News & Events

Dr William Glamore of the Water Research Laboratory, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW, was awarded PIANC’s DE PAEPE - WILLEMS AWARD for excellence in Coastal, Marine and Inland Waterways. PIANC, the premier and oldest association related to international navigation and waterway i...

The School has recently entered into a new strategic agreement with ANSTO, the Australian Government’s research facility for nuclear science and technology. This will result in an exciting synergy as we share many interests, in particular that of addressing environmental degradation.

Monday 26 May 2008 saw the annual 1st Year model structure testing take place for Engineering Design and Innovation (ENGG1000). Team DO7 (Shamma Hasan, Alexander Lam, David Schimke, Hari Subramaniam, Hedayat Hamedzadah) constructed the wining bridge out of plastic straws weighing only 238 grams.

In the twentieth century classic novel, The Magic Mountain, Nobel prize winning author Thomas Mann wanted to create a hero who was innocent, curious but also somewhat simple minded. So he chose to make his hero an engineer! So explained Alexander Wargon, speaking at the School of Civil and Environm...

Researchers from the University of New South Wales, lead by Dr Ian Turner of the Water Research Laboratory are working with partner investigators from the University of Plymouth, Bordeaux University and the French Navy in a large international beach research effort.

The School Welcome for new students was held on Thursday, 6 March 2008 After being welcomed by Head of School and CEVSOC, new students and staff mixed freely in the School foyer.