How to transition to work from uni for engineers

Transitioning new engineers into professionals who can blend in and contribute to the technical organization is necessary. Trained in the “nuts and bolts” of a technical subject, new engineers have little to no training on the “soft” skills of how to work within an organization.

This new book explains to new engineers how to quickly operate and succeed within their new engineering organization.

Navigating the Engineering Organization: A New Engineer’s Guide focuses on the group behaviours of technical organizations. It provides a rigorous organizational framework to operate from and delivers guidance using a dual approach of academic insight and professional experience.

Through numerous case studies, the book presents actual experiential guidance and offers a method on how to extend the insights covered in the book and turn them into a valuable personal model, valid throughout the engineer’s career. It helps readers understand quickly the unique values and expectations within their new engineering organization and guides them in discovering the proper ways to respond to these expectations. They can then act on these insights to deliver successful results, now and throughout their careers.

The approach and goals found in this book provide a building block to help all new engineers cross the “Great Divide” from student to professional and succeed in their new engineering organization.

It is $90.00, it can be bought from Amazon, or from: https://www.routledge.com/ Navigating-the-Engineering-OrganizationA-New-Engineers-Guide/Santer/p/ book/9781032102511

Finalists in Women in Industry Awards

There were a record 158 nominations received this year for the Women in Industry awards. Women in Industry was pleased to announce the finalists of the 2023 Awards these below are just a sample. Winners will be announced on 8 June.

Excellence In Engineering

• Elika Karbassi – Liberty Industrial

• Elsa Antunes – James Cook University

• Helen Baxter-Crawford – SMEC

• Jennifer Courmont – Downer

• Jennifer Del Mastro – Airservices Australia

• Nicola Taylor – BOC

Excellence In Manufacturing

• Brenda Denbesten – Dulux Group

• Kristi Riordan – Harvest B

• Kym O’Leary – COgear

• Naomi Elliott – Concept Laboratories

• Rebecca Vella – Laminex Australia

• Shari Lyon – Fluxwood Lighting

Opportunity for hydrogen plant in SA

Trafigura is one of the world’s largest physical commodity trading companies and is working with Nyrstar and the South Australian Government to explore opportunities to progress a commercial scale green hydrogen manufacturing facility in Port Pirie. The proposed project could deliver huge economic benefits to the State. The full-scale plant would produce 100 tonnes of green hydrogen per day from a 440MW electrolyser, enabling it to meet both export and domestic supply needs. The oxygen created in the production of hydrogen would be used by the Nyrstar Port Pirie smelter, and 100 percent renewable electricity would be used to run the project’s electrolyser, contributing to the decarbonisation of the existing facility’s power supply.

Four Aussie students flying high

Four Australian high school students and a teacher will attend a six-day International Space Camp in the US after winning Astronaut Al Worden Endeavour Scholarships through the worldwide Kallman Group.

The group, known as “Mission Crew 10 – Team Australia”, will join other international teams at Space Camp at the US Space & Rocket Centre in Alabama from 2-7 July.

They will experience a variety of astronaut training exercises, engineering challenges and team-building activities, culminating in an extended-duration simulated space mission.

The winning students are:

• Arabella Darlington – Brisbane, Queensland

• Toby Fealy – Mareeba, Queensland

• Elliot Powell – Sydney, New South Wales

• Zoe Bremner – Launceston, Tasmania.