Filipino Australian Engineers visit UWS

Dr Mithra Fernando of UWS Engineering shows the visitors a concrete testing project.


Key officers and members of the Filipino Australian Engineers Association Inc (FAEA) were jointly hosted by UWS Innovation & Consulting and the UWS School of Engineering/Civionics Centre on their visit to UWS. Engineers there on the day represented Kneebone, Beretta and Hall Consulting Engineers, NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water, Rail Corp, J Wyndham Prince Pty Ltd, and a variety of small private contracting and engineering practices based in Greater Western Sydney. Professor Brian Uy welcomed the guests to the UWS Civionics Centre at the Kingswood Campus. The delegates enjoyed a tour of the state-of-the-art engineering laboratory which is reputed to have one of Australia’s best equipment for testing and monitoring for the construction and manufacturing industries, working with steel, plastics and their composites, polystyrene, alloys and timber. The UWS capabilities for mechatronics, industrial design and small-scale production were also showcased in the tour of the facilities.

One of the topics discussed during the open forum was finding pathways to enable recognition of foreign trained migrant engineers from Asia by the Institution of Engineers, Australia. The UWS Master of Engineering course may already be used as one of the pathways for migrant engineers.

UWS Engineering capability statement can be found at http://www.uws.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/142249/CS_Engineering.pdf.

Companies wanting to find out more about working with UWS engineering should contact UWS Innovation &Consulting at ip@uws.edu.au .