 When some people hear engineering, they think bridges, dirty engines and hardhats. But engineering is so much more. Engineers are essentially problem solvers. They use creativity, collaboration, maths and science to design and create almost every aspect of the world we live in. Engineering really makes a difference. Our graduates have headed infrastructure projects in developing countries. They've worked on groundbreaking medical technologies and are developing sustainable energy solutions. Engineers design and create the world and it's important that everyone is represented in that process. The Faculty of Engineering at the University of Auckland is committed to encouraging more women into engineering and wants to make sure their time at the university is great. We have the Woman in the Engineering Network which runs social events and provides opportunities for networking and professional development. And we also have a dedicated Woman in the Engineering Advisor. That's me. But enough from me. Here's what some of our students have to say about their time with us. Studying in the Faculty of Engineering is really fun because I think it's a really cohesive faculty. It's really cool seeing how passionate some of the lecturers are about what they're teaching. Just in the first year classes to hear all the experiences and all their own personal research that they bring into their teaching. They have a great organisation called the Woman in Engineering Network and they're very supportive so they really value the female students. I came from an all girls high school and I'd heard the stories about so many more boys in engineering than girls. But when you sit down in your lecture theatres, it's not a big deal. You just get on with it. We've got Michelle Dickinson, Barony James and Roslyn Archer who are just really really brilliant lecturers and they just inspire me to sort of push more, be better at engineering. In five years I could be working in any number of fields. I could be a researcher, I could be in software, maybe I'd be in consultancy. We get a lot of exciting projects as well. We had a project in my fourth year where we got to design and test out a little robot that extinguishes miniature fires so it would detect the fire and it'd go along and put it out and it was so much fun. Hello there, I'm a girl and I've got pretty long hair. Painter nails, perfume on and a brand under here. I've a tick that likes science so I'm studying this degree. Sure, I might know about guys, ratio three to LNE. I could have saved the whales or been a pro athlete but I said no thanks, I'd rather be a mathlet. Engineers don't just do math, how about buying or chem, we can design a hit replacement or process patrol EM. Geometry and trig, that's all in the past. Now it's Fourier transforms, ODE's and the class. Blood always made me sick but still want to help society. Engineering lets me do that with all the subject variety. Don't need to study commerce to run a million dollar show. Started off in the labs now on the path to CEO. Think forward to the future, robot mates and flying cars. Our engineers could even design a spaceship to Mars. So all you young girls listen only to your heart. Do what you want to do, it's never too late to start. Call me a tomboy, or a geek. See if I care because I'm so proud to be a girl engineer.