If you are a woman with a passion and interest to pursue a career in Engineering or IT, just apply!
Women in Engineering and IT Scholarships
Our UTS Women in Engineering and IT Cooperative Scholarship is a four-year program that aims to attract, retain, develop and celebrate talented women in Engineering and IT. The scholarship incorporates financial support, industry experience, mentoring, networking, and leadership and professional development.
Women in Engineering and IT Cooperative Scholarship
$66,000 over 4 years (Engineering only)
Women in Engineering and IT Faculty Scholarship
$10,000 for the first year (All Engineering and IT degrees)
"Being a co-op scholar has given me the opportunity to work in my industry while studying. This has opened up so many doors for me in terms of learning about engineering and IT careers, gaining invaluable work experience and building a network of industry professionals and like-minded scholars.
- WiEIT Co-op scholar
Information and tips for applying
We know this may be your first time applying for a scholarship. Watch this short webinar which covers:
Part 1 - Information about the scholarships
Part 2 - Hear from our current scholar, Tanzeem
Part 3 - Tips for applying
Open the video on Youtube to skip to the next chapter.
00:03
Hi everybody! My name is Eva Cheng
00:06
and I'm the Deputy Director of
00:08
the UTS Women in Engineering and IT program.
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So thanks for joining me today,
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we will talk a bit more about
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the scholarship opportunities that are
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available for women studying
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engineering and IT with us.
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So what are the different types of
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scholarships that you can apply for?
00:22
What is the application
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and interview process?
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And some tips and tricks, and advice
00:26
on this application process.
00:28
So why women in engineering
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and IT? Well our program
00:31
has a long history and we're here because we
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want to enable students
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to be able to study what they'd
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like to be able to study,
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and the careers they'd like to
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pursue without having gender as a barrier.
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Why does this matter? It's because
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engineers and IT professionals
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design products, solutions and
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services for the greater community.
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And if you don't have a
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diverse voice of the people
00:52
in the community embedded into the designs,
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then we're not going to be able to have
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the impact and to benefit
00:57
those who are going to
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be using these technologies.
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So our program has
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a lot of different initiatives.
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We reach out to early primary school to
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help build the confidence
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of girls interested in science,
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technology, engineering, and maths,
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and working with teachers and
01:11
parents as well, including in the classroom.
01:14
We also continue reaching out into
01:16
high school to share
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what are the career opportunities,
01:19
study opportunities in engineering
01:20
and IT. And what are
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those emerging technologies that
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you could have an impact with,
01:24
including drones, cybersecurity and
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perhaps civil engineering,
01:27
building safer structures.
01:28
And through all of these outreach programs,
01:30
our current students will join us and
01:32
also industry professionals to
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share what it is that
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they do in the workplace.
01:36
What might a career look like?
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And between high school
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and university, of course
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we have scholarship programs
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to support students coming in.
01:43
And once you join us at UTS,
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we have a big community
01:47
that you can jump into from day one.
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And within this community we have a lot of
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different social events
01:52
and also professional networking.
01:54
And we also have a mentoring program
01:56
with industry, where students will be
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paired with an industry mentor
01:59
for one year to get
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some advice and guidance on what does
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a career journey look like
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or what could it look like?
02:04
How could your studies get you to
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where you would like to be? What subjects,
02:08
internships would be most beneficial,
02:09
what workplaces might work for you.
02:13
And then community! Underlying everything
02:15
that we do is a strong community.
02:17
Finding people like you, studying with you,
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and who could be your future network as
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you emerge as a
02:22
professional from your degree program.
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So the scholarships that I'll talk
02:27
about today include
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the Women in Engineering
02:29
Cooperative Scholarship.
02:30
So this is open to
02:31
all engineering degree programs.
02:33
Then we have the Bachelor of
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IT Cooperative Scholarship,
02:35
specific to the Bachelor of IT program.
02:38
And then we have the Faculty Women in
02:40
Engineering and IT scholarship.
02:41
This is open to all degree programs
02:43
in engineering and IT,
02:44
including double degrees.
02:47
So the Women in Engineering
02:49
Cooperative Scholarship is
02:50
valued at $66 000 over four years.
02:53
And it also includes three internships
02:56
throughout your degree program.
02:57
And this internship
02:57
component is embedded within
02:59
the Diploma of Professional
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Engineering Practice.
03:02
So what this looks like in
03:04
your five-year degree program is
03:06
that you'll have
03:06
your first industry internship
03:08
at the end of first year.
03:09
So getting that real-world
03:10
experience early on,
03:11
that's a three month internship
03:13
to get you started.
03:14
And then you will
03:15
have two six-month internships
03:17
in second, and fourth year.
03:18
And these internships will be with
03:20
different industry partners so
03:22
that you get that
03:22
breadth of experience
03:24
across different industries.
03:26
So who might be the industry partners?
03:29
These are some sponsors from the 2020 cohort,
03:32
and you'll see that there are a number of
03:33
different companies across civil,
03:36
electrical, mechanical,
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software, and data engineering.
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So the second co-operative scholarship that we have
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is the Bachelor of Information Technology.
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And this is a three-year scholarship that is
03:47
$49 500 in financial support.
03:50
And it includes two 6-month industry placements.
03:53
So this degree program is very much
03:55
the combination between business and IT.
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So if that's more your interest,
03:59
please apply for this one.
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Although we have multiple scholarships here,
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it doesn't mean that you have to choose one!
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You're most welcome
04:05
to apply to all of them
04:06
and then see how you go.
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Because then you have the choice
04:09
to choose between different scholarships
04:11
if you're not quite sure which degree
04:12
program suits you just yet.
04:14
The third scholarship we have is
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the Faculty scholarship for
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Women in Engineering and IT.
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This is a one-year scholarship with
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$10 000 in financial support.
04:24
So this is open to
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any degree program in the Faculty:
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engineering, IT, computing science,
04:30
and also double degrees.
04:31
So if you're wanting
04:33
to study a double degree,
04:34
this is the only scholarship that's
04:35
available to you because
04:36
double degrees are not eligible
04:38
for the cooperative scholarships
04:39
because of the internship components
04:41
embedded into those degrees.
04:43
We do have a range
04:45
of other scholarships available.
04:47
So please have a look at our website,
04:49
make sure you apply for everything that is
04:51
applicable to you because
04:52
you've gotta be in it to win it!
04:54
And that doesn't mean that there aren't
04:55
scholarships for you
04:57
once you arrive at university with us,
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we have scholarships
05:01
for our current students.
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So make sure that you have a look as well.
05:04
You've heard a little bit
05:05
from me about the types
05:06
of scholarships available. Tanzeem, one of
05:08
our current scholars in
05:09
software engineering, will be able to
05:11
share what her experience
05:12
is like, being in the cooperative program.
05:14
Thank you so much, Eva. Hi, guys.
05:16
As mentioned, I'm currently in
05:18
my third year of studying
05:20
a Bachelor of Software Engineering
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here at UTS.
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So that means, looking at the diagram,
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I've completed my first
05:27
second industry placement
05:29
so in my first year of university I, for the summer,
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I interned at a company
05:34
called Wisetech Global,
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so I was a junior developer
05:37
there and I stayed on with
05:39
the company to work part-time throughout
05:41
my second year until my second semester.
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So then I moved to another company
05:45
called Cuscal, and
05:46
I was interning with them for six months.
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And honestly,
05:50
the best part of this scholarship,
05:51
it's how much experience you get
05:53
exposed to the real-world, like moving,
05:56
comparing myself and all this
05:58
industry experience I have to
06:00
my friends that perhaps
06:01
don't get exposed to that.
06:02
I know that I've picked up on
06:03
a lot of soft skills,
06:05
a lot of hard skills,
06:06
and it's just challenged me in
06:09
so many different ways and I know
06:10
that I'm ready for the future.
06:12
And it's also showing me what I like and
06:14
what I don't like. Even though it's my third,
06:16
year of studying this,
06:19
I've gone through so many roles
06:21
and I've worked in so many teams that
06:23
I've been able to understand
06:25
myself and where I see
06:26
myself going in the future a bit more.
06:28
Something that I thought I knew back in Year 12
06:30
when I was choosing this degree,
06:32
choosing after my ATAR came up,
06:34
deciding what university I
06:35
wanted to go through.
06:36
So the main thing I wanted to highlight was
06:40
I actually applied for both the Bachelor
06:41
of IT and the Bachelor of Engineering.
06:43
And I accepted my BIT offer first.
06:46
And the reason I did so was because, you know,
06:49
I didn't actually have that much knowledge
06:51
on what the course was,
06:52
what I would be getting out of it.
06:54
And after I accepted
06:56
my BIT course, I always knew
06:58
I wanted to be someone
07:00
technical and challenge myself technically,
07:02
I really loved maths, and I was
07:04
always more drawn to the engineering aspect.
07:06
So I decided to accept my second offer,
07:09
which was the co-operative engineering offer.
07:12
Sometimes you think in Year 12,
07:14
you know exactly what
07:15
you want to do, and you know
07:16
your ATAR, and your
07:18
HSC subjects reflect that.
07:20
And you think that, you know, you're
07:21
working towards a single goal,
07:22
but it's really important
07:24
as students, for you that you need
07:25
to keep your options open
07:27
because you don't really know
07:28
what it's going to bring at
07:29
the end of the day or
07:30
what you're going to do,
07:31
or how you're going to,
07:33
how you're going to come to a situation,
07:35
you know, and it's fine if you like,
07:37
think you're gonna be working towards
07:39
a specific degree and
07:40
then in the last moment you're like,
07:42
no, that's actually not what I want to do.
07:44
I want to do this! So my advice
07:45
to you as students, is if you're in
07:47
Year 11, Year 12, Year 8, Year 9,
07:50
is just to keep your options open.
07:51
And the reason why I decided to do
07:53
technology and something in
07:55
IT was because it was always,
07:57
I was always really
07:59
interested about what's new,
08:00
how can we make things better?
08:02
How can we change some
08:03
of the practices that we have now?
08:05
And if you look at our world
08:07
right now a lot of the things are
08:08
actually underpinned
08:10
by technology and without technology,
08:12
I don't know how we'd be
08:13
able to do any of this.
08:14
Like if someone was to tell you
08:17
back when I chose
08:18
my degree, you know, in three years time,
08:20
everything will, you won't
08:21
be able to see anyone.
08:22
Everything will have to be online.
08:24
You know, you wouldn't expect that.
08:26
And I think it's been really amazing to see
08:28
that technology has transformed so
08:30
many of the workplaces.
08:32
And I've been working remotely
08:34
for about four months now and we, they
08:37
just announced that we're going to be working
08:39
remotely for the rest of the year so
08:41
it's really good to be part of
08:43
that change to see that, you know,
08:44
what you're learning at university,
08:46
what you're learning at work is
08:47
implemented in the real world.
08:49
And that's personally why I got into
08:51
engineering and IT because
08:54
I want to challenge myself.
08:55
I want to make things happen and compared
08:59
to other people without, you know,
09:01
are more focused on business and IT.
09:04
So my second advice to you would
09:06
be engineering is for like,
09:09
it's more practical, I would say.
09:11
And even though you think that, you know,
09:13
you're not good at maths or, you know,
09:15
engineering requires a lot of maths,
09:17
actually at UTS, we're really fortunate because
09:18
the way that the course is
09:20
structured is, there's practical experience.
09:23
You've got two mathematics subjects and you've
09:25
got a lot of help in those as well.
09:27
Like, even though I did
09:29
do 3-unit maths, I,
09:30
by the time that I did the math subjects at
09:33
university, I actually
09:34
remembered nothing, because you know,
09:35
you go on a three month break after HSC (Year 12),
09:38
everything's new at uni,
09:39
everything's really exciting.
09:40
So I wouldn't stress too much about
09:42
the actual subjects, there's a lot
09:44
of help available with this. You know,
09:46
UTS has peer support
09:48
and they have help groups as well.
09:50
So some subjects have extra help,
09:52
apart from your tutors and lecturers.
09:54
Everyone's really friendly here.
09:55
There's, you know, if you come
09:57
in through one of our programs,
09:59
the WiEIT and the co-operative
10:01
programs, there's a whole cohort of people.
10:03
A lot of my friends are
10:04
from those programs and we had
10:06
like a really nice community
10:07
and I really miss being
10:09
on-campus but I know being online as well
10:12
hasn't made a difference because we're
10:13
still having these virtual catch-ups.
10:15
So regardless of what
10:16
the situation is next year or how it's like,
10:19
you need to do what you're
10:20
passionate about and you need
10:21
to do something that you're
10:22
going to enjoy.
10:23
And, don't let any
10:25
of these preconceived notions
10:26
hold you back saying, you know,
10:27
engineering requires a lot of maths,
10:29
I need to be a certain stereotype,
10:31
I need to be
10:32
a certain gender in order to do this.
10:34
It's, you know, none of that is how we
10:38
function at UTS and it's
10:40
so open and after like,
10:42
oh, I actually didn't
10:43
consider coming to UTS at all.
10:45
My first preference was UNSW.
10:47
And when I got
10:49
my ATAR, when I got everything,
10:50
I was initially going
10:52
to accept my UNSW offer.
10:54
But, you know, something inside me just said,
10:55
you know, we're growing,
10:56
we're moving really rapidly,
10:58
we're changing, and that's something I
10:59
like about UTS.
11:01
That's all I wanted to say.
11:03
If you have any questions
11:04
about my personal experience,
11:05
how I got here,
11:07
let me know. Thank you so much.
11:10
So what are the next steps from here?
11:12
This is the scholarship process
11:13
for the rest of the year.
11:15
All the applications will close
11:16
on the 6th of September.
11:17
So make sure that you get your
11:18
application in on time and you
11:20
can apply at any point
11:21
up until that deadline.
11:23
If you've got any questions
11:24
or you'd like more information,
11:26
please contact us or join us for Open Week
11:28
between 31st August and 5th September.
11:31
We'll have a scholarship application workshop
11:33
for the 3rd September in the evening,
11:36
and I've got more details
11:36
later in this session.
11:38
And please feel free to join us.
11:39
Then, once we've shortlisted the applications,
11:42
we will have an interview round
11:43
in the first week of October
11:45
before your exams because
11:47
we know it's a busy period.
11:48
And then we'll notify you
11:49
of the interview outcome,
11:51
whether you've been
11:51
shortlisted from that process.
11:53
And once you receive your
11:55
ATAR results on the 18th of December,
11:57
we'll give you a call to let you
11:58
know of your overall scholarship outcome.
12:01
So tips, how might
12:03
you do well, what do we want to know?
12:04
Well, we want to know about you!
12:05
So please be honest,
12:07
tell us your story,
12:08
what it is that interests you
12:09
about engineering and IT,
12:11
what would you like to study and
12:12
why, what motivates you?
12:14
You don't need to have
12:16
existing experience in engineering and IT.
12:17
What we're looking
12:18
for is interest and
12:20
experience in engineering skills
12:22
and IT skills. What does that mean?
12:24
Teamwork, it could mean design,
12:26
creative thinking, thinking outside the box.
12:28
So include any examples where you can.
12:30
Work experience matters as well.
12:33
A casual part-time job
12:34
means that you can work in
12:35
a team, and you've got time management.
12:37
This all matters.
12:39
Interview. The interviews
12:41
will be in the first week of
12:42
October and the interview
12:43
panel is very friendly. Don't worry!
12:44
It's an industry partner,
12:46
and a UTS academic.
12:48
They just want to know a little
12:49
bit more about you to
12:50
expand on what you've shared with
12:51
us in your application.
12:52
Then how we choose
12:54
the scholarships is based on
12:55
the balance of the interview
12:57
score and your ATAR.
12:59
So tips for the interview is
13:01
that you don't need to prepare.
13:03
We want you to come as
13:04
authentic you, and we want to
13:05
hear more about what you've
13:06
told us in your application.
13:08
So make sure you do review what
13:09
you've written. And we'll have
13:11
an interview preparation workshop
13:13
if you've got any questions
13:14
about the process.
13:15
But this is just an approach to
13:17
share with you to
13:18
do well in an interview,
13:19
called the STAR approach.
13:22
What happens after the interview?
13:25
We'll let you know of the outcome,
13:26
whether you've been shortlisted
13:27
from the interviews.
13:28
And then, once we
13:30
received your ATAR on 18th December,
13:32
we'll give you a call with
13:33
the overall scholarship outcome.
13:35
And there is a short turnaround time,
13:37
because the UAC preferences
13:39
deadline is the next day.
13:40
So we just need to know by
13:41
3pm on the 19th December
13:43
whether you'd like to
13:44
accept the scholarship offer, or not.
13:47
So these are the websites
13:49
to complete your application,
13:51
both for the Women in Engineering and IT,
13:52
and the Bachelor of Information Technology.
13:54
If you're not quite sure
13:57
which degree program you'd like to choose,
13:59
especially for the Women in Engineering Cooperative
14:01
Scholarship, because
14:02
you have to choose a major,
14:04
whether that is mechanical engineering,
14:06
civil, data or software,
14:08
have a look at our website.
14:09
There's a lot more information about
14:11
what's the difference between
14:12
these degree programs
14:13
What subjects might you be studying?
14:15
You can choose more than one discipline
14:17
on your application,
14:18
but we will need to allocate you
14:20
to one interview panel.
14:22
So make sure you let us know which
14:23
your strongest preference is!
14:26
I also wanted to share with you,
14:28
Adjustment Points.
14:29
So these are points that are added to
14:31
your raw ATAR to give you a Selection Rank,
14:33
which is what the UAC offers are made based on.
14:35
The maximum number of adjustment points
14:38
that you can receive is 13.
14:40
There are different opportunities from which
14:42
you can receive adjustment points.
14:43
And this means things like including
14:46
and completing the UTS
14:47
engineering and IT portfolio,
14:49
which is an online questionnaire,
14:50
where you share with us your motivation for
14:52
studying engineering and IT.
14:55
Also, if you've done well in your Year 12 results,
14:57
you can receive adjustment points.
14:58
And also if you come
15:00
from a different background,
15:01
or certain circumstances,
15:02
which are eligible for
15:04
adjustment points. At UTS,
15:07
we also recognize the importance of having
15:09
a balanced engineering and IT profession.
15:11
So all women applicants applying for 2021
15:14
will receive ten adjustment points
15:17
for any degree program,
15:18
including combined, degrees, double degrees,
15:20
in the Faculty of Engineering and IT.
15:22
So keep in contact with us!
15:24
If you've got any questions, or you'd
15:25
like more information,
15:27
for more information
15:28
about the degree programs,
15:29
please contact the Faculty - FEIT.
15:31
If you've got more information,
15:33
if you'd like more information
15:34
about the Women in Engineering and
15:35
IT program, or the Women
15:37
in Engineering and IT scholarships, please
15:38
contact us at our website: wieit.uts.edu.au
15:42
What's next?
15:45
We have our online scholarship
15:46
application workshop on
15:48
the 3rd September, in
15:49
the evening, 5 - 6pm.
15:51
So if you'd like to join us,
15:52
please register on our website.
15:54
We've also got some live Q&A
15:55
sessions during Open Week,
15:57
and we've got these multiple days.
15:58
So check out the schedule,
15:59
come and meet the team and some
16:01
of our current students!
16:02
We've also got information sessions
16:04
on the different degree programs.
16:05
If you'd like to know more
16:07
and have some questions.
16:09
So thanks very much for joining and watching.
16:12
We hope to be able to meet you
16:14
and see you on campus soon.
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