Bundaberg Engineering Link Project 2025

Greg Millican

Event Phone: 0400 258938

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  • ELP
     02/10/2025
     8:45 am - 3:00 pm

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Bundaberg is the last stop in our Queensland tour of the award-winning* Engineering Link Project, proudly supported by the Queensland Government and Central Queensland University. Designed for students in Years 10–12, this hands-on program offers a unique chance to work alongside professional engineers and university experts—an ideal opportunity to explore engineering as a potential future career.

We are very proud to extend our partnership with CQ University into North Queensland.

When: Thursday 2 October 2025 (8.45 to 3.00 pm)

Registration is FREE thanks to the generous support of Engineers Australia and CQUniversity. Students register themselves (due to the information and permissions we need from each child) via our website.

Students participate in two different engineering workshops, designed to challenge their problem-solving skills through demonstrating creativity, knowledge, and teamwork.

In each workshop, a professional engineer will outline their career and what a day in the life of an engineer is, then present a problem or scenario that needs a solution. Testing materials, completing design calculations, and submitting a proposal are all key components of the process. If approved, students will. The engineer will evaluate each solution against the criteria and provide constructive feedback.

Throughout the day, participants can speak to, and work with, visiting professional engineers. This unique opportunity provides valuable insights into the life of an engineer.

Students will also experience CQ University Engineering by working in their labs and getting a feel for university life. This is worth the price of admission on its own.

Registration opens at 8.45 am, with the event starting at 9.00 am. The event concludes at 3.00 pm.

Students are to bring their own morning tea and lunch.

Quotes from 2024 Participants:

Both of the activities were really engaging and fun

The most valuable aspect was the integration of various principles into one activity in the workshop, allowing you to understand the purpose of the actions we are doing such as the calculations done in the civil engineering workshop. This led to a valuable experience which opened my eyes to new aspects of engineering..

It was fun and enjoyable whilst I was still able to learn new ideas and concepts

Getting insight into the different disciplines within engineering

 

*2004 & 2005 Peter Doherty Award for Industry Science Education Awards

Venue:  

Venue Phone: (07) 4150 7177

Venue Website:

Address:
6 University Drive (off Isis Highway), Branyan, Queensland, 4670, Australia

Description:

CQUniversity Bundaberg is located on a green, tree-studded 23-hectare site on Bundaberg’s southern outskirts, adjacent to the airport and only six kilometres from the Bundaberg city centre. CQUniversity Bundaberg offers small class sizes, with very individually-focussed, high quality educational service provision, across a wide range of university study programs.

CQUniversity Bundaberg has a friendly, supportive atmosphere that caters for students of all ages. You can study on-campus or by distance from home. Prior learning and work experience are taken into consideration and CQUniversity even offers enabling programs to help you prepare for tertiary education.

CQUniversity Bundaberg is a modern, purpose-built campus, offering students new, innovative buildings and facilities. Distributed among the academic buildings are the library, bookshop, campus refectory, a 200-seat and a 100‑seat lecture theatre (with state-of-the-art electronic equipment), four computer laboratories (two with 20‑hour-a-day student access), nursing clinical laboratories and video conferencing rooms. The campus boasts interactive electronically transmitted lectures to integrate CQUniversity Bundaberg with other campuses.

Since 2007 students have had access to a $4.7 million dollar academic and research building which includes a state-of-the-art 64-seat scientific laboratory, sound studio and multi-media and science research facilities.