusIndustry
Bayside Group
Bilfinger Berger
City of Melbourne
Deakin University
Defence Force Recruiting
Engineers Without Borders
Meinhardt
Monash University, Faculty of Engineering
RMIT University
SEITA
South East Water
Swim Communications
The Age
TRUenergy
URS
VicRoads
Victoria Government
Watermark
WorleyParsons
Engineering Students @ Work
Engineering Students @ Work
The Engineering Students @ Work program was launched by AKORN Educational Services to provide a realistic Engineering experience for Secondary school students.
This program provides:
- a realistic engineering experience for secondary schools
- exposure to working with engineering firms
- understanding and adopting sustainable engineering design solutions
It is a five-day program which provides a team of 5-6 students the opportunity to work in a firm as a project team – being given a project brief, relevant industry information/background, access to research and time to develop and prepare a report and presentation given on the final day to staff, teachers and parents.
We require engineering firms who want to address the shortage of engineering specialists therefore we are seeking engineering companies who would be interested in hosting the program. To enquire or learn more about the program, please contact Georgene Bridgeman, CEO on georgene.b@AKORN.com.au.
Year 9 Humanitarian Eng Conference
Akorn Educational Services, together with Engineers Without Borders, WorleyParsons, Catholic Education Office and Engineers Australia delivered the very first Year 9 Humanitarian Engineering Conference to fifty four year 9 students from nine different schools.
During Australian Engineering Week, the students attended Engineering House in North Melbourne to receive a brief from Engineers Without Borders who presented a real-life humanitarian distaster event.
The students were divided in teams where they worked with an EWB volunteer and a WorleyParsons engineer to address a project brief and devise solutions. The brief was a real-life humanitarian event were the students needed to use ‘engineering skills’ to develop strategies and solutions to the various problems.
Once the teams collated and evaluated their ideas, each group was required to present on their findings to the group which included the Victorian State President, Mr David Eltringham, who was left speechless by the team’s effective delivery of their findings.
When asked how the day was, one student replied, ‘Epically Awesome!’.
