On World Engineering Day, Network Design Team leader Sladjana Gobeljic-Karapandzic discusses what she loves about being an engineer and how engineers are helping to build a sustainable future.
Sladjana’s early interest in technology and engineering were sparked by tales of her countryman Nikola Tesla at school in her native Yugoslavia. Fittingly, she went on to become a telecommunications engineer.
After joining VicTrack 13 years ago, Sladjana is a Network Design Team leader, currently acting as Design Manager.
“I think I have an amazing team that is open minded, challenges each other and helps each other,” she said.
“We collaborate to come up with solutions as quickly as possible. It challenges us in a good way, and we get good results, and this is what I love about this role.”
Sladjana and her team have been working on a major project to design and deliver customer help points for Metro Trains Melbourne.
We collaborate to come up with solutions as quickly as possible. It challenges us in a good way, and we get good results, and this is what I love about this role.
Sladjana believes engineers’ focus on the future means they can help find ways to do things better for the benefit of society.
“As engineers, we like to think about what we can do for the future rather than think in the present or look to the past.
“You can see from advances in computing and with the development of artificial intelligence, we're continually challenging ourselves to use technology to make improvements.”
With the theme of this year’s World Engineering Day ‘Shaping our sustainable future through engineering,’ Sladjana said engineers are working to make telecommunications more environmentally friendly.
“In the networking space we’ve seen movement towards cloud services and away from large server infrastructure that uses a lot of energy and space.
“Plus, by needing fewer physical components, cloud computing is helping to reduce plastic use and e-waste.
“In our work at VicTrack we are using some virtual platforms, and we are constantly thinking about how we can reduce power consumption and other ways we can help protect the environment through tech.”
Having built her own successful engineering career, Sladjana now hopes to see more young women follow in her footsteps.
“I'm really proud of being an engineer. I would encourage young people in general, but especially females in Australia to explore the engineering world.”
On World Engineering Day, Network Design Team leader Sladjana Gobeljic-Karapandzic discusses what she loves about being an engineer and how engineers are helping to build a sustainable future.
Sladjana’s early interest in technology and engineering were sparked by tales of her countryman Nikola Tesla at school in her native Yugoslavia. Fittingly, she went on to become a telecommunications engineer.
After joining VicTrack 13 years ago, Sladjana is a Network Design Team leader, currently acting as Design Manager.
“I think I have an amazing team that is open minded, challenges each other and helps each other,” she said.
“We collaborate to come up with solutions as quickly as possible. It challenges us in a good way, and we get good results, and this is what I love about this role.”
Sladjana and her team have been working on a major project to design and deliver customer help points for Metro Trains Melbourne.
We collaborate to come up with solutions as quickly as possible. It challenges us in a good way, and we get good results, and this is what I love about this role.
Sladjana believes engineers’ focus on the future means they can help find ways to do things better for the benefit of society.
“As engineers, we like to think about what we can do for the future rather than think in the present or look to the past.
“You can see from advances in computing and with the development of artificial intelligence, we're continually challenging ourselves to use technology to make improvements.”
With the theme of this year’s World Engineering Day ‘Shaping our sustainable future through engineering,’ Sladjana said engineers are working to make telecommunications more environmentally friendly.
“In the networking space we’ve seen movement towards cloud services and away from large server infrastructure that uses a lot of energy and space.
“Plus, by needing fewer physical components, cloud computing is helping to reduce plastic use and e-waste.
“In our work at VicTrack we are using some virtual platforms, and we are constantly thinking about how we can reduce power consumption and other ways we can help protect the environment through tech.”
Having built her own successful engineering career, Sladjana now hopes to see more young women follow in her footsteps.
“I'm really proud of being an engineer. I would encourage young people in general, but especially females in Australia to explore the engineering world.”
