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Professional Engagement Program

The program redefining professional and industry work experience.
  • https://www.sydney.edu.au/engineering/study/student-experience/industry-placements-and-internships.html Gain industry experience
  • https://www.sydney.edu.au/engineering/study/undergraduate-courses.html Study with us

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Our Professional Engagement Program (PEP) develops your workplace competencies and transferable employability skills that companies look for in engineering graduates.

The program is embedded within all our undergraduate engineering degrees accredited by Engineers Australia

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PEP drop in sessions and activities

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About the program

What is it?

Professional Practice, engagement and exposure is at the heart of becoming an engineer. From your first day with us, you will begin building the skills, experiences, and connections that shape you into a future practitioner. This journey continues throughout your degree, with every opportunity designed to bring you closer to the professional world and prepare you for your engineering career.

What you do

Instead of the traditional 12-week summer placements between third and fourth years, you will complete a minimum of 420 hours of extra-curricular activities starting from your first semester, including:

  • site visits,
  • career focussed workshops and industry events
  • industry networking events,
  • work experience, and
  • a minimum six-week internship.

Benefits

This combination of experiences is designed to enhance your technical engineering-focused skills development, transferable skills development and professional engineering practice making you ready to be a skilled engineer in industry.

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