UQ Engineering has welcomed its largest cohort of female undergraduate engineering students for the 2009 academic year.  

In Semester One, 200 female undergraduate students enrolled in UQ’s Bachelor of Engineering foundation course, making up more than one fifth of the course's enrolment. Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology Associate Dean (Academic), Professor Caroline Crosthwaite, said the increase in enrolments was inspiring for both the university and industry. 

“Female engineers bring different perspectives to their work which is beneficial to all areas of the engineering profession, whether in the established civil and mechanical fields or emerging biomedical and environmental areas."

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