About Optik Consultancy
Optik is an inhouse consultancy, created to deliver authentic internship experiences, and to support students in underrepresented groups. Students experience a workplace environment, where they deliver results for client projects through academic and industry mentorship.
Established in 2017, the Optik internship program connects UTS students with industry partners to work on real-world engineering projects at UTS Tech Lab.
While students gain practical hands-on learning experiences, our industry partners gain access to talented students who are ready to work. Optik bridges the gap between theoretical classroom learning and real-world industry applications.
What UTS offers our industry partners
partner with Optik Consultancy
- Scale impact with just a 1-hour a week investment.
- Opportunity to train tomorrow's leaders
- Gain a fresh perspective for solving issues and enhancing your online presence with tech-savvy, social media smart interns.
- Access to world-class facilities and expertise of academics and PHD researchers at UTS Tech Lab.
What UTS offers our students
- Opportunity to work on authentic local and national industry projects with continuous observation, evaluation and feedback for growth.
- Gain invaluable real-world skills that can be difficult to come by without experience
- Opportunity to build a network of industry contacts which can help you find and secure a job after you graduate.
- Convert your academic knowledge into industry skills
- Dedicated 12 week time-frame to focus on your project.
- Great way to build hard and soft skills through leadership, communication and project planning workshops and mentoring.

Industry partners’ experiences
- Work with Optik management to scope projects and select interns to form project teams.
- Meet with interns a minimum of 1 hour per week (face-to-face and online) to discuss project progress and provide technical inputs and mentorship.
- Provide feedback on intern performance.
- Fresh ideas from highly motivated interns.
- A chance to complete back-burner projects that you may not have the bandwidth to complete.
- Access to a talent pipeline for potential hires.
- A 12 week interview process to vet those potential hires.
- Practice in the art of mentoring and articulating company projects.
Hear from our students and partners
Professional skills development
“My team, Team Opn Systems, worked on a web application that allows small to medium businesses to automate their business procedures. Optik helped me to make a mindset shift from a student to a business consultant.
I have learnt to be adaptable due to the open-ended nature of projects. This has allowed me to remain creative. Such a rewarding experience.”
Trishati Manjunath
build confidence
“I learnt that you would find what you will search for while at Optik. I was searching for a professional experience in real-life projects, and I got that.
I worked with MidCoast Council to facilitate water pumping to 180 homes. I worked with highly experienced engineers from the industry who guided us through this process. I feel like a professional engineering consultant now.”
Swoyam Kunwar Rana
Test your theories
"We participated in the Optik program to test underlying assumptions with fresh eyes. The students delivered a prototype in the 12-week period from scratch which was a brilliant outcome."
Julian Cincotta
Butter Sydney
Our current 2023 partners
- Applied Robotics
- Bale Defence
- Butter Sydney
- Can and Carmine
- Cindicium
- Cochlear
- Gradian
- Hilti
- MidCoast Council
- opn.sys
- UTS ProtoSpace
- Speedx