THE YOUNG ONES

摘要

The Infrastructure Undergraduate Engineer Program at City of Wanneroo in Perth, Western Australia, is all about developing "the young leaders of tomorrow" says the council's Director of Infrastructure, Dennis Blair. Blair says the ground-breaking program has been so successful since its inception in 2007 that the local government authority this year approved its fifth cadet engineer position. The catalyst for the cadetship program, he says, was to address the 2006-08 shortfall in attracting young engineers to the sector. "What precipitated the program was the fact that many young engineering students were being lured into the mining industry at the expense of the local government sector," says Blair.