September 02, 2016
Making a difference
It was a 1974 Ford Escort that led Suzanne Naylor to engineering. She was picking a study path, she had just purchased her sweet wheels and needed somewhere that had good parking. Her closest campus was not only an easy drive, but it had free parking. Job done – all she had to do now was pick a degree.
Because she loved the environment and animals, Suzanne went through and circled all of the courses that featured those two buzzwords. It also had to be a degree – to please her parents – and what was left at the end of that selection process was one unexpected choice: A Bachelor of Environmental Engineering. Up until then, Suzanne only had a vague picture of what an engineer was: hard hats, building sites, and male. To her, engineering was either structural or civil, bridges or buildings. But the course description ticked all her boxes, and meant she could ride her Ford Escort to classes in freedom. She was sold. And because she’d kept studying maths and science throughout high school, she went straight into the degree.
Read Suzanne’s full story at http://maketheworld.nz/post/143552507000/making-a-difference-by-emma-clifton-it-was-a-1974
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