Nomination close 2 July 2024.
This award promotes national engineering excellence and the contribution women in engineering make to the community. This award seeks to identify, recognise and reward companies that strive towards national engineering excellence in encouraging gender diversity.
You must provide the following with your submission:
The award consists of a framed certificate and is presented at a special event selected as appropriate by the National Committee for Women in Engineering.
The Gender Equity in Engineering Makes Sense Club, otherwise known as GEMS, is a student-led club at the Queensland University of Technology. This university society aims to promote gender diversity, equity, and inclusivity in engineering. The club strives to reduce the gender gap in the workforce through the fostering of relationships between industry professionals and students. GEMS consists of three subcommittees which are Industry, Charity and Mentoring. Together these committees organise a wide range of events that encourage a diverse cohort of people to feel supported in entering the engineering industry.
The Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology (FEIT) is deeply honoured to be recognised this year, as we continue to work towards sustained transformation of gender equity and workplace culture.
Over the last three years, we have established innovative programs to increase female and non-binary representation at all levels of participation, from students to current staff. We are also increasing proficiency and competency in the accumulated biases of different diversity dimensions across the entire Faculty. This Award will serve as an impetus for us to further scale up our efforts in this important area.
Over the last 3 years, our Women in Engineering and IT team have focused on impact-led initiatives with embedded evaluation, informed by research and emerging best practices. This award means a lot to us because it recognises the work and achievements of not only our team but also our community.
Without our community of staff, students and industry partners and volunteers, we would not have been able to achieve so much and reach from primary school students, teachers and families, across to high school, into university studies, and preparing for engineering careers through a mentoring program with industry professionals.
Thank you for this recognition and inspiration to keep creating positive impact and change!