While this figure makes UNSW a national leader in its success at encouraging women into engineering, the Faculty aims for a much greater number of women participating in engineering studies. There are plenty of reasons for women to choose engineering as a career. It is a profession that offers a wide variety of opportunities including opportunities to work with and supervise other engineers and professionals. Prospects for well paid, stimulating work for our engineering graduates in Australia and overseas, are excellent. Women form more than half the population and have their own insights into society's problems and needs.
Engineering is about solving problems.
To do that properly, engineering needs to include the expertise and perspectives of women as well as men. While engineers are responsible for the design and safe operation of bridges, dams, railways, heavy machinery and mines they also do a whole lot more. The engineering profession is now more varied than it has been in the past. A successful engineer today needs to have a variety of talents. An engineer must be able to work well with other people from various occupations and backgrounds - in teams and as project managers.