News & Events

The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering has welcomed a group of senior Indonesian government officials from the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Transportation, Jakarta, as well as senior academics from Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta.

The group are in Sydney as part of an act...

Year 3 PhD student Fiona Johnson was awarded a best student presentation award at the Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand (MSSANZ) 2009 conference in Cairns in July. Fiona’s award was based on the following two papers:

Johnson, F. and A. Sharma, 2009: GCM simulations of a ...

Have you heard the one about the fish that didn’t get away? Major fish kills in northern NSW have concerned farmers, fishermen and scientists for years. The recent revelation of an unexpected form of aluminium released from acid sulfate soils could help solve some of their frustrat...

The Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety hosted the annual University and Industry Evening of the Concrete Institute of Australia (CIA) on 8th April. It was an evening that showcased the Centre’s major research activities in the areas of concrete structures and concrete technology. Key C...

We have some amazing students. A prize giving function was held on the 23rd April prior to the graduation ceremony for the Civil and Environmental programs. The function was celebrated in the School’s new design studio with Professor David Waite addressing the audience. Students and their families a...

Several early graduates of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering came to campus recently to celebrate their Golden Jubilee, as guests of the Faculty of Engineering.  The graduate class of 1959 enjoyed meeting up with one another as well as a campus bus tour, luncheon and the sharin...

Dr Wei Gao, Lecturer of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and member of CIES – The Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety has successfully gained ARC funding for the development of a theoretical base for the quantitative analysis of dynamic performance of an on-road vehicle...