Around 200 female year 8, 9 and 10 students from Lithgow, Gilgandra, Mudgee, Blayney, Oberon, Bathurst and Orange will attend a Power of Engineering event at Charles Sturt University on Friday 6 May.Students will try their hand at various engineering exercises and be inspired by successful people currently working in various engineering roles, and to see the diversity of roles and working locations on offer in regional areas like Bathurst.Foundation Professor of Engineering at CSU, Euan Lindsay, is keen to see more females entering the engineering profession."We need to remove the barriers that have young women opt out of considering engineering as a career path," Professor Lindsay said."Good engineering is about people.  There are engineering challenges facing all of society; relying a single subset of that society to provide the answers for everyone else is a recipe for disaster. "That's why at Charles Sturt University, we have built a program for diverse engineers, friendly to the diverse people who are going to create new products for all our world." See more comments by Professor Lindsay here.Co-Founder of Power of Engineering and Senior Project Manager at Arup, Ms Felicity Furey said how important it is to have the whole community involved."To create this change of diversity in engineering, we need to have everyone involved and we are thrilled to partner with Charles Sturt University and have local industry involved – Energy Australia, Seymour Whyte, GHD, CDE Designs, NSW Roads and Maritime Services and Arup," Ms Furey said."This is the first regional event we have run outside of Queensland and our largest event to date. This is testament to the enthusiasm these young women have to exploring these opportunities as many demanded we increase our original event capacity of 100 places."The free one-day Power of Engineering event will run from 9am to 3pm on 6 May in the new Engineering building (1305), Village Drive, at CSU in Bathurst.