Jane Hung: My name is Jane Hung.
I’m currently working as an Avionics Engineer
at the Defence Material Organisation.
At QUT I studied a Bachelor of Engineering,
majoring in Aerospace Avionics, and also a
Bachelor of Applied Science, majoring in Mathematics.
I’ve always been very interested in science
and engineering, since I was very young.
From high school onwards, very much focussed
on the science aspects, and I thought engineering
was a very good avenue of putting both the
theoretical sides and the practical sides
together.
The part of the course that I particularly
enjoyed were the three months industry experience
that all the engineering students have to
do as part of their course.
I did mine as an internship over in Airbus,
over in Hamburg, Germany, and that really
gave me a great opportunity to work in a professional
environment, working with people from all
different nations and cultures, working on
a new platform that they were going to put
on the market.
My time at the internship at Airbus, has given
me a great insight as to what it’s like
working as an Avionics Engineer, in a very
big company, and it’s given me a very good
basis of my job at the moment.
Mainly my job involves looking at the Avionics
systems on the aircraft that we’re currently
procuring for the DMO, and making sure that
the Avionics systems are as designed and fit
the requirements of the Royal Australian Navy
which we’re procuring it for, and that it
is technically safe to fly.
Working in defence, as my first job actually,
has given me a lot of opportunities, not only
to work with very complex systems that really
challenge me, but also meet lots of people
that have not only helped me develop my abilities
as an engineer, but also help me develop my
other abilities such as networking.
I am very much enjoying my job, and it really
helps when you have a great group of people
that you work with, and a very interesting
system that you’re working with.
Not only the knowledge and training that I’ve
received at QUT, but also the connections
that I’ve developed during my time at QUT
as well, has been the stepping stone of where
I am at the moment.
