Engineering Innovation
Kate MANUSU (2013) As the Mechanical Site Engineer for Central Station, Kate is working on Australia’s biggest public transport project. Here, she highlights the innovative and invaluable contributions women make to careers in STEM as well as the need to subvert gender stereotypes in the industry.
What have you been up to since graduating in 2013? Since graduating I have worked in a whole range of fields, from being in a maintenance yard working on trains (diesel and electric), designing the tunnel ventilation systems at Central for the Sydney Metro Project - Combined Services, to being a site engineer at Central Station and managing multimillion dollar design packages through delivery and installation. In my personal life I have become an avid rock climber, I love to host dinner parties with my old high school friends, play video games with my boyfriend (who I met through engineering/work) and I even became a home owner in 2019! Having studied both mechanical and biomedical engineering, how did you decide to pursue the former? I found that there are not that many careers in biomedical engineering in Australia, whereas there
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