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UNSW School of Civil and Environmental EngineeringAlumni and Community Newsletter 2016

HE SCHOOL’S third year engineering practice course has been re-designed to make students more innova-

tive and ‘industry ready’.Course coordinator Associate

Professor Adrian Russell has been the driver for a renewed focus on creativity and innovation in the School’s curriculum. “There is so much more to engineering design than just following standards and de-sign codes,” he says. “Creativity and innovation are skills absolutely vital for engineers in the 21st Century.”

“As engineers we are all being urged to be innovative,’ he says, ‘but not taught how. Innovation and creativity are not such mysterious skills – they can be taught and learnt, certainly actively encouraged and supported.”

To build his course Russell harnessed the expertise of creativity lecturer Associate Professor Kerry Thomas, from UNSW’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences; industry colleagues James Glastonbury from Laing O’Rourke and Michael Quinnell from Advisian; and Cre-ativity Consultant, Melinda Hodges.

“Ultimately, creative and innovative engineering design will lift Australia’s productivity and competitiveness, some-thing that is high on the national agenda at present,” Russell says. “By offering this course we are giving our students a

head start in the new engineering world.”This is the first semester the course

has been taught but so far the results have proved to Russell that all his efforts have been more than worthwhile.

In one project students were asked to design a new type of shaking table. Shaking tables are used in laboratory testing to mimic earthquake loading on large models of infrastructure. This mirrors a real-life project that School academic staff are currently working on - funded by the ARC – and including four other university partners.

Students were asked to not only design a new model but also to build a physical model, demonstrating the mechanisms – and were actively encouraged to inno-vate. It was only a short 2 week exercise – but the results were astonishing.

Engineering Creativity

STILL NUMBER 1 IN AUSTRALIA QS World University Rankings 2015

2016 & Shanghai Jiao Tong Global Rankings of Academic Subjects (ARWU) (2016)

“Our students were awe-inspir-ing,’ Russell says. “I was amazed at how creative and diverse the models were. Using a variety of materials and energy sources - batteries, hydraulics, syringes, Lego and meccano, wood, and 3D computer animations to create their models, our students imagined and delivered new and radical ways of solving this problem. Uninhibited by how things ‘should’ be done, they were freed up to really explore, create and innovate.”

Head of School Professor Ste-phen Foster is also delighted with

the outcomes. “We have 120 academic and research staff – who all do mar-vellous work – but we also have 2,000 undergraduate students. Unleashing their creativity, energy and enthusiasm brings new powers to the School and the profession.”

‘Our students are awe-inspiring - A/Prof Adrian Russell

A year of action 2School statistics 2016 2A wealth of talent 2

Socially enterprising 3Sustainable innovation 4History maker 5

Inspiring leadership 6Making maths count 7Message from CEVSOC 8

Kourosh Kayvani 8Vale Ray Lawther 8

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Dear Alumni and Friends It has been another excellent year at the School and, as usual, it has been a difficult task choosing which of our many engaging stories to share with you.

Staff at the School are active on so many fronts - from teaching our 2,000 undergraduates and 660 postgraduate coursework students, to working with over 200 PhD students and 75 full time research staff through eight research centres and hubs. The School is always seeking to expand, refine and innovate engineering knowledge, as well as to share our knowledge and expertise with industry, government and academic colleagues around the world.

Demand for our teaching programs has never been higher. The same is true for our research capacities. Each year we work with over one hundred industry and government organisations on specific industry related projects. Each year we win millions of dollars in highly competitive Australian Research Council grants – and this year has been no exception.

We are currently ranked as the number one school in Australia not just by the QS World University Subject Rankings, but also by the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). You can be assured that, far from resting on any laurels, the good work of the School – our research and teaching, our social engagement and global impact - will continue.

Our students are certainly busy expanding their and our horizons – our cover story shares some of this excitement, as does our story about the student-led social justice project of computer reUse.

Our alumni have also been busy at work - influencing, leading and inno-vating. In this issue we feature several alumni achievements. We are always interested in hearing from you and finding out how we can better work together.

Again, we cannot cover it all – this is just a selection of the good and useful work we are proud to be involved in as engineering academics, practitioners and students – facing the challenges, and making a difference.

A year of actionSocially enterprising

OURTH YEAR environmen-tal engineering student Charlotte Wang has been volunteering her time and skills to assist others since

high school. Her question as a child had always been a pretty big one. ‘Why is there injustice and what can we do about it?’ At high school she had excelled in history and legal studies as well as at maths, but when it came to choosing a university course, Charlotte chose to follow her social justice inter-est not into the humanities or law, but into so-called ‘apolitical’ engineering.

‘Engineering has a direct impact on our lives. I wanted in the end to study something not just to analyse or

causing severe environmental and public health damage in developing nations.

At the same time, they learnt that almost 20% of Australians do not have access to a computer at home, and it is most likely those with lower incomes.

The aim of eReuse Inc. is to save UNSW computers from landfill –to re-furbish and then recycle them for those people who lack access to computers– which have become almost a pre-req-uisite for full participatory citizenship in the contemporary world.

Civil engineering/commerce student Rohan Pala steered the group through into incorporated status, and registered e-Reuse as not-for-profit organisation.

HOW IT WORKS: •A weekly computer refurbishment workshop is held every Wednesday night at the UNSW Michael Crouch Innovation Centre, allowing students to gain hands on experience with comput-er hardware.

•Orders for these computers are placed by caseworkers and social workers from Sydney’s social service organisations, including Mission Austra-lia, St Vincent de Paul, Core Community Services and Multicultural Communities – all organisations seeking to cultivate social justice, on principles of inclu-sion, participation, access and equity.

•Computers that are not able to be refurbished are placed in a serviced e-waste recycling bin located in the Michael Crouch Innovation Centre. Participating organisations also ensure that the computers provided to them are recycled at the end of their life.

•The successful development and launch of the e-Reuse project could well form a model for ongoing stu-dent-led courses and social enterprise projects at UNSW -which can also be applied to other universities and organ-isations.

•It is an example of environmental engineering that involves social and technological solutions to deliver on all three pillars of sustainability: economic, social and environmental.

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Charlotte Wang and Rohan Pala – CVEN student inno-

vators - e-Reuse.

What can we do about injustice?

understand ideas, but to have the tools to create and change things. ‘

Charlotte hasn’t waited for graduation to make her impact!

At UNSW she joined the local branch of ENACTUS where she met a group of like -minded students and the idea of eReuse was born.

The students discovered that only 10% of the 4 million computers sold each year end up being recycled in Australia. The rest will become e-waste, the world’s fastest growing waste stream- discarded as landfill or exported to other countries, potentially

The School was the first UNSW group to sign up for e-Reuse. Moreover, valuable funding and support for the development process was provid-ed throughout 2016 by the Head of School Professor Stephen Foster and the School’s Teaching and Learning Committee.

In September 2016 an agreement to recycle and re-use UNSW IT equipment was signed between UNSW and ARC, UNSW’s student union, with the pilot program developed by eReuse Inc., to be trialled as a UNSW program and implemented at a UNSW-wide level.

Undergraduate Students 2052Generated Teaching & Research Income 2015 $58.2MARC & Industry Grant Funded Research 2015 $12.44M

Stephen J Foster Professor and Head of School

SCHOOL STATISTICS 2016

ONGRATULATIONS to all our amazing staff involved in yet another successful

round of Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project Grants, an-nounced on 1 November by Federal Education Minister Simon Birming-ham. The School has obtained six Discovery grants and one DECRA (Discovery Early Career Researcher Award) to the value of $2.6 million in Cat A research funding.

Head of School Professor Stephen Foster congratulated all those who were successful and thanked all those staff who submitted. “We all know how competitive these grants are,” he said, “with a success rate of just 17.8% across the country in Discovery and 16.7% for DECRAs. So well done to all!”

School staff involved in the suc-cessful Discovery projects include Dr Hoori Ajami, Dr Richard Collins, Prof Stephen Foster, Dr Ehab Hamed, A/Prof Stuart Khan, Dr Lucy Marshall, Prof Chris Rizos, Prof Brian Uy, Prof David Waite, and A/Prof Jinling Wang. Dr Taha Rashidi received the DECRA.

UNSW itself received more Dis-covery Project grants than any other institution in the country – 88 DPs worth $32 million. Prof Nicholas Fisk, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) at UNSW, congratulated the University’s researchers not only on securing the most grants in this round but topping the overall research funds awarded by the ARC this year. “These results are a real testament to the wealth, breadth and depth of talent here,” Professor Fisk said.

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Combining data drawn from different sources allows surveys to be much richer and more useful

ARK COMBE has a passion for getting things done. He also has a passion for engineering entrepreneur-ship and innovation. His

taste for adventure is combined with rigorous research, both in-house and in partnership with universities – such as James Cook University and UNSW.

In 2015 his company Fibercon won a prestigious Shell and Australian Department of Industry, Innovation & Science Innovation Challenge Award for their development of a recycled macro-plastic fibre reinforcing made entirely from industrial plastic wastes. The polypropolene (PP) fibres can reinforce concrete in footpaths, cy-cleways, shotcrete and small precast elements.

In 2016 Mark was acknowledged as one of Australia’s most innovative en-gineers –being included in Engineers Australia’s brand new Top 50 list. “Our world is built upon the thoughts of

ALUMNUS PROFILE: MARK COMBE BE CIVIL ’87, MIE, MIPENZ, RPEQ – ENGINEERING INNOVATOR

ARELLE UNDERWOOD is the newly appointed Surveyor General of New South Wales. She is NSW’s 25th Surveyor General

since Augustus Alt was appointed to the position in 1787 before his arrival with the First Fleet. Narelle is the first female Surveyor General in any Australian state and at age 32 is the youngest to take the role in NSW in 200 years.

NSW Department of Finance, Ser-vices and Innovation Secretary, Martin Hoffman, announced the appointment on 2 September. “Ms Underwood is a leader in her profession working as an advisor to the Board of Surveying and Spatial Information and Chair of the Surveying Mapping and Industry Council (SMIC),” said Mr Hoffman. “She has also played a significant role in promoting and developing the survey profession, particularly in the tertiary sector and with young professionals.”

While at UNSW, Underwood won the Dean’s Award twice and the University Medal on graduation. She also contrib-uted to the Surveying Student Society, serving as both treasurer and presi-dent and is currently a member of the School’s Industry Advisory Committee.

Since her graduation Underwood has won a total of nine industry awards for her innovation and com-

ALUMNI PROFILE: NARELLE UNDERWOOD, BE HONS 1 SURVEYING AND SPATIAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS, ’09 - NSW SURVEYOR-GENERAL

mitment to quality outputs, including the Asia-Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards Young Professional of the Year in 2011.

As NSW’s 25th Surveyor General, Narelle Underwood will serve as President of the Board of Surveying and Spatial Information (BOSSI), chair of the Geographical Names Board of NSW and Electoral Boundaries Com-missioner. She will bring her expertise to improve urban planning, com-munity services and infrastructure, and help keep surveying standards consistent nationwide.

Narelle Underwood is not daunted

engineers” the journal for Engineers Australia Create noted, “there are few professions whose creativity has greater transformative potential.”

And yet. “The construction industry is not nearly as innovative as it could be,” Mark Combe says, “despite the fact that our future depends upon it. It tends to stick with what it knows, and what has worked in the past. Under-standable, perhaps, but no longer defensible.”

Concrete represents the second most used material by humankind, second just to water, with an annual use of 24 billion tonnes of concrete globally. At the same time, global plas-tic production every year is more than 300 million tonnes, out of which only 5% is currently being recycled.

“Plastic fibres in concrete have been around for twenty years” Mark says, “what is new about our product is that it is 100% recycled. As well as reducing global plastic pollution, use

of this recycled plastic fibre contrib-utes towards sustainable development by reducing the consumption of steel in concrete.” His process is suitable for large-scale commercial production. “We all need to play a role in reducing the carbon footprint of construction,” Mark says.

“I’m not sure if you could call it a planned career,” he laughs, when asked to reflect upon his thirty year career “at times it was more a wild ride!”

“Maybe it’s because I come from the Riverina in NSW, and my people have always been hands-on, but one thing I knew when I left UNSW with my engineering degree - I did not want to work at a desk in a high rise office all day. In my working life I have worked as project engineer on construction sites, and in mining in Australia and overseas. I have travelled all over Aus-tralia and gone to places such as New Guinea, Vanuatu, Samoa, the Torres Strait. Some of these remote places have a fairly tough lifestyle but also provide some amazing experiences.

There were some difficult times in the 90’s as companies went bust. About twenty years ago I thought I could do better than this – and I went out on my own. It made for interesting times – some ‘mince and rice only’ days… but here we are now – awards and recognition – and the real satis-faction of being an honest, upfront, reliable engineering company which is contributing to global sustainability.

Funny thing is I have been more involved with UNSW than I expected, working with Professor Steve Foster and Emeritus Professor Ian Gilbert on the Australian Standard AS5100 Chapter 16 – Fibres in Concrete Sec-tion. UNSW has also conducted some testing and research on our other fibres, Steel and Macro Plastic. It really is a serendipitous world.”

The construction industry is not nearly as innovative as it could be

by the ever changing technological landscape of the surveying industry; she is excited by it. “Merging new and traditional technologies continues to be one of my greatest joys. Combin-ing data drawn from different sources allows surveys to be much richer and more useful,” she says. Technological innovation can ensure the expansion of public infrastructure in the future.

Narelle hopes that her appoint-ment will serve as an example for women and young people looking to enter a career in surveying. “This is a time of great opportunity and change for the spatial and surveying sector. I hope to be a role model for all surveying and spatial profession-als, ensuring the profession em-braces that change and capitalises on the opportunities available.”

Narelle is working with the NSW Surveying Task Force to encourage

Sustainable innovation

History maker

more graduates to consider a career in surveying – without whom the con-struction industry could very well grind to a halt. Enrolments in surveying de-grees at UNSW have more doubled in the last three years as the work of the Task Force - and the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering - takes ef-fect, but that is, admittedly, from a low base. In 2017 surveying and geospa-tial undergraduate student enrolments are expected to number 120.

“There is a severe shortage of Reg-istered Land Surveyors in Australia so we’re working to lift the profile of the profession,” Narelle said. “With tech-nology changing so rapidly, we really don’t know what will be happening in five or ten years, what people will need and how data and information will be used. It’s an open book, which makes this profession extremely exciting.”

The tradition continues – Surveying student Hannah

Pearce on 2016 School Survey camp at Berry.

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S THE briefing for the award states, effective leader-ship is characterised by passion and commitment, setting bold objectives and

achieving results, and most important-ly, motivating and mobilising the talent of others for the benefit of the profes-sion and the community at large.  In the light of these criteria Athena Venios is a very worthy recipient of the award.

Athena, who graduated with an honours degree from the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering in 1997, is Technical Director - Transport at AECOM, and has lead multidisci-plinary teams ranging from 25 to 350 people. As Technical Director she is responsible for the delivery of complex transport projects, working closely with government and key stakehold-ers- and is accountable for securing a pipeline of projects and setting the strategic direction for AECOM’s trans-port business.

Athena has worked on major proj-ects in water and transport, holding leadership roles in transport and infra-structure programs for major sporting events, including the Sydney and Ath-ens Olympic Games, the Melbourne

ALUMNUS PROFILE: ATHENA VENIOS HAS WON THE 2016 JUDY RAPER AWARD FOR LEADERSHIP IN ENGINEERING.

Commonwealth Games and the Mel-bourne Grand Prix. She founded and chaired the KBR Women’s Professional Engagement group, has been vice-chair of Engineers Australia’s Women in Engineering Sydney Division and is currently a member of AECOM’s Diver-sity & Inclusion Committee.

Driven by a vision for a better world, and immensely proud of her profes-sion, Athena balances nurturing with challenging her teams. She supports not only her people in continuing to learn and develop but others in her or-ganisation. Likewise she has remained actively engaged with UNSW since her graduation, revealing a keen determi-nation to remain part of its community, and is a very valued member of the School’s Industry Advisory Committee.

“What has always impressed has been Athena’s generosity, her passion-ate commitment to task and her ability to deal with others gracefully without sacrificing confidence,” says Dr Mary O’Connell, External Relations Manager at UNSW Civil & Environmental Engi-neering. “She is a superb role model for any undergraduate but especially for aspiring female engineers.”

Currently Athena leads a diverse

team to identify and preserve a new corridor for the future Outer Sydney Orbital, as part of NSW’s long term transport master plan. Environmental, current and future land use consid-erations are key to the selection of a corridor as well as the traditional engineering, topographic and con-nectivity issues. Athena finds this complex project challenging and very exciting. She sees the possibilities for the orbital to become the spine of the future western Sydney, servicing the influx of people into western Sydney accessing housing and employment opportunities.

As the recipient of this illustrious award, Athena Venios joins an elite group of female influencers with past winners of the award including Vicky Binns, vice president for Copper Marketing at BHP Biliton, Pia Seeto, portfolio director for managed services at Ericsson; and Dr. Mehreen Faruqi, Greens Upper House MP, New South Wales Parliament.

On receiving her award, Athena said: “As an engineer I have been fortunate to be involved in some truly transformational projects, working with some inspiring individuals here in Aus-tralia and overseas. I’m honoured to accept the Judy Raper Award. For me leadership is about inspiring and lifting the capability of those around you, enabling them to achieve their true potential. I’ve had some great mentors over the years and I am delighted that I’ve been able to fulfil that role for others in return.”

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Making maths count

uestion: Why the interest in students studying math-ematics?Answer: The CVEN Indus-try Advisory Committee

became concerned about the increas-ing numbers of students finishing sec-ondary school in NSW without having studied mathematics at an advanced level, specifically Extension 1 and 2 levels.

Competition between disciplines is fierce. Students with experience of ex-tension level mathematics are sought after by commerce, science, medicine, economics and other disciplines, as well as engineering.

So, while the CVEN enrolment numbers have shot up over the last few years, the pool of students with advanced maths training has not. This has prompted the committee to investi-gate the facts and possible causes.

Q: Why is participation in higher level HSC mathematics dropping? A:There seems to be an enormous variability in the enthusiasm, ability and effectiveness of mathematics teaching in schools. There are clearly numerous teachers who achieve won-

derful results. However, rote-learning approaches are present in our school system and are guaranteed to turn students off maths. And there is a reported shortage of properly trained and skilled teachers of mathematics at all stages of schooling, particularly in regional areas. The experience and in-sight of mathematics needs to be built from the bottom up, without skipping steps or layers. It only takes one year of ineffective teaching to destroy the interest, ambition and ability of students.

Another issue is misinformation about how difficult maths is and this is connected to that other myth: that doing easier subjects gets you a high-er HSC outcome. We investigated this with the Universities Admission Centre people and their data convincingly showed that the myth is not correct.

Q: What impact does this have on engineering as a profession? A: It is quite common to hear that you don’t need mathematics at an ad-vanced level to be an engineer in the field. The myth is that you don’t use the mathematics, but actually you do, every day.

The disciplines of logical analysis, rigorous reasoning, hypothesis testing, problem formulation and proof are not peculiar to mathematics, but develop-ment of these generic skills is more difficult in the absence of experience in mathematics that goes beyond the learning of formulae.

Engineering relies on this kind of rigorous thinking ability. If the basic assumptions are correct, then this follows, for these reasons.

I often say to young engineers, you will not be employed because of what you know, but rather because of what you will do when you don’t know. “Abracadabra logic”, pattern recogni-tion, formula memory and procedure following is not enough.

Experience of mathematics educa-tion at an advanced level greatly as-sists the development and application of analytical skills, rigorous thinking and intellectual agility.

Q: What can be done about this? And by whom? A: It seems to us that the problem is unlikely to be solved without a larger number of teachers at both primary and secondary levels who are confi-dent and capable in imparting the ex-citement and insights of mathematics. A good teacher can have their students buzzing. Teachers have an enormous influence. The IAC does not profess to have expertise in teacher training and school operation but it seems to us that we need to address the issue of people trained in advanced mathemat-ics not wanting to become teachers. We need to find ways to make teaching more attractive than appears currently to be the case. As a nation, we need to focus on making it worthwhile and rewarding for people to have a career teaching maths.

For several years the CVEN School has been reaching out to school stu-dents, their parents, their teachers and their careers advisers to increase their understanding of the nature, role and value of civil engineering, apparently with considerable success. Perhaps a similar approach to attracting students to mathematics teaching and then keeping them in the profession might also have a positive effect.

At the very least, do not dimin-ish teaching as a career path and encourage the discussion about how important it is and how valuable it is to the nation and the professions that depend upon it.

AN INTERVIEW WITH IAN MCINTYRE: CHAIR OF CVEN INDUSTRY ADVISORY COMMITTEE

A good teacher can have their students buzzing

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KOUROSH KAYVANIONGRATULATIONS to School alumnus and member of our Industry Advisory Committee

Dr Kourosh Kayvani, (MEngSc ’92, PhD ’97), FIEA who has been awarded the 2016 John Connell Gold Medal.

The Award is presented annually by the Board of the College of Structural Engineers to an outstanding Structural Engineer who has made a significant contribution to the profession of both national and international significance, and who is widely recognised to be of eminent standing within the profession.

Kourosh Kayvani is Global Director of Excellence & Expertise at Aurecon. In his 28 years in the industry, he has played key roles in the engineering of many innovative, complex and award winning structures across the globe, including Wembley Stadium in the UK,

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VALE RAY LAWTHER 1945 - 2016

ANY ALUMNI will be saddened to hear that Dr Ray Lawther passed away in April this year. Ray taught at UNSW for over thirty years – and was a School

legend well before his retirement in 2005.In paying tribute to Ray, Head of School Professor Ste-

phen Foster recalled, ‘Ray was a great colleague and friend to many of us over many years. Ray both educated our stu-dents and mentored staff in computations. There was little that Ray did not know about computational methods – the paper I most remember was where he related the theory of bracing of structures to Einstein’s special theory of relativity.

He is remembered as a great teacher by his students and by colleagues as an excellent researcher.

Ray was not just a colleague but a personal friend and I know this is the sentiment of many in our School who had the opportunity to work and study with him.’

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UR MAIN student society CEVSOC had a transfor-mational year in 2016 with

four major sell out social events and meaningful progress in encouraging di-versity and inclusion within the society. Our alumni are such a wonderful pool of guidance and knowledge, CEVSOC would relish the opportunity to keep you in touch and engaged.

CEVSOC is eager to create more opportunities in 2017 for alumni to reconnect with each other and with current students through a variety of events such as industrial training

MESSAGE FROM CEVSOCO information night, international student

information night, sports events, Third Year Camp weekend, and a fourth year thesis and design practice night – students are interested in hearing your personal and professional work story.

If you would like to be kept up to date about CEVSOC’s Alumni op-portunities, please email the External Relations Manager Dr Mary O’Connell at m.oconnell@unsw.edu.au

West Kowloon Terminus in Hong Kong and in Australia: ANSTO OPAL nuclear reactor, the Sydney Hockey Stadium, Brookfield Place, Civic Tower, 5 Martin Place, Liberty Place and Melbourne Star Observation Wheel.

He specialises in long-span struc-tures, tall buildings, stadium structures, seismic design and forensic engineer-ing. Kourosh is a Visiting Professorial Fellow at UNSW, a Director of the Aus-tralian Steel Institute, and the President of the Lightweight Structures Associa-tion of Australasia.