WoW News

2024 Events

11 September - Speed Networking

Women of Wisdom (WoW) organised our Speed Networking Event 2024 for the School of Engineering, Design & Built Environment students. The aim of this event is for current students to network with industry partners who have shared their career advice, work opportunities available, educational knowledge and words of encouragement with our students.

The Speed Networking event was organised by Academic Lead and Founder Prof. Olivia Mirza and WoW Event Coordinator Miss Sharidan Kearney with great assistance from the WoW team members. The WoW team truly hope all the students were inspired and learnt valuable information from the role-models and representatives in the fields they are currently studying at Western Sydney University.

A big thankyou to our connected industry partners who attended – ADF, ALCHINLONG GROUP, ARACADIS, BECHTEL, ENGINEERS AUSTRALIA, GAMUDA, HEALTH NSW, JACOBS, KBR, LENDLEASE, MIRVAC, MOTT MACDONALD, OMRON, PARKLIFE METRO, PITTS&SHERRY, PNP GROUP, POWER ENG CONSULTING, TRAZLBAT, WSP.

21 August - Icebreaker

Women of Wisdom (WoW) organised our Icebreaker Event 2024 for the School of Engineering, Design & Built Environment female students. The aim of this event is to showcase the support, networking opportunities and encouragement for our first-year female students. We invited three inspiring speakers Steph Andrade, Dana Tohme & Sana Syed, to share their experiences as women in their industries.

The Icebreaker event was organised by Academic Lead and Founder Prof. Olivia Mirza and WoW Event Coordinator Miss Sharidan Kearney with great assistance from the WoW team members. We loved seeing our Alumni also attending the Icebreaker Event.

18 April - Speed Networking

Women of Wisdom (WoW) organised our Speed Networking Event 2024 for the School of Engineering, Design & Built Environment students. The aim of this event is for current students to network with industry partners who can share their career advice, work opportunities available, educational knowledge and words of encouragement with our students.
The Speed Networking event was organised by Academic Lead and Founder Prof. Olivia Mirza and WoW Event Coordinator Miss Sharidan Kearney with great assistance from the WoW team members. The WoW team truly hope all the students were inspired and learnt valuable information from the role-models and representatives in the fields they are currently studying at Western Sydney University.
A big thankyou to our connected industry partners who attended – ADG Engineers, Australian Defence Force, AECOM, A W Edwards, Aurecon, Arcadis, Bechtel Corporation, Engineers Australia, Jacobs, Laing O’Rourke, KBR, Kane Constructions, MASTOL, Mirvac, Mott MacDonald, Muster Fire Suppression Systems, Prime Build, Northrop Consulting Engineers, Ramsay Health Care, SMEC, Tactix-Sener Group, WSP in Australia & Ventia.

2 April - Icebreaker

Women of Wisdom (WoW) organised our Icebreaker Event 2024 for the School of Engineering, Design & Built Environment female students. The aim of this event is to showcase the support, networking opportunities and encouragement for our first-year female students. We invited two inspiring speakers Sarah Bouhayat (Engineer) and Vesna Trobec (Architect) to share their experiences as women in their industries.
The Icebreaker event was organised by Academic Lead and Founder Prof. Olivia Mirza and WoW Event Coordinator Miss Sharidan Kearney with great assistance from the WoW team members Aso Hajirasouli, Tharika Kahandawa Arachchi, Linna Geng and Upeka Kuruppu. We loved seeing our Alumni also attending the Icebreaker Event.

2023 Events

30 October - Speed Networking

Our second speed networking event before our summer holidays. This is one of the major networking session for our student to link with our industry partners. We have over 40 industry partners participated and over 150 student attended the event. It was a very fruitful event. I would like to thank the WoW team for organising this event. The include Sharidan Kearney, Dayani Nayantha, Neelam Singh, Kuer Duot, Ella Shibram,  Yuekai Deshe,  Tharika Kahandawa Arachchi and Samantha Stojanovski. Not forget our supporting team, Christophe Camille, Sameera Pathirana and Saman Karimi for helping in this event. Lastly I would like to thanks our Industry  Engagement Officer, Sharidan Kearney for organising this event.

21 August - Ice Breaker

The second ice breaker event for mid year intake female student at School of Engineering, Design and Built Environment. We had wonderful 3 industry female speakers from early career to senior level. They are Nishat Siddique (Project Manager), Kelly Van der Zander (Architect) and Kuer Duot (Civil Engineer). It was intimate event and surprisingly very emotional event that made a few of us in tears. I would like to thanks Aso Hajirasouli, Tharika Kahandawa Arachchi and Sharidan Kearney for helping me organising the successful and inspiring event.

3 May - Speed Networking

Women of Wisdom (WoW) organised a speed networking event. There were 20 industry partners participated and the event was sponsored by Engineers Australia. This is part of providing networking opportunities for our current students and possibilities of securing jobs. Industry partners were impressed with our students. I would like to thanks my team Alyce Coleman, Neelam Singh, Kuer Duot, Yeukai Deshe, Tharika Kahandawa Arachchi,  Semandara Farhan and Saman Karimi for their great help organising this event.

2022 Events

2021 Events

2020 Events