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Leading engineer, businesswoman and green energy expert takes on honorary role in ���������¼�'s Faculty of Engineering.

Eva Hanly, BEng (Honours), BA, MBA, AICD-has been appointed a Professor of Industry at ���������¼� Sydney.

Through this honorary appointment, Ms Hanly will connect the university’s experts in engineering, technology, and innovation with policymakers, industry and the community to address some of Australia’s biggest challenges.

An alumna of both the ���������¼�’s Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Ms Hanly has had a distinguished career in business leading some of Australia’s largest engineering organisations.

Eva is previously the CEO of Squadron Energy, Australia’s largest renewable energy company and is currently a non-executive director and industry advisor to private investment firms. She is a director of TAFE NSW and has previously been Chair of Windlab; Chair of the Australia - India CEO Forum for Energy, Resources, Net Zero and Critical Minerals; and Director of the Centre for Engineering Leadership and Management.

She has also been a long-term advocate for increasing the number of women studying engineering and has worked alongside the faculty in her role on the Industry Advisory Board on a number of initiatives to increase female participation.

���������¼� currently has 24% female engineering students, up more than 10% over the past decade.

Ms Hanly's role will help deliver ���������¼�'s new 10-year strategy of 'Progress for All', which maps out the university's aim to lead the transition to a more sustainable world.

The strategy reaffirms ���������¼�'s commitment to advancing expansive and inclusive global positive impact.

"���������¼� has a demonstrated history of being at the forefront of cutting-edge research and technology that has literally changed the way we live,” says Ms Hanly.

"I am thrilled to be a part of making sure Australia benefits from the incredible work that is currently being done at ���������¼� as well as developing opportunities for future impactful collaboration between ���������¼�, government and industry.

"From ���������¼�'s development of the Passivated Emitter and Rear Cell (PERC) technology, which is used in 90% of the world's solar energy production, to the membrane filter technology that is now the industry standard to make drinking water, these are real and tangible solutions.”

Professor Julien Epps, ���������¼�’s Dean of Engineering, says that Professor Hanly’s record of high performance and breadth of expertise will bring a new scale of engagement for the faculty.

"Engineering is absolutely critical to solving all the great challenges we are facing - from green energy at scale, safe food production, adapting our export sector to a changing geopolitical situation and the digital world," he says.

"It has never been a more important time to forge new links between the University, industry, policymakers and the community.

“We’re very excited for Eva to bring her wealth of industry experience and expertise in the green energy space to the faculty.

"I look forward to seeing her work with our academics to connect ���������¼�’s excellence in energy research with solutions that will ultimately help consumers, governments, and industry in the global energy transition.”

���������¼� was recently ranked 19th in the world in the QS Top Universities Rankings and the Faculty of Engineering is the largest and best faculty for the subject in Australia.