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Compiled by John J.J. Chen, [email protected] 10 July 2013 C&M Industrial Advisory Board In this issue we profile the current members of the C&M Industrial Advisory Board. The Board was set up in 2005 to advise the Department on various matters including academic aspects, industrial relevance, health and safety issues, etc. The members serve a very important function, on a voluntary basis, and help guide the Department in the constantly evolving chemical and materials engineering fields.
Alison Andrew, Chair of C&M Industrial Advisory Board Global Head of Chemicals, Orica plc
Alison Andrew runs Orica’s global chemicals portfolio - a role she was appointed to in December 2012 after running the Chemicals NZ business for 3 years. Prior to joining Orica Alison spent 2 years as CEO of Lexicon Systems. Most of Alison’s career has been with NZ’s two largest companies – Fonterra Cooperative and Fletcher Challenge. Alison spent 7 years in a variety of senior executive roles in Fonterra mostly in commercial & general management roles in the ingredients business. Before joining Fonterra, Alison worked for 11 years in the Fletcher Challenge group in the Paper, Forests and Energy businesses in finance, manufacturing, and business development roles. Alison has a Bachelor of Engineering, Chemicals & Materials (1st Class Hons) from Auckland University and a Masters in Business Administration (with distinction) from the University of Warwick (UK). She became a Fellow of IPENZ in 2013. Alison is currently an independent director of Genesis Energy. She works part time in Melbourne and lives in Auckland with her husband and two teenage sons. Alison has chaired the Advisory Board since its inception in 2005 and has had the pleasure of working with three Heads of Department. Over the last 8 years the Advisory Board has been a sounding board for the HoD, helped develop a health & safety culture in the department, assisted with a couple of accreditations, and organised careers evenings for graduates. Alison is stepping down in October.
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Stewart Crichton, Primary Operations Business Development Manager, New Zealand Steel
Stewart works across the Ironmaking and Slabmaking processes at Bluescope Steel’s Glenbrook site. This role is about maximising the value that is generated by the Primary Operations business. It includes coordinating the short term improvement opportunities and the development of the long term strategic facilities plan. Stewart started with technical roles in steelmaking then worked in operational management roles in Ironmaking, Slabmaking and the Finishing Plants. As a member of the Industrial Advisory Board, Stewart’s aim is to be able to contribute back to the engineering school wherever possible, such as providing an industry perspective on graduates and in the development of the safety culture in the Department.
Adrian Dickison Technical Director Chemical Engineering, Beca
Adrian has been with the Beca group since 2004. He is a graduate of Canterbury University and has over 25 years' experience in a broad range of chemical engineering including process design, scale-up, R&D, refrigeration systems and heat exchanger design, pharmaceutical development, and mining and metals. Adrian's current professional interests include simulation, mining & metals environmental projects, refrigeration, process safety and smart P&ID tools. Adrian is fluent in French and leads Beca's activity in New Caledonia, primarily focused on the nickel industry. He is also a trained HAZOP facilitator. Adrian enjoys seeing graduates come in to industry and exercise their hard and soft skills in real world engineering.
Sean Dillon Logistic Controller, Golden Bay Cement
I graduated with honours in 2008, before working for a year in the public sector. I returned and completed my Masters in Engineering in 2010, before joining Golden Bay Cement, a business unit of Fletcher
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Building, in logistics and supply chain. I have been with Golden Bay for the last 3½ years and am currently working on a variety of projects across the business, ensuring the customer never runs out of cement. What I would like to achieve as an Advisory Board member is to ensure undergraduates working through their degree are made aware of the HS&E requirements in industry. This can be done through independent assessments of laboratory areas or giving guidance to lecturers about what companies are looking for in graduates in the area of HS&E. Hosting the Careers Evening gives both the Advisory Board and students the opportunity to interact and get a sense of the variety of doors a C&M degree opens.
Alice Havill Team Leader, Product Recovery, Lanzatech
Graduated 2007. Leads the research and development into existing and novel separation technologies for the recovery of fermentation bio products, to be applied to the LanzaTech process. Excited to be a part of the advisory board and offering a perspective from the biotechnology industry, which is a rapidly advancing field of engineering
Alex Turnbull Managing Director - Latam at Fonterra
As Managing Director Latin America, Alex Turnbull leads Fonterra’s business in the fast-growing markets of Argentina, Brazil, the Caribbean, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, Mexico and Venezuela. Alex has more than 20 years of experience in the dairy industry, including extensive experience in senior sales, general management and marketing roles within Latin America and New Zealand. Between 2008 and 2012 he led our global paediatrics business. Having spent almost a decade in Brazil, Alex is fluent in Portuguese. Whilst I can’t recall the last time I used JJJ Chen’s famous entropy equation or did anything more than basic maths on my fx-82, I have found the grounding and logic processes that Engineering has taught me to be invaluable in my career with Fonterra. I really want to see the faculty have a smooth transition to the new campus, embrace the ethos of Health and Safety given the economic and health benefits it can bring to companies and their people, and ensure the faculty’s operating framework and education strategy attracts the best students that New Zealand and the world has to offer. I owe a lot to the Chem and Matls Eng Department and I hope to be able to give something back after spending 2 decades in the food industry http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10871607
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New Dean, Faculty of Engineering The following from Engineering Alumni News, No. 29, p. 3, June 2013.
Michelle Dickinson, Staff
http://www.3news.co.nz/The-pros-and-cons-of-fluoride/tabid/1216/articleID/301975/Default.aspx Michelle is now quite a media celebrity. She was interviewed in the “Science News” spot for TV3 Firstline on 19 June 2013 about Fluoridation and Composites in the Airbus A350. See Michelle’s page for further details. http://medickinson.com/Dickinson/Michelle_Dickinson.html Michelle also gave the Café Scientifique talk at the Auckland Museum Institute on 26 June 2013, http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/811/cafe-scientifique , and the Auckland Geek Dinners on 2 July 2013. http://auckland.girlgeekdinners.com/ Café Scientifique NEXT CAFE – 26 JUNE 2013
Waiter! There's nanotechnology in my soup! with Dr Michelle Dickinson Senior Lecturer University of Auckland Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
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6.30pm - Wednesday 26 June 2013 Nanotechnology seems to be sneaking into everything around us. We’re told it’s going to make the world a better place, but how much do we know about the use of nanotechnology in our day to day lives - should we be worried about the use of nanotechnology in our food, for instance? Michelle will uncover some of the mystery behind this new science called nanotechnology, and how much of what sounds like science fiction may already be science fact. Michelle Dickinson is a nanotechnologist who has recently moved from a consulting position in industry to the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the University of Auckland. Her work involves the use of nanotechnology in medical and technology research. Michelle is also a science advisor for TV3 and a contributor to Green Ideas Magazine. Her passion is to encourage environmentally sustainable living through engineering design – when she is not in her research lab you can catch her cycling around the city, or tending to her permaculture garden. Seminar by Professor Mark Taylor – Note start time: 6:00pm on 24th July 2013. The time for the seminar on 24th July 2013 was incorrectly given in the previous C&M News. The correct start time is 6:00pm. Professor Mark Taylor, Director of the "Materials Accelerator" will present a seminar entitled "Demand and Engagement model for Materials and Manufacturing research in NZ". The event is being hosted by the Society of Materials New Zealand Incorporated (SMNZI) Date: 24th July Time: 6-7pm Venue: Engineering Building 403.403 For catering purposes please register attendance at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6025114279 Geran Zhang 2010, now doing PhD at MIT, Cambridge
Photo taken on 20 June 2013 when Geran returned to visit the Department. From the left, Ashvin Thambyah, Geran Zhang, Neil Broom, and John Chen.
Geran is doing a PhD at MIT, Cambridge, in the Biomolecular Mateirals Group, Materials Science and Engineering Department. In 2011, “Geran Zhang has chosen to study at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was selected for one of only ten Fulbright Ministry of Research, Science and Technology Graduate Awards available across New Zealand, but he declined as his programme will be fully funded by MIT.” according to Engineering Alumni News, No 24, May 2011. Geran tells me that "Our lab uses genetically modified bacteriophage as a template to synthesis nanomaterials and nanocomposites for applications in energy and medicine. To get a bacteriophage that we use as a template, we genetically modify the coat protein on the virus to give it certain surface properties. Usually, we look for an amino acid sequence with affinity for a specific material by using a process called biopanning. Most of my work is focused on making and testing electrode materials for lithium-ion batteries: designing new nanostructures to enable new or improve current lithium-ion chemistries, looking at more fundamental materials chemistry issues and how they affect battery performance. Most of the everyday
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work involves materials synthesis (mostly by using a bacteriophage biotemplate or other wet-chemistry techniques) and characterization (TEM, SEM, XPS, XRD, ICP-AES, etc), battery assembly and characterization (GC, CV, etc). The work is very interdisciplinary and broad. I am also thinking about materials for other device applications, mostly in the energy field." Ting MeeLing C&M 2000 MeeLing recently took a career path change. She graduated with a Bachelor of Education in Early Childhood Teaching at AUT last year. She is now back in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, teaching at a local college in a diploma course in early childhood education. Chris Short C&M 2003
Photo shows Chris(squatting) inspecting a wastewater line. Chris has recently joined Envivo Ltd to run the engineering division. BCL Surveyors and MPC Planners merged recently to become Envivo and have recently expanded their services to include engineering. Chris has more than nine years experience in the public and private sector engineering, focusing on the specification and delivery of civil infrastructure services, especially wastewater for land developments and subdivisions. The team covers small projects such as tricky driveways and flood assessments through to large urban developments. Chris Shortt has worked in New Zealand, Australia and the South Pacific, and has presented papers at a number of
national and international conferences and seminars. When not working on challenging Civil engineering projects, Chris is involved in his son’s school as the chair of the School Community Committee. Chris has recently completed his competence assessment with the Institute of Professional Engineers New Zealand (IPENZ), and is now registered as a Chartered Professional Engineer and International Professional Engineer, New Zealand. Bona Lee, C&M 1996
Emeritus Professor George Ferguson and Bona Lee.
Bona went on to do a law degree after her BE Hons(I). She did her final year research project with George on “Performance of dryer supporting springs”. She is now practising as a lawyer in Hong Kong. William Miao, 2011 William has just finished his first year of a Master of Environmental Studies degree at Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Currently he is interning with Dannon/Danone on carbon footprinting and supply chain sustainability strategies.
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C&M Class of 1988
The class of 1988 had a 20-year reunion in 2009. Steve Levien, now at Tooheys at Lion Nathan, tells me that they have had an annual get together in Aussie every year since then. He is planning on organising a get together in the next few months. If interested, please let me know and I can put you in contact with Steve. Steve is also suggesting that next year is 25 years after graduation. Would people in the class of 1988 be interested in a catch up in NZ? Reunion, C&M Class of 1969 In the previous issue, I reported on the forthcoming reunion of the C&M Class of 1969 in Auckland, 17-20 February 2014. I also included a photo taken during the reunion in Fiskebäckskil on Skafto Island, Sweden in 2010. Some of you might have noticed that all the C&M class of 1969 were wearing similar T-shirts. You might be interested to know that the T-shirts sported the following:
In listing the names of attendees, Merv Jones’ name was inadvertently left out. The complete list of attendees are: Bob Andrew, Ivan Anich, Jim Jobbins, Merv Jones, Arthur Jordan, Klaus Möller, Murray Sargisson, Geoff Tegg and Warren Thomas. NZ Conference of Chemical and Materials Engineering 2013 (NZCCME 2013) A SCENZ-IChemE in NZ / SMNZI Joint Conference 25-26 November 2013, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Auckland, 20 Symonds Street A Heads-up. Please note the dates in your diary. The following web-page is “under construction” http://www.facultyconferences.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/faculty-of-engineering/nzccme If you have any enquiries or suggestions for the Conference Organising Committee, feel free to send them to [email protected]
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Dr Zaid Saleh and Professor Murat Balaban The following from Engineering Alumni News, No. 29, p. 8, June 2013.
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