But Seriously, What is Engineering?
There’s so much more to engineering than hard hats and building bridges. But Seriously, What Is Engineering? is a 12-part podcast series that explores all corners of engineering, from the mine site to the microscope. Season 1 is hosted by Kartikee Gupta, a civil and structural engineer and Women in Engineering advocate for The University of Queensland. Season 2 is hosted by The University of Queensland's Women in Engineering Student Leaders. Throughout this series, you'll hear from incredible industry professionals, current engineering students and inspirational educators from across the engineering sector as we ask them the big questions: What does a career in engineering look like? What makes a great engineer? And what’s in store for the future of engineering? Join us as we find out once and for all…but seriously, what is engineering?
Episodes
24 episodes
Students ONLY episode!
For our final episode of 'But seriously, what is Engineering?' for Season 2, we invited four of The University of Queensland's Women in Engineering Student Leaders to answer your questions about studying engineering, choosing your specialisatio...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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29:05
The future is bright with solar
Today, we’ll be talking to Dr Terese Milford. Dr Terese is a Senior Engineer working in the Intelligent Grid New Technology team at Energex and Ergon Energy. Energex and Ergon Energy are Queensland’s distribution networks with a team that devel...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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22:53
How to start a startup
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, Ril...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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14:23
The careful balance
Professor Kate O’Brien will be joining us as our guest for today’s podcast. Kate is the Director of Teaching and Learning for the School of Chemical Engineering at The University of Queensland (UQ) in Brisbane, Australia. She studied Maths and ...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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17:47
Civil engineering - it’s so much more than you think!
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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24:24
The flexibility of a career in engineering
This episode is a perfect example of how engineering can bring about a freedom in your career that you didn’t know possible. The freedom to choose from an endless list of disciplines and roles, and the freedom to ‘pivot’ your career outside you...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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9:21
Working towards a sustainable future
Dr Denys Villa-Gomez will be joining us for today’s podcast. Dr Denys Villa-Gomez is a Lecturer at The University of Queensland's School of Civil Engineering. Dr Denys Villa-Gomez obtained her PhD at the world-leading institute UNESCO-IHE and W...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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15:58
Young Engineer of the year 2021
Growing up in the small Queensland town of Roma, Zoe Eather knew that she wanted a career that would allow her to travel overseas and make a difference in developing countries. Engineering took her from rural Australia to international smart co...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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27:30
An inspiring leader
Shivani Gupta moved from India to Australia with her family at the age of 11, a decision her family made to ensure that she would have the same opportunities as her brothers. Shivani didn't take this opportunity lightly, working hard and gradua...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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28:20
Diversity in engineering
Felicity Furey was named Boss Magazine’s Young Executive of The Year and one of AFR’s 100 Women of Influence at just 26 years of age. Need we say more? Felicity has led multimillion dollar engineering projects, founded several succ...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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32:36
The incredible world of medical engineering
Cait Thomas has a resume of experience and wisdom that will, quite simply, blow your mind. Cait has already accomplished so much during her career as a biomedical engineer working across a number of fields. Cait is the perfect example o...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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22:23
The beanie that's as safe as a helmet
Rob Joseph is a co-founder of Anti Ordinary, a startup that have developed a beanie that is as safe as a helmet. Intrigued? So were we! Rob studied an undergrad of Medical Engineering, with the hope to combine his love for sport an...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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16:22
Floating into the future
Imagine an entire city floating peacefully and sustainably on water, its energy comes from waves and wind, food is fish that grows in specially-designed ocean-based structures…this is the life work of globally renowned structural engineer and U...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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19:45
Let’s talk all things research!
Would you like to learn a new language? Or do work that makes a difference in society? Research might be the right path for you.In this episode we meet two UQ researchers, Dr Caroly...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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22:38
Breaking the engineering code
Engineering has many diverse disciplines, so finding your niche can take some time.Today we speak to UQ software engineering student, Jessica Rock, and hear how she found her calling in software engineering.Jess wasn’t always conv...
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10:17
Dreaming big to drive diversity in engineering
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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19:32
Helping the world with humanitarian engineering
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 li...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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21:26
What’s this all about the mine?
Guests Martyn Robotham and Negin Beaton share their engineering journeys and dig deep into their rewarding careers in the resources industry.Martyn started out in the mining industry 35 years ago, when gender diversity in the sector was ...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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22:34
The engineering industry, then and now
A lot in the engineering industry has changed in the past 30 years, but, according to mother-daughter engineering duo, Jo-Anne Dudley and Darcy Beer, hard work, resilience, and passion are still the key ingredients to a fulfilling career in eng...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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26:15
Where can engineering take you?
When you think of engineering it’s often the technical side that comes to mind – building and designing, maths and science. But a career in engineering can take many paths.In this week’s episode, we meet Trang Pham and Rebecca Pickering,...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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27:22
How to make a team work
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...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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24:32
Finding your tribe
What's it really like to study engineering? And how can your university experience help to shape your career?In this week’s episode of But Seriously, What is Engineering? we hear from t...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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24:41