So what we're going to go through today is "What is
Electrical Engineering?", "What is Electronic Engineering?", the
careers that you can get from either pathways, the areas of
Engineering and the UTS courses that UTS offers, and how to best
prepare to study engineering at UTS. And we're going to follow
up with a Q&A session with our panellists. So a poll is going
to appear. Do you know the difference between Electrical
and Electronic Engineering? Seems that the majority of
people are quite unsure, a lot of people straight up don't know
what it is. Congrats to those that do know. But we're gonna go
into a little bit more now. So firstly, getting into "What is
Electrical Engineering?" So I like to think of it as
engineering of the bigger things compared to Electronic. So
things that generate electricity, complex large scale
power systems, power distribution, recovery, storage,
household appliances, renewable energy systems, things like
that. Whereas Electronic Engineering, I like to think of
it as smaller things. So engineers designing, building,
assembling and testing hardware found inside smart devices,
involving sensors, cameras, batteries, or peripherals like
that. There is a strong interaction with software and
artificial intelligence. It underpins advances in many other
Engineering disciplines. You're also involve the miniaturisation
of electronic components and the Internet of Things, which is in
great demand. So, why choose Electrical Engineering? The
future is electric. It's an evolving industry and it's got
continuous innovation, and it's continuing to grow every day.
It's the forefront of the future of technology. Renewable energy
is our future. Having an analytical mindset with the
ability to innovate solutions will be really helpful for those
who want to choose Electrical Engineering and being able to be
a part of major infrastructural projects. I don't know if
anyone's heard of Snowy Hydro project? You can be involved in
solar farms, trains, there's also the Australian Power
Institute. They represent major Australian power companies and
are bursaries available to first-year students. So
contrasting, "Why choose Electronic Engineering?" So
electronics is driving major advances in the efficient use of
resources, advanced healthcare diagnostics, space technology,
smarter transport and control and better environmental
monitoring. It underpins technologies, quantum hardware,
wireless communications, advanced software, a lot of cool
things, and employers of Electronic graduates are located
across the globe. And if you want the best of both worlds,
UTS offers Electrical and Electronic Engineering. So
because IoT, Internet of Things, is increasingly using
sustainable engineering, and distribution, you can kind of
combine those things, energy monitoring using IoT devices,
you can fabricate new types of sensors for use in power,
energy, control systems, through designing micro electronics for
use, sorry, for control of power systems. And in case you didn't
want to combine both, you can still work in more traditional
electrical and electronic roles, you're not confined. So, with a
Bachelor and one of those, there are heaps of career
opportunities. You can work with electric cars, aircraft, train,
product development, Defence has a lot of opportunity within it
as well and within the military hardware manufacturing. Energy
companies employ a lot of electrical and electronic
engineers, including sustainable energy providers. If you wanted
to go into biomedical and working with people and
electronics, you can work in health engineering, electronic
component manufacturers for consumer products. So working
within electronics for mobile devices, household appliances,
smart technology, you can also work in the R&Dspace, if that's
what interests interests you. Looking into what jobs you can
kind of get with electrical, you look at the graphic we have
there. There's a lot of space in building services, mining, and
oil power. It's broken up into a lot of little ones and heaps of
opportunity. Going into Electronic, you have electronic
systems you have Defence again, electronics design, sales. A lot
of space that you could go into. Now we're gonna have another
poll up on the screen. So based on the kind of information you
have, what major would you be more interested in? So we have
quite a lot of people interested in electronic, I see a couple
more Electrical, Electrical and Electronic. Some people still
unsure, totally fine, you got time to decide on that. So these
are all the courses that UTS offers for Engineering. Today
we're focusing on Electronic, Electrical, and Electrical and
Electronic. To note the ones with asterix, they're the double
majors, so you can't use your elective block, that's why
there's a double. going into the core structure. This is for
Electrical Engineering, and if you look at it in the first and
second year, you go into a lot of your Engineering core
subjects, you study your Electrical core subjects. And
then into your third and fourth and a little bit into your fifth
you have your Electrical choice subjects is when you choose your
stream. And then in your final year, you do your capstone,
which is like your final year project. Also noting that you
have your Diploma of Professional Engineering
Practice. So in your second half of your second year and the
second half of your fourth year, you do a six month placement in
industry. Similarly, with Electronic Engineering, you're
focusing on your Engineering core subjects, your Electronic
core subjects towards the earlier part of your degree,
going into your Electronic options and your final year
project towards the end. And combining both of them, you do
your Engineering core subjects, then you have your core subjects
for Electrical and Electronics, and your final year project for
all that. So for those subjects that you choose, the you have
four threads, we have control, we have embedded systems,
there's renewable energy and power systems. So if you're
choosing either Electric, or any of them, you can attach the
Diploma of Professional Practice. So, this one requires
you to complete two six-month internships. You do one in your
second year, and in fourth year, you have your opportunity to get
real experience before you graduate. So you're graduating
with 12 months of experience, which puts you on an edge
against other people graduating from other Uni's. You develop
professional skills, really highly valued by employers, and
you can build networks with top organisations in the industry,
and people working already within the industry. Now, just a
little bit about me. As I said, I'm a fourth-year student
studying electrical engineering. I graduated in 2018. I chose
electrical engineering, mostly because I enjoy math, I also
enjoy science, kind of the best of both worlds. Not to let any
of that intimidate anyone because I'm not exactly a math
whiz. In high school, I did two-unit math and UTS does a
good job of transitioning you into learning the rest. I really
enjoy how practical the subject is. Going into what I've learned
in industry, I can kind of see exactly what I've been working
on. Whether it's substations or aeroplanes, particularly UTS has
been really great to learn at for the Diploma of Professional
Practice, adding in that experience that you can choose
what you want to do later in life and get an experience
before you graduate. In addition, there's been so much
support working here. And sorry, studying here, there is the
Women and Engineering and IT community for those women out
there and men. And you make a lot of great networks and
friends within the Engineering community. There's also been
Orientation Buddies. When I first started, I was an
orientation buddy and I had an older student be a buddy. And
now I am a buddy and I mentor younger students. There's also
been a lot of leadership development programmes at UTS,
which have been really great. And there's been a lot of job
opportunities within UTS. So firstly, this year, being a
SPROUT representative for the Faculty of Engineering IT. I
also do love demonstrating for first year subjects so for the
Introduction to Electrical and Electronic Engineering course,
which has been really great to develop those core skills for
electrical analysis. But enough about me, I'm gonna hand it back
over to Hailey to finish it off.
Okay, so I'm going to talk to you guys about, a bit more about
how to get into Uni and the day each and everything. So we have
adjustment points for UAC. So, adjustment points are pretty
much just points that are added to student raw ATAR to give a
selection rank. Adjustment points are capped at 13 for UTS.
And adjustment points can be given for a number of reasons,
including completing the UTS Engineering and IT
questionnaire, which I'll talk about a bit later, good results
in relevant HSC subjects, gender and then special circumstances
and more. So, if you need more information about adjustment
points, you can scan the QR code or we'll be sending you the
presentation later. Okay, so the UAC key dates. There's
scholarship applications open at the moment, so have a check on
those if you guys are in year 12 and thinking about studying
here, you guys never know if you get it, I would say just apply.
Even if you think you're not going to get it, your ATAR
whatever just apply, you never know sometimes you never know.
And then so Open Day, it's our first on campus opening in two
years. That's going to be on August 27th and I'm super
excited for that and then the scholarship applications close
in September, and then the offers of scholarship release in
December. Also, when you have offers start, and then there's
going to be a few multiple UAC of around from December to
February I'm thinking. And then there's UTS orientation in
February, and then in March, Autumn session starts. So this
is the UTS early entry programme, which is the
questionnaire we were talking about. So you use your year 11
results to enter UTS if you're you, if you're currently a
domestic or international onshore year 12 students. How
you apply, you apply through the UTS online application portal.
So it's not UAC, it's on our own UTS website. It's free to apply.
And then applications open around June to July. We don't
have any exact dates at the moment, but you get like two
months until it closes in September anyway. And then the
offers, so, you get a provisional offer, which will be
released in October, before the HSC commences. And the only
really big requirement is you have to complete your HSC. So
Student Support, so I know a lot of people always ask questions
about what type of maths do we do? What type of maths do we
need for Engineering or IT? So normally we recommend at least
Advanced Mathematics, but theres no prerequisites or anything. If
you guys are doing general or advanced maths and think you
guys want a little more, you know, knowledge and stuff before
you start Uni maths, we have bridging courses. We have
briding courses for maths, physics and chemistry, and that
normally happens just before Autumn session starts. We also
have U:PASS which is pretty much when your Autumn session starts
or Spring session, you have your subjects and then most of the
classes in your first few years of uni have U:PASS which is
pretty much just an extra class that is run by students, like
myself or Erica, that have done really, really well in their
subjects and they kind of teach you what they kind of did, and
help you in achieving a better mark, really.