Civil Engineering Foundation
What is the Civil Engineering Foundation?
The Civil Engineering Foundation commenced in 1968 with the aim of bringing together members of the civil engineering industry to make available their practicing advice towards education of civil engineers and to provide funds beyond those from Government sources for the assistance in postgraduate study.
What are the objectives of the Civil Engineering Foundation?
The primary objective of the Foundation is to assist the Senate of the University of Sydney and the Vice-Chancellor on matters associated with under-graduate and post-graduate education and research in the field of civil engineering.
How are the objectives achieved?
The tasks of the Foundation are to provide a much needed channel for exchange of views and interaction of influences between the profession of the civil engineering industry and the School of Civil Engineering.
The Foundation also assists and advises in the conduct of research projects being carried out in the School. The Foundation fund raising complements the research projects by providing research scholarships, assisting with conferences, seminars and short courses involved in research and providing financial assistance to staff members and postgraduate students to attend overseas activities.
The Foundation is also instrumental in encouraging overseas lecturers to attend the department to share their expertise with the postgraduate and teaching staff of the School.
Management of the Civil Engineering Foundation
The management of the Foundation is vested in the Foundation Council. The Council comprises of industry members who, dependant on their level of support of the Foundation, can be Governors or Members plus professors of the School and ex-officio members from the University. The Council operates through an Executive Committee comprising of the Foundation President, Deputy President, Foundation Director and the Deputy Director. Each member of Council is voted into office annually with the Director bi-annually.
Advantages of being a Foundation Member
- Meeting regularly to exchange and promote ideas with other members equally pledged to support civil engineering education and research.
- Opportunity to determine the nature and extent of under-graduate and post-graduate education and research and the ability to influence the range and content of professional material in courses.
- Ability to encourage the initiation of research projects which they believe to be important to their company
- Ability to promote and supervise thesis ideas with under-graduate students with the aim of employing them on a full time basis.
- Members have the assurance of ready access to civil engineering advice, guidance and advanced knowledge on projects being considered by the member company.
- Foundation discount on seminars, courses, consulting and research projects.
- Advantage of preferred joining with School on ARC Research Linkage Grants
- Opportunity to join Foundation networking luncheons with allied members for forum on ideas, problems and solving solutions.
The Foundation is supported by annual subscriptions from its governors, members and by special donors.
2007-2008 Executive Committee
President: Mr Peter Thornton (Worley Parsons)
Vice-President: Dr Kourosh Kayvani (Connell Wagner)
Director: Professor John Small
Deputy-Director: Professor Kim Rasmussen
Contact Details
School of Civil Engineering J05
The University of Sydney
Sydney NSW 2006
AUSTRALIA
Fax: 02 9351 3343 (from outside Australia + 61 2 9351 3343)
Phone: 02 9351 2136 (from outside Australia + 61 2 9351 2136)
E-mail: foundation@civil.usyd.edu.au