Aboriginal students from around Australia have the opportunity to experience a week in the life of an engineering student as part of the Indigenous Australian Engineering Summer School (IAESS). The summer school will be run on the west coast at Curtin University from 8 January and on the east coast at the University of Sydney from 15 January. The five-day annual program gives Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students the opportunity to take part in a combination of engineering and industry networking activities, including hands-on laboratories, site visits, competitions and information seminars. The program's aim is to increase the representation of Indigenous Australians in the engineering profession by giving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students a taste of engineering studies and a potential career in the field. There is no fee for participating in the 2012 IAESS. Travel to and from the school, in addition to meals and accommodation for the duration of the program, are provided without charge. Participants also automatically become eligible for assistance in gaining entry into either Curtin's or Sydney's Bachelor of Engineering degree through a number of pre-engineering pathways, should they not meet the requirements for direct entry upon completing year 12.
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