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Hysteresis

2009 The Annual Publication of the

Adelaide University Engineering Society

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The Adelaide University Engineering Society

would like to present

HysteresisHysteresisHysteresisHysteresis

Published by the Adelaide University Engineering Society

Edited by Kristina Noicos and Alex Egan Suck it yas!

Published October 2009

Hys����ter����e����sis n.

1. The lagging of an effect behind its cause, as when the change in magnetism of a body lags behind changes in the magnetic field.

2. The annual publication of the Adelaide University Engineering Society, documenting the most vital parts of the greatest faculty on campus.

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ContentsContentsContentsContents

Origins of the AUES ................................................................................................... 1

AUES Committee 2009 .............................................................................................. 4

Editorials .................................................................................................................... 5

Sponsors .................................................................................................................... 6 Executive Committee Reports

President ................................................................................................................. 7

Vice President (Education)...................................................................................... 8

Vice President (Activities) ..................................................................................... 10

Treasurer .............................................................................................................. 12

Women’s Officer ................................................................................................... 13 AUES Events

O’Week ................................................................................................................. 14

Pub Crawl ............................................................................................................. 16

Careers Night ........................................................................................................ 19

BBQs .................................................................................................................... 20

Quiz Night ............................................................................................................. 23

Coopers Clubs Cup ............................................................................................... 25

Cocktail Night ........................................................................................................ 28

Vox Pop .................................................................................................................... 29

Where are they now? ............................................................................................... 32 School Reports

School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering ........................................ 33

School of Mechanical Engineering ........................................................................ 35

Australian School of Petroleum ............................................................................. 42 Student Society Reports

AIAA ...................................................................................................................... 45

CHEMS - The Chemical Engineering Society ....................................................... 47

EEESAU ............................................................................................................... 50

EWB - Engineers Without Borders ........................................................................ 51

SPE - Society of Petroleum Engineers ................................................................. 53 Reports from Associated Organisations

National Wine Centre ............................................................................................ 55

Engineers Australia ............................................................................................... 56

Clubs Association ................................................................................................. 57

The AUES in Numbers ............................................................................................. 59

The AUES Website .................................................................................................. 61

The AUES Newsletter .............................................................................................. 63

My Lecturer is Famous! ............................................................................................ 64

Dan the Male Model ................................................................................................. 65

The Full Adelaide Uni Experience ............................................................................ 66

History-sis - A Blast from the Past ............................................................................ 67

Staff Profiles ............................................................................................................. 70

University Life as a Mature Age Student .................................................................. 74

2009 Year in Review ................................................................................................ 75

Eatery Review .......................................................................................................... 77

Meet Next Year’s AUES President ........................................................................... 81

Photo Gallery ........................................................................................................... 84

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OriginsOriginsOriginsOrigins of the AUESof the AUESof the AUESof the AUES

The origins of the AUES can be traced back to the early Neanderthal days. Unfortunately, cavemen Engies were severely limited in what they could design by several factors - for example the wheel was square, electricity was something to be avoided, and finally (and most importantly) no-one knew how to brew a good beer.

But as man evolved so too did the Engie Societies - until the advent of the Romans and the Greeks and their love of sharp pointy metal

things and sticking them in people. Although the introduction of wine boosted Engie’s abilities, there was still a certain spark of

integrity and stability lacking; beer. This lack of beer sadly resulted in the fall of the Roman Empire, as the beer drinking Gaul and Germanic tribes, aided by their superior beer drinking engineers decided to ‘shut the neighbours up’ once and for all by having a REALLY big barbeque.

Around this period Engie Societies began to appear in what was to become known as Asia through evidence found in the great Engie scrolls. Apparently a wall-building event organised by the local Engie committee got a little out of control after a few too many Tsingtaos. This epic struggle continued for many years with the wall getting longer and longer (which pays testament to the stubbornness of Engies)

until our ancient brethren, the “Sciences”, discovered gunpowder, and the Engies came to realise it was much more fun to blow things up rather than to build them…as is still evident in our modern pub crawls!

It wasn’t until sometime in the middle ages that the holy fluid, beer, came into greater prominence. This gave rise to huge feats of engineering; giant pubs made out of stone and surrounded by moats full of keg dregs. The reasoning for this is written by the sage Beerscullo in his writings, which state “ye any invader toppled into thy moat would consume too much libations (beer) and henceforth be rendered unable to continue fighting, standing, or talking…”.

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The first pub crawls also began to be organised in this period, and owing to the growing popularity of beer, were extremely large. These pub crawls became known as the Crusades, and tended to go long distances looking to quench their thirsts. Things remained much the same until another major source of knowledge was discovered - spirits. The advent of spirits

gave rise to a giant increase in learning, which became known as the Renaissance period. Modern wonders such as the alcohol powered car and locomotive were invented, and, with the lack of breath testers, filling up the jalopy took on a whole new meaning. Fortunately, a bright young engineer pointed out that precious alcohol was being wasted on machines that couldn’t really enjoy the taste or other effects, and so petroleum was used to power vehicles instead.

The end of this period saw, in the little known colony of Australia, an initial rising of the AUES, which was temporarily stunted due to the first appearance of the great evil - Prohibition. This dastardly law was made by the evils known as ‘law and order’, to prevent the rise of the Great Society. Fortunately the population rose up in favour of the ‘good drop’ and threw down the great evil.

As the Society grew in power and influence, senior members of the AUES decided it was time to elect a president, via secret ballot. Unfortunately an ongoing argument between the Germans and the rest of the world about who brewed the best beer got out of hand and the Great War broke out, so the AUES election was postponed in favour of a barbeque - which seemed a more appropriate way to settle the argument. The issue was finally settled by everyone getting hammered and throwing ‘empties’ at the Germans. But unfortunately the issue was to come up again several years later, when a little German brewer with his trademark moustache convinced some of his mates of the power of the dark side of beer - began World War II. Once again, the AUES came up with the excellent idea of resolving the conflict - another barbeque!

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During the barbeque, one of the more enlightened members of the AUES bellowed “Hitler’s a D**KHEAD!” and everybody cheered! Such a bold display did not go unnoticed by the world leaders that were present, who, in turn used this cry to inspire allied troops to victory. It was also decided that such arguments should never happen again, so the political arm of the AUES, along with the enlightened boisterous chap as leader, became the United Nations, but only after the first choice “United Breweries” was abandoned.

In more recent times the AUES has continued to grow in power and influence. While we still undertake historical recreations of some our most prominent past events, such as the pub crawl (a recreation of the great wall building event is just a little too daunting), the AUES now prefers to keep a lower profile. But we continue to work behind the scenes, and few important decisions are made without first consulting the AUES. It is widely accepted that if peace comes to the Middle East, it will be due, in no small part, to the tireless workings of the AUES and its members.

And so it can be seen that from its humble beginnings millennia ago, when the society for engineers was a mere

twinkle in the eye of our strange, yet prophetic, forefathers, the AUES has developed into a mighty organisation. While some may describe its operations as bizarre or even crazy,

society in general has come to see the AUES as a symbol of all that life should be, as a beacon of hope guiding them away from

the rocky shoals of their past to a brighter, more interesting future…

Anonymous

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AUES Committee 2009AUES Committee 2009AUES Committee 2009AUES Committee 2009

President VP (Ed) VP (Activities) Treasurer Kristina Noicos Kevin Chan Tim Hickson Yasmin Freschi

Women’s Officer Publicity Officer IT Officer Peta Johannsen Daniel Ali Alex Egan

Alex Byron Chris Crystal Essie Arney Holmes Quek Forrester Morrison

Heath Kailash Kate Michael Ruth Georgeff Thiyagarajah Turner Lee Tupper

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EditorialsEditorialsEditorialsEditorials

I’d like to start my editorial by expressing how much fun it was to edit Hysteresis. This may sound like a joke, but being forced to go through each article and remember everything we got up to this year made me appreciate what a fantastic year it has been. As you can imagine from the size of this magazine, a lot of effort went into its development, so I’d like to acknowledge those that helped us create this masterpiece. Firstly, almost everyone on the 2009 committee actually submitted an article. This is truly amazing considering past years involvement and a testament to how the AUES is continuously changing and improving. Secondly, Alex Egan for letting me take control of editing as I similarly took control of everything else this year in the AUES. A very big and important thanks needs to go to the Dean of the ECMS Faculty, Peter Dowd, for letting us contact the engineering schools and giving us permission for this yearbook to go ahead. Thanks also to the ECMS Marketing department for taking time out from their important jobs to edit the magazine, and for leaving so much of the original content in here. Huge thanks goes to Chris Tan Consulting, who at the last minute offered to sponsor the printing of this magazine. Thank you very, very much. The last acknowledgement is for everyone that paid for membership, attended our events and bought our pub crawl shirts. Without all those people the club (and Hysteresis) wouldn’t exist. Having said all that, I hope you enjoy reading Hysteresis as much as I enjoyed editing it! Kristina Noicos

Earlier in the year, I put my hand up and said I'd edit Hysteresis. I thought it was a necessary evil and wouldn't be a lot of work since most of the content is done by other people. Just throw it together and Bob's your uncle. When the time came to actually doing it, I realised how wrong I was. It was great fun to read, write and edit; looking back over the year and remembering all the stuff that happened has made me appreciate my time at uni and with the AUES. Also, there was surprisingly a lot to do to make this document happen! Even though Kris took charge and revoked my creative freedom, it was fun to do. Big thanks go out to everyone who contributed directly, through articles and the like, and to those who contributed indirectly, by making this year and our events worthy of writing about. This year was one of the biggest and best for the AUES. We got things going early with O'Party in O'Week, the pub crawl was the biggest yet and our BBQs continue to get more and more massive. So there is a lot to read and we think it's pretty good. Hopefully, you do too. As the 2009 uni year draws to a close, I hope you had a good one and that next year is even bigger and better. Alex Egan

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SponsorsSponsorsSponsorsSponsors

Financial businesses in industry indicates the link between the AUES and

furthering your degree.

Businesses

By sponsoring the AUES, Schlumberger, TMK Consulting and Chris Tan Consulting have

ensured that the AUES can have the best events on

A business that provided goods

Without Big Quince pub crawl shirts they so kindly

provided at a discounted price, the AUES wouldn’t have enough profits

to spend on events.

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Financial support from businesses in industry indicates the link between the AUES and

furthering your degree.

Businesses that provided financial support

By sponsoring the AUES, Schlumberger, TMK Consulting and Chris Tan Consulting have

ensured that the AUES can have the best events on campus.

A business that provided goods

Without Big Quince Print and the pub crawl shirts they so kindly

provided at a discounted price, the AUES wouldn’t have enough profits

to spend on events.

Thanks to the National Wine Centre, the AUES was able to provide pub crawl goers with

jelly shots, club members with UniBar drink specials and

Careers Night attendees with free drinks

Hysteresis 2009

A body that provided support

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PresidentPresidentPresidentPresident

This year has undoubtedly been the biggest year of the AUES, due in most part to my fantastic leadership, great ideas and organisation skills. I am a really awesome president, and I did a much better job than that Chris Schwarz guy in 2008. Being president of the biggest club on campus has definitely been the highlight of my university life, which can be attributed to the great people I’ve had a chance to spend time with and all the handy skills I’ve developed.

The most important skill an AUES president needs to learn is how to create an epically good event with limited resources. Correct quantities of food, beverages and entertainment are required, as well as adequate levels of seating. There must always be seating. Now I’m sure everyone assumes the AUES has a bank account with hundreds of thousands of dollars in it, but this isn’t the case. This means that we have become fantastically good at using a small amount of money to create a whole lot of fun. This is a skill I practise in my spare time, and am currently perfecting, since at the end of October I will no longer receive free money from Centrelink. Another skill I’ve learned is how to make friends with basically anyone. This is an important life skill for engineers as many jobs are offered through networking, and since a lot of us engineers are socially challenged. I discovered it’s actually possible to make friends with someone if you have only one simple thing in common. Leading on from this point, myself and 500 other people enjoy engineering BBQs. Skills aside, there have been some great improvements and additions to the AUES in 2009. Some of these are a working membership/mailing list - we actually know who members are and can contact them via email; a brand new website - read about it on page 61; AUES steins, including such features as ‘large volume’, ‘plastic composition’ and ‘handle’; deals for members at the UniBar (thanks Niomi!) and membership stickers which allowed us to throw away the hugely unsuccessful barcode scanners of 2008. Thanks to everyone that contributed to the fantastic success of the Society in 2009, specifically Sarah Stronglaw (Events at the National Wine Centre) for continuing to answer my phone calls, Adelaide onLION for our website, Xan, Shwatta and Tom V for their ongoing support, and the people on committee that contributed this year - you know who you are. Lastly, the biggest thank you is to every single person that came to our events and made this the best AUES year ever! Kristina Noicos

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Vice President (Education)Vice President (Education)Vice President (Education)Vice President (Education)

The role of VP (Education) is to organise events which support the learning and professional development of engineering students. This includes working with and supporting professional engineering organisations, running the Statics Tutoring program and, the main event of the AUES education calendar, the annual Careers Night. The Careers Night report is presented on page 19 whilst other events are covered here. The AUES year commenced with a presentation to all first year engineers during the official Faculty of Engineering Mathematical and Computer Sciences (ECMS) welcome session. The Prez and

VP (Ed) introduced freshers to the lesser known side of the AUES, not the famous BBQs, parties and the Engie Pub Crawl, but the educational and professional support offered throughout the year. Freshers were invited to visit the AUES tent during O’Week for advice on settling in and to pick up their guide to first year success, the AUES ‘Unofficial Freshers Guide.’ This Guide contained advice on everything from subjects and uni technology to where students could collect their pigeons and pigeon holes. A map and checklist were available to help students find their way around and work out when they’d actually adapted to engineering at Adelaide Uni. Finally, the guide contained background reading which all students are required to know for their final year core knowledge exam, ‘The Origins of the AUES.’ This year the AUES continued to strengthen our ties with professional engineering organisations. The AUES VP (Ed) continues to hold a position on the Young Engineers Australia (YEA) SA committee and acted as the unofficial campus co-ordinator for Engineers Australia (EA). As part of this role the AUES facilitated several EA campus visits, signup opportunities throughout the year. In addition the AUES supported the EA careers advice night on August 3rd with a pre-event publicity BBQ. In 2010 Divina Tomamak will officially take up the revived office of EA Campus Co-ordinator. We wish Divina all the best in their new role and offer our ongoing support for EA campus activities.

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In 2009 the AUES extended its support of professional organisations to include PESA and the University of Adelaide Environment Institute. PESA was provided with a stall and extensive publicity at the first term 100 new student memberEnvironment Institute, because as everyone knows, it’s an engie AUES statics tutorials were held throughout first semester. The aim of the Statics Tutoring Program is to reduce the notorious ‘1through. An increase in social life (read ‘UniBar’), combined with other factors, cause a lot of students to fall short of their potential in particular subjects. The statics tutorials were attended by a limited number of students this year, with a peak in attendance the week of the midvolunteering to take the tutorials this year. If you are interested in helping out with statics tutoring or tutoring in any other first year subject, please register your interest on our website (www.aues.org.au). AUES assistance for first years will expand next year to incluservice. Older students interested in tutoring first year subjects will be able to advertise online on the AUES website so that first years can find help quickly and easily when they need it. Thanks to ECMS, the School of Mechanical Enand the Adelaide University Union for their assistance in organising events throughout the year and the use of their facilities. In 2010 the number of AUES VPs will be reduced from two to one. This sole VP will assume thresponsibilities of the education VP. Best wishes to next year’s VP, Quek, in continuing to expand the educational and professional development services offered by the AUES to engineering students and strengthening the clubs ties with industry.

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In 2009 the AUES extended its support of professional organisations to include PESA and the University of Adelaide Environment Institute. PESA was provided with

all and extensive publicity at the first term BBQ, resulting in PESA signing over 100 new student members. The AUES also organised a BBQEnvironment Institute, because as everyone knows, it’s an engie BBQ

ls were held throughout first semester. The aim of the Statics Tutoring Program is to reduce the notorious ‘1st year slump’ that a lot of freshers go through. An increase in social life (read ‘UniBar’), combined with other factors, cause

to fall short of their potential in particular subjects. The statics tutorials were attended by a limited number of students this year, with a peak in attendance the week of the mid-semester test. Thanks to Tim, Byron and Michael for

he tutorials this year. If you are interested in helping out with statics tutoring or tutoring in any other first year subject, please register your interest

aues.org.au).

AUES assistance for first years will expand next year to include a tutor referral service. Older students interested in tutoring first year subjects will be able to advertise online on the AUES website so that first years can find help quickly and

Thanks to ECMS, the School of Mechanical Engineering, the National Wine Centre and the Adelaide University Union for their assistance in organising events throughout the year and the use of their facilities. In 2010 the number of AUES VPs will be reduced from two to one. This sole VP will assume thresponsibilities of the education VP. Best wishes to next year’s VP,

, in continuing to expand the educational and professional development services offered by the AUES to engineering students and strengthening the clubs

Hysteresis 2009

In 2009 the AUES extended its support of professional organisations to include PESA and the University of Adelaide Environment Institute. PESA was provided with

, resulting in PESA signing over s. The AUES also organised a BBQ lunch for the

BBQ or its nothing.

ls were held throughout first semester. The aim of the Statics year slump’ that a lot of freshers go

through. An increase in social life (read ‘UniBar’), combined with other factors, cause to fall short of their potential in particular subjects. The statics

tutorials were attended by a limited number of students this year, with a peak in semester test. Thanks to Tim, Byron and Michael for

he tutorials this year. If you are interested in helping out with statics tutoring or tutoring in any other first year subject, please register your interest

de a tutor referral service. Older students interested in tutoring first year subjects will be able to advertise online on the AUES website so that first years can find help quickly and

gineering, the National Wine Centre and the Adelaide University Union for their assistance in organising events throughout the year and the use of their facilities. In 2010 the number of AUES VPs will be reduced from two to one. This sole VP will assume the roles and responsibilities of the education VP. Best wishes to next year’s VP, Christopher

, in continuing to expand the educational and professional development services offered by the AUES to engineering students and strengthening the clubs

Kevin Chan

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Vice President (Activities)Vice President (Activities)Vice President (Activities)Vice President (Activities)

This year is the last year of the Vice President of Activities position, since really it’s just an excuse to rock up late, look important while you do nothing, order people around and generally enjoy yourself as much as possible, so the ‘work’ has been divided among the rest of the committee in 2010. The year has been a grand one so far, with many unforgettable moments, along with a significant portion of moments that can’t be remembered. This year was perhaps the most successful year in terms of fun, entertainment, and

general good times, due in no small part to the huge organisational effort that the AUES committee (myself included!) has put in. While there was a huge committee this year, there was not often a huge group to help get things done, usually at the head of getting-it-done was the 2009-worst-prez-ever Kristina, so a huge thank you is due by the thousands of us that regularly enjoy the delicious, amber, bubbly benefits. Thank me too while you’re at it. Starting the year of with a nice slap in the proverbial face was Orientation week, in which the AUES always contributes whole-heartedly, with copious amounts of good-times forced onto all those around us. From MC-ing the tug-o-war and boat races, to spreading the love of all things beer and gospel of engineering with our megaphone, the AUES made sure everyone felt loved. On the Wednesday night of O'Week the first ever AUES O'Party was held, very successfully (attended by some 150 eager members), in the UniBar with blaring live music, plenty of party lights and great student-priced drink specials. An amazing success at the first of four BBQs of the year set our hopes high, with plenty of enthusiastic members queuing far across the Barr Smith Lawns eagerly awaiting the free food and drinks. I was amazed at how smoothly everything ran, despite the usual messing about with kegs (and still having to show people how to tap the kegs), irregular food-delivery times and random people serving the food. Particular highlights were the giant bunnies handing out free chocolate and the introduction of new AUES plastic steins, which greatly reduced the beer line waiting time and helped us all look a little more macho as we gave our drinking arm an extra workout. The term 2 and 3 BBQs were, as predicted, amazing events that were bigger and better than their predecessors, even rain and a slight slump in members

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at the term 2 BBQ didn’t reduce the meat and beer consumed, paving the way for a huge term 4 BBQ, which I am very much looking forward too. From the start of O'Week up until D-Day itself the excitement of the annual AUES Pub Crawl was building, through weekly T-shirt sales, large banners and countless posters, it was hard for anyone to hide their excitement. An outrageous success, personally measured by the number of free jelly-shots I swiped on entry to UniBar, number of sculling competitions won, total distance travelled by piggy-backing and the combined length of time that I wasn’t sure where I was or who I was talking to but didn’t care. Always the biggest event on the AUES calendar, some may even say the whole university calendar, this year smashed the previous records and brought together 1860 people eager to experience the legendary night of fun times, which certainly did not disappoint. A large wash of white shirts spouting general engie chants filled the night alongside responsible drinking, Hungry Jacks and making friends with randoms. A personal highlight was “discussing” how superior our pub crawl was with a number of people on smaller simultaneous crawls. The last event to mention here is the AUES quiz night, which broke some long-standing traditions such as the separate points system based on number of drinks consumed (meaning I suddenly had far less chance of winning) in exchange for an unlimited drinks package. This event always requires some of the largest organisational commitments from the committee and it was great to see so many people getting involved in collecting prizes, writing questions, serving drinks and checking tickets. I was very happy to save my VP skills for the most important tasks all night: eating pizza and drinking as much as my body would allow as I made it from the quiz to the UniBar and onto the Exeter for what I’ve been told was a great end to the already fantastic event. The night was also a great opportunity for some new potential committee members to show their dedication to bringing a good time to members. It’s going to be hard to match, let alone improve on this year’s achievements, but filled with the great memories of 2009 and years past we’re certainly going to try. Tim Hickson

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TreasurerTreasurerTreasurerTreasurer

Every year the AUES manages to run four BBQs where we go through an average of 1500 snags and 10 kegs. These BBQs cost around $4000 each to run. We charge a $5 membership at the start of the year to be a member of the club. If you do the math you will quickly see that this just doesn’t add up. So how do we manage to pay for all this? Well what we do is charge $25 for each pub crawl shirt when they cost $14 each [digital printing was more expensive this year]. This year we sold 1860 shirts and made enough profit to hold all of our BBQs. So this is how we manage to run such awesome events so cheaply.

Other sources of income are sponsorship, renting out the vending machines in CATS and from Clubs Association grants. Our sponsorship comes mainly from engineering companies, the National Wine Centre of Australia and if we’re lucky, a pub in town. You may have noticed a few logos on places such as the back of our pub crawl t-shirts and our website. We are hoping to gain a better relationship with engineering companies to increase this revenue from $1500 to much more. The vending machine in CATS is rented out for $2000 per year and Clubs Association grants are a maximum of $1000 per year [but only to be used in an emergency].

With the introduction of the new National Wine Centre service agreement, we were able to serve alcohol at our events towards the end of 2009. This resulted in less money being spent on what we call “admin costs” and more on the actual events.

This is the third year that we have had a high interest account at BankSA. We make about $400 a year in interest, which is not a lot, but it’s extra kegs that we can buy for next year’s BBQs. So overall, we run all our events either at a large loss or at break even and spend all of our profits on you, our members.

[Editor’s note: Thank you Yas for being too lazy to write a few hundred words, and for copying this entire article from last year’s Hysteresis. Lucky us editors can edit!]

Yasmin Freschi

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Women’s OfficerWomen’s OfficerWomen’s OfficerWomen’s Officer

A few years ago a wise engineer at my design practice practical said, “Watch out guys”, in reference to women in engineering. I believe this statement stands true, with the number of females in engineering increasing once again in 2009. For the first time in 6 years the AUES has a female president, “Girl Kris” and for the first time ever a committee ratio of almost 50%, with 8 females on a 17 person committee. With numbers like these - this could only mean a positive step forward for the club, as the best decisions are made from an accumulation of different ideas and opinions. 2009 saw a push to create clever advertising posters, and I believe that a new era in the AUES was born, one that promotes creativity and originality. The committee is always thinking of more ways to increase female

participation in events and to promote an all round equality within the club. At BBQs the amount of punch available more than doubled, thankfully meaning that punch was available for a large proportion of the BBQ rather than just the first 30 minutes. The cocktail night was also re-introduced to the AUES events calendar - something that had not been around since 2005. We all know that most females like to pretty themselves up and head out for a night of cocktails if Sex and the City has taught us anything, and hopefully this will become a regular and well received event on the AUES calendar. As a female in engineering I can only hope to see a further increase in females in engineering over the next decade and perhaps one day the AUES won’t need a Women’s Officer or an Equity Officer, but rather a Men’s officer.

Peta Johannsen

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O’WeekO’WeekO’WeekO’Week

O’Week is typically a great success for the AUES, and 2009 was no exception. It is a week in which the AUES raises publicity for its upcoming events, in addition to raising money through pub crawl shirts and membership. The committee arrived at 7 am on the Monday morning to help set up the AUES tent, which for the first time in years would have a place on the Barr-Smith lawns.

Within a few hours, hoards of freshers were making their way down campus, to check out what the AUES had to offer. One of the great services we provide for first year engies in O’Week is the ‘Fresher’s Guide’, a manual that contains every piece of information essential for a successful life at uni, from how to tackle exams to the location of the UniBar. The AUES was also asked to run a BBQ (which we did with ease), and our VP Tim Hickson was MC for a tug of war on the lawns.

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One of the events that we were extremely keen to publicise this year was the inaugural O’Party held in the UniBar on the Wednesday of O’Week. The event proved to be a great success, and promises to be bigger and better in years to come. Pub-crawl shirt sales were already up in O’ Week, with sales breaking 800 in the first week alone.

Membership sales were also strong as usual, indicative of the growing popularity for our quarterly BBQs. On the final day of O’Week the AUES managed to scramble together a Skullduggery boat race team. The engie team came close, but weren’t able to steal the trophy from the meds. This small loss however, did not take away from the great success of the week - a sign of things to come in 2009.

Kailash Thiyagarajah

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Pub CrawlPub CrawlPub CrawlPub Crawl

As with all AUES events, the annual pub crawl proved one full of high class, fine company and overall sophistication that punters have come to expect and love over the last few years. Being the largest pub crawl ever in AUES history, it

has shown that in even the most devastating of financial crises, the engineering spirit to spend everything on having a good time is still strong and unwavering. In fact, the AUES is right this very minute, working on pitching its crisis beating formula to the government, in hope to save this fair country from financial despair, as we are not only purveyors of a fine brew but also purveyors of patriotism.

On the night of April 3rd it was fantastic to see Adelaide town awash with white shirts all emblazoned with Drinky Bill, the loveable childhood character who so suddenly went off the rocks. What actually occurred on the pub crawl generally remains a mystery, especially to those who attend, mainly because remembering what happened is difficult. Patching together what precious memories I have left, I remember quite

enjoying several glasses of wine to the background of classy 1980s electro pop tunes wired over the stereo at the Griffin’s Head. The pub crawl is also a great opportunity for those of the older university generation (4th years) to reminisce by attending various establishments which they would have frequented in their past, before heading on to more expensive, cleaner and generally, well, better night spots.

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One of those being PJ’s Irish Pub. This pub reeks of character, (which is probably the most polite way of putting it), and judging by its native clientele, this pub proves to be a winner for people of all generations. However, this night the locals were cast aside, in a white wash of well, white shirts. One noticeable event I remember that occurred at PJ’s was hearing the lovely docile tones of our one and only president,

Miss Kris Noicos, calmly reminding patrons in the line who was boss, by screaming, “I’M THE PRESIDENT! I’M THE PRESIDENT!” while exiting the pub - I’m sure she had a wonderful night, and my respect for her can only increase with such eloquent displays of authority. As the night wore on, the engineering pub crawl fever continued strong and while some crawlers continued to the next of the various destinations for night, many brave punters made their way to the fine establishment that was Hungry Jacks, to refuel, recharge and befoul tables with tomato sauce and mayonnaise.

The lovable Shotz has become staple engineering pub crawl (EPC) fodder in recent history, and this year did not disappoint. As its name suggests, Shotz serves a variety of lovely

beverages all in small proportions, which for those who were feeding on the barley and hops of previous venues found much gentler on the bladder. With its unique combination of dance floor classics and that loveable emo-esque atmosphere, one can feel at home passed out in a corner, or merely stumbling around, looking at people they have known for years and not recognizing them at all.

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This is about where my night ended, as much as to say, I don’t quite remember anything else afterwards. Having said that, the AUES does appreciate all the help and support from the venues on the night, and an extra special thank you must go out to all the punters that attended, making this night a must-attend on every university student’s calendar.

Alex Arney

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Careers NightCareers NightCareers NightCareers Night

The 2009 Careers Night was held on May 12th in the Equinox and Eclipse function rooms. The night was divided into a presentation session and a networking session. For a small fee of $5, to help cover catering, AUES members received an insight into various engineering industries and were then given the opportunity to network with industry representatives in a relaxed environment. Attendance in 2009 was reduced from 2008 to 72 students and 9 organisations. This was despite increased advertising and publicity prior to the event. The drop in company attendance may be attributed to the economic situation, with 8 companies withdrawing in the week prior to the careers night. The first hour of the careers night, held in the Eclipse room, consisted of presentations from GHD, Ensign International Energy Services and Babcock Integrated Technologies Australia. Each of these companies detailed their respective industries and what their companies look for in graduates. Chris Tan Consulting were last to present (after we’d retrieved them from UniBar), providing students with

inspirational and invaluable advice on career planning and obtaining employment. The remaining two hours of the event, held in the Equinox room, allowed students to talk individually with the speakers as well

as representatives from Bardavcol, York Civil and ElectraNet. Students were also able to receive advice on further study and professional development from the university’s graduate centre and Engineers Australia respectively. Improving on 2008, plentiful catering was provided for both students and industry guests by the National Wine Centre. Special thanks to the National Wine Centre for sponsoring the night and to the industry representatives who volunteered their nights to network with students.

Kevin Chan

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BBQsBBQsBBQsBBQs

The AUES is most well known for two things, BBQs and our pub crawl, and boy do we know how to do a BBQ. The committee get to uni around 9:30 am on the fateful Fridays to get ready for the long day ahead. After getting all the necessary equipment from

our storage room, the UniBar and AUU reception, set-up begins. Soon, the smell of sausages and onions cooking is in the air and people follow their noses down to the Barr Smith lawns to partake in the time-honoured tradition of Engie BBQs. These all you can eat and drink sausage-fests are our main membership draw-card. $5 for four BBQs is truly a bargain even before you look at the other membership benefits. Our membership is growing every year and the BBQs this year were testament to that. We ran out of snags at two BBQs even after buying some more on the day. The punch is always popular but it always runs out very quickly. Being a bunch of engineers, we decided to try and fix this problem. So some calculations were done (thank you, Kris) and the punch was reformulated to have a larger volume but be just as tasty for approximately the same capital expenditure. Fluid dynamics in action!

If eating and drinking gets tiresome, there are usually other things going on at the BBQs to give you something to do or look at. Boat races take place at every BBQ in front of a cheering and excited audience. Our friends from PESA were at the first BBQ signing up members and promoting their burgeoning club to all the petro engies they could find. This BBQ

was also near Easter and bunnies were out and about giving away free Easter eggs and causing mischief.

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Free stuff was to be had at the second BBQ with Engineers Australia signing up student members for free and giving away stubbie holders and other gadgets. For those that fancy themselves great competitors in the mighty game of Rock, Paper, Scissors, Jim Beam were at the third BBQ to challenge people to a throw. The chance to win 15 free Jim Beams, to be enjoyed responsibly in the UniBar, was not an opportunity to be passed up by many punters. Tug of wars over the Torrens are an AUES tradition but getting BBQ goers to move down, away from the food, drinks and music, is often unsuccessful. Thus, in the spirit of efficiency, laziness and apathy, BBQ goers will no longer have to make the arduous trek to watch a tug of war. That's right! At the fourth and final BBQ of the year a tug of war will be held between the Engineers of Adelaide Uni and UniSA. Will the home turf, both literally and figuratively, be an advantage or will the guests defeat the crowd favourite. Only time or a time-machine can tell!

The advertising for the first and third BBQs was huge, with posters constantly on the walls all through the Engineering buildings despite them being removed daily. This translated into huge crowds and the third BBQ was the biggest BBQ on record. It had the biggest turn out and biggest consumption of food and drink in the history of the AUES: 1600 sausages and 14 kegs. This may have been helped along by the introduction of Strongbow on tap and the wonderfully decorated salads from our supplier Foodland. Treats for the eyes and the palate.

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The atmosphere at the BBQs is always excellent and revelry is high. It's great to see students, and some lecturers, from across tfaculty, come together in the Australian tradition of having a barbie. This is life on campus. This is campus culture at it

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The atmosphere at the BBQs is always excellent and revelry is high. It's great to see students, and some lecturers, from across the entire university, not just the ECMS faculty, come together in the Australian tradition of having a barbie. This is life on

s. This is campus culture at its finest. This is an AUES BBQ!

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The atmosphere at the BBQs is always excellent and revelry is high. It's great to see he entire university, not just the ECMS

faculty, come together in the Australian tradition of having a barbie. This is life on

Alex Egan

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Quiz NightQuiz NightQuiz NightQuiz Night

It was a crisp evening; 200 eager minds and 19 clean tables were at the ready, for puzzling questions and responsible alcohol consumption. For whatever reason they booked a table, all were on a quest for victory, and all would get there in one way or another.

The AUES Quiz Night is, like every other engineering society event, a memorable night - for those who have the ability of recollection. 7 rounds of pure brain teasing questions interlaced with delightfully stimulating mini-games, such as boat racing, heads and tails, and toss a coin at a bottle of liquor. Firstly, names for the tables were chosen. A favourite of the AUES was “Where the F*** is the rest of our team” aptly named by the table with only two quizzers present. While some prepared well for

the night with a table full of picnic treats, others were just waiting for the bar to lubricate the mind. And wait they did; soon, a ripple of excitement permeated the crowd as news of the bar opening spread out through the sea of attendees. The night was on. Students debated the opening quiz questions with a barely controlled, ferocious intensity their lecturers could only dream of, which only got rowdier with more liquid consumed.

The classy MC for the night: Xan O’Shea

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Question after question, round after round, the night progressed with a manner only an engineer could pull off. The final standings produced “The Game” as the victors, while the majority of the table “Homage Pastoulio” was ejected from the venue, although who can say who the real winners were. Overall it was a great night with many blurry memories, and for next year, remember; mess on the table is okay, but on the carpet costs us extra.

Essie Morrison

The amazing spread brought by a team of final year chemical engineers. They clearly didn’t have enough final year project work to do.

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Coopers Clubs CupCoopers Clubs CupCoopers Clubs CupCoopers Clubs Cup

It has become tradition that every year the Clubs Association, in conjunction with Coopers and the UniBar, hold a Clubs Cup. The Competition, this year, consisted of 8 different rounds where clubs could participate for points and prizes, with the overall winner announced at the Clubs Association end of year dinner. This year’s Clubs Cup rounds were a quiz night, karaoke, Guitar Hero, doubles pool, sumo wrestling, poker, Wii Bowling and a party pie eating competition. Prizes were donated by Coopers and the UniBar, with 1st place receiving 30 points, 4 jugs of Coopers, $20 UniBar food voucher and round winner t-shirts, 2nd place receiving 20 points, 3 jugs of Coopers and a $10 UniBar food voucher and 3rd place receiving 10 points and 2 jugs of Coopers. All teams received 5 points for participation.

The AUES started off slowly - not competing until Guitar Hero. Unfortunately the only competitor, Marcus Wong, left after only playing one song because he mistakenly thought his bag was being stolen. Before he left, however, he was on one of the top scores. The next round was doubles pool - which the AUES actually had a team for, but they failed to show up. A quick call was put over the microphone searching for AUES members in the bar and the GAMES club being quick on

their feet, thankfully found the AUES a team comprising of two regular UniBar pool players - Michael Bishop and Patrick Eiffe. This method of finding a team definitely proves that the AUES is everywhere - or maybe just in the UniBar. Nonetheless, the on the spot team proved no worse than any team that could have been put together, with the boys taking out first prize by beating the GAMES club in the semi final and Godless in the final. Now the AUES was right in the mix to place in the Competition. After realising that the AUES actually had the sheer numbers and skills to win the Cup, AUES steins were also offered to members as an incentive to compete. This worked, as the AUES had a team to compete in the Sumo Wrestling, held during Clubsfest - even if one of the competitors was picked up last minute in the bar.

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Rhys Heard (left) and Steve “Crack Mansion” Squires (right) competed fiercely, it just wasn’t enough to push through the rest of the field and gain a place. However, I don’t think the boys minded as the AUES prez Kris came along to support - bearing gifts of AUES Steins and free beer!

The sixth round was poker, so you would assume that the AUES would be nothing short of brilliant as most of us have had to study maths and statistics at some point. For once the AUES had a full team without having to search through the bar for competitors and this proved to be a great start. Alex "Chimp" Martinson (right) came firing out of the blocks, winning himself an armful of chips and making it to the

final 4 - where only 3 teams remained. The other competitors, Lloyd Moffatt (far-left) and Tom Vincent (with sunglasses) couldn’t be happier, as they already knew the AUES had won some beer. Finally it came down to the Computer Science club and the AUES. Poker is just as much a game of skill as it is a game of endurance, with Chimp keeping a cool mind through the final few hands and taking the game.

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It seems that everyone within the Uni is a member of the AUES - so when the AUES had no team for Wii Bowling, finding one within the UniBar in the space of a minute was rather easy. Not only does the AUES have the numbers - they also have the skills! Sam Warren (2nd from left) was the first AUES competitor and put the AUES

right into 2nd place. Sam got such a great score that even after Simon Thwaites (far left) and Alex Ramsay (far right) had competed, he still stood as the AUES’s top bowling score. Unfortunately in the 3rd round Godless knocked AUES out of second place and it came down to the AUES’s last competitor Robbie Monk (3rd from left). He didn’t disappoint. With his odd left spin technique he pulled the AUES back into 2nd place claiming another 20 points towards the Cooper’s Clubs Cup. Although myself or Kris couldn’t make it to the final event of the year, the pie eating competition for the AUES was a success. Sam Warren and Alex Ramsay (that’s right, from the Wii Bowling event) annihilated all competition to bring in first place! With this win the total AUES score for all events was 140, making us the winners of the Coopers Clubs Cup in 2009!

Peta Johannsen

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It was a cold evening in the town of AUES’ cocktail party hardly felt the surprising spring chill. Amid the low symphony of glasses clinking and the dull hum of chatter, men and women milled about, dining on the finest finger foods that the cajazz pianist Jean Felipe Michel made a surprise appearance and entertained the guests with a performance that will be remembered. Well... not quite. The 2009 AUES Cocktail Night, promised to be the greatnight of the year. On October 16arrived and then some. Held in the exquisitely transformed Equinox Function Room, ‘100 Years of the AUES’ was celebrated by guests. Enjoyed by all were the wonderful music, tasty hors d’oeuvres and cocktails provided all night. DJ Tom Miller was a splendid MC providing the attendees with great music to move to all night long. Behind the bar was the AUES Committee mixing cocktails with plenty of fire, zest and punch, resulting in many relaxed guests by the end of the night. The highlight of the night was undoubtedly the epic dance that spawned from some amazing talent on show. Michael Lee was theawe of his mind-blowing moves. Thanks must go to Madame President and efforts in organising a great night.

[Editor’s note: Although this event hasn’t occurred yet, we hope to see this article come to fruition next Friday night. See you there!]

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It was a cold evening in the town of Adelaide, but the guests at the ‘100 Years of the AUES’ cocktail party hardly felt the surprising spring chill. Amid the low symphony of glasses clinking and the dull hum of chatter, men and women milled about, dining on the finest finger foods that the caterers had to offer. As a special treat, renowned jazz pianist Jean Felipe Michel made a surprise appearance and entertained the guests with a performance that will be remembered.

The 2009 AUES Cocktail Night, promised to be the greatest night of the year. On October 16th, 2009 that night arrived and then some. Held in the exquisitely transformed Equinox Function Room, ‘100 Years of the AUES’ was celebrated by 150 well dressed guests. Enjoyed by all were the wonderful music,

d cocktails provided all night.

DJ Tom Miller was a splendid MC providing the attendees with great music to move to all night long. Behind the bar was the AUES Committee mixing cocktails with plenty of fire, zest and punch, resulting in many relaxed guests by the end of the

highlight of the night was undoubtedly the epic dance that spawned from some Michael Lee was the unanimous winner, with the crowd in

blowing moves.

Thanks must go to Madame President and the rest of the committee efforts in organising a great night.

[Editor’s note: Although this event hasn’t occurred yet, we hope to see this article come to fruition next Friday night. See you there!]

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Adelaide, but the guests at the ‘100 Years of the AUES’ cocktail party hardly felt the surprising spring chill. Amid the low symphony of glasses clinking and the dull hum of chatter, men and women milled about, dining on

terers had to offer. As a special treat, renowned jazz pianist Jean Felipe Michel made a surprise appearance and entertained the

DJ Tom Miller was a splendid MC providing the attendees with great music to move to all night long. Behind the bar was the AUES Committee mixing cocktails with plenty of fire, zest and punch, resulting in many relaxed guests by the end of the

highlight of the night was undoubtedly the epic dance that spawned from some unanimous winner, with the crowd in

the rest of the committee for their tireless

Michael Lee

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Vox PopVox PopVox PopVox Pop

1) Longest time spent in CATS?

2) Fondest moment of Engineering?

3) Worst Exam moment?

4) Who would you turn gay for?

5) What superpower would you like to have?

1) Fifteen hours trying to learn how Heat Transfer works just before the exam.

2) When a guy in a chicken suit ran through a Dynamics lecture in 2008 & when my neighbour in a lecture in Union Hall was bored and decided to start setting other people’s hair alight with a 3 inch flame, just for fun.

3) At my final exam last semester a lecturer went to the front of the desk rows and like a thirsty camel he skulled a bottle of pale ale in front of us.

4) There are so many to choose from…..Let me list them as the most wanted: Pope, Mao Zedong (non-necrophilia way), Barack Obama.

5) Fly - I would save so much on airfares it would be amazing! And I could fly to the edge of the atmosphere and beyond with the aid of an oxygen tank.

Josh Logan

1) 16 hours. 2) Andrei calling all Mechatronic

Engineering students girls . 3) All exams. 4) Ben Cazzo [Cazzolato, Mechanical

Engineering]. 5) I would like the power to see through

clothes, only of the opposite sex.

David Tang

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1) 3 hours, is that bad? 2) When I understood why fire was so complex

and that took me almost the whole semester. 3) Five hour exam without toilet and massive

hangover. 4) Basically everyone in Engineering South. 5) Pippi Långstrump (long stockings) (see below).

Erik - Exchange Student from Sweden

Alex “The Stud” Egan

1) Something around 12 hours. Embedded Computer Systems report, if my memory serves me correctly.

2) Helping organise AUES events of course! Good times. For something more related to what I'm studying, software engineering, my fondest moment would be the test suite that a friend and I wrote on a work experience placement. It did automated regression testing of some image transformation plugins. The testing found some bugs so it was good to see our code was useful!

3) DEFS in second year. I hadn't studied anywhere near as much as I should have, went in, didn't know how to do most of it and blanked on stuff that I did know. I walked out sure that I'd failed and dreaded seeing my results. Amazingly, I just scraped through with a marginal pass but I'd attribute that to scaling or something. Bad times.

4) Dan Ali. Engineer, male model, cool guy. The whole package really. 5) Immortality. I think it would be interesting to live forever and observe the way the world and

universe unfold.

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1) 18 hours... stayed there till 6 am working on an ESDC [Engineering Systems Design & Communication] project.

2) Every pub crawl. 3) When you know that you’re going to fail

the exam before you started. 4) Kris Noicos, sexiest AUES prez, ever. 5) I want to be like Alex Mack, so I could turn

into a pool of water, it would save me.

Maddy Pilla

1) 48 hours. 2) Blazewicz Moments [Antoni Blazewicz,

Mechanical Engineering lecturer]. 3) Assuming I've smashed an exam given

two hours. Then I find out its 3 hours. 4) Monica Bellucci. 5) The type that lets you be in class and

sleep on the lawns at the same time.

Sindhu Shastry

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Where are they now?Where are they now?Where are they now?Where are they now?

Name: Rebecca Tennant Degree: B.E (Civil & Env) double with BSc. (Chemistry and M aths) 2008 Current job: Water Engineer, Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) Adelaide

I graduated last year from uni finally and had to venture into the real world. I was a bit disillusioned at first and found it hard to come to terms with the fact that we couldn’t just decide to go the pub at noon and not return, but I still do not miss those long nights in CATS. I graduated at probably the worst time in many years and thanks to the global financial crisis a lot of my peers found that all those offers for work had dried up and struggled to find a placement in their field. I was lucky enough that PB were still willing to have me as a

graduate engineer in the water team. Since starting work I have had a number of opportunities which I have really enjoyed that may not have been offered to me in other financial circumstances. Instead of the expected number crunching I was involved with a lot of proposals earlier on in the year. I was then offered a place in Contracts Administration for the Iluka-JAA project, a mineral sands mine North of Ceduna. I have been working for this project since April and love being involved in a large mining project in an area that they only touch on at uni but is very relevant to engineering. My advice for engineering students is to enjoy your uni life to the full. As long as you pass in the end, especially in these times, take any opportunity to learn and grow in your field, even if it isn’t in the exact area you had planned.

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School of CivilSchool of CivilSchool of CivilSchool of Civil,,,, Environmental and Mining Environmental and Mining Environmental and Mining Environmental and Mining

EngineeringEngineeringEngineeringEngineering

The School has continued to grow with the addition of the new degrees in Mining Engineering and Architectural Engineering. There are now seven academic staff associated with Mining Engineering and four of those staff started in January 2009. The School has continued to be successful in research by gaining nationally competitive research grants and publishing research papers in top international journals. My vision for the School is that it is a • Fair, friendly, enjoyable and safe environment to work

and study • Collegial environment but with firm direction • High quality and well organised teaching environment • School in which students value their time and feel

valued • School publishing high quality research papers • School engaged with industry and the community Teaching Highlights Professor Holger Maier was recently awarded the SA Tertiary Science Education of the Year Award at the SA Science Excellence Awards. This is a very significant and prestigious recognition of Holger’s excellence in teaching and great news for the School. Professor Martin Lambert was awarded an Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning. Work carried out as a final year research project on climate change, urban heat islands and the coast caught the attention of the Advertiser environment writer in the October 31st 2008 edition. The students are Ross McConnell, Patrick Moody, Nick Byrne and Daniel Osborne. James Daniell, a graduate from this School in 2006, has been awarded a General Sir John Monash Award in 2009. Each year only 8 scholarships of $150,000 for 3 years are awarded. Liam Harnett, Jason Nicolson and Rebecca Tennant were awarded the Australian Water Association's Hodgson Medal, which is open to final year undergraduates (including Honours students) enrolled at South Australian universities and who have completed projects or investigations in a water related subjects.

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The final year research project group of John Baulis, Lisa Lloyd, Fiona Paton and Ben Staniford were awarded the 2008 SA Society for Sustainability and Environmental Engineering Student Sustainability Award for their project “Multi-Objective Optimisation of Urban Water Supply Systems at the Regional Scale Incorporating Sustainability” and are now in the running for the national prize. Fiona Paton was awarded the Ian Laing Prize by the Hydrological Society of South Australia, based on her final year research project from last year, which looked at determining optimal trade-offs between cost and greenhouse gas emissions for the southern Adelaide water supply system for various water supply types. Research Highlights Dr Chengqing Wu and Professor Deric Oehlers have been awarded a grant of $220K to help design buildings that can withstand terrorist attacks from explosive devices.

Associate Professor David Walker was awarded an ARC Linkage project “Sediment capture and deposition processes in coastal lagoons” in collaboration with the Murray Darling Basin Commission.

PhD graduate Dr Matt Gibbs from the School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering was awarded the Postgraduate Research Award at the annual Australian Water Awards night.

Sarah Jewell, who graduated from this School in 2005, and returned in 2009 to commence a PhD in coastal engineering on the Murray Mouth dredging program, has become the recipient of the inaugural Australian Water Association 2009 National Young Water Professional of the Year Award. Student Activities

Martin Lambert Head of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering

Concrete Canoe Challenge National Mining Games - Brisbane

Student Engineering Challenge

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School of Mechanical EngineeringSchool of Mechanical EngineeringSchool of Mechanical EngineeringSchool of Mechanical Engineering

2009 has so far been a very successful year for the School of Mechanical Engineering and its staff and students. There are a number of highlights discussed in this article but these by no means represent the full scale of activities undertaken by our excellent students and staff. Warman Design and Build Competition The Warman Design and Build Competition for level 2 engineering students is organised by Engineers Australia and sponsored by Weir Minerals Australia Ltd. A local competition is organized at each participating university campus and winners attend the final in Sydney. The objective is to design, build and prove prototype devices that achieve a required objective. Usually it involves helping the inhabitants of planet Gondwana. In 2008 the task was to design and build a single, all terrain autonomous vehicle to rapidly transport and accurately deploy a payload on an inclined track characterised by an number of difficult obstacles. The finals involved winners of local competitions from 14 universities, including teams from Malaysia and New Zealand. Our team consistently out-performed others and decisively won the competition. Congratulations to the members of the winning team: Tristan Goss, Eric Parsonage, Bryn Crawford and Shane Fitzgerald. Their supervisor was Dr Antoni Blazewicz. In 2009, the task was to pass a sculpture of the Gondwana’s prosperity (represented by a relay baton) around two edges of a ceremonial square to symbolise the change of government. The task was to be achieved by two autonomous devices, passing the baton from one to another, with at least one device purely mechanical. The baton was to be passed safely and quickly with points awarded for speed and accuracy. This year’s finals, run on 27 September, involved winners of local competitions from 17 universities including teams from New Zealand and Malaysia. The University of Adelaide won the second prize in a dramatic sudden death run-off, losing to the UWA team by a fraction of a second. The members of our 2009 team were Najmal Karuppam Veettil, Mustafa Amiruddeen, Felix Aditya Utama and Hasith Cyril Pathirana Arachchige. Their supervisor was Dr Antoni Blazewicz. Robotics Success A team of six Masters Students (Mohsen Bazghaleh, Yudi Wang, Long Xin, Jia You, Chen Fei Yu and Yin Yuan) undertook the design of a Robotic Concertina as part of

Head of School Professor Colin Hansen

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their Master's course in Advanced Digital Control to compete in the NICTA sponsored, inter-university, Candiago Cup, a competition for machines that play musical instruments. The students won first prize. Two of the Masters students, Mohsen Bazghaleh and ChenFei Yu, further developed the Concertina and gained first prize in the tertiary student project category at the SA iAwards for innovation in ICT and as part of their prize attended CeBIT Australia in Sydney with the SA Department of Trade and Economic Development delegation. Subsequently they were invited to give a presentation for the National iAwards in Melbourne. The students were pipped at the post by the team from ANU, however the result was so close (<5% difference in the judges marking) that they received a special Merit Award and will go forward to represent Australia against the best of the Asia Pacific region at the APICTA (Asia-Pacific ICT Alliance) Awards in December. Mohsen and Chen Fei also travelled to Nice, France, to compete in the Artemis Orchestra Competition where they took the runners-up prize of 4000 euros (around $7500). Formula SAE Last year, our FSAE team did exceptionally well at the competition in Werribee, Victoria. In an international field, they placed 6th overall, up there with the global leaders, Stuttgart, Sophia (Japan) and UWA. We also came 2nd in the fuel economy event, a justification for switching to a new, 2-cylinder 550 cc engine. This year's team promises to do even better. The 2009 car has a lighter chassis, more sophisticated suspension system and an under-body diffuser that has been designed using CFD and wind tunnel tests. Final Year Projects Thursday, October 22 is the date of our final year project exhibition which is the culmination of a year’s work for our final year students. The exhibition is an extremely stimulating event to attend with a large number of industry sponsored prizes and this year it is being held at Wayville Showgrounds with a regular special bus service leaving between 10am and 4pm on the hour every hour from the university footbridge and returning every hour as well.

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Orientation Week Design and Build Competition This year, the competition was restricted to level 1 and level 3 students with level 4 student volunteers as group leaders. As is tradition, teams were an even mix of level 1 and level 3 students. We hope that the competition encourages interaction between team members from different year levels as well as giving experience in teamwork, meeting short deadlines and developing innovative ideas to satisfy a design need. This year, each group built a trebuchet, that was 1m x 1m x 1m in size and designed to fire soggy newspaper projectiles (although on the day, plastic balls were substituted for the soggy newspaper. Teams battled in a sudden death knockout competition, with trebuchets placed on tables, spaced 10m apart. An office partition divider was placed between the tables. Any trebuchet hit 3 times was eliminated, with the last team standing the winners. The prizes were sponsored by Defence Force Recruiting (who actually pay successful applicants to complete their degree). First prize was $750, second was $250 and third was $100. The best engineered project was awarded $250 and the best report was awarded $250. Congratulations to all winning teams. Engineering Communication Through our industry advisory committee and the personal contacts with industry that many of our students have, we know that employers place great importance on the ability of graduates to communicate in both written and verbal forms. In fact, your ability or not to communicate will have as much bearing on your selection for employment as your technical ability. For this reason we have two courses in communication, one in level 1 and one in level 3 and these are supported by documents outlining requirements for project reports and particularly the final year project report. In addition, students are required to present seminars to staff and their peers at both level 3 and level 4 and the level 4 exhibition gives students an opportunity to gain experience in presenting their work to a non-expert audience. From 2010 onwards, students taking the Design Practice course will be required to produce professional engineering drawings and a Gantt chart as part of their project. Sports Engineering This is the second year of this new program which is progressing extremely well under the guidance of Dr Paul Grimshaw. Following the departure of Associate Professor Franz Fuss, we have advertised for a replacement sports engineering

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lecturer and we anticipate the new appointment to commence in February, 2010. This program is gaining in popularity with an intake of 21 in 2009 following an intake of 11 in 2008. We are very pleased that from 2010 onwards, our sports engineering program will include a course on functional human anatomy to be taught by the Discipline of Anatomy in the Physiology IIA (Human physiology) taught from 2009 by the discipline of physiology in the faculty of Science. I would like to commend sports engineering students on their initiative in forming their own clmembers. This is an ideal way of communicating with potential employers and ensuring that you maximise the benefits of your time at university. Sports Engineering received provisional accreditation from Enginvisit in May, 2009. We anticipate that full accreditation will be awarded as soon as there are graduates from the program. The most recent research by Dr Grimshaw has involved the testing the properties of pig (see picture) and kangaroo cruciate ligaments for transplantation into a human knee as a possible successful replacement to injury of the human structure. The animal ligament replacement (Xenograft) technique is currently receiving considerable attention from Orthopaedic Surgeons around the world as a potential future alternative to human replacement due to the unique nature and strength of the animal tissue. Dr Grimshaw and his student have found that the kangaroo ligament is more compliant while the pig ligament is muchThe differences in the mechanical properties of the ligaments could account for alternative models for Xenografting depending on the nature of the injury. For example, the kangaroo ligament due to its potential compliance may be a better replacesport after injury. Sustainable Energy EngineeringThis program was also introduced at the beginning of 2008 and is rapidly gaining popularity, with an intake of 7 in 2008 and 21 in 2009. Associate Professor Eric Hu was appointed in February, 2009 to take responsibility for this program. Since his appointment the mechanical engineering stream of the program has been restructured to reflect current trends in renewable energy and green building technologies.

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lecturer and we anticipate the new appointment to commence in February, 2010. ing in popularity with an intake of 21 in 2009 following an intake

of 11 in 2008. We are very pleased that from 2010 onwards, our sports engineering program will include a course on functional human anatomy to be taught by the

natomy in the Faculty of Health Sciences. This is in addition to Physiology IIA (Human physiology) taught from 2009 by the discipline of physiology in the faculty of Science. I would like to commend sports engineering students on their initiative in forming their own club of which all sports engineering students are members. This is an ideal way of communicating with potential employers and ensuring that you maximise the benefits of your time at university. Sports Engineering received provisional accreditation from Engineers Australia during their visit in May, 2009. We anticipate that full accreditation will be awarded as soon as there are graduates from the program.

The most recent research by Dr Grimshaw has involved the testing the properties of nd kangaroo cruciate ligaments for transplantation into a human

knee as a possible successful replacement to injury of the human structure. The animal ligament replacement (Xenograft) technique is currently receiving considerable attention

Surgeons around the world as a potential future alternative to human replacement due to the unique nature and strength of the animal tissue. Dr Grimshaw and his student have found that the kangaroo ligament is more compliant while the pig ligament is much stronger. The differences in the mechanical properties of the ligaments could account for alternative models for Xenografting depending on the nature of the injury. For example, the kangaroo ligament due to its potential compliance may be a better replacement for someone wishing to return to

Sustainable Energy Engineering This program was also introduced at the beginning of 2008 and is rapidly gaining popularity, with an intake of 7 in 2008 and 21 in 2009. Associate Professor Eric Hu

as appointed in February, 2009 to take responsibility for this program. Since his appointment the mechanical engineering stream of the program has been restructured to reflect current trends in renewable energy and green building

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lecturer and we anticipate the new appointment to commence in February, 2010. ing in popularity with an intake of 21 in 2009 following an intake

of 11 in 2008. We are very pleased that from 2010 onwards, our sports engineering program will include a course on functional human anatomy to be taught by the

aculty of Health Sciences. This is in addition to Physiology IIA (Human physiology) taught from 2009 by the discipline of physiology in the faculty of Science. I would like to commend sports engineering students on

ub of which all sports engineering students are members. This is an ideal way of communicating with potential employers and ensuring that you maximise the benefits of your time at university. Sports

eers Australia during their visit in May, 2009. We anticipate that full accreditation will be awarded as soon as

The most recent research by Dr Grimshaw has involved the testing the properties of nd kangaroo cruciate ligaments for transplantation into a human

ment for someone wishing to return to

This program was also introduced at the beginning of 2008 and is rapidly gaining popularity, with an intake of 7 in 2008 and 21 in 2009. Associate Professor Eric Hu

as appointed in February, 2009 to take responsibility for this program. Since his appointment the mechanical engineering stream of the program has been restructured to reflect current trends in renewable energy and green building

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Postgraduate Studies It is worth remembering that your undergraduate degree qualification is a basis for a multitude of possible career paths. One of these paths involves further study in the form of a research project leading to a PhD qualification. The School of Mechanical Engineering welcomes high performing students into their postgraduate program and offers a number of scholarship opportunities so that you get paid $22,000 tax free while you complete your PhD. A PhD can lead to careers ranging from Academic researcher to defence research to engineering consulting to management consulting and even to high level positions in large engineering companies. The School of Mechanical Engineering has a number of research groups working in many areas including combustion, acoustics, aeroacoustics, vibration, control, renewable energy, sports engineering, welding, corrosion, pipelines for energy transport, robotics, autonomous vehicles, micro-manipulation. These research groups include a number of staff with solid international reputations for their work. There are many research projects to choose from as well as staff to supervise you. If you are at all interested please feel free to contact your favourite staff member or Dr Anthony Zander, our postgraduate student coordinator. Centre for Energy Technology The School of Mechanical Engineering is proud to support an exciting initiative for the establishment of the Centre for Energy Technology (CET), which will be hosted within the School. The idea for establishing the Centre was initiated by Professor Graham (Gus) Nathan, who will also be the inaugural Leader of the Centre. According to Professor Nathan, “The Centre for Energy Technology is a visionary initiative of the University of Adelaide. We are committed to supporting the nation in its transition from high to low per capita emissions of CO2”. The Centre shares the vision to make South Australia a hub of research and development for energy efficiency, emissions reductions and alternative energy technologies in several areas including biofuels, energy storage, solar-thermal, photovoltaic, wind and geothermal. Building on the strength of our existing infrastructure of research laboratories and facilities, and internationally renowned research team, the Centre aims to contribute to the creation of a new era of sustainable energy technologies. This includes technologies that focus on reducing greenhouse gas and other pollutant emissions from existing energy systems, utilising alternative energy sources, and responding to the effects of climate change within its field of expertise. The Centre aims to develop long-term relationships with industry and international partners, from which it will derive a self-sustaining operation. The Centre will also offer scholarships to high achieving students, and support visiting scholars of international reputation.

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Research in the School of Mechanical Engineering Members of our Academic Staff have been responsible for many books and scientific papers in international journals and conference proceedings as a result of the extensive research being undertaken in the School. These are too numerous to list here but they are the result of work on many research projects, some of which are mentioned above and below. Stealth Enhancement of Collins Submarines Research Dr Carl Howard received funding of $530,000 to investigate a new stealth solution for the Collins Class submarines. The funding has been provided under the Department of Defence's Capability and Technology Demonstrator (CTD) Program, which is managed by the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO). The submarines usually run in “silent mode” using battery powered electric motors. However, the batteries need to be recharged periodically and the purpose of this project is to improve the stealth of the submarine during the battery recharging operation. This will be done by improving the performance of vibration absorbers that in turn, reduce the noise caused by operation of the diesel engines that drive the battery charging generators. Flow Induced Noise Research The School of Mechanical Engineering has a large and active research program in flow induced noise, or aeroacoustics. Here we study how fluid flow, by itself, can generate sound. The most recognisable area of aeroacoustics is jet engine noise but other areas in which we work involve wind turbines, submarines, helicopters, landing gear and even computer cooling fans. We have postgraduate students currently working on how to design quiet, high-performance airfoils, quiet morphing wings, new experimental aeroacoustic imaging methods (beamforming) and advanced numerical methods to compute flow induced sound. We need more postgraduates to fill new opportunities in 2010. If you are interested, please contact Dr Con Doolan. Intelligent and Autonomous Robot Development The robotics group (Drs Amir Anvar, Tien-Fu Lu, Ley Chen and Steven Grainger) have been working on a number of major research and development projects to support intelligent robots. These are:

• Intelligent Command, Control & Navigation System • Intelligent Inertial Navigation System (INS) • Automated Communication System • Intelligent Machine-vision System • Intelligent Sonar-imaging System

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Materials Research The Energy Pipelines Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) was approved to commence in 2010. The new CRC will address some of Australian national research priorities over the next ten years, by providing the Australian energy pipeline industry with the technology necessary to extend the life of the existing natural gas transmission network, and to build the new networks necessary to support increased demand for natural gas, and the transmission of the new energy cycle fluids hydrogen and carbon dioxide. The School, and in particular Professor Valerie Linton, Professor Gus Nathan and Dr Erwin Gamboa, are going to be involved in this CRC in the areas of developing improved pipeline materials, increasing pipeline integrity and safety, and to develop a strategic plan for future pipeline networks, particularly to service renewable energy sources. Postgraduate Students Association President Congratulations to our postgraduate student, Morteza Mohammadzaheri, who has been elected President of the Postgraduate Students Association. PhD Student Graduations It’s pleasing to see so many students graduating this year after their years of hard work. Congratulations to Drs Michael Riese, Susan Pearce, Cris Birzer, S.K. Lee and Grant England. Conferences Each year Academic staff attend one or two conferences devoted to their particular research area and occasionally we host conferences at the University of Adelaide. This year we are pleased to be hosting the Australasian Association for Engineering Education Conference, which will be chaired by one of our staff, Dr Colin Kestell. We are expecting over 100 delegates to attend. Awards and Prizes I would like to congratulate the students who will win prizes at our annual awards dinner at the Stamford Plaza Hotel, North Terrace (opposite the Railway station) on Wednesday evening, December 16. Hope to see you all there! Good luck to all of our students for the November examinations!

Colin Hansen Head of Mechanical Engineering

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Australian School of PetroleumAustralian School of PetroleumAustralian School of PetroleumAustralian School of Petroleum

The past year 2008-2009, has been a year full of challenges and achievements for the Australian School of Petroleum. The School maintains our commitment to high quality teaching and research.

Head of the Australian School of Petroleum Professor Richard Hillis

We have seen the arrival of several new teaching and research staff. On the teaching front we welcomed Dr Guillaume Backé, Dr Manouchehr Haghighi and Ms Mary Gonzalez. On the research side we welcomed Dr Adrian Tuitt, Dr Zhenjiang You, Dr Nicole Dobrinski and Dr David Haberlah.

In mid 2009, Dr Manouchehr Haghighi was appointed to a Senior Lecturer position and has taken on co-ordinating ‘Formation Evaluation, Petrophysics & Rock Properties’ for 2009. His research focuses primarily on enhanced oil recovery processes in naturally fractured reservoirs and in full field integrated reservoir simulation.

Senior Lecturer, Manouchehr Haghighi.

Dr Guillaume Backé was appointed to a Lectureship in May 2009 and is focusing his current research on improving the three-dimensional geomodelling of economic resources in the sub-surface, in particular in areas characterized by complex geological settings. These include highly deformed terrains, such as sedimentary

basins in the vicinity of mountain belts, deep water fold-thrust belts, and salt-related tectonic structures. He is also involved in applied research focused on the development of carbon geosequestration, through his collaboration with the CO2CRC based at the University of Adelaide.

Dr Guillaume Backé

Over the past year several of our staff have undertaken international Distinguished Lecturer Tours, including Pavel Bedrikovetsky’s tour on “Injectivity Impairment and Well and Water Management”, Bruce Ainsworth’s tour on “Reservoir Compartmentalisation” and John Kaldi’s tour on “CO2 Geosequestration”.

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As always our End-of-Year and Welcome BBQs proved to be a big hit. The increased presence of the SPE Student Chapter and their assistance in running student events, such as the BBQs, has really helped to enhance student camaraderie and the social atmosphere of the ASP. In May 2009 our 1st year class again enjoyed a weekend fieldtrip to Sellicks Beach

and Carrickalinga Head. Interaction between staff and students at the Fleurieu Peninsula field-camp ensures new petroleum engineering students develop fellowship amongst their peers whilst also thinking about rocks in 3D.

The international diversity of our students continues with undergraduate students coming from a range of countries including Malaysia, Oman, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, China and India. We look forward to a new Articulation Agreement being signed later this year with China University of Petroleum in Beijing. The new BE(Petroleum/Mining) has proved quite successful with a first year intake in 2009 of 10 students. The new program will help support government and industry demands for greater numbers of qualified professionals in Petroleum and Mining and provide career flexibility and security for graduates. The annual Graduation Dinner was held at Ayers House on the evening of December 23rd 2008. From our 2008 engineering honours class, awards were received by Siti Zulkipli, Benjamin Newbery and Chris Turner. Siti was awarded both the Santos Prize for top overall Engineering honours student and the Peter Behrenbruch Award for best overall international honours student. Benjamin and Chris shared the Honours Project Prize for best petroleum engineering honours performance with their projects titled “Prediction of Damage Radius in Water Injection Wells, Through Interpretation of Well Injectivity History for the Purpose of Planning Injection Well Stimulation” and “Investigation of the Application of Horizontal Wells for Tight Gas Reservoirs” respectively. With over 30 honours students for 2009, the honours project presentations will again be held over 2 days on October 22nd and 23rd. The 2008 Graduation Dinner also saw the announcement of the 2009 recipients of the JF Kennedy Memorial Petroleum Engineering Entrepreneurial Scholarship. The scholarship of $20,000 and field work with Extreme Machining Australia was shared between students Carly Stark and Robert Plant. The scholarship is awarded to students who demonstrate entrepreneurship, community involvement, innovation and academic achievement.

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Congratulations also goes to several undergraduate petroleum students who received 2009 SPE scholarships and merit awards. The recipients included Danqing Dong, Elferrerious Albert, John Ciccarelli and Michelle Taye who were selected on their academic performance and extra curricula activities/awards. The 2009 awards are sponsored by Petrolab and SPE international, and were presented in June at the SPE SA luncheon. In 2008 ASP had 55 graduating students: 29 in BE (Petroleum) and combined degrees, 11 in our Masters of Petroleum Engineering program, 8 in other Masters programs, 4 in our Honours Petroleum Geoscience program and 3 PhD students.

Petroleum Engineering Dec 2008 Graduates

We wish all our staff and students continued success in their research, studies and careers. Anne Gurowski Academic Administrator, ASP

Award recipients at the June SPE SA Luncheon from left to right are - Gordon Moseby, John Ciccarelli, Michelle Taye,

Elferrerious Albert, Danqing Dong and Nicola Xu

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AIAAAIAAAIAAAIAA

What is the AIAA? The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics is the world’s largest professional organisation dedicated to the arts, sciences, and technology of aeronautics and astronautics. It provides support and advice, including professional seminars and networking opportunities, for anyone even remotely involved or interested in these industries. The Adelaide Branch was the second in Australia, and board members include professionals from DSTO, BAE Systems and Tenix, amongst other Aerospace related companiesStudent Membership of the AIAA isthe AIAA's monthly publication ‘Aerospace America’ and the quarterly AIAA Student Journal. The easiest way to become a Student Member of the AIAA is online (visit www.aiaa.org). What is the Adelaide University Student Branch of t he AIAA?The student branch is basically a group of people with shared interests in aeronautics and/or astronautics. While mostengineering students, other disciplines are always welcome. Biology, chemistry, physics and even commerce students join just because theyaerospace and recognise its relevance. What do we do? Every year the student branch holds a variety of events:Our Aerospace Careers Night is always the most popular. Each year a number of speakers from the South Australian aerospace industry describe what they do and how they got to where they are. It’s always a greathe industry and find out about work experience and graduate positions.We also host several guest speakers each year. These seminars help give members a good understanding of developments in aerospace, while also providing an excellent opportunity to network with professionals in industry. Past speakers include Kirby Ikin, Prthe National Space Society of Australia and their parent body, the National Space Society, and Col. Pamela Melroy, NASA Astronaut.An ongoing project to design and build an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) provides students with an opportunity to apply skills learned during their studies in a real-world group project engineers, but students from other schools such as finance fit into the team well.

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The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics is the world’s largest professional organisation dedicated to the arts, sciences, and technology of aeronautics and astronautics. It provides support and advice, including professional

working opportunities, for anyone even remotely involved or interested in these industries. The Adelaide Branch was the second in Australia, and board members include professionals from DSTO, BAE Systems and Tenix, amongst other Aerospace related companies. Student Membership of the AIAA is US$20 per year (expires Sep 30the AIAA's monthly publication ‘Aerospace America’ and the quarterly AIAA Student Journal. The easiest way to become a Student Member of the AIAA is online (visit

What is the Adelaide University Student Branch of t he AIAA? The student branch is basically a group of people with shared interests in aeronautics and/or astronautics. While most AIAA student branch members are engineering students, other disciplines are always welcome. Biology, chemistry, physics and even commerce students join just because they have an interest inaerospace and recognise its relevance.

r the student branch holds a variety of events: Our Aerospace Careers Night is always the most popular. Each year a number of speakers from the South Australian aerospace industry describe what they do and how they got to where they are. It’s always a great opportunity to chat to people in the industry and find out about work experience and graduate positions.We also host several guest speakers each year. These seminars help give members a good understanding of developments in aerospace, while also providing an excellent opportunity to network with professionals in industry. Past speakers include Kirby Ikin, President of both the National Space Society of Australia and their parent body, the National Space Society, and Col. Pamela Melroy, NASA Astronaut. An ongoing project to design and build an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) provides students

to apply skills learned during world group project - not only

engineers, but students from other schools such as finance fit into the team well.

The 2003 design & build team in Sydney with DuckUAV program.

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The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics is the world’s largest professional organisation dedicated to the arts, sciences, and technology of aeronautics and astronautics. It provides support and advice, including professional

working opportunities, for anyone even remotely involved or interested in these industries. The Adelaide Branch was the second in Australia, and board members include professionals from DSTO, BAE Systems and Tenix,

US$20 per year (expires Sep 30) and includes the AIAA's monthly publication ‘Aerospace America’ and the quarterly AIAA Student Journal. The easiest way to become a Student Member of the AIAA is online (visit

The student branch is basically a group of people with shared interests in AIAA student branch members are

engineering students, other disciplines are always welcome. Biology, chemistry, have an interest in

Our Aerospace Careers Night is always the most popular. Each year a number of speakers from the South Australian aerospace industry describe what they do and

t opportunity to chat to people in the industry and find out about work experience and graduate positions. We also host several guest speakers each year. These seminars help give members

The 2003 design & build team in Duck, also part of the

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In 2003 the UAV program overlapped with a perennial national AIAA design and build competition. Our UAV platform was built as a remote controlled plane to compete against the University of Sydney, RMIT, and ADFA. Sadly, our entry Duck did not achieve the same success as the 1999 team, which won the propeller trophy displayed opposite the Mechanical Engineering faculty office.

Other projects in the past have included development of an experimental payload for a Zuni rocket, culminating in a successful launch from Woomera. What else do we do? It’s not all seminars and design projects. The club hosts several social events with an aerospace theme every year. Usually free to members, with invitations issued to allied clubs, past events have included: - Visits to observatories, the planetarium and the

RAAF base Edinburgh. - Field trips to Woomera to witness rocket launches by

the Australian Space Research Institute (ASRI) - Pub nights, including ‘Yuri’s Night, World Space

Party’ - the annual, international celebration of the first manned orbital flight.

- Movie nights with an emphasis on aerospace (i.e. sci-fi movies and documentaries).

How do I join? Membership of the AIAA Student Branch is $5 per year. See www.mecheng.adelaide.edu.au/aiaa or the notice board outside the Mechanical Engineering faculty office for information on how to join.

Simon Mitchell

AIAA President 2009

The 1999 design and build competition winning team.

Cheers to Yuri! Vodka shots on Yuri’s Night

Students with the Zuni rocket about to launch their payload at Woomera

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CHEMS CHEMS CHEMS CHEMS ---- The Chemical Engineering The Chemical Engineering The Chemical Engineering The Chemical Engineering SocietySocietySocietySociety

2009 has seen many successful events for the Chemical Engineering Society, CHEMS, and its members, as well as the ever continuing representation and support that the committee has provided for the students of the School of Chemical Engineering. This year, in recognition of the recent degree of Pharmaceutical Engineering being incorporated into the school’s dossier, CHEMS decided to add a Pharmaceutical Representative onto the committee. This appointment has proven to be very worthwhile in unifying the strength between students of the new Pharmaceutical Stream and the students of the traditional Chemical Engineering Stream. CHEMS kicked off the year with a BBQ to welcome the First Year Chemical and Pharmaceutical Engineering Students. As well as introducing the students to CHEMS and the amenities it offers, it was a great opportunity for students to be exposed to the staff members of the school, and to help them on their way to building important rapports which are vital for their time at University and beyond. CHEMS held their annual Industry night in April and played host to 15 diverse companies from within the Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Petroleum Engineering fields. The exposure of so many companies allowed students to explore future career options, organise Vac-work, enquire about Graduate positions and the chance to expand their network of industry relations. The night continues to be a vital event that CHEMS provides for its members and its success is evident in the school’s continued support and the willingness of staff to attend, speak and participate every year.

This year also saw CHEMS hold its second annual Games Night which proved even more successful than the inaugural event last year. The committee hopes that this event continues to prosper and expand whilst growing in popularity in subsequent years. Games night is a chance for members to come together, eat pizza, play SingStar… or in most cases murder well known tunes, and participate in mutual Wii-ing whilst throwing back a few frosties with mates.

CHEMS President Joon-Yip talking to Professor Mullinger at Industry Night

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2009 marked the auspicious, or rather suspicious if we are considering score keeping capabilities, launch of the Inter-School Coopers Soccer Cup between members of CHEMS and the Australian School of Petroleum, ASP. With some

dodgy score keeping and an unfortunate injury which plagued CHEMS team, the ASP team were able to convincingly win supposedly by a 7-2 score line. However the event was enjoyed by all who attended and gave us another excuse to throw a barbie and enjoy a few tasty hash browns which have become synonymous with CHEMS cook-ups.

August saw North Adelaide over-run by an army of Tanked Slurries as CHEMS and its members visited various locations on the annual pub crawl. From the traditional Adelaide starting point at the UniBar everyone meandered their way up O’Connell Street to the Cathedral, Archer and Cambridge before finishing the night at the Oxford. The drinks were flowing, the dancing was wild and good times were had by all, CHEMS was proud to carry on the tradition that no one knows how to pub crawl better than a bunch of Engineers! As the final years approach the looming threat of their last exams and project deadlines, CHEMS is always there to help them celebrate, remember and commiserate their time spent at uni. CHEMS throws its final years a traditional farewell BBQ where students and lecturers can come together and reflect on times past and look to the exciting possibility of graduate industry placement or the chance for further study in the field.

ASP and CHEMS members at the inaugural soccer meet

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CHEMS would also like to remind people of the benefits to signing up to IChemE, the official governing body for Chemical Engineers. IChemE have a concession rate for student membership which lasts for the entire duration of your degree and gives you access to numerous benefits. It includes a subscription to TCE magazine which is issued monthly and includes collaborations from professional chemical engineers all over the world as well as articles on new and developing concepts within the field. It exposes members to key events being continuously run throughout the year by IChemE which range from professional development to hot engineering topic discussions and speeches which are not available to the public. IChemE also provided its members with access to a vast amount of information ranging from employment opportunities to academic material supplied from accredited and well known sources within the industry. IChemE is an important tool for chemical engineers especially when entering the work force, they are responsible for helping members become accredited as a chartered engineer, a valuable title which sees wages and demand exponentially increase. So pick up a brochure from the Chemical Engineering school or get in contact with your CHEMS representative to find out more. As a wrap up to the successful year CHEMS has enjoyed, the end of year dinner, which incorporates the AGM, was held at Next Generation where all who attended were treated to a sumptuous three course meal. The committee was also pleased to fly in the founding president of CHEMS Ian Haddow, who graduated in 1962, who proved to be a very entertaining speaker. Members of staff were also in attendance with Professor Peter Ashman officially handing over the head of school to incoming head Professor Mark Biggs. Voting for the new 2010 CHEMS committee also occurred on the night and CHEMS would like to congratulate Tom Hamilton, aka Hamo, as being elected as the new President for the coming year. To Hamo and the rest of the newly elected committee members, we say good luck for the year ahead!

Brendan Moore General Representative for CHEMS 2009

Dr Peter Ashman with some of the newly elected CHEMS committee members for 2010. (Brendan Moore second from the right)

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EEESAUEEESAUEEESAUEEESAU

EEESAU - Electrical and Electronic Engineering Society of Adelaide University - is the IEEE student branch at the University of Adelaide. The Committee represents a wide cross-section of the people in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering: postgraduate students, undergraduate students, and staff. We cater to both the social and academic aspects of the EEE experience. Most undergraduate students would know us from the beginning of their academic career as the seller of EEE course notes. Following much collaboration with the EEE staff, we provide notes from a wide variety of courses for both semesters every year.

EEESAU also runs unlimited pizza eating lunches as an alternative to barbecues. These pizza lunches are always successful events with a large number of members enjoying the delicious food and free soft drinks (pictured left).

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EWB EWB EWB EWB ---- Engineers Without BordersEngineers Without BordersEngineers Without BordersEngineers Without Borders

The University of Adelaide student group of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) works with disadvantaged communities to improve their quality of life through education and the implementation of sustainable engineering projects. With over 4,000 student and professional members nationally, our initiatives demonstrate that the engineering profession can have a positive impact both locally and globally. Connectivity for Refugees is a local project run by our volunteers in Adelaide that provide recently arrived refugees with refurbished computers in partnership with the Australian Refugee Association. The student volunteers are working to provide access to information that is aimed primarily at enhancing refugees’ integration within Australian society. This year, 75 first year chemical engineering students as part of their Professional Practice I course, participated in the EWB Challenge student design program. Together with more than 7,000 students across Australia and New Zealand, student teams worked on engineering solutions for problems faced in the developing world. Their focus was on developing renewable technologies to replace diesel in generating electricity and powering boats within the Tonle Sap communities in Cambodia.

Students developed sustainable engineering solutions such as the biodigester above for disadvantaged communities on the Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia as part of the EWB Design Challenge.

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“Through the EWB Challenge, students are introduced to the ideas of sustainable development and appropriate technology,” said Dr Peter Ashman, Head of School for Chemical Engineering and course coordinator of the EWB Challenge program. “Along the way, students develop the problem solving and decision-making skills necessary for a successful career in engineering. They also gain the satisfaction of knowing that their work is contributing to the work of EWB to reduce global poverty.” “A highlight this year was a Question-and-Answer session, with three EWB South Australian volunteers who had all spent time working in Cambodia, which really opened the students’ (and staff’s) eyes to the unique challenges faced by the local Tonle Sap people.” In July, EWB also hosted a Climate Change debate between two well renowned experts, Prof. Barry Brook and Prof. Ian Plimer. Engineering House was packed to capacity to hear the fiery debate with ABC TV’s Stateline presenter Ian Henschke diplomatically moderating the debate. The event was a huge success attracting the media attention of ABC Radio and Dateline. EWB at the University of Adelaide is working to improve the awareness of community development work and is always looking for keen volunteers of any age or profession who can help. In 2010, EWB will also be offering final year research projects for University of Adelaide students that involves working on the self-identified needs of disadvantaged communities in Australia and overseas. Please contact us at [email protected] or visit our website at www.ewb.org.au for more information. Past highlights include: • Hosting “Elements”, an Aboriginal art exhibition to fund-raise for the valuable work EWB are doing

with Indigenous communities across Australia. The exhibition brought together art valued at more than four million dollars by some of Australia’s best Indigenous artists.

• Building a fully functioning 3-metre tall wind turbine out of over 3,500 LEGO block in Rundle Mall to raise awareness of the impacts of climate change on developing communities.

• Raising awareness of EWB’s work to alleviate world poverty at our WOMAD stall. Also, listening to the great music was a bonus.

EWB hosted a climate change debate at Engineering House to a packed crowd.

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SPESPESPESPE ---- Society of Petroleum EngineersSociety of Petroleum EngineersSociety of Petroleum EngineersSociety of Petroleum Engineers

What a year it has been! The past twelve months have been busy for the students and staff at the Australian School of Petroleum (ASP).

The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) is a worldwide organisation which offers various services and opportunities to its members. The Adelaide Chapter is very active and is comprised by industry members, staff from the University of Adelaide, and liaisons from other organisations like PESA and Engineers Australia. As the entire student base in

Adelaide for petroleum engineering is at the ASP, an SPE student chapter was set up to cater for the needs of the students at the school. This committee is responsible for organising the annual petroleum pub crawl and multiple social events each year for the students. The ‘08/‘09 committee decided that the annual focus would be integrating the petroleum students with industry and other engineering disciplines. Other focuses were to improve the resources available in the petroleum building, make more students aware of vacation and graduate opportunities as well as enhancing existing annual events. As many students in the school undertake a double degree with chemical engineering, the SPE and CHEMS committees collaborated so that the students could integrate more. The annual Chemical Engineering Industry Night in January

was the first to include petroleum engineering and was a great success due to the industry cross over. Students also insisted that the rivalry between the two schools could be settled over a game of soccer, developing into the joint ‘CHEM vs. PETRO’ BBQ and soccer match. The event had a high attendance from both schools and a victory for the petroleum students (7-2) winning us the inaugural Coopers Cup.

‘Petrosexual’ Pub Crawl

Some petroleum students enjoying an SPE BBQ

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The Something Different lecture series was organised by the SPE committee with the help of Professor Pavel Bedrikovetski. This series was aimed to introduce real world challenges met by professionals at Beach Petroleum, Santos, Petrolab and the

ASP. The lecture series has been a real success, and more ideas have already been developed for the series next year.

All in all it has been a great year and would not have been possible without all the help of the students in the committee and the staff in the ASP. The committee for ‘09/‘10 were elected at the recent AGM, and I’m sure they will carry on the good work achieved this year.

Nick Gooding Adelaide Student Chapter SPE President ‘08/‘09

Something Different Lecture Series

SPE BBQ on the day of the AGM. Held outside the Santos Petroleum Engineering Building

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National Wine CentreNational Wine CentreNational Wine CentreNational Wine Centre

The National Wine Centre has been supporting the students, staff and partners of the University of Adelaide in many ways for the past two years. The National Wine Centre provides a wide range of services to the campus from café outlets to the UniBar and event catering at every level. The National Wine Centre’s focus is on delivering a value for money product at every level and for all campus users. 2009 saw the continued commitment of the National Wine Centre to the sponsorship and support of the various Clubs and Associations. The National Wine Centre made significant contributions to the success of many club and association events, with Engineering being a major recipient and working regularly with the National Wine Centre. This ongoing relationship has strengthened over the past year and NWC will continue to support and grow that relationship throughout 2010.

The National Wine Centre has been working closely with the Engie’s to organise a regular Thursday night event in the UniBar with meal deals and drink specials available on presentation of the student ID with membership sticker. Renovations to the UniBar kitchen are now complete and the Chef’s are eager to try it out, so be sure to head up and

check out the all day food offerings and the new menu items now showing. Become a UniBar member by visiting our website www.adelaide.edu.au/unibar in order to receive all the latest information on what specials and promotions we have on offer. A major yearly event worth keeping an eye out for is the “Coopers Clubs Cup”. The National Wine Centre runs this yearly event in conjunction with the Clubs Association. With eight rounds of exciting competition this event is great fun. With fabulous prizes to be won, especially the famous Cup which is taken each year by the winning club. The National Wine Centre is looking forward to continuing its support of all the Clubs and Associations and contributing to a strong Campus Culture in 2010. If you have enjoyed the recent additions and changes to the catering operations or if you have any other ideas or suggestions for 2010 that you would like to share with the National Wine Centre please email Niomi Williams: [email protected]. Niomi Williams

L-R: Niomi Williams, Operations Manager and Nikala Georgiou, Catering & Events Manager

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Engineers AustraliaEngineers AustraliaEngineers AustraliaEngineers Australia

Engineers Australia would like to take the opportunity to announce the appointment of the new University of Adelaide Campus Coordinator, Divina Tomamak StudIEAust. The role of Campus Coordinator is designed to be a link between Engineers Australia, the Young Engineers Australia Group and the students and faculty of the university. The Campus Coordinator will endeavour to assist students to locate the best services available on campus through the university, or off campus through Engineers Australia, to address their needs and answer their queries. Campus Coordinators also provide feedback to Engineers Australia about our services and events to ensure we continue upgrading and adapting to reflect student needs. For those that aren’t aware of Engineers Australia, we are the peak body for engineers in Australia, representing over 78,000 engineers in Australia and over 4,000 engineers overseas. We are also the accrediting body, under the Washington and Sydney accords, for engineering courses in Australia. If you are not familiar with the Washington Accord we recommend visiting www.washingtonaccord.com as this is something that will be of great benefit should you wish to work overseas. We would also like to remind Student members of Engineers Australia that the 2010 Undergraduate and Graduate Handbook will be available early next year. The handbook provides information on which companies are currently recruiting graduate engineers or looking to provide work experience for the upcoming year. It also provides information on which disciplines of engineering they employ and the best contact person. This year’s handbook is also still available at www.engineersaustralia.org.au for members. If you have any questions about Engineers Australia, membership, benefits or the Campus Coordinator please contact Membership Officer Nathan Jones via [email protected] or by calling 08 8267 7070. Nathan Jones

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Clubs AssociationClubs AssociationClubs AssociationClubs Association

The Clubs Association is the governing body of all clubs on campus. As a result of the clubs running their own events the Clubs Association doesn’t hold many events

of their own, but supports clubs by providing financial aid and insurance, and working with the National Wine Centre (NWC) to try and allow NWC services to be as easily accessible as possible.

Every year, however, the Clubs Association is involved in O’Week. This year over 40 clubs participated in O week, selling themselves to visitors and gaining most of their members, as well as providing O’Weekers with demos on the lawns. The Coopers UniBar Clubs Cup was also held during terms 2 and 3 up in the UniBar on Wednesday nights with a small range of clubs competing in a big range of events. In the first week of Semester 2 Clubsfest was held in conjunction with Re-Orientation Week. Clubsfest is the celebration of club culture. There were foosball tables, air hockey, Red Bull, Wii Sports, prizes and most importantly the clubs. The final event for the year will be the Clubs Association end of year dinner. This event will be held the week after the AUES Cocktail Party and will celebrate another successful year for the Clubs Association. It will once again be a sit down dinner and awards ceremony, with awards being given for best new club, best club, best event and best clubs person [Editor’s note: all these awards should be given to the AUES].

The opening round of the Clubs Cup, Karaoke

The German Club Stall at Clubsfest

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Even though the Clubs Association itself doesn’t run many events, the 90 odd clubs that are a part of the Clubs Association constantly help to make campus life more

interesting with at least one club event held on campus every day of the working week. You will have seen most clubs selling pub crawl shirts around the Barr Smith Lawns and if you head up to the UniBar on any given Friday there will usually be a club pub crawl starting there.

Some clubs also head interstate and around South Australia for club trips or compete in inter university Competitions. There are also many inter-club events held on campus every year. So you really could say that the Clubs Association, through the means of its clubs, really does bring the party to University life! Peta Johannsen

The Choral Society at the Intervarsity competition in Hobart

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The The The The AUES in NumbersAUES in NumbersAUES in NumbersAUES in Numbers

4 epic BBQs

57 kegs = 2850 L of beer

300 L of punch

17 committee members

2000 pub crawl shirts bought 1860 pub crawl shirts sold

14 pubs + 1 food stop

1 new website

1251 paid members

1 Facebook group with 989 members

1 stolen cash box

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6200 sausages

1 vending machine

note reader

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120 kg of salad

576 AUES branded

steins

1 stolen megaphone

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120 kg of salad

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The AUES WebsiteThe AUES WebsiteThe AUES WebsiteThe AUES Website

As a parting gift to the AUES, Chris Schwarz (2008 President) and Ben Duivesteyn (2008 IT Officer) applied for funding for a new website from the

Development and Alumni division of the University. This funding was granted, and in the summer of ‘08/‘09, the new website was born. The design and layout were to be simple yet effective, with important content easy to locate. Ben Duivesteyn was the brains behind the build, and happily accommodated our requests. In this article we’ll go through some of the most important and useful web pages created. Firstly, the Photo Gallery. With the addition of an actual photographer at events (with a fairly decent camera), it became clear that these beautiful images needed to be shared effectively. Having used some terrible photo gallery sites in the past, it was decided that Facebook would be the best way to store the images. It has an easy to use interface for both uploading and viewing images, and it’s simple to notify people when they’re in a photo by using the “tagging” system. At the time of writing this article the AUES has 1629 photos in 29 albums, and there’s no limit to the maximum we can have! A Membership page was created which outlines all of the benefits available to members of the society. This is handy, since no one actually knows what they get besides the BBQs, and this year there were a lot of extras. The Events page has a breakdown of all the events on the AUES calendar, dates included. This allows members to check when events are without having to go to CATS and look around for posters.

The Pub Crawl page proved especially successful this year. On it were favourites such as shirt selling dates and times, drink specials for the venues and a downloadable PDF of the pub crawl guide - with a map! You can see by the image on the left that this page proved invaluable for the pub crawl’s success. The crawl was on April 3rd, and there were approximately 1400 hits on the site in the days before it!

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For those punters that enjoy a good quiz night, the inclusion of a Quiz Night Table Booking Form was especially useful to book a table of 10 quickly and easily.

The Procrastination Page was a favourite in 2009, spawned out of our own procrastination due to looming Semester 1 exams. On it are some fun flash games, a range of websites that are able to suck hours (and sometimes days) from your life, a bunch of addictive Facebook games and some classic and always hilarious web comics.

As you can see in the image to the right, the procrastination page got a good workout with 649 hits during the Semester 1 Exam period. The AUES takes no responsibility for disappointing exam results experienced by those that viewed the page. However, we will take credit for high scores on any of the Flash and Facebook games.

The Publications page of the website allows members to access the most important publications from the AUES. These include the monthly newsletters, past Hysteresis editions, the Freshers Guide and the Pub Crawl Guide. A special favourite of mine is the past editions of Hysteresis that date back to 1945. I encourage you to have a look through some of those old editions as some of the content is absolutely priceless. All in all, the website has proven to be an invaluable addition to the AUES portfolio, and will continue to grow and improve in years to come.

Kristina Noicos

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The AUES NewsletterThe AUES NewsletterThe AUES NewsletterThe AUES Newsletter

The Newsletter is

distributed monthly through the mailing list

The gallery includes photos taken by the official AUES photographer at the

past month’s events

Message from the President includes info

about the current happenings of the club

Upcoming Events includes the dates, times and information about two

impending AUES events

Comics are included because

they’re fun

This space is reserved for

information from other university societies

The AUES wholeheartedly

supports Adelaide onLION

Info about joining

the club

Every Newsletter with a photo gallery has 3 people pictured as winners of a jug of beer in the

UniBar! This is a good reason to look out for the AUES

photographer at events.

Aren’t the photos fun!?

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My Lecturer is Famous!My Lecturer is Famous!My Lecturer is Famous!My Lecturer is Famous!

You may, at one time or another, have found yourself wondering whetherbeing lectured by a celebrity

You may have sometimes hoped that the Matrix is real (to avoid doing homework), but it’s just the illusion given by Craig Willis, postdoctoral fellow in the School of

Environmental and Mining

Where’s Wally? We thought we found him in Associate Professor Ben Cazzolato’s office in the School of

Mechanical Engineering. Sadly, we were wrong.

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My Lecturer is Famous!My Lecturer is Famous!My Lecturer is Famous!My Lecturer is Famous!

You may, at one time or another, have found yourself wondering whethercelebrity. Here, we set the record straight:

� No, it’s not Shooter McGavin, it’s MattARC Senior Research Associate in the School of Civil, Environmental and Mining

You may have sometimes hoped that the Matrix is real (to avoid doing homework), but it’s just the illusion given by Craig Willis, postdoctoral fellow in the School of Civil,

Environmental and Mining Engineering. �

� Quentin Tarantino isn’t taking time off from producing blockbuster movies to teach mathematics at university, it’s actually Adrian Koerber from the School of Mathematical Sciences.

Where’s Wally? We thought we found him in Associate Professor Ben Cazzolato’s office in the School of

ring. Sadly, we were wrong. �

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You may, at one time or another, have found yourself wondering whether you’re

No, it’s not Shooter McGavin, it’s Matthew Gibbs, ARC Senior Research Associate in the School of

, Environmental and Mining Engineering.

Quentin Tarantino isn’t taking time off from producing blockbuster movies to teach mathematics at university, it’s actually Adrian Koerber from the School of Mathematical Sciences.

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Dan the Male ModelDan the Male ModelDan the Male ModelDan the Male Model

In true Zoolander style, one of our committee members is a male model. We thought it was only appropriate that he got his own page in the yearbook since he’s had such an impact on all of our lives.

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The Full Adelaide Uni ExperienceThe Full Adelaide Uni ExperienceThe Full Adelaide Uni ExperienceThe Full Adelaide Uni Experience

TTTThe Full Adelaide Uni Experiencehe Full Adelaide Uni Experiencehe Full Adelaide Uni Experiencehe Full Adelaide Uni Experience - Attend an O’Camp (regardless of what year you’re in)

- Spend a week on the AUSKI Ski Trip.

- Go to a Law Ball.

- Go on an Engineering pub crawl - with the shirt.

- Participate in O’Week Milk Skölling or another event on the lawns.

- Win the leader’s jersey on a pub crawl.

- Sit a supplementary exam.

- Get yourself in Vox Pop in On Dit.

- Join a club in O’Week that you will never participate in for the rest of the year.

- Actively avoid student politicians during a student election.

- Join a protest.

- Play hackey on the Barr Smith Lawns

- Spend an all-nighter studying in the CAT Suite because you have poor time-

management skills.

- Have a day at the races with a club or society.

- Be on a first name basis with the bouncers at the UniBar.

- Eat undercooked meat at a BBQ on the lawns.

- Play for Adelaide Uni at the Australian Uni Games.

- Eat a Mayo lasagne and live to tell the tale.

- Lose your borrowing privileges at the Barr Smith Library.

- Attend Skullduggery.

- Take a trip to Roseworthy.

- Finish an exam at Wayville and head straight to the Goodwood Hotel.

- Eat a UniBar schnitzel and reminisce about how much cheaper they were in

first year.

- Skip a lecture because the company in the Mayo/UniBar is too good.

- Get a degree (optional).

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HistHistHistHistoryoryoryory----sis sis sis sis ---- A Blast from the PastA Blast from the PastA Blast from the PastA Blast from the Past

These are some articles from previous editions of the Hysteresis magazine. It just goes to show that engineers avoided doing real work just as much back then!

1957 Edition 1979/1980 Edition

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Staff Staff Staff Staff ProfilesProfilesProfilesProfiles

Dorothy Missingham 1. What is your academic background?

Education.

2. Why did you become interested in Engineering? Because it is engineering.

3. What was your most memorable moment as an engineering student (if you were)? Never been one, but ‘participant observation’ is a great gig.

4. How long have you been at Adelaide Uni and what is the best thing about working at Adelaide Un i? 7 years. Engie students.

5. What are some of your career highlights and chal lenges? Highlights - Engie students. Challenges - Engie students.

6. What are you passionate about? Lots of stuff.

7. What do you do in your spare time? What spare time?

8. Do you have any advice for aspiring engineers? Yeah. A big one… Be cool BUT never be too cool for school.

9. Best holiday destination? Everywhere that is not Adelaide.

10. Favourite use of engineering principles in a no n-engineering environment? Anything you do can be System Designed.

11. Strangest question you’ve been asked by a stude nt? Q. Do you know what Osmosis is? A. Yes Xan… think about it.

12. Funniest answer you’ve read in an exam? “The noise from Collins class submarines makes them easy to track, just like tracking a bleeding elephant through snow…”

13. What is your favourite breakfast food? Breakfast? YUK.

14. Did you enjoy this questionnaire? NO. Questionnaires are a pain.

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Craig Willis

1. What is your academic background? My current postdoctoral research and teaching field is Structural Engineering, however my undergraduate degree was Civil and Environmental Engineering. In addition, my industry experience and final year honours research extended to Civil and Geotechnical Engineering. The exposure to different disciplines has provided me with great insight into various engineering challenges.

2. Why did you become interested in Engineering?

I have always enjoyed problem solving, which is the basis of engineering. In high school, I liked maths and physics, so the extension into engineering was a natural progression.

3. What was your most memorable moment as an engine ering student?

The trials and tribulations (and fun) of the final year research project. It was an amazing learning experience that was very challenging and rewarding.

4. How long have you been at Adelaide Uni and what is the best thing about

working at Adelaide Uni? Apart from a year in an engineering consultancy, I have been at the University of Adelaide since the start of my undergraduate degree. The best aspect of being here is the opportunity to constantly be involved in teaching and learning.

5. What are some of your career highlights and chal lenges?

It is very gratifying to see students progress throughout their studies. Being able to teach Level I students and later collaborate with them as a supervisor in their final year honours research project has definitely been a highlight.

6. If you do research at the University what area i s it in?

Structural engineering. More specifically, the strengthening and rehabilitation of masonry structures under out-of-plane loading due to wind and earthquake events. There is a very large amount of masonry construction worldwide, so this has widespread implications.

7. Do you have any advice for aspiring engineers?

Learn from experience and develop your communication skills. You may be very proficient in performing calculations, but if you cannot communicate effectively to clients and colleagues, then there are likely to be problems.

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Holger Maier 1. What is your academic background?

I have a degree in Civil Engineering and a PhD in Water / Environmental Engineering from the University of Adelaide.

2. Why did you become interested in Engineering? Initially, I was interested in buildings, but after getting older and working for a while, I realised how important and interesting our environment is and the vital role engineers have in making sure we maintain our standard of living while making sure this can be done sustainably.

3. What was your most memorable moment as an engine ering student? My last exam!!

4. How long have you been at Adelaide Uni and what is the best thing about working at Adelaide Uni? I have been back at Adelaide as an academic since mid-1999. There are many great things about working at Adelaide, and the School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering in particular, including the quality of our students and the collaborative and supportive nature of the working environment.

5. What are some of your career highlights and chal lenges? Highlights are positive comments from students and graduates. It’s always great to know that one is at least having some positive impact. The biggest challenge is the open-ended nature of academic life, as there are really three full-time jobs in one (teacher, researcher and administrator/manager), which means that it is difficult to juggle everything, particularly when you throw family into the mix.

6. What are you passionate about? I am passionate about finding better ways of doing things, which applies to all of my endeavours (e.g. teaching, research, around the house etc.)

7. If you do research at the University what area i s it in? My research is focussed on the modelling and management of water resources systems (e.g. rivers) and infrastructure (e.g. water supply) in order to achieve sustainable outcomes. This involves modelling using artificial intelligence techniques (e.g. artificial neural networks), optimisation using algorithms inspired by nature (e.g. genetic algorithms, ant colony optimisation algorithms), the incorporation of risk and uncertainty into decision-making and the incorporation of multiple criteria (e.g. social, environmental economic) into decision-making. In summary, my research is about trying to find better ways of managing and making decisions about our natural resources and water infrastructure.

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8. What do you do in your spare time? Spending time with my family (wife and three children). I like going to the beach, bushwalking, doing things around the house…

9. Do you have any advice for aspiring engineers? Don’t forget that you have the opportunity to make a real difference. The world’s problems are becoming more and more complex and engineers are the problem solvers of the world. There are great opportunities to make the world a better place.

10. Best holiday destination? Anywhere with my family.

11. Favourite use of engineering principles in a no n-engineering environment? Do as much as possible with as little effort as possible.

12. What is your favourite breakfast food? Fresh fruit salad with yoghurt

13. Did you enjoy this questionnaire? Yes. I wasn’t looking forward to doing it to start with, but it’s always good to take the time to reflect.

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University Life as a Mature Age StudentUniversity Life as a Mature Age StudentUniversity Life as a Mature Age StudentUniversity Life as a Mature Age Student

I was 24 when I started back at uni, just about the age where I could regress enough to match the adolescence around me and get in amongst the immaturity of it all, they were good times. However I hate being around people who have just turned the legal drinking age. I felt at a slight disadvantage as the week after uni began I had a knee reconstruction and was off for a week. Add to this having to learn what a graphics calculator was and how to use it (I hate maths). I settled in by the second term and made some friends that I have kept all the way through. I have never quite felt as at

home at uni as I believe I may have if I was of the usual age. It’s a strange sensation when you are older than your tutors and almost the same age as some of your lecturers. I have recently turned 28, my degree is coming to an end and I am very keen to be done with the uni experience and I can’t wait to go back to work... the holidays may be few and far between but a steady healthy income and no homework make it worthwhile.

Anietie Umoren

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2009 Year in Review2009 Year in Review2009 Year in Review2009 Year in Review

January 20 - Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th and first African-American President of the United States.

January 21 - Toyota surpasses General Motors to become the world's largest automaker.

February 3 - The Australian government announces a $42-billion stimulus package to revive the economy. February 22 - Slumdog Millionaire wins eight Academy Awards,

including Best Picture and Director for Danny Boyle. February 27 - The animated sitcom The Simpsons becomes the longest-running U.S. primetime television series after Fox Broadcasting confirms two more seasons.

March 12 - Astronauts aboard the International Space Station briefly evacuate to a Russian escape pod as space debris passes. March 28 - Millions of people worldwide recognise Earth Hour by deactivating unnecessary lighting. April 2 - The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is

probing an Internet leak of the upcoming film X-Men Origins: Wolverine. April 20 - China's government discovers 3,850 kilometres more of the Great Wall of China.

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May 5 - The confirmed worldwide number of cases of swine influenza reaches 1,490. June 8 - Apple Inc. debuts the third generation of its iPhone line, iPhone 3GS at Worldwide Developers Conference 2009. June 15 - India, the defending champions and favorites at the 2009 ICC World Twenty20, are defeated by England. June 25 - Michael Jackson dies aged 50. July 3 - North Korea broadcasts its first ever beer commercial, for Taedonggang beer.

July 25 - Harry Patch, the last surviving World War I veteran to have fought in the trenches, dies aged 112. August 23 - England reclaim The Ashes with a 2-1 series win over Australia.

August 31 - Jason Mraz's “I'm Yours” becomes the longest running single in the Billboard Hot 100's history at 71 weeks on the chart. September 14 - Juan Martín del Potro of Argentina defeats Roger Federer of Switzerland to win the 2009 US Open Men’s Singles.

September 14 - Patrick Swayze dies aged 57. September 16 - New documents disclose that novelist J. R. R. Tolkien secretly trained as a spy for His Majesty's Government in the run up to World War II. September 23 - The cities of Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane in Australia are covered by a dust storm, the worst in at least 70 years. September 26 - Geelong defeats St Kilda in the 2009 AFL Grand Final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

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Eatery ReviewEatery ReviewEatery ReviewEatery Review

AUES BBQs Location: Barr Smith Lawns, North Terrace Campus. Deliciousness: 5 / 5 Cheapness: 5 / 5 Quickness: 3 / 5 Proximity-ness: 5 / 5 Ambience-ness: 5 / 5 Licenced: Yes, but no BYO. Comments: The only downside to this venue is the long lines of eager members waiting for the FREE!!! dining, which can slow the acquisition of the much anticipated buffet-style cuisine. The prize of the BBQs is the freshly cooked sausages, placed atop the finest of supermarket-brand white bread slices, accompanied by finely sliced rings of caramelised onion and topped with a delicious tomato-based sauce. The mouth waters just thinking about it. Also on the menu are a range of salads and a limited range of bottomless beverages. San Giorgios Location: Corner of Rundle Street and Frome Road. Deliciousness: 3 / 5 Cheapness: 2 / 5 Quickness: 2 / 5 Proximity-ness: 3 / 5 Ambience-ness: 4 / 5 Licenced: Yes, but no BYO. Comments: While known well for its late-hour pizza and pasta delivery service (though outrageously expensive, it makes up for it in flavour and convenience), San Giorgio's is a great eatery with a broad range of delicious pastas and affordable pizzas, though there are no specials for students, many can regularly be seen stopping in for a nice evening's meal. [Editor’s note: This place is awesome. They make the best Alla Panna pasta sauce in Adelaide, plus deliver until 5 am. That’s right, FIVE AM!] Sushi King Location: Rundle Street, next to Target. Deliciousness: 4 / 5 Cheapness: 3 / 5 Quickness: 4 / 5 Proximity-ness: 4 / 5 Ambience-ness: 2 / 5 Licenced: No. Comments: A good quality sushi bar, known for it's range of affordable take-away sushi packs, cold-rolls and friendly service. [Editor’s note: Cherry Blossom just opened up on Pulteney Street and it is way more delicious than Sushi King]

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Knoodle Junction and Co. Location: Pulteney Street, next to Mansions Deliciousness: 5 / 5 Cheapness: 3 / 5 Quickness: 4 / 5 Proximity-ness: 4 / 5 Ambience-ness: 3 / 5 Licenced: No. Comments: Perhaps the most often frequented student eatery in all of Adelaide, this fantastic cafe has a broad range of amazing Asian cuisine, both eat-in and take-away. Not the least of the appealing aspects of this venue is the discount offered to all students, on the already incredible prices. Being very close to the University of Adelaide makes it one of the most convenient off-campus eateries, and it's three neighbouring cafes offer a range of prices and quality, including one with an exclusively vegetarian menu (I personally recommend the vegetarian Laksa). Hungry Jacks Location: Corner of Pulteney St & Rundle St Deliciousness: 3 / 5 Cheapness: 4 / 5 Quickness: 3 / 5 Proximity-ness: 4 / 5 Ambience-ness: 3 / 5 Licenced: No. Comments: The primary competition for McDonalds' burger menu offers an increase in taste for a decrease in speed of preparation and slight increase in price. Being one of very few late-night/early-morning options cements this fine eatery in many students' minds as the only place to go after a few beverages. McDonalds Location: Rundle Mall Deliciousness: 3 / 5 Cheapness: 4 / 5 Quickness: 4 / 5 Proximity-ness: 4 / 5 Ambience-ness: 1 / 5 Licenced: No. Comments: This well known fast-food outlet might stir mixed feelings in many in terms of quality and ethics, however when it comes to the Deluxe Cheeseburger, you would be hard-pressed to find a student that would disagree about it's amazing price for a reasonably filling portion. Enjoyed mainly after a few beverages at one of the nearby watering-holes, this menu has many cheesy, meaty delicacies that, for only a few dollars, usually please even the sober consumer.

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Chinatown Food Courts Location: Adelaide Markets between Gouger Street and Grote Street. Deliciousness: 1-5 / 5 Cheapness: 1-3 / 5 Quickness: 3-5 / 5 Proximity-ness: 3 / 5 Ambience-ness: 1-3 / 5 Licenced: No. Comments: Offering a large range of cuisines of various price, taste, quality and country of origin, the two main food courts in Chinatown offer some of the best student food available. From $5 all-you-can-eat buffet style, to cheap platters of soups, rices, noodles and meat dishes, both fried and steamed, everyone can find something to enjoy in this Mecca of affordability. Of particular mention is a Korean BBQ shop that serves amazing dumplings and steamed rice dishes, all high in quality for around $6 a meal. [Editor’s note: Seng Kee Yum Cha in the more Eastern food court does the most delicious yum cha outside of a restaurant] Dumpling King Location: Adelaide Markets between Gouger Street and Grote Street. Deliciousness: 4 / 5 Cheapness: 3 / 5 Quickness: 3 / 5 Proximity-ness: 3 / 5 Ambience-ness: 2 / 5 Licenced: No. Comments: Famous for its large range of dumpling and wonton based dishes, but also offers a range of roasted, fried and barbecued options, all for around $7. Their range of take-away frozen meats and dumplings is a must-see for the DIY enthusiast. Unibar Location: Level 5 Union House, North Terrace Campus. Deliciousness: 3 / 5 Cheapness: 2 / 5 Quickness: 3 / 5 Proximity-ness: 5 / 5 Ambience-ness: 5 / 5 Licenced: Yes, but no BYO. Comments: Mainly out of convenience the UniBar is a very popular spot to gather and enjoy the large range of beverages, with a great student-friendly environment, allowing thongs, shorts, backpacks and general student attire. The food menu is limited but fairly tasty, with a selection of schnitzels, chips and sauces that accompany the potato crisps, beer nuts and cheap drinks very well. Notable is the AUES member special on Thursdays of two schnitzels with sauce of your choice and a jug of beer or soft-drink for $20.

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Mayo Refectory

Location: Ground Floor, Union House, North Terrace Campus.Deliciousness: 2 / 5 Cheapness: 4 / 5 Quickness: 4 / 5 Proximity-ness: 5 / 5 Ambience-ness: 3 / 5 Licenced: No. Comments: With a broad range of food options at reasonable prices, and a central, groundlocation at the North Terrace campus, Mayo is a very common student eatery, often avoided only because of the sometimes average pastas and curries, and the amazing value for a quick, filling meal of 6 nuggets and chips for $4.50. Rumours Cafe Location: Union House, North Terrace Campus.Deliciousness: 3 / 5 Cheapness: 2 / 5 Quickness: 3 / 5 Proximity-ness: 5 / 5 Ambience-ness: 5 / 5 Licenced: Yes, but no BYO. Comments: Essentially the more civilised relative of Mayo and Unipizzas, pastas, salads, sandwiches, focacciasimple yet classy environment. With a range of artworks on sale on the walls, a selection of lounges to enjoy and a semi-private loft available, Rumours brings some elegance to student prices, and athat cannot be ignored, with a view over the rooftops and river.

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Location: Ground Floor, Union House, North Terrace Campus.

Comments: With a broad range of food options at reasonable prices, and a central, groundlocation at the North Terrace campus, Mayo is a very common student eatery, often avoided only

average food quality. Of particular note are the daily specials, including pastas and curries, and the amazing value for a quick, filling meal of 6 nuggets and chips for $4.50.

Location: Union House, North Terrace Campus.

Yes, but no BYO.

Comments: Essentially the more civilised relative of Mayo and UniBar, offering a range of freshly madiches, focaccias and coffees alongside a select few beers and wines, in a

simple yet classy environment. With a range of artworks on sale on the walls, a selection of lounges to private loft available, Rumours brings some elegance to student prices, and a

that cannot be ignored, with a view over the rooftops and river.

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Comments: With a broad range of food options at reasonable prices, and a central, ground-floor location at the North Terrace campus, Mayo is a very common student eatery, often avoided only

the daily specials, including pastas and curries, and the amazing value for a quick, filling meal of 6 nuggets and chips for $4.50.

ar, offering a range of freshly made and coffees alongside a select few beers and wines, in a

simple yet classy environment. With a range of artworks on sale on the walls, a selection of lounges to private loft available, Rumours brings some elegance to student prices, and a location

and Byron Holmes

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Meet Next Year’s AUES PresidentMeet Next Year’s AUES PresidentMeet Next Year’s AUES PresidentMeet Next Year’s AUES President

The 2008 AUES President Chris Schwarz and 2009 AUES President Kristina Noicos have a Google Chat with incoming President for 2010, Tim Hickson. Editor Alex Egan also joined in the fun.

Kris has joined Tim has joined Chris has joined Tim: Howdy all. Kris: Is it time? Tim: Can do. Kris: Sweet, I guess we'll wait for Chris. Chris: I am too busy celebrating my birthday. Kris: I’ll be sure to include this part in hysteresis. Egan has joined Kris: Egan wants to watch what we're writing. Anyway we should probably start talking to Tim about his presidency. What do you think Chris? Chris: I think it's good that Egan wants to watch what we're writing as long as he participates. Tim: Agreed. He can’t be a lazy bastard all the time. Egan: haha Kris: lol Chris: Hey Egan, how are you? Kris: omg! This is not what we're doing here! Stop talking to Egan! Egan: Hi. Good thanks. You? Kris: He's an observing editor. Egan stop typing! Chris: Yeah good man, I had a good day helping out this builder for about 3 hours. Tim: Well start asking questions then! Kris: Okay Tim I have a question. Chris and Egan can talk about the stupid builder. Tim, my question is how do you think you're going to handle your studies and the AUES? Will you be able to be involved enough in the club? Chris: Boooooooring. Kris: haha. Well what do you want to know? Okay I have a question then: Tim, are you going to rock up early enough for the BBQs next year since I won't

be around to organise everything? Tim: What the hell, I was answering that question! Kris: Well Chris said it was boring. Fine answer the first one then! Chris: What different things are you going to do with the AUES in 2010? Kris: Actually I do want to know the answer to the first one. We'll get to that Chris! Tim: Yes, [screw] you lol, I’m late all the time, but I make up for it by convincing myself it’s starting earlier than it really is. Kris: Let the man answer the first one! haha Tim that was the second question. Tim: I know. I’m not superman... yet. Kris: lol I like the yet . Tim: I’ll be better one day. Kris: So I want to know the answer to Chris' question now. What are you going to do differently? Even though it'll be hard to beat me since I was so awesome :P Tim: I’m going to try to get the committee knowing each other a bit more, like have a pre-O’Week gathering, so we can weed out who is actually groovy and dedicated, and who the douches are. By the end of the year, committee know each other well, but the first 2 terms are crucial. Kris: Yeah that's a good plan, I didn't do that enough. Tim: And in answer to the first question, probably just a more extreme version of what I’m doing right now, like actually leaving time between socialising. Kris: I think that's a good plan Tim. Oooh less socialising!? I hear you're seeing one of my close friends. Will you be able to juggle that as well?

Tim: Like the last 5 weeks I’ve been out I’ve done 2 pub crawls and a lot of drinking, but I was able to get some afternoon work done the next day. I’m terrible at juggling, but by golly these hands are going to try! Kris: Sounds like it's under control. Now here's a question - who do you really want to step up next year and become more integral in the workings of the AUES? Chris: Who are you seeing Tim? I’m confused. Stop talking. Tim: I think [Chris] Quek is a top guy, and will be hugely happy for him to take pres next year. Kris: You mean in 2011? Unless you're passing the buck already... Tim: Yeah that one. Kris: haha Tim: And Henry [Harch] is a great character, I think with enough resources behind him he could one day be as offensive, yet simultaneously charming as Xan. Kris: haha. Aren't we trying to avoid offensive? Tim: Oh and Chris, I’m seeing Fi. Kris: This is definitely going in the article. Tim: You always need some offensive. Kris: See, that's not true. No one was offensive this year! Tim: Yes it is. You're wrong. Kris: Who then!? Egan: The lack of offensiveness offended me. Tim: I’m sure plenty of people were offended. Kris: I think you're wrong. I think people loved us this year. Tim: People DID love us, but an integral part of that is being able to poke fun at EVERYTHING,

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and have that fun appeal to everybody's sense of humour. Chris: "What differences can we expect to see from the AUES in 2010?" Tim: In terms of difference I certainly want the AUES to involve other clubs more. Kris: In what ways Tim? Please expand. Tim: I am typing... like the UniSA engie club has approached us and we’re on good terms, I think we should be able to involve them in some events. As well as the games club, maybe get some outside games going on the lawns adjacent to the BBQs. And I definitely want to have a schnitzel eating competition. Kris: hehe okay cool. Chris: "What was the worst decision that was made by the AUES in 2009?" :p Kris: haha! Well that's easy - there wasn't one :P Tim: I think the old times had some good on-lawns activities that we haven’t had much of the last few years. Oh wait a sec I’ll go thinking. Kris: But there'll be fairy floss at the next BBQ! You can't beat that. Yeah think your hardest Tim - just try! Chris: Yeah well term 4 BBQ in 2008 had a LIVE BAND Egan: And a spit! Kris: haha you're such a loser. That comment goes for Egan and Chris. Tim: ... I like live bands, but seriously that band [wasn’t very good]. I’m not sure, there’s been so many bad choices this year, lol jk Kris: haha Tim: One I was sad about was the tug of war. Kris: Yeah but we're doing it on the lawns at the term 4 BBQ aren't we? Tim: That’s the plan, I think more hype is needed. Kris: Everyone just had an issue with having to leave the lawns for it. And it's hard when no one cares that much. Tim: Make it an epic lead-up,

posters like ENGIE vs “SOMEONE ELSE” IN ALL OUT COMBAT. Kris: haha. But the problem is, no one cares enough to want the engies to win. Tim: And we need to get back to borrowing board space at the end of lectures to advertise events, it’s simple but very effective. Kris: I find that there's a huge problem with apathy in engineering. You're right about advertising in lectures. Lucky we have Henry Harch and James Hardy now. Those guys rock the lecture theatres. Tim: Groovy. I don’t go to enough lectures. They’re all online and I sleep till midday. Kris: haha yeah well you're also not in 1st year. Things are easier when you have classes with 300 people in them. Tim: True. I know what you mean about the apathy, I’m not sure what to do about it, but surely we can get more encouragement. Chris: "Can we expect any inaugural events in 20010?" Egan: If the AUES is around in 18,000 years. Kris: Ooh good question, although that's really far off, what about 2010? Nice, Egan - hi-5! Tim: Oh I’m not sure. Chris: Yeah good one dipshit. Egan: So angry! Kris: (It's funny because we actually hi-5'd, since we're sitting next to each other) Tim: Depending on how successful the cocktail night is, we may have to look around. Chris: Did you get me a Paul Dempsey ticket? Kris: But yes Tim I agree with you about the apathy. And really Chris, you can't ask that in another conversation? Really ? Chris: <b> sorry </b> Egan: asterisk Chris: ok Egan: underscore Kris: you learnt quickly Tim: yaface. I think a regular pub night is a great idea, but an

unofficial one, say "first Friday of each month meet at [pub name] for specials!" Kris: Yeah that's a good idea, it's just a matter of organising it. Egan: So you're going for a bigger engie community vibe? Tim: I tried to rally pubs for it this year, but the regular Winston changed owner and wasn’t as nice, and other pubs are generally [bad]. Chris: Yeah, bring back drink the pub dry night. Tim: That’s what I was going for. Kris: Cool, sounds fun! Tim: Yeah I figure it’s easy to go close to campus anyway, doesn’t necessarily have to be UniBar. Kris: Yeah so true. Tim: Like PJs or Elephant. Or maybe Cranker [Crown & Anchor Hotel]. I love the Cranker. I read through some old hysteresis articles and it really made me nostalgic about some past events. Kris: Yeah I agree with you on that. Egan: Would you like The Party Party to reappear in 2010? Kris: Oh good question from the guy that's not meant to be in this conversation. Chris: A part of me died this year when there was no Party Party. Tim: Ditto on that. Even last year had a speck of Party Party. Kris: Yeah but we all voted and it wasn't a popular choice this year. Tim: I missed the abuse of pollies and the people that vote. Maybe it can evolve and come out again. Kris: Yeah maybe it can, but it has to be right. And people have to want it. You can't have an event because 2 people like the idea. Chris: We need a maths lawns as well. Egan: Planning and marketing. Kris: Yeah well we won't be able to get that with the new building anyway. Those days are over. [General rambling]

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Egan: Back to the questions, Tim, what is your quest? What is your favourite colour? What is your favourite movie? Kris: Tim, tell us more about you, so people can get to know you. Egan: Are you a dog person or a cat person? A bird person? GIRAFFES!? Tim: I quest for the Holy Grail. Blue. Casino. Dog, then cat, then giraffe, then bird. Kris: haha nice. Tim: I like animals. Casino is followed very closely by Super Troopers. Also, about myself, born in Alice Springs at the ripe young age of 0, always enjoyed documentaries, maths and science. Left there to pursue engineering study. Have played guitar since I was 14. Kris: *swoon* Tim: I enjoy watermelon, pecan pie, the smell and sound of rain. I love pineapple juice. My favourite beer of all time is James Squire Rum Rebellion Porter. Favourite band is Led Zeppelin, but favourite song is Feeling Good by Nina Simone. Favourite car of all time is 1969 Corvette Stingray. Favourite

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modern car is anything Ferrari, just sexy. Got into engineering, always intent on working with the biggest machinery I could find. Turns out heavy industries are awesome. I discovered the downsides of working while studying during 2007 and 2008 when my grades fell apart as I worked 3 jobs. Chris: Music? Favourite shade of grey? Kris: hahahaha that is such a Chris question. Chris: What do you mean by that Kris? What are you insinuating? Tim: I like the darker greys, like a 75%. Kris: haha. I'll be sure to write that in the article. Tim: Music: I used to like metal exclusively, until I realised I was missing out on everything awesome. So while I still maintain a healthy addiction to heavy brutal metal I also enjoy groovy blues, indie, jazz, some punk, and occasionally a classical piece here and there. Right now I’m listening to Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing and I suggest you do the same. It’s awesome. Also, if anyone hears of a job available let me know, I’m really broke.

Chris: Tim: lady gardening jobs the other day and it had already been takenChris: 2 yearsKris: Chris: yourself in 10 Tim: about the futureIn 10 years I definitely want to have a kid, or one on the way30 seems like a good age for itI want to have travelled overseas, anywhere, as I havenyet and it irks meI want to have finisheAustralia. I’there’I want to have graduated by thenlol Kris: I sure hope you've graduated [More ramblings...] Chris has leftTim has leftEgan: How you doin'?Come here often?Kris: Egan Kris has left

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Chris: No no, me first guys. I called one of those old

lady gardening jobs the other day and it had already been taken. Chris: I’ve been unemployed for 2 years. Kris: daaaaang Chris: Tim where do u see yourself in 10 years?

I honestly don't think a lot about the future. n 10 years I definitely want to have a kid, or one on the way. 30 seems like a good age for it. want to have travelled

overseas, anywhere, as I haven’t yet and it irks me. want to have finished seeing

Australia. I’ve seen a lot of it, but ’s still so much to see. And

I want to have graduated by then

Kris: haha sure hope you've graduated!

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