Gender in Diversity Awards

Most Outstanding Company in Gender Diversity

ABOUT THIS AWARD

This award promotes national engineering excellence and the contribution women in engineering make to the community. This award seeks to identify, recognise and reward companies that strive towards national engineering excellence in encouraging gender diversity. This award is open to large organisation that employ 200 or more people.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

• Projects demonstrating recruiting, retaining and recognising female engineers
• Previous award or recognition or statement in Gender Diversity and/or significant effort in improvement of policies, procedures in regard to Gender Diversity
• Degree to which a company has fostered skills development of female engineers
• Degree to which female engineers have achieved career progression within the company
• Numbers of female engineers and female members of Engineers Australia per male equivalency (fellows, CPEng, members and grads)

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

• Eligible companies can be not-for-profit or commercial
• Each criteria is to be addresses using no more than 500 words
• Eligible companies must employ 200 or more people 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

You must provide the following with your submission:

• Submit nomination online
• Biographical Information (100 words)
• Statement addressing each criterion (no more than 500 words per criteria)

PRESENTATION OF AWARD

The award consists of a framed certificate and is presented at a special event selected as appropriate by the National Committee for Women in Engineering.

 

 

Nominations close 1 September 2021 

 

 

Most Outstanding Company in Gender Diversity 2020 Award winner

pitt&sherry

Gender diversity is vital to pitt&sherry as a demonstration of our inclusivity.

The communities and clients we solve problems for are incredibly diverse; we believe in building teams that represent that diversity can only be good for the design and project outcomes. 

This award embodies our commitment to gender equity in the engineering industry and our aspirations for a more inclusive environment to support more women entering the industry.

We’re honoured by this award and the recognition by our peers and the industry it represents.

 

Most Outstanding Company in Gender Diversity 2020 Award Highly Commended

GHD

For GHD, this recognition is a great reminder of how far we have come and highlights our focus on implementing programs that encourage a gender balance, both within GHD and across the wider industry. 

In recent times we’ve launched our popular and successful Career Relaunch Program, introduced several career advancement programs that target and sponsor future female leaders, and continually strive to inspire female high school and university students into STEM careers by partnering with various industry organisations.

We are proud of our preparedness to try new initiatives which are all part of creating a workplace of the future.

 

PAST WINNERS

2019 Winner - Hatch

2019 Highly Commended - Norman Disney & Young

2018 Winner - Department of Transport and Main Roads

2018 Highly Commended - GHD

2017 Winner - Arup

2017 Highly Commended - GHD

2016 Winner - AECOM

2016 Highly Commended - Aurizon

2015 Winner - Aurizon

2015 Highly Commended - GHD Pty Ltd

 

Most Ambitious Company in Gender Diversity

ABOUT THIS AWARD

This award promotes national engineering excellence and the contribution women in engineering make to the community. This award seeks to identify, recognise and reward companies that strive towards national engineering excellence in encouraging gender diversity. This award is open to small and medium organisation that employ 199 or less people.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

• Projects demonstrating recruiting, retaining and recognising female engineers
• Significant effort in improvement of policies, procedures in regard to Gender Diversity
• Degree to which a company has fostered skills development of female engineers
• Degree to which female engineers have achieved career progression within the company
• Numbers of female engineers and female members of Engineers Australia per male equivalency (fellows, CPEng, members and grads)

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

• Eligible companies can be not-for-profit or commercial
• Each criteria is to be addresses using no more than 500 words
• Eligible companies must employ 199 or less people

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

You must provide the following with your submission:

• Submit nomination online
• Biographical Information (100 words)
• Statement addressing each criterion (no more than 500 words per criteria)

PRESENTATION OF AWARD

The award consists of a framed certificate and is presented at a special event selected as appropriate by the National Committee for Women in Engineering.

 

Nominations close 1 September 2021 

 

Most Ambitious Company in Gender Diversity 2020 Award winner

Water Modelling Solutions Pty Ltd

Water Modelling Solutions is so pleased to have won the Most Ambitious Company in Gender Diversity Award 2020. We are aware that we have had strong competition for this award. The companies that also applied for this category, no doubt have very strong Diversity and Inclusion policies, procedures and programs in place. However, we feel that it is not these qualities that made WMS a strong contender; it is our leadership and their ability to engender a culture of diversity through innovative recruitment that considers not only merit but the qualities a person brings to the company. It is through our Leader’s ability to “walk the talk” and through their promotion of every staff member as a diversity leader.

We are a young yet growing company and winning this award lends credibility to an approach that may not be traditional amongst Engineering firms but is nevertheless proving to be successful.

 

PAST WINNERS

2019 Winner - Stantec Australia Pty Ltd

2019 Highly Commended - QinetQ Pty Ltd 

2018 Winner - Axicom

2018 Highly Commended - HFM Asset Management 

2017 Winner - Arup

2017 Highly Commended - IT Power (Australia) Pty Ltd

2016 Winner - Transurban Ltd

2015 Winner - City Water Technology

 

Most Encouraging Student Group or Non-Profit Group in Gender Diversity

ABOUT THIS AWARD

This award promotes national engineering excellence and the contribution women in engineering make to the community. This award seeks to identify, recognise and reward companies that strive towards national engineering excellence in encouraging gender diversity.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

• Projects demonstrating recruiting, retaining and recognising female engineers
• Audience number/number of students targeted
• Number of current females studying engineering and/or studying engineering supporting the group
• Degree to which the group has fostered skills development of female engineers
• Degree to which female engineers have achieved career progression/managerial roles within the company

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

• Eligible companies can be not-for-profit 
• Each criteria is to be addresses using no more than 500 words

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

You must provide the following with your submission:

• Submit nomination online
• Biographical Information (100 words)
• Statement addressing each criterion (no more than 500 words per criteria)

PRESENTATION OF AWARD

The award consists of a framed certificate and is presented at a special event selected as appropriate by the National Committee for Women in Engineering.

 

Nominations close 1 September 2021 

 

Most Encouraging Student or Non-For -Profit Group in Gender Diversity 2020 winner

University of New South Wales, Faculty of Engineering

We are honoured to be recognised for our efforts to encourage gender diversity and to ensure that the engineering profession benefits from the talents of all in our society. UNSW Engineering is committed to inspiring and supporting women to pursue engineering careers. Our Faculty Values note that: “Different perspectives spur innovative thinking”. 

Recognising this, we are aiming to ignite new momentum in the recruitment and advancement of female engineering academics and students. We are very proud to learn that our efforts have been acknowledged by Engineers Australia, and will keep working to reshape the culture and infrastructure of our engineering community.

Most Encouraging Student or Non-For -Profit Group in Gender Diversity 2020 Highly Commended

Women in Engineering and IT at University of Technology Sydney

Over the last 3 years, our Women in Engineering and IT team have focused on impact-led initiatives with embedded evaluation, informed by research and emerging best practices. This award means a lot to us because it recognises the work and achievements of not only our team but also our community.

Without our community of staff, students and industry partners and volunteers, we would not have been able to achieve so much and reach from primary school students, teachers and families, across to high school, into university studies, and preparing for engineering careers through a mentoring program with industry professionals.

Thank you for this recognition and inspiration to keep creating positive impact and change!

PAST WINNERS

2019 Winner - Engineers Without Borders Australia Ltd

2019 Highly Commended - Precious Plastic Monash 

2018 Winner - Women in Subsea Engineering (WISE) by Subsea Energy Australia

2017 Winner - ANU Fifty50

2017 Highly Commended - Robogals Global

2016 Winner - UNSW Australia, Faculty of Engineering

2016 Highly Commended - Women in Engineering & IT Programs, University of Technology Sydney

2015 Winner - Power of Engineering Inc

2015 Highly Commended - The Dream Big Project