Issue 2 April to June ‐ 2013
Message from the Dean
Welcome to the Engineering newsletter for 2013 Featured in this issue: Editorial Accolades For One of Our Own IESL Excellence Award Future Stars of Mining Spotlight on Dzenisa Beglerovic AusIMM EEF Scholarship Mining Graduate Data 2013 Prize Night 2013 Engineering Promotions ICMST2013 This newsletter is published by the Faculty of Engineering. For further information about items in this newsletter, email jcurcio@uow.edu.au or telephone ext 5364
We recently held our Engineering prize evening for 2013 where our most outstanding students receive awards for high academic achievement. Awards vary from $100 to $1,000 and most of the awards are given by our many Industry partners or by Professional Associations. Some are given by our Faculty and by Research Centres associated with our Faculty. Companies giving awards range from Laser suppliers (Lastek), manufacturers (BlueScope‐who give several different prizes, Metal Manufactures, Orica), Consulting Engineering firms (Coffey ‐who also give several prizes, Cove Engineering, PPM Project Management), Patent Attorneys Spruson and Ferguson and software suppliers Leap Australia. The Professional Associations awarding prizes include Engineers Australia, the Railway Technical Society of Australasia, Australian Institute of Physics, Institute of Materials Engineering Australasia, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Welding Technology Institute of Australia, Steel Reinforcement Institute of Australia, and a number of Societies in areas such as Concrete, Concrete Pipes, Iron and Steel. Nearly 60 students enrolled across all of our engineering and physics disciplines were commended by being placed on the ‘Deans Merit List’, which requires a student to be in the top 5%. Many prizes are for high performance in individual subjects of particular interest to the donor, such as the Spruson and Ferguson Intellectual Property Prize for best performance in ENGG461 ‘Management and Human Factors in Engineering’. There are also prizes for best performance over a whole year in various degrees. One of these is for best performance in the final year which includes the final year thesis. In an engineering degree the thesis is where a student works individually on a major project supervised by an academic staff member and so this provides each student with the opportunity to bring together all the skills he or she has developed over the rest of the degree program to produce a major engineering outcome. It is quite an accomplishment to win this prize. Since the engineering profession is concerned with producing benefits for the community, and about 50% of the community are women, one would expect the engineering profession to be made up of 50% women. Unfortunately in most parts of the world this is far from the case and so to encourage change in our Faculty we have some prizes allocated specifically to high performance by our female students, in addition to all the other prizes which are available for everyone. Over 40 of the prizes and awards for the evening were won by our talented women, which is a much higher percentage (about 20%) than in the overall student body, but still not yet enough for the good of the profession and Continued next page