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  • Eureka! Michael van Drempt[23 August 2008]

    Michael van Drempt wins a Eureka prize

    Michael, an undergraduate student in Civil Engineering has won $3000 in the Sleeks Geeks Eureka prize for his irreverent entry, A Fundamental Misunderstanding: a commentary on the evolution of physics. More

  • Itai Einav wins the Shamsher Prakash Research Award[22 August 2008]

    Itai Einav

    This is an International award given to young researchers in Geomechanics, and Itai has been selected against a very strong international field More

  • Experienced engineering practicioners strengthen our teaching team[28 July 2008]

    The school welcomes Jo Marples, Iain Gunn and Robert Herbertson to our teaching team this semester. More

  • Three new academic staff for civil[28 July 2008]

    New academic staff

    Liaquat Hossain, Luming Shen and Hao Zhang join the academic staff for semester 2. More

  • Institute of Sustainable Solutions[9 July 2008]

    Sustainable Solutions

    This new multi-disciplinary Institute will be a focal point for some of the world's leading thinkers, researchers and educators in disciplines such as renewable energy, land and water sustainability; economic development; population growth and public health; and food and energy security. More

  • ru QRious?[5 July 2008]

    Civil Engineering QR Code

    The latest in mobile technology helps students find us on the web. More

  • CIMS2008 and the Gregory J Hancock Symposium[27 June 2008]

    CIMS2008

    The School of Civil Engineering recently hosted nearly 100 delegates from across the country and the globe in the field of structural stability. More

  • International Conference on Thin Walled Structures[26 June 2008]

    International Conference on Thin Walled Structures

    Five current staff and students from Sydney joined many of their colleagues in this significant international conference held last week on the Gold Coast. More

  • Engineering a brighter future[25 June 2008]

    Warren Chair of Engineering Innovation

    Helping corporations unlock the commercial potential of new engineering and scientific technology will be the focus of a new Chair co funded by the Warren Centre and the NSW Government. More

  • German researcher's successful visit for wave energy research[12 June 2008]

    Elisabeth Baden has just spent the last 6 months completing her Masters degree thesis as a visiting researcher from Germany. Her research topic is realted to wave energy. More

  • Itai Einav wins Faculty Research Award[29 May 2008]

    Itai Einav

    Itai Einav has been been awarded the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies Research Award in recognition of work that was recently published in a special, triennial issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, produced by leading young scientists. More

  • ARC Linkage Success for Kim Rasmussen[29 May 2008]

    Scaffolding research

    Professor Kim Rasmussen has just been awarded an ARC Linkage grant to research High strength formwork systems in collaboration with Boral Formwork and Scaffolding . More