Future proofing the planet - Careers powering the energy transition
Join us for this dynamic Shape Your Future webinar, proudly presented by the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE). As Australia – and the world – accelerates towards a net zero future, the energy transition is opening up exciting new opportunities for the next generation of STEM professionals.
🔍 Why should you attend?
Australia’s transition to a clean, secure, and reliable energy system is one of the most urgent and complex challenges of our time. It’s also one of the most exciting – creating new industries, technologies, and career pathways in renewable energy, grid transformation, sustainable materials, energy storage, and more. Hear from leaders and early-career professionals who are at the forefront of innovation and discover where your passion for STEM can take you.
🌟 What will you learn?
- Explore the critical technologies driving the shift to net zero – and the STEM skills needed to lead it.
- Hear firsthand from experts shaping Australia's energy future in engineering, science, and technology fields.
- Learn how your future career can help power a cleaner, fairer and more sustainable planet.
🌱 Whether you’re a student mapping your path, an educator guiding future change makers, or someone curious about a meaningful STEM career, this is your chance to explore how science and engineering are creating a better world — and how you can be part of it.
⚡ Join us to shape your future and help future-proof the planet.
🔍 Why should you attend?
Australia’s transition to a clean, secure, and reliable energy system is one of the most urgent and complex challenges of our time. It’s also one of the most exciting – creating new industries, technologies, and career pathways in renewable energy, grid transformation, sustainable materials, energy storage, and more. Hear from leaders and early-career professionals who are at the forefront of innovation, and discover where your passion for STEM can take you.
🌟 What will you learn?
- Explore the critical technologies driving the shift to net zero – and the STEM skills needed to lead it.
- Hear firsthand from experts shaping Australia's energy future in engineering, science, and technology fields.
- Learn how your future career can help power a cleaner, fairer and more sustainable planet.
Whether you’re a student mapping your path, an educator guiding future changemakers, or someone curious about a meaningful STEM career, this is your chance to explore how science and engineering are creating a better world — and how you can be part of it.
⚡ Join us to shape your future and help future-proof the planet.
FREE CAREERS IN STEM WEBINARS — Brought to you by STELR
Shape Your Future webinars show students the different pathways that Australian scientists, engineers & technologists have taken in their careers. To watch previous sessions, visit Shape Your Future webinars
STELR
ATSE’s STEM in schools' education initiative — STELR (Science and Technology Education Leveraging Relevance) — modules include equipment, curriculum resources for classrooms, and teacher support. Teachers can access professional learning sessions as well as online and telephone support.
Speakers
Manager Strategic Programs, Rio Tinto
Rachelle Doyle is a passionate leader and advocate for the energy transition with extensive experience in the energy and minerals processing sectors. She has successfully led nationally significant projects involving innovative applications of technology, science and engineering ingenuity to solve challenges associated with complex projects and operating environments.
She is chair of the Standards Australia ME093 Hydrogen Technologies Committee and played a pivotal role in shaping the standards and guidelines underpinning the safe and effective roll-out of hydrogen technologies across Australia.
A highly regarded strategic thinker, she has a track record of building long-term meaningful industry-academia partnerships for sustainable development. She holds numerous advisory roles that draw on her insights and expertise for a low-carbon future, and she is a brilliant role model for women in technology and engineering.
She is chair of the Standards Australia ME093 Hydrogen Technologies Committee and played a pivotal role in shaping the standards and guidelines underpinning the safe and effective roll-out of hydrogen technologies across Australia.
A highly regarded strategic thinker, she has a track record of building long-term meaningful industry-academia partnerships for sustainable development. She holds numerous advisory roles that draw on her insights and expertise for a low-carbon future, and she is a brilliant role model for women in technology and engineering.
Colin Sheldon
Manager, Aurecon
Manager, Aurecon
Colin Sheldon is a chartered and registered mechanical engineer with experience across the rail, resources, utilities, heavy industry manufacturing and defence sectors. Colin is currently a consulting Manager at Aurecon, with a focus on the management of critical infrastructure and assets across Australia. Prior to this, Mr Sheldon held roles at a Big Four consulting firm, a smaller asset management consultancy, and a major mining company. His decade of asset management experience has resulted in his participation in standards development with Standards Australia, ISO and IEC and conformity assessment with NATA. Colin currently serves as Chair of the Mechanical College Board and as a National Congress delegate of Engineers Australia and enjoys mentoring in the ATSE IMNIS program.
