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Gain the experience to kickstart your career

Our network of 1200+ industry partners provides our students with work placements, internships, capstone projects and graduate employment opportunities.

Industry partnership: Airbus

At the University of Sydney we’re creating the engineers, computing professionals and project managers of the future – those highly-sought-after graduates that industry is looking for.

We believe that practical industry experience plays a key role in your development, complementing your studies by providing you with the essential leadership, communication and practical skills required to succeed.

We will certainly be putting any future graduates from your faculty on the top of our recruitment list.

Karl Sullivan, General Manager, Risk Insurance Council of Australia

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Professional Engagement Program

Our award-winning Professional Engagement Program aims to develop your workplace competencies and transferable employability skills that companies look for in engineering graduates.

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Jacaranda Flame Consulting

Our Jacaranda Flame Consulting program is designed to offer you valuable real-word practical experience by placing you as an engineering consultant for some of the largest organisations in industry.

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Engineering Sydney Industry Placement Scholarship

Our Engineering Sydney Industry Placement Scholarship is designed to enrich your learning by giving you on-the-job experience as part of an industry team under the guidance of an industry mentor and academic supervisor.

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Engineering Careers Fair

Our Careers Fair, held annually in March, presents a unique forum for organisations to recruit high-quality students who specialise in engineering, project management and information technologies.

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Right from your first year at university, you have access to an abundance of career counselling services and resources to help put you in the best career position by the end of your degree.

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Master of Data Science student Aakanksha Bose

Capstone projects help students get ready for work

Three project management and computer science students share their experience completing capstone units and explain how they've turned learning into industry experience.

Space engineering student Sholto Douglas undertook several industry work placements in China as part of his Professional Engagement Program

One student’s vision to build an automated future

The opportunity to study abroad at Tsinghua University and undertake work placements with several of China’s leading technology companies has bolstered one student’s desire to help shape Australia’s own growing artificial intelligence industry.

Engineering Sydney Industry Placement Scholarship student Bethany O'Neill is currently undertaking a research industry placement with Cochlear

Engineering scholar helps provide gift of hearing

Obtaining a six-month research internship with Cochlear through the Engineering Sydney Industry Placement Scholarship Program served as the ideal opportunity for one student to immerse herself in the biomedical industry and help change lives.