By Ms Kim
WEN is the University of Auckland’s student-led network that builds connections between women in engineering, including students and whānau. They provide a range of services for current women students in engineering and also those who are considering studying engineering.
As a part of their school outreach programmes, a team of female engineering students came to Westlake Girls High School and ran two sessions that demonstrated interesting opportunities in engineering. The WEN team included ex-Westlake students Hala Barakat, Danielle Print and Enuri Kolugala, who are all on the pathway to becaming female engineers.
The first session was called ‘Aquialibrium” where students plan and build a water distribution network with pipes, calculating flow rates to ensure tanks are filled up at the same time. This activity is a part of the second year civil engineering programme.
The second session was to code a program to navigate a “Sphero” to park safely in the car park.
Student Perspective
By Alessia Martin
Be part of the space race. Design Auckland’s new cross harbour tunnel. Solve our traffic problems. Enable blind people to see. Utilise robotic artificial intelligence to help us live better. These dreams are possible and within reach!
A team from Women in Engineering (WEN) at the University of Auckland inspired us to become the future problem solvers of the planet during their visit to Westlake Girls. We designed and built water tunnel systems and even got to use sphero robots and program them to follow road rules and maps. As we worked together on these fun engineering challenges they shared stories of their learning journeys and their hopes and aspirations for a better world.
Where to next for the STEAM engineers? … Mars?
