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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?

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But Seriously, What is Engineering?

Civil engineering - it’s so much more than you think!

May 20, 2022 • The University of Queensland • Season 2 • Episode 8

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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/