Industrial Training is an essential Work Integrated Learning (WIL) component of all UNSW Engineering degree programs. Students have a better learning experience when they can secure quality placement, but they lack the skills and network that is required to obtain such a placement

I first taught CEIC2001 Fluid and Particle Mechanics, a Level 2 engineering science course, in 1999 as a postgraduate teaching assistant. My doctoral research was on the computational modelling of fluid and particle interactions, and I wanted to engage engineering