We have substantial and active university-industry partnerships, focusing our teaching and research on real-world applications. As part of our commitment to maintaining these strong links, we invite companies and organisations to join our Industry Partners Program. This program helps fund our outreach programs with potential future students, in primary and high schools. This includes our very successful Primary School Maths Prize and Year 10 Engineering Work Experience Week. Funds are also used to run events that link our undergraduates with our Industry Partners.
Become an industry partner
It's important to us that high school students can see a direct path from university to the exciting and challenging world of engineering. The Industry Partners Program presents great opportunities to develop a productive relationship with the school, its staff and students.
Industry partner events
There are a number of ways we foster connections between you and our engineering students throughout the academic year. These include:
- Industry Partners Careers Market: This annual event allows you to meet with Year 3 and 4 students, identifying likely candidates for industrial training placements or graduate employment.
- Elite Student Breakfast: We host this event at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney each year. Our top students engage with Industry Partner representatives in a relaxed setting.
- Career Information Mail-Outs: We will directly email career information on behalf of Industry Partners to all relevant undergraduate and postgraduate students.
Industry-funded academic positions
Some of our industry partners actively invest in extending the research and uses of engineering and scientific knowledge. Several of our academic positions are currently funded through the generosity of industry partners, including:
- Pells Sullivan Meynink Pty Ltd (PSM): This high-profile firm of specialist geotechnical consultants provide funding support for the position of:
Pells Sullivan Meynink Professor Nasser Khalili and
Pells Sullivan Meynink Associate Professor of Rock Mechanics, Associate Professor Kurt Douglas. - Leading NSW surveying companies CMS Surveyors, Land Partners, Land Surveys, Lynton Surveys and SDG have recognised the importance of investing in the future of the surveying industry. Their significant philanthropic donation, matched by the Faculty of Engineering, has established the new Industry Lecturer of Surveying, (Education Focused) position held by Sandra Hoffman at UNSW Civil & Environmental Engineering.
If you’re interested in further information on funding academic positions, please contact our school office.
Our current industry partners & supporters
- ANSTO
- ARUP
- Aurecon
- Beca
- CMS Surveyors
- Douglas Partners
- Downer
- Dreyfus Advisory
- E3 Advisory
- Jacobs
- Keller Pty Ltd
- Laing O’Rourke
- LandPartners
- LTS
- Melbourne Water
- Northrop Consulting Engineering Services
- Pells Sullivan Meynink Pty Ltd
- PMO Pro
- Royal HaskoningDHV
- RPS Group
- SMEC Australia
- Taylor Thomson Whitting (TTW)
- Turnbull Engineering
- Ward Civil
- Witt Consulting
- WSP
We acknowledge industry partners through our UNSW Civil and Environmental Engineering website, in the building foyer, on school banners and in the widely distributed Annual Report.
Contact us
For further information on the Industry Partners Program please contact us by email: