News & Events (2007 Archives)

A team of year 1 Civil and Environmental Engineering UNSW students have won the prestigious national "2007 Engineers Without Borders Challenge" and will be travelling to India to experience engineering in a developing region. The team, known as "The Planeteers" are shown with a model of their projec...

Final year UNSW Environmental Engineering student Anh Tuyet Vu received the ITEANZ (Institute of Transportation Engineers Australia and New Zealand) undergraduate student prize in November for her outstanding report on queueing theory applications for design of a taxi operation. The Australia and Ne...

UNSW and the Water Research Laboratory were represented at the recent Groundwater Quality GQ07 conference held in Perth from 2-7th December, 2007. Dr Martin Andersen, (Senior Lecturer and Researche...

The University of New South Wales has positioned itself as a key authority on critical infrastructure risks and requirements with the establishment of the new Centre for Infrastructure Engineering & Safety (CIES).

Professor Mark Bradford has recently been elected to Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE). Mark, who is Director of the School’s new Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety, is a UNSW Scientia Professor and Federation Fellow, and has been a m...

Successive revisions of the Australian Standard for Concrete Structures, AS3600, have directly incorporated the research findings of Professors Gilbert and Foster in n...

A team from UNSW Water Engineering recently went on a research cruise on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) to study the causes of blooms of the cyanobacterium (blue-green alga) Trichodesmium, pictured below. Trichodesmium is one of only a handful of algae that are capable of converting ...