In this session, we'll be talking about Women in
Engineering and IT as a unit, we'll be talking about
engineering and it scholarships here at UTS. We'll be also
giving some advice, and we'll be given some information about the
application process is as well. And we'll leave around 30
minutes for all the questions that you may have. But as we
just said before, if you have any questions, in the meantime,
you can always use the q&a section. So women do and it is a
unit Earth, the Faculty of Engineering and it here at UTS.
It has a very long history. We've been working for the last
40 years, and it's the first unit of its kind in Australia.
We're very proud of it. And this is a reflection of, of the
commitment that UTS has with gender equity. What the unit
does is create lead social change so that studying and
career journeys are not limited by gender so that everyone can
study whatever they want with without having gender as
limitation. Some of the reasons why this is very important is
that engineers and technologists shape the way we live the way we
work the way we study. And we've seen this very clear during the
past year, even the way we're having this conversation right
now. So if we want to shape and design solutions that include
everyone's needs, these four of the ones that are similar to
ours, the ones that are different to us, we need to make
sure that we have all the voices in the room, and we have diverse
voices there. So when that doesn't happen, we can see the
consequences. For example, face recognition apps that don't
recognise female faces, or the same things happen with AI voice
processes that don't recognise female voices, because most of
them are trained women voices data sets. Another example is,
for example, cars for many years. crash test dummies, were
designed taking consideration the average man, that meant that
cars were not as safe for women as they were for men. But if you
decided to study engineering, and it, you have the potential
to make a lot of social change and change a lot of times, so
welcome. And following this thought, I'd like to know a
little bit more about you. And what are those engineer or
outie? It sorry, outreach activities that you had
experienced with a school or outside school? What are the
things maybe you attended a workshop? Maybe you had some
work experience? Maybe this is something that you like to do at
home. So let's see. Okay, we have a lot of people versus
fitting in STEM workshops, university webinars, work
experience, oh, we have some campus on campus visit. That's
great. We know that it has been very tricky, especially last
year to do this. But it's great that you have the opportunity.
So thank you so much. This is great. And one of the reasons I
wanted to to ask this is because we also do a lot of activities
at schools. So some of the initiatives that we have in
women in engineering, and it involves primary High School. So
we go to primary schools to help build up the confidence of girls
regarding science, engineering, technology and mathematics. And
we also work with teachers and parents. We also go to high
school visits to talk show some of the career possibilities that
you may have in this field, and also show some of the emerging
technologies that they could be having an impact rate. So all
students, well, many students at UTS go to this post with us,
but also some industry mentors. So it's a very good opportunity
to learn more, but also connect with the industry when you are a
student igbts once you bit sorry between high school and and
university, we have the scholarships. So this is what we
will be talking today. But since you once you start UTM you will
have very welcoming community that will provide you a lot of
networking opportunities, cultural celebrations, coffee
breaks and coffee hours and you will have that first network
right away available for you. From your second year onwards,
you can start you can apply to those the mentoring programme.
So Lucy mentoring pairs. students studying at UTS is with
industry professionals for one on one mentoring. And you can
get guidance and advice on how your career may look like What
are the possibilities out there? What are the roles that you
might be interested in what can help you get where you want to
go.
And we also have a very, very committed rebirth, gender equity
ambassadors, and you can be part of this as well, creating social
change. And as I mentioned before, underlying everything we
do, we have a very, very supportive community of
students, students, and staff. We've been talking about three
different scholarships today. So the women in engineering,
comparative scholarship available for all engineering
degrees, the Bachelor of information technology,
comparative scholarship, which is available for the Bachelor of
it, and a little bit more about the Faculty of Engineering it
scholarships and the UTS scholarship search tool. So
women engineering at cooperative scholarship is well, when you
get a contribution of 66,000, paid over four years, includes
three industry placements, so you can get some really good
experience before you finish your degree. And it's available
for the Bachelor of Engineering and deployment with formats in
professional engineering practice. And it's only
available for females recent school leavers. You will have
those industry placements. So, this is pretty much how it could
look like. So you will have your first placement your first
internship at the end of your first year. So that will give
you very early on experience and then you second placement on
second year and third placement in fourth year. And some of the
industries and companies that you might be working with are
they so this is this is just an example. And you might rotate
amongst different companies during your degree to get a lot
of insights around different sectors and different
industries. The Bachelor of information technology,
comparative scholarship is a three year fellowship and the
financial contribution that you get is a 14, nine and $500 paid
over three years, you have two industry placements here. And
basically the this this this specific scholarship or this
course is a mix between it is this sir if this is more, more
like you, we encourage you to apply for this scholarship. We
also have the Women in Engineering it faculty
scholarships. So that's for the first year and the contribution
that you get is $10,000. It's available for all engineering
and it degrees including double degrees. And again, all the
available for female current and not current school leavers. UTS
has a lot of scholarships, and even the ones we may name
before, you don't need to apply for just one. If you're not
sure, what is the course that you want to follow. If you like
many different disciplines, you're more than welcome to
apply to all of them. But also, you can also look for other
scholarships available. And even if you don't find the right
scholarship for you right now, once you start UTS there are a
lot of other scholarships available for current students.
So I really encourage you to go to the website and have a look
at about the different possibilities that we may have
it for us today. Um, so we wanted to have someone that can
talk to you a little bit more about the students periods, what
it's look like to study here at UTS. So we invited I'ma Chris,
the current student here at UTS. So thank you very much I'm on.
Hi, everyone, my name is ima I study a Bachelor of Engineering
and medical science here at ETS. And sharing was never actually
one of my first choices when I was going to apply to
university. It was something that I applied for, just before
you closed. I went in the night before your applications closed,
and I changed all of my preferences to match engineering
and stem degrees. I can't really remember why. But I can't say
that it was one of the best decisions I've ever made. I
started being involved with women engineering and it as a
volunteer for my very first year. And I didn't I know
anybody at UTSA didn't have any friends at the time. And the
very first friends I made was through the Women in Engineering
and it not only through the volunteer opportunities that I
attended, but also through the events that they hosted. And
following through from this. I was able to put that
volunteering experience onto my resume and built that up over
the past six years while I've been studying here at UTS. To
say that the involvement with this amazing initiative at UTS
is a small part of my life, but definitely be alive. It's one of
the my favourite things to do. It's one of the things I'm going
to miss the most when I do graduate from here. I'm actually
currently working at an internship under a New South
Wales. And one of the biggest things that they asked about in
my interview was the initiative of weird. And what is weird at
UTS is what work do you do, and the moment that they hear it,
especially considering that in industry, they don't always know
what you do at university, the moment that they start to hear
about the work that we did, about the outreach events to
private schools into high schools, they became really
interested in who I was as a person. And I wouldn't, probably
wouldn't be too far off to say that that would be the reason
why I actually landed the job I'm in right now. Thank you.
Let's see, I will hand back over to you now.
Thanks so much. I mean, it's really lovely to hear your
experience. And I hope that gives inspiration to you guys as
well. So what next from here, so we've developed a bit of a
scholarship timeline. And this is the process for the rest of
the year. So all the applications will close on the
fifth of September. So make sure you get in before this date,
don't worry, we have plenty of opportunity. If you have some
questions, or you'd like to get to know us a little bit more, we
do have the open day on the 28th of August. So that gives plenty
of time to you know, make a decision, make an informed
decision, see what Campus Life is like and then make sure your
applications are in bed. From there, we will have the
scholarship interviews. So this will be towards the end of
September. And once once we go from those scholarships, oh
wait, I did also forget to mention, we do have scholarship
application workshops for you to join. So you'll receive details
of these at the end of that you'll receive an email at the
end of this webinar. And then you can register. So we have a
few spread out leading up to the applications. And then once
we've shortlisted the applications will have, we will
have an interview around in the first week of October. And then
we'll notify you of the interview outcome, whether
you've been shortlisted from that process. And once you've
received your HR results in December, we'll give you a call
to let you know of your overall scholarship outcome. Also, you
might get an offer during the second you do app. So apply. So
these are the links that you can head to the save them today is
EBIT Co Op, and then the weird website where you can go to
apply. So the fun part, tips on how to apply and what might, you
know, we want to know? Well, we want to know about you. So
please be honest, tell us your story and what interests you
about engineering and it? What would you like to study and why
and what motivates you, you don't need to be, you don't need
to have any existing experience in engineering it. But what
we're looking for is an interest in or some sort of, you know,
related experience in engineering skills, and Nike. So
this could mean teamwork. This could mean design. This could
mean creative thinking, and thinking outside of the box,
those are all skills that we're looking for. And they all shape
you know, into, they could shape into engineering and IT skills.
So include any examples where you can work experience matters
as well, even casual or part time jobs, we do want to hear
about them because it means you can work as a team. And that's
what we like to see. We also like to see time management
skills, and all these things are a great contribution. So for the
interview, the interviews, the interviews will be in the first
week of October and the interview panels is very
friendly, so don't worry. So this is made up of an industry
partner and a UTS representative. They just really
want to know a little bit more about you and and this is your
opportunity to expand on what you've shared and shared in your
application. So please remember to review your application
leading up to the interview. Then how we choose the
scholarships is based on the balance of the interview score
and you're at the tips for the interview is that you don't need
to prepare. We want you to come as authentic as you are and we
want to hear more about You and what you've told us in your
application. So make sure you do review. And a great approach is
the style approach. So the situation, task, action and
result, always provide context. What you did in the task, what
needed to be done, actions, what you did? What role did you play?
And result? What was the outcome. And we'll have an
interview preparation workshop if you've got any questions
about the business.
So what happens after the interview, we'll let you know of
the outcome, whether you've been shortlisted from the interviews,
and then once we reviewed your ATAR, on the 10th of December,
we'll give you a call with the overall scholarship outcome,
you'll still need to get an offer for the course. So you
just need to adjust your preferences for that. And there
is a short turnaround time we understand because your
preferences deadline is close to that day. So we just need to
know by I think it's 3pm on the next day, whether you'd like to
accept the scholarship of if you're not quite sure which
degree. So I'll go to the next slide. So these other websites
to complete your application both for the women in
engineering and it and the Bachelor of information
technology.
If you're not quite sure which degree programme you'd like to
choose, especially for the women in engineering, cooperative
scholarship, because you have to choose a major whether that is
mechanical engineering, civil, Salta, or software. Have a look
at the USGS website, there's a lot more information and what's
the difference between these degrees programmes and we also
have on demand videos for you to explore these disciplines. You
can choose more than one discipline on your application,
but we need to allocate you to one interview panels and make
sure you let us know which is your strongest preference. And
also want to share with you HSC subjects selections. So what
subjects might you be studying UTS does not have prerequisite
prerequisites, we recommend mathematics extension one and
advanced English Physics for all engineering courses. We do not
assume you have done IPT or software design and development.
And we've got this year to talk more about HR.
Thank you very much, Louis. Just wanted to quickly talk about the
adjustment points for HR. So these are points that are added
to your RA ater or to give you some lunch selection wrong
sorry, which is what the EU offers are made made are based
on so the maximum number of adjustment points that you can
receive here at UTS is 13. And the adjustment points can be
given for a number of reasons. Could be for example, completing
the UTS engineering and it questionnaire could be very good
results in your HSC subjects. And could be because of many
other reasons like background or certain circumstances. Here are
UTS a we value the gender balance, professional
engineering it and that's why from 2020 women, including
artists and trans women will receive 10 adjustment points for
any degree or a combined degree in the Faculty of Engineering
nit. If you have any questions regarding this, we have a
frequently asked questions, website or UTS is also there to
support you. So we offer bridging courses and we also
provide support for certain subjects. So yeah, this is also
something that you can explore on the website. So please keep
in contact with us. If you have any questions, please contact
the faculty. But also as we Lisa was saying, we will have
application workshops and you will receive the dates and the
registration form after this. So thank you very much and we look
forward to seeing you during the workshops or maybe on campus
soon. Thank you very much