Schools Programs

Discover Engineering, the Engineers in Schools Program has been established by Engineers Australia, Victorian Division to provide students with the opportunity to learn more about engineering and what it involves.

The program links aspiring engineers or engineering professionals with the next generation, providing them with the platform to promote their profession and motivate students to consider a career in engineering.

Discover Engineering targets groups who are not necessarily exposed to information regarding the engineering profession through other facets of everyday life.

This initiative aims to:

• Boost awareness of the benefits of being an engineer;
• Endeavour to increase enrollment in engineering;
• Encourage sharing of knowledge and engineering experience.

Students may be uninformed about the study of engineering and unprepared for the rigor and discipline it entails. This speaking program will help to combat this lack of awareness by mobilising industry professionals to promote high-school level, pre-engineering education.

Members of Engineers Australia register to volunteer their time and knowledge to visit secondary schools upon request. A speaker is selected according to the schools' specific requirements to deliver a targeted presentation on engineering.

Aquinas College      Morning Secondary College      Dandenong High School

Isik College     McClelland College    Diamond Valley College    Marcellin College

Sacred Heart Girls School      Methodist Ladies College      Gippsland Grammar

Hillcrest Christian College     St Monica's College     Heathdale Secondary College 

Genazzano FCJ College      Santa Maria College      Warnambool Careers Expo  

Lalor Secondary College        St Joseph's College (Echuca)        The Knox School

Job Skills Expo       Mount Waverley Secondary College        St Bede's College

Rosehill Secondary College       Sacred Heart College (Kyneton) 

VSSEC Careers Expo      Lalor North Secondary College     St Anthony's College

Ballarat Secondary College East      St Leonard's College     Presentation College

Ballarat Secondary College Wendouree         Ballarat Grammar Careers Expo

St Patrick's College        Damascus College      Sepastopol Secondary

Ballarat High School       Hampton Park Secondary College 

Gleneagles Secondary College          Doncaster East Secondary College

Volunteer to become a Speaker 

• Engineers in Schools Speaker Registration Form Online
• Engineers in Schools Speaker Registration Form
   

Request an Engineer to visit your School

• Engineers in Schools Speaker Request Form Online
• Engineers in Schools Speaker Request Form

EngQuest

EngQuest is a fun and interactive program of Engineers Australia, designed to help students achieve key learning outcomes in science, technology and mathematics. School students work in teams, at their own pace, applying their problem solving skills to unravel exciting engineering projects.

EngQuest is a national program that aims to attach an engineer to every school. The role of the engineer will be to assist the teachers in introducing the engineering profession to the younger generation and provide information to the students about a career in engineering. The engineering speakers will use their own careers as examples of the rewards from choosing an engineering career.

The team at National Office are proud to announce the growth in numbers in participation of the EngQuest education program. In 2010, a total 44,559 students participated in the program. Last year this figure grew to 46,763 students.  

Visit the EngQuest website