Digital literacy is a critical enabler for SMEs in their effort to better integrate into global value chains. Unsurprisingly, a key component in developing and supporting technology-enabled SMEs is a workforce equipped with the skills needed to tackle digital challenges of the future. Through its Education and Industry Capability Development Programs, DMTC supports Australia’s national vision for a highly skilled, digitally literate workforce.
With assistance from the Defence Science Institute and Australian Industry Group, DMTC achieves this by providing undergraduate engineering, computer science and software development students with practical work experience, assisting SMEs in their journey towards digitising their manufacturing operations as part of our SEF Program. Interns play a key role in the delivery of DMTC’s SEF, with internships offering mutual benefits for students and industry partners. Students gain valuable experience working on the factory floor, while industry partners gain much-needed support as they progress along their digital transformation journey.
DMTC Limited and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) are proud to jointly announce Dr Claretta DSouza as the 2024 recipient of the DMTC Guest of the Chair Fellowship. (more…)
Through our Education portfolio, DMTC is committed to boosting the pipeline of young, innovative Australians progressing from academic study to employment in defence industry and related fields – investing in the future workforce necessary to develop Australia’s defence industrial base. DMTC’s Industry Capability Development program proudly supports internship opportunities for undergraduate students across engineering, computer science and software development disciplines. These internships provide mutual benefits to both the student and to industry partners as they progress along their digital transformation journey. One of our interns, Thomas Hughes (an undergraduate student at Deakin University), kindly sat down with DMTC to talk about his internship experience and how DMTC’s support has shaped his future career path.
Through our Industry Capability Development platform, DMTC proudly facilitates a number of meaningful internship opportunities. Recently, DMTC’s Smart Enough™ Factory (SEF) program has hosted several undergraduate interns, with a view to expanding this number to approximately 34 interns in Victoria alone by 2026. Even more interns are set to join the program as SEF expands from Victoria to New South Wales and other jurisdictions. One recent intern, Dylan Jarvis (an undergraduate student at Swinburne University of Technology), was kind enough to speak to DMTC about his internship experience and how DMTC’s support has impacted his career trajectory. (more…)
