Engineering & Computer Science

CECS and UniSA win $3.8M bid for engineers

The Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, today announced funding of $111.5M to encourage greater specialisation among higher education providers and promote diversity across the sector. More than 30 universities will receive funding for 49 projects through the latest round of the Diversity and Structural Adjustment Fund.

The ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science has won a $3.8M bid, in partnership with the University of South Australia, for The Engineering 'Hubs and Spokes' Project. The project aims to provide engineering students with a greater choice of specialisations at ANU and UniSA without replication of resources while allowing students to stay in their home institution.

The program will also provide a national engineering internship program with industry to fastrack graduates into their first jobs, and address professional development needs through a cross institutional Integrated Graduate Development Program.

"A national crisis to have more skilled engineers calls for novel ways to use university strengths to address the crisis, regardless of where the university is," said Professor Chris Baker, Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science.

"Winning this bid is terrific news for the College by allowing us to develop and benefit from new ways of working that will have a lasting impact on the way we do things, and the way in which the engineering profession will benefit," he said.

"Congratulations to everyone on the team that put together such a compelling case to Government."