2009 Hysteresis

Hysteresis
2009
The Annual Publication of the
Adelaide University Engineering Society

Adelaide University Engineering Society Hysteresis 2009

The Adelaide University Engineering Society
would like to present

Hysteresis

Hys ter e sis n.

1. The lagging of an effect behind its cause, as when the change in magnetism of a
body lags behind changes in the magnetic field.
2. The annual publication of the Adelaide University Engineering Society,
documenting the most vital parts of the greatest faculty on campus.

Published by the Adelaide University Engineering Society

Edited by Kristina Noicos and Alex Egan
Suck it yas!
Published October 2009

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Contents
Origins of the AUES ................................................................................................... 1
AUES Committee 2009 .............................................................................................. 4
Editorials .................................................................................................................... 5
Sponsors .................................................................................................................... 6
Executive Committee Reports
President ................................................................................................................. 7
Vice President (Education)...................................................................................... 8
Vice President (Activities) ..................................................................................... 10
Treasurer .............................................................................................................. 12
Women’s Officer ................................................................................................... 13
AUES Events
O’Week ................................................................................................................. 14
Pub Crawl ............................................................................................................. 16
Careers Night ........................................................................................................ 19
BBQs .................................................................................................................... 20
Quiz Night ............................................................................................................. 23
Coopers Clubs Cup............................................................................................... 25
Cocktail Night ........................................................................................................ 28
Vox Pop.................................................................................................................... 29
Where are they now? ............................................................................................... 32
School Reports
School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering ........................................ 33
School of Mechanical Engineering ........................................................................ 35
Australian School of Petroleum ............................................................................. 42
Student Society Reports
AIAA ...................................................................................................................... 45
CHEMS - The Chemical Engineering Society ....................................................... 47
EEESAU ............................................................................................................... 50
EWB - Engineers Without Borders ........................................................................ 51
SPE - Society of Petroleum Engineers ................................................................. 53
Reports from Associated Organisations
National Wine Centre ............................................................................................ 55
Engineers Australia ............................................................................................... 56
Clubs Association ................................................................................................. 57
The AUES in Numbers ............................................................................................. 59
The AUES Website .................................................................................................. 61
The AUES Newsletter .............................................................................................. 63
My Lecturer is Famous! ............................................................................................ 64
Dan the Male Model ................................................................................................. 65
The Full Adelaide Uni Experience ............................................................................ 66
History-sis - A Blast from the Past ............................................................................ 67
Staff Profiles ............................................................................................................. 70
University Life as a Mature Age Student .................................................................. 74
2009 Year in Review ................................................................................................ 75
Eatery Review .......................................................................................................... 77
Meet Next Year’s AUES President ........................................................................... 81
Photo Gallery ........................................................................................................... 84

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Origins of the AUES
The origins of the AUES can be traced back to the early
Neanderthal days. Unfortunately, cavemen Engies were
severely limited in what they could design by several factors - for
example the wheel was square, electricity was something to be
avoided, and finally (and most importantly) no-one knew how to
brew a good beer.

But as man evolved so too did the Engie Societies - until the advent of
the Romans and the Greeks and their love of sharp pointy metal
things and sticking them in people. Although the introduction of
wine boosted Engie’s abilities, there was still a certain spark of
integrity and stability lacking; beer. This lack of beer sadly
resulted in the fall of the Roman Empire, as the beer drinking
Gaul and Germanic tribes, aided by their superior beer drinking
engineers decided to ‘shut the neighbours up’ once and for all
by having a REALLY big barbeque.

Around this period Engie Societies began to appear in what
was to become known as Asia through evidence found in
the great Engie scrolls. Apparently a wall-building event
organised by the local Engie committee got a little out of
control after a few too many Tsingtaos. This epic struggle
continued for many years with the wall getting longer and
longer (which pays testament to the stubbornness of Engies)
until our ancient brethren, the
“Sciences”, discovered gunpowder, and the
Engies came to realise it was much more fun to blow things
up rather than to build them…as is still evident in our modern
pub crawls!

It wasn’t until sometime in the middle ages that the holy
fluid, beer, came into greater prominence. This gave rise
to huge feats of engineering; giant pubs made out of
stone and surrounded by moats full of keg dregs. The
reasoning for this is written by the sage Beerscullo in
his writings, which state “ye any invader toppled into
thy moat would consume too much libations (beer)
and henceforth be rendered unable to continue
fighting, standing, or talking…”.

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The first pub crawls also began to be organised in this period,
and owing to the growing popularity of beer, were extremely
large. These pub crawls became known as the Crusades, and
tended to go long distances looking to quench their thirsts.

Things remained much the same until another major source
of knowledge was discovered - spirits. The advent of spirits
gave rise to a giant increase in learning, which became known as the Renaissance
period. Modern wonders such as the alcohol powered car and locomotive were
invented, and, with the lack of breath testers, filling up the jalopy
took on a whole new meaning. Fortunately, a bright young
engineer pointed out that precious alcohol was being
wasted on machines that couldn’t really enjoy the taste or
other effects, and so petroleum was used to power
vehicles instead.

The end of this period saw, in the little known colony of Australia,
an initial rising of the AUES, which was temporarily stunted
due to the first appearance of the great evil - Prohibition. This
dastardly law was made by the evils known as ‘law and
order’, to prevent the rise of the Great Society. Fortunately the
population rose up in favour of the ‘good drop’ and threw down
the great evil.

As the Society grew in power and influence, senior members of the AUES decided it
was time to elect a president, via secret ballot. Unfortunately an ongoing argument
between the Germans and the rest of the
world about who brewed the best beer got out
of hand and the Great War broke out, so the
AUES election was postponed in favour of a
barbeque - which seemed a more appropriate
way to settle the argument.

The issue was finally settled by everyone
getting hammered and throwing ‘empties’ at
the Germans. But unfortunately the issue was
to come up again several years later, when a
little German brewer with his trademark
moustache convinced some of his mates of
the power of the dark side of beer - began
World War II. Once again, the AUES came up
with the excellent idea of resolving the conflict
- another barbeque!

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During the barbeque, one of the more enlightened members of the AUES bellowed
“Hitler’s a D**KHEAD!” and everybody cheered! Such
a bold display did not go unnoticed by the world
leaders that were present, who, in turn used this cry to
inspire allied troops to victory. It was also decided that
such arguments should never happen again, so the
political arm of the AUES, along with the enlightened
boisterous chap as leader, became the United
Nations, but only after the first choice “United
Breweries” was abandoned.

In more recent times the AUES has continued to grow in power and
influence. While we still undertake historical recreations of some
our most prominent past events, such as the pub crawl (a
recreation of the great wall building event is just a little too
daunting), the AUES now prefers to keep a lower profile. But we
continue to work behind the scenes, and few important decisions
are made without first consulting the AUES. It is widely accepted that if peace comes
to the Middle East, it will be due, in no small part, to the tireless workings of the
AUES and its members.

And so it can be seen that from its humble beginnings
millennia ago, when the society for engineers was a mere
twinkle in the eye of our strange, yet prophetic, forefathers,
the AUES has developed into a mighty organisation. While
some may describe its operations as bizarre or even crazy,
society in general has come to see the AUES as a symbol of
all that life should be, as a beacon of hope guiding them away from
the rocky shoals of their past to a brighter, more interesting future…
Anonymous

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AUES Committee 2009
President VP (Ed) VP (Activities) Treasurer
Kristina Noicos Kevin Chan Tim Hickson Yasmin Freschi

Women’s Officer Publicity Officer IT Officer
Peta Johannsen Daniel Ali Alex Egan

Alex Byron Chris Crystal Essie
Arney Holmes Quek Forrester Morrison

Heath Kailash Kate Michael Ruth
Georgeff Thiyagarajah Turner Lee Tupper

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Editorials
I’d like to start my editorial by expressing
how much fun it was to edit Hysteresis.
This may sound like a joke, but being
forced to go through each article and
remember everything we got up to this
year made me appreciate what a fantastic
year it has been.
As you can imagine from the size of this
magazine, a lot of effort went into its
development, so I’d like to acknowledge
those that helped us create this
Earlier in the year, I put my hand up and masterpiece.
said I'd edit Hysteresis. I thought it was a Firstly, almost everyone on the 2009
necessary evil and wouldn't be a lot of committee actually submitted an article.
work since most of the content is done by This is truly amazing considering past
other people. Just throw it together and years involvement and a testament to
Bob's your uncle. When the time came to how the AUES is continuously changing
actually doing it, I realised how wrong I and improving.
was. Secondly, Alex Egan for letting me take
It was great fun to read, write and edit; control of editing as I similarly took control
looking back over the year and of everything else this year in the AUES.
remembering all the stuff that happened A very big and important thanks needs to
has made me appreciate my time at uni go to the Dean of the ECMS Faculty,
and with the AUES. Also, there was Peter Dowd, for letting us contact the
surprisingly a lot to do to make this engineering schools and giving us
document happen! Even though Kris took permission for this yearbook to go ahead.
charge and revoked my creative freedom, Thanks also to the ECMS Marketing
it was fun to do. department for taking time out from their
Big thanks go out to everyone who important jobs to edit the magazine, and
contributed directly, through articles and for leaving so much of the original content
the like, and to those who contributed in here.
indirectly, by making this year and our Huge thanks goes to Chris Tan
events worthy of writing about. Consulting, who at the last minute offered
This year was one of the biggest and best to sponsor the printing of this magazine.
for the AUES. We got things going early Thank you very, very much.
with O'Party in O'Week, the pub crawl The last acknowledgement is for
was the biggest yet and our BBQs everyone that paid for membership,
continue to get more and more massive. attended our events and bought our pub
So there is a lot to read and we think it's crawl shirts. Without all those people the
pretty good. Hopefully, you do too. As the club (and Hysteresis) wouldn’t exist.
2009 uni year draws to a close, I hope Having said all that, I hope you enjoy
you had a good one and that next year is reading Hysteresis as much as I enjoyed
even bigger and better. editing it!
Alex Egan Kristina Noicos

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Sponsors
Businesses that provided
financial support

Financial support from
businesses in industry indicates
the link between the AUES and
furthering your degree.

By sponsoring the AUES,
Schlumberger, TMK Consulting
and Chris Tan Consulting have
ensured that the AUES can have
the best events on campus.

A business that
provided goods
Without Big Quince Print and the
pub crawl shirts they so kindly
provided at a discounted price, the
AUES wouldn’t have enough profits
to spend on events.

Thanks to the National Wine
Centre, the AUES was able to A body that
provide pub crawl goers with provided
jelly shots, club members with support
UniBar drink specials and
Careers Night attendees with
free drinks

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President
This year has undoubtedly been the biggest year of
the AUES, due in most part to my fantastic
leadership, great ideas and organisation skills. I am a
really awesome president, and I did a much better job
than that Chris Schwarz guy in 2008.

Being president of the biggest club on campus has
definitely been the highlight of my university life,
which can be attributed to the great people I’ve had a
chance to spend time with and all the handy skills I’ve
developed.

The most important skill an AUES president needs to learn is how to create an epically
good event with limited resources. Correct quantities of food, beverages and
entertainment are required, as well as adequate levels of seating. There must always
be seating. Now I’m sure everyone assumes the AUES has a bank account with
hundreds of thousands of dollars in it, but this isn’t the case. This means that we have
become fantastically good at using a small amount of money to create a whole lot of
fun. This is a skill I practise in my spare time, and am currently perfecting, since at the
end of October I will no longer receive free money from Centrelink.

Another skill I’ve learned is how to make friends with basically anyone. This is an
important life skill for engineers as many jobs are offered through networking, and since
a lot of us engineers are socially challenged. I discovered it’s actually possible to make
friends with someone if you have only one simple thing in common. Leading on from
this point, myself and 500 other people enjoy engineering BBQs.

Skills aside, there have been some great improvements and additions to the AUES in
2009. Some of these are a working membership/mailing list - we actually know who
members are and can contact them via email; a brand new website - read about it on
page 61; AUES steins, including such features as ‘large volume’, ‘plastic composition’
and ‘handle’; deals for members at the UniBar (thanks Niomi!) and membership stickers
which allowed us to throw away the hugely unsuccessful barcode scanners of 2008.

Thanks to everyone that contributed to the fantastic success of the Society in 2009,
specifically Sarah Stronglaw (Events at the National Wine Centre) for continuing to
answer my phone calls, Adelaide onLION for our website, Xan, Shwatta and Tom V for
their ongoing support, and the people on committee that contributed this year - you
know who you are. Lastly, the biggest thank you is to every single person that came to
our events and made this the best AUES year ever!
Kristina Noicos

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Vice President (Education)
The role of VP (Education) is to organise
events which support the learning and
professional development of engineering
students. This includes working with and
supporting professional engineering
organisations, running the Statics Tutoring
program and, the main event of the AUES
education calendar, the annual Careers
Night. The Careers Night report is
presented on page 19 whilst other events
are covered here.

The AUES year commenced with a
presentation to all first year engineers
during the official Faculty of Engineering
Mathematical and Computer Sciences
(ECMS) welcome session. The Prez and
VP (Ed) introduced freshers to the lesser known side of the AUES, not the famous
BBQs, parties and the Engie Pub Crawl, but the educational and professional
support offered throughout the year. Freshers were invited to visit the AUES tent
during O’Week for advice on settling in and to pick up their guide to first year
success, the AUES ‘Unofficial Freshers Guide.’ This Guide contained advice on
everything from subjects and uni technology to where students could collect their
pigeons and pigeon holes. A map and checklist were available to help students find
their way around and work out when they’d actually adapted to engineering at
Adelaide Uni. Finally, the guide contained background reading which all students are
required to know for their final year core knowledge exam, ‘The Origins of the
AUES.’

This year the AUES continued to strengthen our ties with professional engineering
organisations. The AUES VP (Ed) continues to hold a position on the Young
Engineers Australia (YEA) SA committee and acted as the unofficial campus co-
ordinator for Engineers Australia (EA). As part of this role the AUES facilitated
several EA campus visits, signup opportunities throughout the year. In addition the
AUES supported the EA careers advice night on August 3rd with a pre-event publicity
BBQ. In 2010 Divina Tomamak will officially take up the revived office of EA Campus
Co-ordinator. We wish Divina all the best in their new role and offer our ongoing
support for EA campus activities.

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In 2009 the AUES extended its support of professional organisations to include
PESA and the University of Adelaide Environment Institute. PESA was provided with
a stall and extensive publicity at the first term BBQ, resulting in PESA signing over
all ,
100 new student members. The AUES also organised a BBQ lunch for the
members.
Environment Institute, because as everyone knows, it’s an engie BBQ or its nothing.

AUES statics tutorials were held throughout first semester. The aim of the Statics
ls
Tutoring Program is to reduce the notorious ‘1st year slump’ that a lot of freshers go
through. An increase in social life (read ‘UniBar’), combined with other factors, cause
a lot of students to fall short of their potential in particular subjects. The statics
tutorials were attended by a limited number of students this year, with a peak in
attendance the week of the mid semester test. Thanks to Tim, Byron and Michael for
mid-semester
volunteering to take the tutorials this year. If you are interested in helping out with
he
statics tutoring or tutoring in any other first year subject, please register your interest
on our website (www.aues.org.au).
aues.org.au).

AUES assistance for first years will expand next year to include a tutor referral
include
service. Older students interested in tutoring first year subjects will be able to
advertise online on the AUES website so that first years can find help quickly and
easily when they need it.

Thanks to ECMS, the School of Mechanical Engineering, the National Wine Centre
Engineering,
and the Adelaide University Union for their assistance in organising events
throughout the year and the use of their facilities. In 2010 the number of AUES VPs
will be reduced from two to one. This sole VP will assume th roles andthe
responsibilities of the education VP. Best wishes to next year’s VP, Christopher
Quek, in continuing to expand the educational and professional development
,
services offered by the AUES to engineering students and strengthening the clubs
ties with industry.

Kevin Chan

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Vice President (Activities)
This year is the last year of the Vice
President of Activities position, since really
it’s just an excuse to rock up late, look
important while you do nothing, order
people around and generally enjoy yourself
as much as possible, so the ‘work’ has been
divided among the rest of the committee in
2010. The year has been a grand one so
far, with many unforgettable moments, along
with a significant portion of moments that
can’t be remembered.

This year was perhaps the most successful
year in terms of fun, entertainment, and
general good times, due in no small part to the huge organisational effort that the
AUES committee (myself included!) has put in. While there was a huge committee
this year, there was not often a huge group to help get things done, usually at the
head of getting-it-done was the 2009-worst-prez-ever Kristina, so a huge thank you
is due by the thousands of us that regularly enjoy the delicious, amber, bubbly
benefits. Thank me too while you’re at it.

Starting the year of with a nice slap in the proverbial face was Orientation week, in
which the AUES always contributes whole-heartedly, with copious amounts of good-
times forced onto all those around us. From MC-ing the tug-o-war and boat races, to
spreading the love of all things beer and gospel of engineering with our megaphone,
the AUES made sure everyone felt loved. On the Wednesday night of O'Week the
first ever AUES O'Party was held, very successfully (attended by some 150 eager
members), in the UniBar with blaring live music, plenty of party lights and great
student-priced drink specials.

An amazing success at the first of four BBQs of the year set our hopes high, with
plenty of enthusiastic members queuing far across the Barr Smith Lawns eagerly
awaiting the free food and drinks. I was amazed at how smoothly everything ran,
despite the usual messing about with kegs (and still having to show people how to
tap the kegs), irregular food-delivery times and random people serving the food.
Particular highlights were the giant bunnies handing out free chocolate and the
introduction of new AUES plastic steins, which greatly reduced the beer line waiting
time and helped us all look a little more macho as we gave our drinking arm an extra
workout. The term 2 and 3 BBQs were, as predicted, amazing events that were
bigger and better than their predecessors, even rain and a slight slump in members

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at the term 2 BBQ didn’t reduce the meat and beer consumed, paving the way for a
huge term 4 BBQ, which I am very much looking forward too.

From the start of O'Week up until D-Day itself the excitement of the annual AUES
Pub Crawl was building, through weekly T-shirt sales, large banners and countless
posters, it was hard for anyone to hide their excitement. An outrageous success,
personally measured by the number of free jelly-shots I swiped on entry to UniBar,
number of sculling competitions won, total distance travelled by piggy-backing and
the combined length of time that I wasn’t sure where I was or who I was talking to but
didn’t care. Always the biggest event on the AUES calendar, some may even say the
whole university calendar, this year smashed the previous records and brought
together 1860 people eager to experience the legendary night of fun times, which
certainly did not disappoint. A large wash of white shirts spouting general engie
chants filled the night alongside responsible drinking, Hungry Jacks and making
friends with randoms. A personal highlight was “discussing” how superior our pub
crawl was with a number of people on smaller simultaneous crawls.

The last event to mention here is the AUES quiz night, which broke some long-
standing traditions such as the separate points system based on number of drinks
consumed (meaning I suddenly had far less chance of winning) in exchange for an
unlimited drinks package. This event always requires some of the largest
organisational commitments from the committee and it was great to see so many
people getting involved in collecting prizes, writing questions, serving drinks and
checking tickets. I was very happy to save my VP skills for the most important tasks
all night: eating pizza and drinking as much as my body would allow as I made it
from the quiz to the UniBar and onto the Exeter for what I’ve been told was a great
end to the already fantastic event. The night was also a great opportunity for some
new potential committee members to show their dedication to bringing a good time to
members.

It’s going to be hard to match, let alone improve on this year’s achievements, but
filled with the great memories of 2009 and years past we’re certainly going to try.

Tim Hickson

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Treasurer
Every year the AUES manages to run four BBQs where we
go through an average of 1500 snags and 10 kegs. These
BBQs cost around $4000 each to run. We charge a $5
membership at the start of the year to be a member of the
club. If you do the math you will quickly see that this just
doesn’t add up. So how do we manage to pay for all this?
Well what we do is charge $25 for each pub crawl shirt when
they cost $14 each [digital printing was more expensive this
year]. This year we sold 1860 shirts and made enough profit
to hold all of our BBQs. So this is how we manage to run
such awesome events so cheaply.

Other sources of income are sponsorship, renting out the vending machines in CATS
and from Clubs Association grants. Our sponsorship comes mainly from engineering
companies, the National Wine Centre of Australia and if we’re lucky, a pub in town.
You may have noticed a few logos on places such as the back of our pub crawl t-
shirts and our website. We are hoping to gain a better relationship with engineering
companies to increase this revenue from $1500 to much more. The vending machine
in CATS is rented out for $2000 per year and Clubs Association grants are a
maximum of $1000 per year [but only to be used in an emergency].

With the introduction of the new National Wine Centre service agreement, we were
able to serve alcohol at our events towards the end of 2009. This resulted in less
money being spent on what we call “admin costs” and more on the actual events.

This is the third year that we have had a high interest account at BankSA. We make
about $400 a year in interest, which is not a lot, but it’s extra kegs that we can buy
for next year’s BBQs. So overall, we run all our events either at a large loss or at
break even and spend all of our profits on you, our members.
[Editor’s note: Thank you Yas for being too lazy to write a few hundred words, and for copying this
entire article from last year’s Hysteresis. Lucky us editors can edit!]

Yasmin Freschi

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Women’s Officer
A few years ago a wise engineer at my design practice
practical said, “Watch out guys”, in reference to women in
engineering. I believe this statement stands true, with the
number of females in engineering increasing once again
in 2009. For the first time in 6 years the AUES has a
female president, “Girl Kris” and for the first time ever a
committee ratio of almost 50%, with 8 females on a 17
person committee. With numbers like these - this could
only mean a positive step forward for the club, as the best
decisions are made from an accumulation of different
ideas and opinions.

2009 saw a push to create clever advertising posters, and
I believe that a new era in the AUES was born, one that
promotes creativity and originality. The committee is
always thinking of more ways to increase female
participation in events and to promote an all round equality within the club. At BBQs
the amount of punch available more than doubled, thankfully meaning that punch
was available for a large proportion of the BBQ rather than just the first 30 minutes.
The cocktail night was also re-introduced to the AUES events calendar - something
that had not been around since 2005. We all know that most females like to pretty
themselves up and head out for a night of cocktails if Sex and the City has taught us
anything, and hopefully this will become a regular and well received event on the
AUES calendar.

As a female in engineering I can only hope to see a further increase in females in
engineering over the next decade and perhaps one day the AUES won’t need a
Women’s Officer or an Equity Officer, but rather a Men’s officer.

Peta Johannsen

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O’Week
O’Week is typically a great
success for the AUES, and
2009 was no exception. It is a
week in which the AUES raises
publicity for its upcoming
events, in addition to raising
money through pub crawl shirts
and membership. The
committee arrived at 7 am on
the Monday morning to help set
up the AUES tent, which for the
first time in years would have a
place on the Barr-Smith lawns.

Within a few hours, hoards of freshers were making their way
down campus, to check out what the AUES had to offer. One of
the great services we provide for first year engies in O’Week is
the ‘Fresher’s Guide’, a manual that contains every piece of
information essential for a successful life at uni, from how to
tackle exams to the location of the UniBar. The AUES was also
asked to run a BBQ (which we did with ease), and our VP Tim
Hickson was MC for a tug of war on the lawns.

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One of the events that
we were extremely
keen to publicise this
year was the inaugural
O’Party held in the
UniBar on the
Wednesday of
O’Week. The event
proved to be a great
success, and promises
to be bigger and better
in years to come. Pub-
crawl shirt sales were
already up in O’ Week,
with sales breaking
800 in the first week alone.

Membership sales were also strong as
usual, indicative of the growing popularity
for our quarterly BBQs. On the final day of
O’Week the AUES managed to scramble
together a Skullduggery boat race team.
The engie team came close, but weren’t
able to steal the trophy from the meds.
This small loss however, did not take away
from the great success of the week - a sign
of things to come in 2009.

Kailash Thiyagarajah

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Pub Crawl
As with all AUES events, the
annual pub crawl proved one
full of high class, fine company
and overall sophistication that
punters have come to expect
and love over the last few
years. Being the largest pub
crawl ever in AUES history, it
has shown that in even the most devastating of financial crises, the engineering spirit
to spend everything on having a good time is still strong and unwavering. In fact, the
AUES is right this very minute,
working on pitching its crisis
beating formula to the
government, in hope to save this
fair country from financial
despair, as we are not only
purveyors of a fine brew but also
purveyors of patriotism.

On the night of
April 3rd it was fantastic to see Adelaide town awash with white
shirts all emblazoned with Drinky Bill, the loveable childhood
character who so suddenly went off the rocks. What actually
occurred on the pub crawl generally remains a mystery, especially
to those who attend, mainly because remembering what happened
is difficult.

Patching together
what precious
memories I have left, I
remember quite
enjoying several glasses of wine to the
background of classy 1980s electro pop
tunes wired over the stereo at the
Griffin’s Head. The pub crawl is also a
great opportunity for those of the older
university generation (4th years) to
reminisce by attending various establishments which they would have frequented in
their past, before heading on to more expensive, cleaner and generally, well, better
night spots.

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One of those being PJ’s Irish Pub. This pub
reeks of character, (which is probably the
most polite way of putting it), and judging by
its native clientele, this pub proves to be a
winner for people of all generations.
However, this night the locals were cast
aside, in a white wash of well, white shirts.
One noticeable event I remember that
occurred at PJ’s was hearing the lovely
docile tones of our one and only president,
Miss Kris Noicos, calmly reminding patrons in the line
who was boss, by screaming, “I’M THE PRESIDENT!
I’M THE PRESIDENT!” while exiting the pub - I’m
sure she had a wonderful night, and my respect for
her can only increase with such eloquent displays of
authority.

As the night wore on, the engineering pub crawl fever
continued strong and while some crawlers continued
to the next of the various destinations for night, many
brave punters made their way to the fine
establishment that was Hungry Jacks, to refuel,
recharge and befoul tables with tomato sauce and mayonnaise.

The lovable Shotz has
become staple
engineering pub crawl
(EPC) fodder in recent
history, and this year did
not disappoint. As its
name suggests, Shotz
serves a variety of lovely
beverages all in small proportions, which
for those who were feeding on the barley
and hops of previous venues found much
gentler on the bladder. With its unique
combination of dance floor classics and
that loveable emo-esque atmosphere, one
can feel at home passed out in a corner, or
merely stumbling around, looking at people
they have known for years and not
recognizing them at all.

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This is about where my night
ended, as much as to say, I don’t
quite remember anything else
afterwards. Having said that, the
AUES does appreciate all the
help and support from the
venues on the night, and an
extra special thank you must go
out to all the punters that
attended, making this night a
must-attend on every university
student’s calendar.

Alex Arney

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Careers Night
The 2009 Careers Night was
held on May 12th in the
Equinox and Eclipse function
rooms. The night was divided
into a presentation session
and a networking session. For
a small fee of $5, to help
cover catering, AUES
members received an insight into various engineering industries and were then given
the opportunity to network with industry representatives in a relaxed environment.
Attendance in 2009 was reduced from 2008 to 72 students and 9 organisations. This
was despite increased advertising and publicity prior to the event. The drop in
company attendance may be attributed to the economic situation, with 8 companies
withdrawing in the week prior to the careers night.

The first hour of the careers night, held in the Eclipse room, consisted of
presentations from GHD, Ensign International Energy Services and Babcock
Integrated Technologies Australia. Each of these companies detailed their respective
industries and what their companies look for in graduates. Chris Tan Consulting
were last to present (after we’d retrieved them from UniBar), providing students with
inspirational and invaluable
advice on career planning
and obtaining employment.

The remaining two hours of
the event, held in the
Equinox room, allowed
students to talk individually
with the speakers as well
as representatives from Bardavcol, York Civil and ElectraNet. Students were also
able to receive advice on further study and professional development from the
university’s graduate centre and Engineers Australia respectively. Improving on
2008, plentiful catering was provided for both students and industry guests by the
National Wine Centre.

Special thanks to the National Wine Centre for sponsoring the night and to the
industry representatives who volunteered their nights to network with students.

Kevin Chan

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BBQs
The AUES is most well
known for two things, BBQs
and our pub crawl, and boy
do we know how to do a
BBQ. The committee get to
uni around 9:30 am on the
fateful Fridays to get ready
for the long day ahead.
After getting all the
necessary equipment from
our storage room, the UniBar and AUU reception, set-up begins. Soon, the smell of
sausages and onions cooking is in the air and people follow their noses down to the
Barr Smith lawns to partake in the time-honoured tradition of Engie BBQs.

These all you can eat and drink sausage-fests are our
main membership draw-card. $5 for four BBQs is truly a
bargain even before you look at the other membership
benefits. Our membership is growing every year and
the BBQs this year were testament to that. We ran out
of snags at two BBQs even after buying some more on
the day. The punch is always popular but it always runs
out very quickly. Being a bunch of engineers, we
decided to try and fix this problem. So some
calculations were done (thank you, Kris) and the punch
was reformulated to have a larger volume but be just as
tasty for approximately the same capital expenditure.
Fluid dynamics in action!

If eating and drinking gets tiresome,
there are usually other things going
on at the BBQs to give you
something to do or look at. Boat
races take place at every BBQ in
front of a cheering and excited
audience. Our friends from PESA
were at the first BBQ signing up
members and promoting their
burgeoning club to all the petro
engies they could find. This BBQ
was also near Easter and bunnies were out and about giving away free Easter eggs
and causing mischief.

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Free stuff was to be had at the second BBQ
with Engineers Australia signing up student
members for free and giving away stubbie
holders and other gadgets. For those that
fancy themselves great competitors in the
mighty game of Rock, Paper, Scissors, Jim
Beam were at the third BBQ to challenge
people to a throw. The chance to win 15 free
Jim Beams, to be enjoyed responsibly in the
UniBar, was not an opportunity to be passed
up by many punters. Tug of wars over the Torrens are an AUES tradition but getting
BBQ goers to move down, away from the food, drinks and music, is often
unsuccessful. Thus, in the spirit of efficiency, laziness and apathy, BBQ goers will no
longer have to make the arduous trek to watch a tug of war. That's right! At the fourth
and final BBQ of the year a tug of war will be held between the Engineers of
Adelaide Uni and UniSA. Will the home turf, both literally and figuratively, be an
advantage or will the guests defeat the crowd favourite. Only time or a time-machine
can tell!

The advertising for the first and third BBQs was huge, with posters constantly on the
walls all through the Engineering buildings despite them being removed daily. This
translated into huge crowds and the third BBQ was the biggest BBQ on record. It
had the biggest turn out and biggest consumption of food and drink in the history of
the AUES: 1600 sausages and 14 kegs. This may have been helped along by the
introduction of Strongbow on tap and the wonderfully decorated salads from our
supplier Foodland. Treats for the eyes and the palate.

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The atmosphere at the BBQs is always excellent and revelry is high. It's great to see
students, and some lecturers, from across the entire university, not just the ECMS
the
faculty, come together in the Australian tradition of having a barbie. This is life on
campus. This is campus culture at it finest. This is an AUES BBQ!
s. its

Alex Egan

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Quiz Night
It was a crisp evening; 200 eager
minds and 19 clean tables were at
the ready, for puzzling questions
and responsible alcohol
consumption. For whatever reason
they booked a table, all were on a
quest for victory, and all would get
there in one way or another.

The classy MC for the
night: Xan O’Shea

The AUES Quiz Night is, like every other engineering society
event, a memorable night - for those who have the ability of
recollection. 7 rounds of pure brain teasing questions interlaced
with delightfully stimulating mini-games, such as boat racing,
heads and tails, and toss a coin at a bottle of liquor.

Firstly, names for the tables were chosen. A favourite of the AUES
was “Where the F*** is the rest of our team” aptly named by the
table with only two quizzers present. While some prepared well for
the night with a table full of picnic treats,
others were just waiting for the bar to
lubricate the mind.

And wait they did; soon, a ripple of
excitement permeated the crowd as news
of the bar opening spread out through the
sea of attendees. The night was on.
Students debated the opening quiz
questions with a barely controlled,
ferocious intensity their lecturers could
only dream of, which only got rowdier with
more liquid consumed.

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The amazing spread brought by a team of final year chemical engineers. They clearly didn’t have
enough final year project work to do.

Question after question, round after round, the night progressed with a manner only
an engineer could pull off. The final standings produced “The Game” as the victors,
while the majority of the table
“Homage Pastoulio” was
ejected from the venue,
although who can say who the
real winners were. Overall it
was a great night with many
blurry memories, and for next
year, remember; mess on the
table is okay, but on the carpet
costs us extra.

Essie Morrison

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Coopers Clubs Cup
It has become tradition that every year the Clubs Association, in conjunction with
Coopers and the UniBar, hold a Clubs Cup. The Competition, this year, consisted of
8 different rounds where clubs could participate for points and prizes, with the overall
winner announced at the Clubs Association end of year dinner.

This year’s Clubs Cup rounds were a quiz night, karaoke, Guitar Hero, doubles pool,
sumo wrestling, poker, Wii Bowling and a party pie eating competition. Prizes were
donated by Coopers and the UniBar, with 1st place receiving 30 points, 4 jugs of
Coopers, $20 UniBar food voucher and round winner t-shirts, 2nd place receiving 20
points, 3 jugs of Coopers and a $10 UniBar food voucher and 3rd place receiving 10
points and 2 jugs of Coopers. All teams received 5 points for participation.

The AUES started off slowly - not competing
until Guitar Hero. Unfortunately the only
competitor, Marcus Wong, left after only playing
one song because he mistakenly thought his
bag was being stolen. Before he left, however,
he was on one of the top scores.

The next round was doubles pool - which the
AUES actually had a team for, but they failed to
show up. A quick call was put over the
microphone searching for AUES members in
the bar and the GAMES club being quick on
their feet, thankfully found the AUES a team comprising of two regular UniBar pool
players - Michael Bishop and Patrick Eiffe. This method of finding a team definitely
proves that the AUES is everywhere - or maybe just in the UniBar. Nonetheless, the
on the spot team proved no worse than any team that could have been put together,
with the boys taking out first prize by beating the GAMES club in the semi final and
Godless in the final. Now the AUES was right in the mix to place
in the Competition.

After realising that the AUES actually
had the sheer numbers and skills to
win the Cup, AUES steins were also
offered to members as an incentive to
compete. This worked, as the AUES
had a team to compete in the Sumo
Wrestling, held during Clubsfest - even
if one of the competitors was picked up
last minute in the bar.

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Rhys Heard (left) and
Steve “Crack Mansion”
Squires (right)
competed fiercely, it
just wasn’t enough to
push through the rest of
the field and gain a
place. However, I don’t
think the boys minded
as the AUES prez Kris
came along to support -
bearing gifts of AUES
Steins and free beer!

The sixth round was poker, so you
would assume that the AUES would be
nothing short of brilliant as most of us
have had to study maths and statistics
at some point. For once the AUES had
a full team without having to search
through the bar for competitors and this
proved to be a great start. Alex
"Chimp" Martinson (right) came firing
out of the blocks, winning himself an
armful of chips and making it to the
final 4 - where only 3 teams
remained. The other
competitors, Lloyd Moffatt (far-
left) and Tom Vincent (with
sunglasses) couldn’t be happier,
as they already knew the AUES
had won some beer. Finally it
came down to the Computer
Science club and the AUES.
Poker is just as much a game of
skill as it is a game of
endurance, with Chimp keeping
a cool mind through the final few
hands and taking the game.

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It seems that everyone within the Uni is a member of the AUES - so when the AUES
had no team for Wii Bowling, finding one within the UniBar in the space of a minute
was rather easy. Not only does the AUES have the numbers - they also have the
skills! Sam Warren (2nd from left) was the first AUES competitor and put the AUES

right into 2nd place. Sam got such a great score that even after Simon Thwaites (far
left) and Alex Ramsay (far right) had competed, he still stood as the AUES’s top
bowling score. Unfortunately in the 3rd round Godless knocked AUES out of second
place and it came down to the AUES’s last competitor Robbie Monk (3rd from left).
He didn’t disappoint. With his odd left spin technique he pulled the AUES back into
2nd place claiming another 20 points towards the Cooper’s Clubs Cup.

Although myself or Kris couldn’t make it to the final event of the year, the pie eating
competition for the AUES was a success. Sam Warren and Alex Ramsay (that’s
right, from the Wii Bowling event) annihilated all competition to bring in first place!
With this win the total AUES score for all events was 140, making us the winners of
the Coopers Clubs Cup in 2009!

Peta Johannsen

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Cocktail Night
It was a cold evening in the town of Adelaide, but the guests at the ‘100 Years of the
AUES’ cocktail party hardly felt the surprising spring chill. Amid the low symphony of
glasses clinking and the dull hum of chatter, men and women milled about, dining on
the finest finger foods that the caterers had to offer. As a special treat, renowned
caterers
jazz pianist Jean Felipe Michel made a surprise appearance and entertained the
guests with a performance that will be remembered.

Well... not quite.

The 2009 AUES Cocktail Night, promised to be the great greatest
th
night of the year. On October 16 , 2009 that night
arrived and then some. Held in the exquisitely
transformed Equinox Function Room, ‘100 Years of
the AUES’ was celebrated by 150 well dressed
guests. Enjoyed by all were the wonderful music,
tasty hors d’oeuvres and cocktails provided all night.
d

DJ Tom Miller was a splendid MC providing the attendees with great music to move
to all night long. Behind the bar was the AUES Committee mixing cocktails with
plenty of fire, zest and punch, resulting in many relaxed guests by the end of the
night.

The highlight of the night was undoubtedly the epic dance that spawned from some
amazing talent on show. Michael Lee was the unanimous winner, with the crowd in
awe of his mind-blowing moves.
blowing

Thanks must go to Madame President and the rest of the committee for their tireless
efforts in organising a great night.
Michael Lee

[Editor’s note: Although this event hasn’t occurred yet, we hope to see this article
come to fruition next Friday night. See you there!]

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Vox Pop
1) Longest time spent in CATS?

2) Fondest moment of Engineering?

3) Worst Exam moment?

4) Who would you turn gay for?

5) What superpower would you like to have?

Josh Logan 1) Fifteen hours trying to learn how Heat Transfer works
just before the exam.
2) When a guy in a chicken suit ran through a Dynamics
lecture in 2008 & when my neighbour in a lecture in
Union Hall was bored and decided to start setting
other people’s hair alight with a 3 inch flame, just for
fun.
3) At my final exam last semester a lecturer went to the
front of the desk rows and like a thirsty camel he
skulled a bottle of pale ale in front of us.
4) There are so many to choose from…..Let me list
them as the most wanted: Pope, Mao Zedong (non-
necrophilia way), Barack Obama.
5) Fly - I would save so much on airfares it would be
amazing! And I could fly to the edge of the
atmosphere and beyond with the aid of an oxygen
tank.

1) 16 hours.
David Tang
2) Andrei calling all Mechatronic
Engineering students girls .
3) All exams.
4) Ben Cazzo [Cazzolato, Mechanical
Engineering].
5) I would like the power to see through
clothes, only of the opposite sex.

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Erik - Exchange Student from Sweden
1) 3 hours, is that bad?
2) When I understood why fire was so complex
and that took me almost the whole semester.
3) Five hour exam without toilet and massive
hangover.
4) Basically everyone in Engineering South.
5) Pippi Långstrump (long stockings) (see below).

1) Something around 12 hours. Embedded Computer Systems report, if my memory serves me
correctly.
2) Helping organise AUES events of course! Good times. For something more related to what I'm
studying, software engineering, my fondest moment would be the test suite that a friend and I
wrote on a work experience placement. It did automated regression testing of some image
transformation plugins. The testing found some bugs so it was good to see our code was
useful!
3) DEFS in second year. I hadn't studied anywhere near as much as I should have, went in, didn't
know how to do most of it and blanked on stuff that I did know. I walked out sure that I'd failed
and dreaded seeing my results. Amazingly, I just scraped through with a marginal pass but I'd
attribute that to scaling or something. Bad times.
4) Dan Ali. Engineer, male model, cool guy. The whole package really.
5) Immortality. I think it would be interesting to live forever and observe the way the world and
universe unfold.

Alex “The Stud” Egan

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Maddy Pilla
1) 18 hours... stayed there till 6 am working
on an ESDC [Engineering Systems
`
Design & Communication] project.
2) Every pub crawl.
3) When you know that you’re going to fail
the exam before you started.
4) Kris Noicos, sexiest AUES prez, ever.
5) I want to be like Alex Mack, so I could turn
into a pool of water, it would save me.

1) 48 hours.
2) Blazewicz Moments [Antoni Blazewicz,
Mechanical Engineering lecturer].
3) Assuming I've smashed an exam given
two hours. Then I find out its 3 hours.
4) Monica Bellucci.
5) The type that lets you be in class and
sleep on the lawns at the same time.

Sindhu Shastry

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Where are they now?
Name: Rebecca Tennant
Degree: B.E (Civil & Env) double with BSc. (Chemistry and Maths) 2008
Current job: Water Engineer, Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) Adelaide

I graduated last year from uni finally and had to venture
into the real world. I was a bit disillusioned at first and
found it hard to come to terms with the fact that we
couldn’t just decide to go the pub at noon and not
return, but I still do not miss those long nights in CATS.

I graduated at probably the worst time in many years
and thanks to the global financial crisis a lot of my
peers found that all those offers for work had dried up
and struggled to find a placement in their field. I was
lucky enough that PB were still willing to have me as a
graduate engineer in the water team.

Since starting work I have had a number of opportunities
which I have really enjoyed that may not have been offered
to me in other financial circumstances. Instead of the
expected number crunching I was involved with a lot of
proposals earlier on in the year. I was then offered a place
in Contracts Administration for the Iluka-JAA project, a
mineral sands mine North of Ceduna. I have been working
for this project since April and love being involved in a
large mining project in an area that they only touch on at
uni but is very relevant to engineering.

My advice for engineering students is to enjoy your uni life
to the full. As long as you pass in the end, especially in
these times, take any opportunity to learn and grow in your
field, even if it isn’t in the exact area you had planned.

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Civil,
School of Civil, Environmental and Mining
Engineering
The School has continued to grow with the addition of the
new degrees in Mining Engineering and Architectural
Engineering. There are now seven academic staff
associated with Mining Engineering and four of those staff
started in January 2009. The School has continued to be
successful in research by gaining nationally competitive
research grants and publishing research papers in top
international journals. My vision for the School is that it is a
• Fair, friendly, enjoyable and safe environment to work
and study
• Collegial environment but with firm direction
• High quality and well organised teaching environment
• School in which students value their time and feel
valued Head of School
Professor Martin Lambert
• School publishing high quality research papers
• School engaged with industry and the community

Teaching Highlights
Professor Holger Maier was recently awarded the SA Tertiary Science Education of
the Year Award at the SA Science Excellence Awards. This is a very significant and
prestigious recognition of Holger’s excellence in teaching and great news for the
School.

Professor Martin Lambert was awarded an Australian Learning and Teaching
Council (ALTC) Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.

Work carried out as a final year research project on climate change, urban heat
islands and the coast caught the attention of the Advertiser environment writer in the
October 31st 2008 edition. The students are Ross McConnell, Patrick Moody, Nick
Byrne and Daniel Osborne.

James Daniell, a graduate from this School in 2006, has been awarded a General Sir
John Monash Award in 2009. Each year only 8 scholarships of $150,000 for 3 years
are awarded.

Liam Harnett, Jason Nicolson and Rebecca Tennant were awarded the Australian
Water Association's Hodgson Medal, which is open to final year undergraduates
(including Honours students) enrolled at South Australian universities and who have
completed projects or investigations in a water related subjects.

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The final year research project group of John Baulis, Lisa Lloyd, Fiona Paton and
Ben Staniford were awarded the 2008 SA Society for Sustainability and
Environmental Engineering Student Sustainability Award for their project “Multi-
Objective Optimisation of Urban Water Supply Systems at the Regional Scale
Incorporating Sustainability” and are now in the running for the national prize.

Fiona Paton was awarded the Ian Laing Prize by the Hydrological Society of South
Australia, based on her final year research project from last year, which looked at
determining optimal trade-offs between cost and greenhouse gas emissions for the
southern Adelaide water supply system for various water supply types.

Research Highlights
Dr Chengqing Wu and Professor Deric Oehlers have been awarded a grant of $220K
to help design buildings that can withstand terrorist attacks from explosive devices.

Associate Professor David Walker was awarded an ARC Linkage project “Sediment
capture and deposition processes in coastal lagoons” in collaboration with the
Murray Darling Basin Commission.

PhD graduate Dr Matt Gibbs from the School of Civil, Environmental and Mining
Engineering was awarded the Postgraduate Research Award at the annual
Australian Water Awards night.

Sarah Jewell, who graduated from this School in 2005, and returned in 2009 to
commence a PhD in coastal engineering on the Murray Mouth dredging program,
has become the recipient of the inaugural Australian Water Association 2009
National Young Water Professional of the Year Award.

Student Activities

Concrete Canoe Challenge National Mining Games - Student Engineering
Brisbane Challenge

Martin Lambert
Head of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering

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School of Mechanical Engineering
2009 has so far been a very successful year for the School of
Mechanical Engineering and its staff and students. There are
a number of highlights discussed in this article but these by no
means represent the full scale of activities undertaken by our
excellent students and staff.

Warman Design and Build Competition
The Warman Design and Build Competition for level 2 Head of School
engineering students is organised by Engineers Australia and Professor Colin Hansen

sponsored by Weir Minerals Australia Ltd. A local competition is organized at each
participating university campus and winners attend the final in Sydney. The
objective is to design, build and prove prototype devices that achieve a required
objective. Usually it involves helping the
inhabitants of planet Gondwana. In 2008 the
task was to design and build a single, all
terrain autonomous vehicle to rapidly
transport and accurately deploy a payload on
an inclined track characterised by an number
of difficult obstacles. The finals involved
winners of local competitions from 14
universities, including teams from Malaysia
and New Zealand. Our team consistently out-performed others and decisively won
the competition. Congratulations to the members of the winning team: Tristan Goss,
Eric Parsonage, Bryn Crawford and Shane Fitzgerald. Their supervisor was Dr
Antoni Blazewicz.

In 2009, the task was to pass a sculpture of the Gondwana’s prosperity (represented
by a relay baton) around two edges of a ceremonial square to symbolise the change
of government. The task was to be achieved by two autonomous devices, passing
the baton from one to another, with at least one device purely mechanical. The
baton was to be passed safely and quickly with points awarded for speed and
accuracy. This year’s finals, run on 27 September, involved winners of local
competitions from 17 universities including teams from New Zealand and Malaysia.
The University of Adelaide won the second prize in a dramatic sudden death run-off,
losing to the UWA team by a fraction of a second. The members of our 2009 team
were Najmal Karuppam Veettil, Mustafa Amiruddeen, Felix Aditya Utama and Hasith
Cyril Pathirana Arachchige. Their supervisor was Dr Antoni Blazewicz.

Robotics Success
A team of six Masters Students (Mohsen Bazghaleh, Yudi Wang, Long Xin, Jia You,
Chen Fei Yu and Yin Yuan) undertook the design of a Robotic Concertina as part of

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their Master's course in Advanced Digital Control to compete in the NICTA
sponsored, inter-university, Candiago Cup, a competition for machines that play
musical instruments. The students won first prize. Two of the Masters students,
Mohsen Bazghaleh and ChenFei Yu, further developed the Concertina and gained
first prize in the tertiary student project category at the SA iAwards for innovation in
ICT and as part of their prize attended CeBIT Australia in Sydney with the SA
Department of Trade and Economic Development delegation. Subsequently they
were invited to give a presentation for the National iAwards in Melbourne. The
students were pipped at the post by the team from ANU, however the result was so
close (<5% difference in the judges marking) that they received a special Merit
Award and will go forward to represent Australia against the best of the Asia Pacific
region at the APICTA (Asia-Pacific ICT Alliance) Awards in December. Mohsen and
Chen Fei also travelled to Nice, France, to compete in the Artemis Orchestra
Competition where they took the runners-up prize of 4000 euros (around $7500).

Formula SAE
Last year, our FSAE team did exceptionally well at the competition in Werribee,
Victoria. In an international field, they placed 6th overall, up there with the global
leaders, Stuttgart, Sophia (Japan) and UWA. We also came 2nd in the fuel economy
event, a justification for switching to a new, 2-cylinder 550 cc engine. This year's
team promises to do even better. The 2009 car has a lighter chassis, more
sophisticated suspension system and an under-body diffuser that has been designed
using CFD and wind tunnel tests.

Final Year Projects
Thursday, October 22
is the date of our final
year project exhibition
which is the
culmination of a year’s
work for our final year
students. The
exhibition is an
extremely stimulating
event to attend with a
large number of
industry sponsored
prizes and this year it
is being held at
Wayville Showgrounds
with a regular special
bus service leaving between 10am and 4pm on the hour every hour from the
university footbridge and returning every hour as well.

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Orientation Week Design
and Build Competition
This year, the competition was
restricted to level 1 and level 3
students with level 4 student
volunteers as group leaders.
As is tradition, teams were an
even mix of level 1 and level 3
students. We hope that the
competition encourages
interaction between team
members from different year
levels as well as giving
experience in teamwork,
meeting short deadlines and developing innovative ideas to satisfy a design need.
This year, each group built a trebuchet, that was 1m x 1m x 1m in size and designed
to fire soggy newspaper projectiles (although on the day, plastic balls were
substituted for the soggy newspaper. Teams battled in a sudden death knockout
competition, with trebuchets placed on tables, spaced 10m apart. An office partition
divider was placed between the tables. Any trebuchet hit 3 times was eliminated,
with the last team standing the winners. The prizes were sponsored by Defence
Force Recruiting (who actually pay successful applicants to complete their degree).
First prize was $750, second was $250 and third was $100. The best engineered
project was awarded $250 and the best report was awarded $250. Congratulations
to all winning teams.

Engineering Communication
Through our industry advisory committee and the personal contacts with industry
that many of our students have, we know that employers place great importance on
the ability of graduates to communicate in both written and verbal forms. In fact, your
ability or not to communicate will have as much bearing on your selection for
employment as your technical ability. For this reason we have two courses in
communication, one in level 1 and one in level 3 and these are supported by
documents outlining requirements for project reports and particularly the final year
project report. In addition, students are required to present seminars to staff and their
peers at both level 3 and level 4 and the level 4 exhibition gives students an
opportunity to gain experience in presenting their work to a non-expert audience.
From 2010 onwards, students taking the Design Practice course will be required to
produce professional engineering drawings and a Gantt chart as part of their project.

Sports Engineering
This is the second year of this new program which is progressing extremely well
under the guidance of Dr Paul Grimshaw. Following the departure of Associate
Professor Franz Fuss, we have advertised for a replacement sports engineering

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lecturer and we anticipate the new appointment to commence in February, 2010.
This program is gaining in popularity with an intake of 21 in 2009 following an intake
ing
of 11 in 2008. We are very pleased that from 2010 onwards, our sports engineering
program will include a course on functional human anatomy to be taught by the
Discipline of Anatomy in the Faculty of Health Sciences. This is in addition to
natomy aculty
Physiology IIA (Human physiology) taught from 2009 by the discipline of physiology
in the faculty of Science. I would like to commend sports engineering students on
their initiative in forming their own club of which all sports engineering students are
club
members. This is an ideal way of communicating with potential employers and
ensuring that you maximise the benefits of your time at university. Sports
Engineering received provisional accreditation from Engineers Australia during their
Engineers
visit in May, 2009. We anticipate that full accreditation will be awarded as soon as
there are graduates from the program.

The most recent research by Dr Grimshaw has involved the testing the properties of
pig (see picture) and kangaroo cruciate ligaments for transplantation into a human
nd
knee as a possible successful replacement
to injury of the human structure. The animal
ligament replacement (Xenograft) technique
is currently receiving considerable attention
from Orthopaedic Surgeons around the
world as a potential future alternative to
human replacement due to the unique
nature and strength of the animal tissue. Dr
Grimshaw and his student have found that
the kangaroo ligament is more compliant
while the pig ligament is much stronger.
The differences in the mechanical
properties of the ligaments could account
for alternative models for Xenografting
depending on the nature of the injury. For
example, the kangaroo ligament due to its
potential compliance may be a better replacement for someone wishing to return to
replacement
sport after injury.

Sustainable Energy Engineering
This program was also introduced at the beginning of 2008 and is rapidly gaining
popularity, with an intake of 7 in 2008 and 21 in 2009. Associate Professor Eric Hu
was appointed in February, 2009 to take responsibility for this program. Since his
as
appointment the mechanical engineering stream of the program has been
restructured to reflect current trends in renewable energy and green building
technologies.

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Postgraduate Studies
It is worth remembering that your undergraduate degree qualification is a basis for a
multitude of possible career paths. One of these paths involves further study in the
form of a research project leading to a PhD qualification. The School of Mechanical
Engineering welcomes high performing students into their postgraduate program and
offers a number of scholarship opportunities so that you get paid $22,000 tax free
while you complete your PhD. A PhD can lead to careers ranging from Academic
researcher to defence research to engineering consulting to management consulting
and even to high level positions in large engineering companies. The School of
Mechanical Engineering has a number of research groups working in many areas
including combustion, acoustics, aeroacoustics, vibration, control, renewable energy,
sports engineering, welding, corrosion, pipelines for energy transport, robotics,
autonomous vehicles, micro-manipulation. These research groups include a number
of staff with solid international reputations for their work. There are many research
projects to choose from as well as staff to supervise you. If you are at all interested
please feel free to contact your favourite staff member or Dr Anthony Zander, our
postgraduate student coordinator.

Centre for Energy Technology
The School of Mechanical Engineering is proud to support an exciting initiative for
the establishment of the Centre for Energy Technology (CET), which will be hosted
within the School. The idea for establishing the Centre was initiated by Professor
Graham (Gus) Nathan, who will also be the inaugural Leader of the Centre.
According to Professor Nathan, “The Centre for Energy Technology is a visionary
initiative of the University of Adelaide. We are committed to supporting the nation in
its transition from high to low per capita emissions of CO2”. The Centre shares the
vision to make South Australia a hub of research and development for energy
efficiency, emissions reductions and alternative energy technologies in several areas
including biofuels, energy storage, solar-thermal, photovoltaic, wind and geothermal.

Building on the strength of our existing infrastructure of research laboratories and
facilities, and internationally renowned research team, the Centre aims to contribute
to the creation of a new era of sustainable energy technologies. This includes
technologies that focus on reducing greenhouse gas and other pollutant emissions
from existing energy systems, utilising alternative energy sources, and responding to
the effects of climate change within its field of expertise.

The Centre aims to develop long-term relationships with industry and international
partners, from which it will derive a self-sustaining operation. The Centre will also
offer scholarships to high achieving students, and support visiting scholars of
international reputation.

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Research in the School of Mechanical Engineering
Members of our Academic Staff have been responsible for many books and scientific
papers in international journals and conference proceedings as a result of the
extensive research being undertaken in the School. These are too numerous to list
here but they are the result of work on many research projects, some of which are
mentioned above and below.

Stealth Enhancement of Collins Submarines Research
Dr Carl Howard received funding of $530,000 to investigate a new stealth solution for
the Collins Class submarines. The funding has been provided under the Department
of Defence's Capability and Technology Demonstrator (CTD) Program, which is
managed by the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO). The
submarines usually run in “silent mode” using battery powered electric motors.
However, the batteries need to be recharged periodically and the purpose of this
project is to improve the stealth of the submarine during the battery recharging
operation. This will be done by improving the performance of vibration absorbers that
in turn, reduce the noise caused by operation of the diesel engines that drive the
battery charging generators.

Flow Induced Noise Research
The School of Mechanical Engineering has a large and active research program in
flow induced noise, or aeroacoustics. Here we study how fluid flow, by itself, can
generate sound. The most recognisable area of aeroacoustics is jet engine noise
but other areas in which we work involve wind turbines, submarines, helicopters,
landing gear and even computer cooling fans. We have postgraduate students
currently working on how to design quiet, high-performance airfoils, quiet morphing
wings, new experimental aeroacoustic imaging methods (beamforming) and
advanced numerical methods to compute flow induced sound. We need more
postgraduates to fill new opportunities in 2010. If you are interested, please contact
Dr Con Doolan.

Intelligent and Autonomous Robot Development
The robotics group (Drs Amir Anvar, Tien-Fu Lu, Ley Chen and Steven Grainger)
have been working on a number of major research and development projects to
support intelligent robots. These are:
• Intelligent Command, Control & Navigation System
• Intelligent Inertial Navigation System (INS)
• Automated Communication System
• Intelligent Machine-vision System
• Intelligent Sonar-imaging System

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Materials Research
The Energy Pipelines Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) was approved to
commence in 2010. The new CRC will address some of Australian national research
priorities over the next ten years, by providing the Australian energy pipeline industry
with the technology necessary to extend the life of the existing natural gas
transmission network, and to build the new networks necessary to support increased
demand for natural gas, and the transmission of the new energy cycle fluids
hydrogen and carbon dioxide. The School, and in particular Professor Valerie Linton,
Professor Gus Nathan and Dr Erwin Gamboa, are going to be involved in this CRC
in the areas of developing improved pipeline materials, increasing pipeline integrity
and safety, and to develop a strategic plan for future pipeline networks, particularly to
service renewable energy sources.

Postgraduate Students Association President
Congratulations to our postgraduate student, Morteza Mohammadzaheri, who has
been elected President of the Postgraduate Students Association.

PhD Student Graduations
It’s pleasing to see so many students graduating this year after their years of hard
work. Congratulations to Drs Michael Riese, Susan Pearce, Cris Birzer, S.K. Lee and
Grant England.

Conferences
Each year Academic staff attend one or two conferences devoted to their particular
research area and occasionally we host conferences at the University of Adelaide.
This year we are pleased to be hosting the Australasian Association for Engineering
Education Conference, which will be chaired by one of our staff, Dr Colin Kestell. We
are expecting over 100 delegates to attend.

Awards and Prizes
I would like to congratulate the students who will win prizes at our annual awards
dinner at the Stamford Plaza Hotel, North Terrace (opposite the Railway station) on
Wednesday evening, December 16. Hope to see you all there!

Good luck to all of our students for the November examinations!

Colin Hansen
Head of Mechanical Engineering

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Australian School of Petroleum
The past year 2008-2009, has been a year full of challenges
and achievements for the Australian School of Petroleum. The School maintains our
commitment to high quality teaching and research.

Head of the Australian School of Petroleum
Professor Richard Hillis

We have seen the arrival of several new teaching and research
staff. On the teaching front we welcomed Dr Guillaume Backé,
Dr Manouchehr Haghighi and Ms Mary Gonzalez. On the
research side we welcomed Dr Adrian Tuitt, Dr Zhenjiang You,
Dr Nicole Dobrinski and Dr David Haberlah.

In mid 2009, Dr Manouchehr Haghighi was appointed to a Senior Lecturer position
and has taken on co-ordinating ‘Formation Evaluation,
Petrophysics & Rock Properties’ for 2009. His research focuses
primarily on enhanced oil recovery processes in naturally
fractured reservoirs and in full field integrated reservoir
simulation.

Senior Lecturer, Manouchehr Haghighi.

Dr Guillaume Backé was appointed to a Lectureship in May 2009 and is focusing his
current research on improving the three-dimensional geomodelling of economic
resources in the sub-surface, in particular in areas characterized by complex
geological settings. These include highly deformed terrains, such as sedimentary
basins in the vicinity of mountain belts, deep water fold-thrust belts,
and salt-related tectonic structures. He is also involved in applied
research focused on the development of carbon geosequestration,
through his collaboration with the CO2CRC based at the University
of Adelaide.

Dr Guillaume Backé

Over the past year several of our staff have undertaken international Distinguished
Lecturer Tours, including Pavel Bedrikovetsky’s tour on “Injectivity Impairment and
Well and Water Management”, Bruce Ainsworth’s tour on “Reservoir
Compartmentalisation” and John Kaldi’s tour on “CO2 Geosequestration”.

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As always our End-of-Year and Welcome BBQs proved to be a big hit. The
increased presence of the SPE Student Chapter and their assistance in running
student events, such as the BBQs, has really helped to enhance student
camaraderie and the social atmosphere of the ASP.

In May 2009 our 1st year class again enjoyed a weekend fieldtrip to Sellicks Beach
and Carrickalinga Head. Interaction between staff and
students at the Fleurieu Peninsula field-camp ensures new
petroleum engineering students develop fellowship
amongst their peers whilst also thinking about rocks in 3D.

The international diversity of our students continues with undergraduate students
coming from a range of countries including
Malaysia, Oman, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia,
Pakistan, China and India. We look forward to a
new Articulation Agreement being signed later
this year with China University of Petroleum in
Beijing.

The new BE(Petroleum/Mining) has proved quite
successful with a first year intake in 2009 of 10 students. The new program will help
support government and industry demands for greater numbers of qualified
professionals in Petroleum and Mining and provide career flexibility and security for
graduates.

The annual Graduation Dinner was held at Ayers House on the evening of
December 23rd 2008. From our 2008 engineering honours class, awards were
received by Siti Zulkipli, Benjamin Newbery and Chris Turner. Siti was awarded both
the Santos Prize for top overall Engineering honours student and the Peter
Behrenbruch Award for best overall international honours student. Benjamin and
Chris shared the Honours Project Prize for best petroleum engineering honours
performance with their projects titled “Prediction of Damage Radius in Water
Injection Wells, Through Interpretation of Well Injectivity History for the Purpose of
Planning Injection Well Stimulation” and “Investigation of the Application of
Horizontal Wells for Tight Gas Reservoirs” respectively. With over 30 honours
students for 2009, the honours project presentations will again be held over 2 days
on October 22nd and 23rd.

The 2008 Graduation Dinner also saw the announcement of the 2009 recipients of
the JF Kennedy Memorial Petroleum Engineering Entrepreneurial Scholarship. The
scholarship of $20,000 and field work with Extreme Machining Australia was shared
between students Carly Stark and Robert Plant. The scholarship is awarded to
students who demonstrate entrepreneurship, community involvement, innovation
and academic achievement.

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Congratulations also goes to
several undergraduate petroleum
students who received 2009 SPE
scholarships and merit awards.
The recipients included Danqing
Dong, Elferrerious Albert, John
Ciccarelli and Michelle Taye who
were selected on their academic
performance and extra curricula
activities/awards. The 2009
awards are sponsored by Petrolab
and SPE international, and were Award recipients at the June SPE SA Luncheon from left to
presented in June at the SPE SA right are - Gordon Moseby, John Ciccarelli, Michelle Taye,
Elferrerious Albert, Danqing Dong and Nicola Xu
luncheon.

In 2008 ASP had 55 graduating students: 29 in BE (Petroleum) and combined
degrees, 11 in our Masters of Petroleum Engineering program, 8 in other Masters
programs, 4 in our Honours Petroleum Geoscience program and 3 PhD students.

Petroleum Engineering Dec 2008 Graduates

We wish all our staff and students continued success in their research, studies and
careers.

Anne Gurowski
Academic Administrator, ASP

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