But Seriously, What is Engineering?

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Riley O'Donnell graduated from The University of Queensland with the University medal, studying a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) specialising in chemical engineering and a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in finance. After graduating, Riley co-founded Endla, a startup company that develops core technology to lower the cost of physical engineering assets with Software.
In this episode we ask Riley about his experience and advice with starting a startup, and we discuss how to approach imposter syndrome to achieve success in your career.
This episode is hosted by two of The University of Queensland's Women in Engineering student leaders; Kathleen Cox and Yvette (Evie) Gibbon.
Visit Endla's website: https://endla.com/
Connect with Riley on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rileyodonnell-1/
Connect with Kathleen Cox on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathleen-cox-142286184/
Connect with Yvette (Evie) Gibbon on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yvette-gibbon/

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Often people visualise buildings or bridges when they think of engineering, however there are endless specialisations within engineering, and countless career pathways within each of these specialisations! As one of these specialisations, civil engineering works across multiple sectors. You could work in erosion control, designing airports and even flood mitigation works to name a few. Today, we’ll be talking to Ella Hingston, exploring just one of the unique career pathways available within civil engineering.
Ella is a Senior Asset Management Engineer in Cardno, now Stantec’s Asset Strategies team with seven years’ experience in infrastructure asset management. In her role at Cardno, she works across the water supply and sewerage, stormwater, buildings, and transport sectors to maximize the value provided by infrastructure assets to governments and the communities they serve.

Ella has assisted local, state and federal government clients across Australia with understanding the current state of their asset base, forecasting and providing assurance on current and future investment needs, and developing supporting asset management framework documentation.

Across these key public infrastructure sectors, Ella has developed short- and long-term capital and operating expenditure forecasts and lifecycle cost models, undertaken regulatory audits, and assisted with the review of government expenditure programs and the business processes underlying these.

Additionally, Ella has experience in assisting with the development and implementation of asset management systems for government clients, through her preparation of asset management plans and other asset management system artefacts, and collection of asset attribute, condition and valuation data to provide governments with a sound, evidence-based platform upon which asset decisions can be made.
This episode is hosted by two of The University of Queensland's Women in Engineering student leaders; Christie Patterson and Elizabeth (Lizzy) Pumpa.
Connect with Christie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christie-patterson-6431ba16b/
Connect with Elizabeth (Lizzy) on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-pumpa-560649172/
Connect with Ella on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ella-hingston-3a8b6231/
Find out more about the Cardno, now Stantec, Asset Management services in Australia: https://www.cardno.com/services-au/infrastructure/asset-management/

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Engineers may be the world's problem solvers, but they rarely work alone. Team work and collaboration are fundamental to engineering.

But what makes a great team?

In this episode, we’re unpacking what it means to work effectively as a team. We hear from current UQ engineering students on their experiences of teamwork at university, the challenges they’ve faced, and the skills they’ll be taking with them as they embark on their engineering careers. We also explore the power of diversity in team building, and how it can impact creativity, innovation and performance.

To learn more about studying engineering at UQ visit the Future Students website.

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It was the declining number of women enrolled in Jessica Kahl’s university engineering courses that sparked her big business idea.

Jessica saw the impact she could make on school students and was inspired to create more opportunities for young people to experience the exciting reality of the science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM) field first-hand. And so, her business Dream Big Australia was born.

Now a civil engineer herself, Jessica is inspiring a new generation of future engineers to consider a career in STEAM while driving gender balance in the engineering industry and championing innovation.

Her engineering journey will leave you inspired.

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Our guests today, Vigya Sharma and Aira Fabello, are willing to go the extra mile to help the world through their passion working as humanitarian engineers. Engineers are passionate about helping people and making the world a better place to live.

Join us as we learn more about humanitarian engineering – an area where you can build on your existing engineering knowledge to solve problems and address global issues such as climate change and poverty or help to develop interventions for clean, modern and reliable forms of energy or water sanitation.

To learn more about studying engineering at UQ visit the Future Students website.