Sydney Women in Aerospace Engineering

We are incredibly proud to announce the release of the first edition of Women’s Aerospace! ✨ 👉Get it online or in print at YourSpaceStories.com. As the first of its kind, we aim to shine a spotlight on the trailblazers, innovators, and everyday heroes who are redefining the narrative of aerospace. Whether you're in STEM or beyond, Women’s Aerospace is your hub for inspiring stories, groundbreaking ideas, and the powerful voices driving our industry forward. This is YOUR magazine, and we want you to see yourself reflected in its pages! But that’s not all—inside these pages we're honored to announce the winners of this year’s Women’s Space Awards 🏆, highlighting remarkable individuals who have shaped the aerospace industry and continue to inspire its future. Please explore and share this first edition with anyone and everyone who might want to join us on this journey! 🌟 Read it at YourSpaceStories.com 📖

Thank you Tejas Margapuram Elliot Winn Rievangeline Mariathasan Xin Yu Lin for representing Engineers Australia at the 2024 Aerospace Networking Night. Congratulations to the students from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics student branch of the University of New South Wales, University of Sydney, the Aerospace Society from the University of Technology Sydney, Sydney UAV Engineering Society and the Sydney Women in Aerospace Engineering Group for organising a successful event. UTS Aerospace Society Sydney UAV Engineering UNSW Aerospace Society - AIAA Student Branch Sydney Women in Aerospace Engineering

Today we have our third Space Series with Mani Thiru 💜 ! 📍 LOCATION: Aeronautical Building N311 📅 DATE: 24th April 🕰 TIME: 1pm Zoom link will be provided on the date End of semester is approaching quick, pick up a few extra PEP hours at our Speaker Series! Mani is ex-Asia Pacific Head of Space & Satellite 🛰 at Amazon Web Services. For the last six years, she led a team enabling space startups, space agencies and academic institutions from Australia to India, Korea and Japan 🌏 industry to build, finance, deliver and orchestrate space and satellite missions. This entailed leveraging transformative services like machine learning, artificial intelligence, high performance computing, to deliver outcomes in a range of areas from space enabled agriculture, emergency & disaster management through to space exploration and earth observation for planetary protection. For her work, she has been awarded Emerging Leader by Australian Women's Agenda in 2020, Entrepreneur of the Year, Asia Pacific Stevie Awards 2021 and recognised as 100 Women in Tech in Singapore in 2023 👩 . With 20 years in the tech sector, Mani is a Stanford University alumni 👩🎓 and currently serves as an Advisory Board Member on The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS), and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). She is outspoken on the power of technology innovation as a societal game changer - and is a strong advocate of women and minorities in technology and mentors extensively. She can often be found passing on her enthusiasm for STEM, space 🚀 and innovation to the next generation of students. Come along to hear about Mani's journey 💫 and the exciting work!!

Our first Space Series 🚀 of 2024 is happening today at 1pm! Come along and chat space with Anne Bettens 💫 and have some brownies 🍰 ! We will be located in N311 for Aeronautical Building and if you're joining us online, join here: https://lnkd.in/gBGDnbFG Can't wait to see you there!

We are excited to announce our SWAE Space Series ✨ is back for 2024! Starting us off is Anne Bettens! Anne is a superstar 🌟 in everyway, she has recently concluded her program at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a Student Researcher, looking into enhancing simulation pipelines to ensure more precise and robust lunar simulations 🌒 ! Anne currently works at SmartSat CRC as a Researcher on autonomous navigation of satellites for space exploration 🛰 ! As well as running her own startup, Deneb Space, which specializes in responsive autonomous rendezvous. Don't miss out on this amazing opportunity and join us to talk everything space! There will also be free PEP hours and brownies on offer 🍰 . Location: Aeronautical Building N311 Date: 6th March Time: 1pm

We are excited to announce our SWAE Space Series ✨ is back for 2024! Starting us off is Anne Bettens! Anne is a superstar 🌟 in everyway, she has recently concluded her program at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a Student Researcher, looking into enhancing simulation pipelines to ensure more precise and robust lunar simulations 🌒 ! Anne currently works at SmartSat CRC as a Researcher on autonomous navigation of satellites for space exploration 🛰 ! As well as running her own startup, Deneb Space, which specializes in responsive autonomous rendezvous. Don't miss out on this amazing opportunity and join us to talk everything space! There will also be free PEP hours and brownies on offer 🍰 . Location: Aeronautical Building N311 Date: 6th March Time: 1pm

Last Friday, we hosted an out-of-the-world seminar: “Space Series: Young Professionals in the Global Space Industry”. The event was for current university students featuring an international panel of accomplished young professionals in THEIR TWENTIES including: Mary Angelique G. Demetillo (PhD) from NASA Langley Research Centre researching the affects of air pollution on policy, satellite observations and health using remote sensing. Byung Joon (Bryan) Ahn, a Senior Research Engineer from Satrec Initiative in South Korea Marcos Eduardo Rojas Ramirez from Capgemini Engineering in France Charleston Dale Ambatali from the University of Philippines and Tokyo researching Space-Based Solar Power and Assembly in Space Gillian Chin from Space Faculty in Singapore spearheads outreach and education programs for children, youths and young adults Harlee Quizzagan from XentriAI is a lead engineer in machine learning and artificial intelligence. The event, open to all, celebrated various facets of space science and technology, drawing attendees interested in space exploration, women's advocacy, and more. Notably, inquisitive questions flowed from both the online and in-person audiences, delving into space policy considerations, the harmful effects of NO2 to space debris mitigation. This interactive element added depth to the discussions, making the Space Series an engaging platform for knowledge exchange and exploration. Overall, our “Space Series: Young Professionals in the Global Space Industry” successfully brought together a panel of interdisciplinary space professionals and we encourage more interdisciplinary audience and speakers to join us to celebrate and explore various facets of space science and technology. We'd also like to thank our SWAE team for organizing this event. Kaylee Li, Tamara Mason, Kelly Chen, Elise Deveson, Amala Cuganesan, Emma Jewell

We are so proud of our Co-President Kaylee Li, last month she presented at the International Astronautical Congress and was a delegate at the Space Generation Congress!

Our Co-president Tamara Mason, doing exciting work, voicing the student experience at University!