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FROM THE DEANThe Faculty has continued to Celebrate Engineering and Thinking in recent months with a number of projects being realised. The spectacular new Engineering Library, which started its redevelopment planning process more than two years ago, opened its doors for the first time to staff and students alike in early September. As did the Engineering Student Centre, which has been designed to bring all undergraduate and postgraduate student orientated services such as Administration, Engineering Employment, Scholarships, Women in Engineering, and Maori and Pasifika Student Mentors to one accessible location. The modern functional spaces have been praised by all who have explored them.

Perhaps not as visible from Symonds Street as the Library’s redevelopment, the School of Engineering Building’s roof has been developed into Auckland City’s first ‘green roof ’, planted with natives and succulents as part of a three year research project; details and a photographic essay of the installation are included within.

The University’s Winter Lecture Series as hosted by the Faculty with the theme ‘Engineering Technologies for today and tomorrow’ provided a weekly opportunity to learn about the state of the art in engineering technology today and its potential impact on society in the foreseeable future with reference to Mechanical, Biomedical, Electrical and Computer, Civil and Environmental, Engineering Science, and Chemical and Materials Engineering. The lectures averaged a captivated audience of 205, including myself.

Faculty staff and students continue to strive for excellence with a number of recent awards and scholarships – Professor Pradeep Bansal from the Department of Mechanical

Engineering received a Distinguished Service Award from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers at its annual meeting in Quebec in June; nine students were presented Beca scholarships by Beca Executive Chairman Gavin Cormack in July; students Sam Blackbourn and Priscilla Chung were named winners of the ‘Auckland student Low Impact Design competition’; three Electrical and Computer Engineering students produced their own research into Inductive Power Transfer in monorail systems and presented their work at the Asia Pacific Symposium on Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics in Sydney; and a team of second year Mechatronics students beat �5 universities from around Australasia to win the prestigious Weir-Warman Design and Build Competition in Sydney, elevating the Faculty and the University to the record holder for the number of wins at the annual competition.

The Faculty has been actively involved in engaging with its prospective students this year, during August in particular. The first event was the Coca-Cola Careers Expo – a four day affair at the Auckland Showgrounds. The expo is the largest of its kind in the country and attracts over 30,000 visitors – including secondary school senior students researching and making decisions about their future. And for the second consecutive year the Formula SAE Team were in attendance with their Race Car again proving to be a magnet for students. The Faculty travelled to Whangarei, Hamilton and Rotorua to present Engineering Futures Evenings to interested parents, students and teachers wanting to learn more about the Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree, Life in the City and at The University of Auckland, and the Career Opportunities a BE affords. Faculty representatives in partnership with the University’s Schools Partnership Office have provided Course Planning advice to senior students at more than 50 Auckland secondary schools. The culmination of these events was The University of Auckland’s Courses and Careers Day, at which 8,000 prospective students and their families discovered, explored and learned what the University has to offer. The School of Engineering Building was once again a hive of activity with interactive Departmental displays and lectures presented throughout the day.

In time-honoured tradition, Spring Graduation commenced with graduands and staff processing in colourful regalia from the University through the spectator lined city streets to the Town Hall; at which �2�

graduates from the Faculty of Engineering were capped. Staff, family and friends attended the Faculty’s Graduation Lunch in the Engineering Atrium to acknowledge the accomplishments of each graduate. Again, I congratulate you. As in May, each new Engineering graduate was presented an Auckland University Engineers Association (AUEA) membership card. The Engineering Alumni News is one means to continuing your relationship with the Faculty and the University. As an alumnus you will have the opportunity to support those who will follow you by providing advice, encouragement, mentorship, employment, scholarships and funding. Contributions from previous graduates have benefited you as a student and we will welcome your involvement in assisting future generations of students.

In considering the future of Engineering, I would like to sincerely thank Alumni and Friends of the Faculty who have made generous donations to the Cecil Segedin Endowment Fund, the Ardmore Fund, Colombo Plan Scholarships and the Engineering Endowment Fund, ensuring our centenary is not only about celebrating the past, but providing a strong foundation for the future.

November will be host to the highlight events of the Centennial Year, with a week of celebrations; starting with the Faculty’s Open Day on Saturday �8 November, a mid week Golf Tournament, the Honorary Degrees and Distinguished Awards Ceremony, the Cocktail Function, tours of the University, Sky Tower and the Auckland Harbour Bridge, to the gala event of the Centennial Weekend – the Faculty of Engineering’s Centennial Dinner in partnership with Beca.

There has been strong interest from Alumni and Industry alike wishing to attend the Centennial Dinner ; with ticket numbers limited I encourage you to register your interest without delay. To that effect please find enclosed your Centennial Year Registration Form. I hope you can join us in celebrating our historic milestone.

I thank you for your interest and support of the Faculty; your involvement in our world is always welcome. I look forward to meeting you during the November celebrations.

Professor Peter W. BrothersDean of Engineering

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DisTiNguisHED AwARD FOR ENERgY ADVOcATEHaving an energy efficient rating on your fridge or dishwasher is commonplace in most kiwi households, but ten years ago this wasn’t case.

Professor Pradeep Bansal knows this all too well as a long-time champion of improving energy efficiency in household and commercial appliances.

His work toward introducing an international standard for minimum energy efficiency has been recognised by the peak body in his field.

Professor Bansal from the Department of Mechanical Engineering received a Distinguished Service Award from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers at its annual meeting in Quebec in June.

The award is quite significant in refrigeration engineering circles. With a membership of 55,000 people, the society singles out only �0 to �5 people for distinguished awards each year.

Professor Bansal has been working toward harmonising the different energy efficiency standards found all over the world into one globally accepted standard for domestic refrigerators and freezers.

The ultimate aim is to improve the world’s energy efficiency and remove inefficient appliances from the market.

“Ten years ago very few countries had energy efficiency standards, including New Zealand, but now about 75 countries do,” Professor Bansal says. “Having energy efficient appliances has three positive outcomes – it costs less for the user, less energy has to be generated at a national level and it decreases greenhouse emissions.”

The Distinguished Service Award salutes members of the society for giving freely of their time and talent.

MARsDEN FuND AwARD FOR biOENgiNEERiNgDr Edmund Crampin from the Bioengineering Institute has received a Marsden Fund research award to study abnormal cell growth in human cancers.

Dr Crampin received a Fast-Start grant for outstanding new researchers, worth $�40,000 spread over two years.

His study is titled ‘Inside nature’s black box: Reverse engineering genetic regulatory networks from gene expression data’.

Dr Crampin’s two year study will look into the molecular pathways underlying abnormal cancer cells.

Applications to the Marsden Fund are very competitive. Of the 932 research proposals it receives, only 78 were funded this year.

The project, in collaboration with Associate Professor Cristin Print at the Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology, will develop new mathematical approaches for modelling networks of regulatory pathways, using data measured from skin and breast cancer cells.

This research aims to increase current understanding of the cellular changes leading to the development of tumours, and help to identify novel targets for drug treatment.

This type of research has only been made possible with the recent completion of the Human Genome Sequencing project, which provided a list of the genes that control the development and function of our bodies.

The research will contribute to the enormous task of understanding how these genes interact normally, and their role in the processes which go awry in disease.

AucKlAND DOcTORAl sTuDENTs TO FORESeven of the new crop of 24 Top Achiever Doctoral Scholars are from The University of Auckland and one of those from the Faculty of Engineering Bioengineering Institute.

The government-funded scholarships, for the best and brightest doctoral students across New Zealand, provide generous financial support for up to three years.

“We are delighted to have gained such a healthy share of the scholarships in this latest round,” says Professor Tom Barnes, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at The University of Auckland. “It is appreciably higher than our proportion of student numbers nationwide and is testimony to the high quality of postgraduate research work at The University of Auckland.

“The scholarships are all about nurturing

high quality researchers and driving innovation. The quality and range of our Top Achiever Doctoral Scholars is in keeping with our ranking as the country’s leading research-led university.”

The seven Auckland scholars and their PhD topics are:

Helen Blackie (Geography and Environmental Science): “Dispersal and habitat selection behaviour of the brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli) and brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula) characterised using global positioning systems”

Paul Fenton (Psychology): “Object and face recognition, visual imagery and visual perception, imagery and autobiographical memory: Patient MH revisited”

Eyal Loz (Mathematics): “Structural graph theory”

John McCormick (Bioengineering Institute): “Power systems and sensors for implantable medical devices”

Andrea Main (Education): “Scaffolding for success: Support for beginning urban teachers implementing effective pedagogy”

Thomas Park (Pharmacology): “Mechanisms of neuronal differentiation and repair”

Yu Wang (Mathematics): “Modelling smooth muscle contraction in airway smooth muscle”

The scholarships are administered by the Tertiary Education Commission and there are two award rounds each year.

Our congratulations to John on being awarded this prestigious and highly competed national scholarship.

bEcA REcOgNisEs NiNE HigH-AcHiEViNg YOuNg ENgiNEERs wiTH scHOlARsHiPsNine high-achieving engineering students from the Faculty of Engineering at The University of Auckland have been awarded Beca scholarships, worth a total of almost $20,000, to continue their education in engineering.

The winners this year are:

Beca Rotary Club of Auckland Scholarship ($5,000) – Haydn Luckman of Epsom, Auckland

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Beca Engineering Scholarships ($2,000 each) - Samuel Gordon (Wanganui), Daniel Tombleson (Rotorua), Christopher Farhi (Manurewa, Auckland)

Beca Engineering in Society Scholarship ($�,500 each) - James Beckett (Meadowbank, Auckland), Thomas Lintern (Blenheim), Oliver Browne (Titirangi, Auckland), Rebecca Donnelly (Titirangi, Auckland), and Kelvin Yang (Bucklands Beach, Auckland)

Each year Beca awards scholarships to engineering students from the Faculty of Engineering, recognising young engineers who are likely to make a major contribution to the profession.

The winners were presented with their scholarships at a function on the 24 July by Beca Executive Chairman Gavin Cormack and the Dean of The University of Auckland’s Faculty of Engineering, Professor Peter Brothers.

“We already employ many of the best engineers in New Zealand,” says the Executive Chairman of Beca, Gavin Cormack. “The scholarships, like these ones announced today (24 July), are part of Beca’s contribution to growing the engineering talent of the future.”

Each scholarship winner receives a cash grant to further his or her studies in engineering or related fields. The students who are awarded scholarships have already demonstrated considerable achievement in their studies and in contributions to the community.

The Beca Rotary Club of Auckland Scholarship of $5,000 is awarded to the best all-round fourth-year Bachelor of Engineering student, at The University of Auckland, who has the best combination of academic achievement, contribution to society and leadership abilities. This year’s winner, Haydn Luckman, is studying towards a Bachelor of Commerce / Bachelor of Engineering conjoint degree, specialising in Mechanical Engineering. You may recognise Haydn from featuring in the Lets Get Inventin’ show as part of the children’s programme What Now? in 2004. He has worked as a designer/builder in the film industry, and has recently been working in Vanuatu on a voluntary programme improving local water supplies in the island nation.

Haydn won a Gold CREST award from the Royal Society of New Zealand for his energy-saving heat exchange unit which extracts waste heat from shower effluent.

Beca Engineering Scholarships of $2,000

each have been awarded to three fourth-year Bachelor of Engineering students based equally on academic results, general contribution to the University and community, and their potential to contribute to the engineering profession. The recipients of Beca Engineering Scholarships this year are:

Christopher Farhi, who is studying for a Bachelor of Property / Bachelor of Engineering conjoint degree, specialising in Civil Engineering. Chris has won several other major engineering prizes at the University this year, including the Traffic Design Group Prize in Transportation Engineering, the Annual Prize in Civil Engineering and the Hiway Stabilizers Prize in Pavement Engineering, and he has worked on a student internship for Mainzeal.

Samuel Gordon, who is currently completing a Bachelor of Engineering degree, specialising in Engineering Science. Sam provides mentoring to other students at the Faculty of Engineering through STEPS (STudent Engineer PartnershipS) an initiative run by students for students [featured in the Engineering Alumni News / Number �2, July 2006], he was the recipient of the New Zealand Energy Trust Undergraduate Scholarship this year and has worked as a volunteer on a wildlife reserve in Ecuador.

Daniel Tombleson, who is studying toward a Bachelor of Engineering degree, specialising in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Daniel is interested in sustainable practices in engineering, particularly energy. And has won several major Engineering distinctions at The University of Auckland, including the Senior Prize in Electrical and

Electronic Engineering and The Ardmore Fund Undergraduate Scholarship in 2005 and the Electricity Engineers’ Association Scholarship this year.

Beca Engineering in Society Scholarships of $�,500 each are awarded to four first-year Bachelor of Engineering students with equal emphasis given to academic results, general contribution to school and community activities, communication skills, and their drive to make a difference. The recipients of Beca Engineering in Society Scholarships this year are:

James Beckett, who attended King’s College in Auckland, where he was a school prefect and won a Geoffery Greenbank Award as well as a Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award. James achieved full colours in music and hockey, and he is a keen cricketer

Thomas Lintern, who attended Christchurch Boys’ High School. He was awarded school colours for his academic and yachting achievements, and was part of the ‘New Zealand 420’ class team at the 2005 world yachting championships in France

Oliver Browne, who attended Auckland’s

Centre (L-R) Professor Peter Brothers, Beca Executive Chairman Gavin Cormack and Rotary Club of Auckland President Richard Dodds surrounded by the 2006 Beca Scholarship Winners.

L-R Beca Executive Chairman Gavin Cormack, Beca Rotary Club of Auckland Scholarship Winner Haydn Luckman and

Rotary Club of Auckland President Richard Dodds.

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REVAMPED ENgiNEERiNg libRARY TAKEs READiNg TO NEw lEVElsA visit to the Library has never been so appealing for Engineering students.

The spectacular new Engineering Library, which has been completely redesigned, opened its doors at the School of Engineering on Symonds Street on September 5.

Architects Ashton Mitchell took their design cues for the new Library from the Engineering Atrium.

The light and airy Library, which has been more than two years in the planning, is nearly three times its previous size, and is spread over two-and-a-half floors.

The architects aimed to counteract the heavy brutalist forms of the original building with transparency and light, opening up the space with wide vistas of the surrounding campus and careful use of colour, connecting student life with the public realm.

Library Manager Patsy Hulse says that before the transformation, the Library was very crowded and therefore inclined to be

noisy, with books crammed tight on to the shelves and often overflowing on to the floor.

Despite the advances in electronic resources, the Engineering Library still issues some 40,000 items annually and adds 2000 – 3000 items to stock.

“The facilities are much improved. Staff and students are all enjoying working in a much bigger and more functional space,” Patsy says.

The Library has much more seating, the number of computers has increased from �4 to 73, and there are now three group study rooms instead of one.

Other new features include a computer training room, an audiovisual room, a teaching/meeting room, a new book display, a self-issue machine and a glass lift between floors that talks to its occupants.

Avondale College, where he was a prefect in his final year. His diverse interests include hockey, music, debating, skiing, and tramping

Rebecca Donnelly, who attended St Dominic’s College, in Auckland, and received the high achiever’s, diligence and leadership awards in her final year. Rebecca was the school’s sports captain and has participated in athletics for more than �� years

Kelvin Yang, who attended Macleans College in Auckland. He was inspired to study engineering by his love for windsurfing. His other interests include martial arts and he one day hopes to work for Team New Zealand and win the America’s Cup

The Dean of Engineering, Professor Peter Brothers and the Faculty offer our congratulations to each Beca Scholarship

Winner on this coveted recognition of their achievements and potential.

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Beca Engineering Scholarship Winner Daniel Tombleson and Beca Executive Chairman Gavin Cormack

Beca Executive Chairman Gavin Cormack and Beca Engineering Scholarship Winner Samuel Gordon

Main entrance to the Engineering Library; with Self-Issue machine and Enquiries and Loans desk visible

Glass exterior of the revamped Engineering Library, as viewed from Symonds Street

Foreground – the Glass Lift that talks; Background – the Engineering Library main entrance

Top – Students using their new study space; Bottom – the computer training room.

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TRAcEY HAsZARDTracey Haszard is an Associate – Civil engineer and Operations Manager working in the Civil and Transport area. Based in the Auckland office, she joined Beca from the University of Auckland and has been with the company for over ten years.

“When I left University, I didn’t realise the opportunity there would be to develop my skills beyond the conventional areas of engineering. Ten years on with Beca, I find I am not only involved in major, exciting projects - much of what I do is not project related. As Operations Manager, I investigate how Beca undertakes work for clients in the Civil and Transport area, and how the process we use could be improved. That could mean a new piece of software, or training for some of those involved. Put simply, I investigate how we improve our service delivery – and then work with our people throughout New Zealand to make that improvement.

Communication and consultation are competencies that crop up frequently in Tracey’s CV. “It’s a role I enjoy as much as engineering” says Tracey. “It’s about listening to what people’s aspirations are for a project and helping them to understand and relate to the engineering issues involved. Typically I manage teams of around �5 people who have a full range of technical skills. The key to my role is not to be specialised in any one area, but to take an overview and communicate specialised information, in layman’s language, to the client, other consultants and the public.”

Beca’s engineering skills were brought in at the very beginning of the Western Reclamation Plan Change in which Tracey is team leader for the engineering, costing and other technical inputs. “ Its quite unusual to have engineering involvement so early but it meant that the architect’s vision could assimilate with our engineering input – we could offer a reality check you could say.” For example, the architect wanted to include a water feature so the project team developed a concept to use the pond to treat stormwater also. “It’s about balancing the look and feel of urban design with a given purpose.” (The Plan Change will provide for rezoning of approximately 25 hectares of Auckland waterfront land from industrial to a mixture of residential, leisure and commercial use.)

Tracey has worked on a number of high profile Auckland roading projects, including ALPURT B2, Harbour Bridge to City, Grafton Gully and the Central Motorway Junction projects. While her involvement

has been at different stages of these projects – some during option assessment and consenting, others during construction – each has involved negotiating through widely varying viewpoints, with the additional difficulty of taking on board the media spin on events. “I often get my daily briefing from the local media. It is often the way I find out what local key players are thinking. It is certainly a different approach to the usual public consultation.”

ALPURT B2 is the realignment of State Highway � between Orewa and Puhoi, north of Auckland - a project which also attracted considerable media attention and local interest. Tracey was team leader and project manager for the completion of the specimen design. She was also project manager for scoping LTMA consultation and Beca contributions to the business case required to obtain approval to toll ALPURT “ This phase of the project started around the same time as the Land Transport Management Act became legislation, which affected how Transit applied for funding. With the new Act, mitigating the environmental impact of a project could be given greater weighting and this meant (much to the delight of the Beca engineers) that tunnels, designed to minimise the visual and ecological impact of the new motorway were reconsidered. ”Unfortunately we weren’t involved in their construction.”

“My role on these projects is to work closely with designers and specialists, whose focus is on the detail. I need to understand the big picture – the impact on the community – and consider best how to reach the overall objectives”. Although many of the projects Tracey is involved with will take many years to be physically completed, she says she loves the idea of being able to look around Auckland and say “I helped make that happen.”

During her time with Beca, Tracey has seen the company grow considerably. “When I joined, the Auckland office had around 400 people working in it. Now there are over 700. This growth means that whereas before, we relied primarily on the strength of personal relationships between people, now we need to put processes around what we do. The key is to improve communication without changing the culture of Beca.

Developing leadership skills in people is also a major focus for the company and I enjoy the role I have in this. I mentor four young engineers as part of the company’s mentoring programme and I also coach ten second year graduates undertaking a group

project and a group of six people on our leadership programme. And then there’s also the training I do for our graduates on managing work priorities … So yes, you could say I am busy, but it is great to see young people around the company making an impact”.

While being interviewed for this profile, Tracey was on her way to a Mountain Bike race in Taupo (not driving, I would hastily add!). “ I love mountain biking, ski-ing, theatre – its all about doing things with friends. Work is really enjoyable but so is having fun outside work. Anything that helps me keep a good work life balance sounds great to me!

gRADuATE PROFilEWe are always interested in hearing what our Alumni have achieved since graduating from the Faculty and University.

Where has Engineering taken you? How has your career progressed? What engineering projects have you been involved in? Which countries have you worked in? Have you received accolades? Or completed further study? …

If you would like to be interviewed for a Graduate Profile, please express your interest to:

Sharon AndersenExternal Relations ManagerEmail: s.andersen@auckland.ac.nz

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5TH ANNuAl bEcA POsTgRADuATE POsTER cOMPETiTiON

The Engineering Postgraduate Society and the Faculty of Engineering once again combined with sponsors Beca Group to coordinate the successful Beca Postgraduate Poster Competition, a firmly established event in the Faculty and University calendar ; culminating in a prize giving ceremony on 20 September 2006.

56 posters displaying a diverse range of research were entered in the competition by postgraduate students from across all five Faculty of Engineering Departments and the Bioengineering Institute. The prize giving ceremony attracted approximately �00 guests in addition to the many interested observers who perused the displays throughout the exhibiting week.

First, second and third prizes were presented by Beca Chief Executive Richard Aitken:

FIRST PRIZEJack Lee (PhD) from the Bioengineering Institute for his poster ‘Modelling Circulation in the Virtual Heart’

SECOND PRIZEScott Kelly (ME) from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering for his poster ‘Optimising the Hydrodynamic Response of an Oscillating Spar Buoy’

THIRD PRIZENirendra Mustafi (PhD) from the Department of Mechanical Engineering for his poster ‘Particulate Matter Emissions of a Dual Fuel Diesel Engine’

Prizes for the best poster from each Department (excluding the above) were presented by Heads of Departments:

BIOENGINEERING INSTITUTE Mike Cooling (PhD) for his poster ‘Modelling Heart Cells during Disease’

CHEMICAL AND MATERIALS ENGINEERINGHaiam Abbas (PhD) for her poster ‘Modelling of Heat Transfer and Airflow between Surfaces’

CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERINGHeide Friedrich (PhD) for her poster ‘Creating a Path of Least Resistance’

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERINGWei-Tsun Sun (PhD) for his poster ‘Framework of Hardware-software RTOS Co-design for Heterogenous Multiprocessor Platform’

ENGINEERING SCIENCEAndrea Raith (PhD) for her poster ‘Bicriteria Shortest Path Problems and their Application to Road Network Problems’

MECHANICAL ENGINEERINGYu Dong (PhD) for his poster ‘Opportunities or Challenges: Are we ready for Polymer Nanocomposites?’

Posters were then submitted to participate in the University’s Exposure06 competition.

sTuDENTs iMPREss wiTH lOw-iMPAcT HOusiNg DEsigNTwo University of Auckland Engineering students have impressed city councillors by proving new housing developments can be environmentally friendly and affordable.

Sam Blackbourn and Priscilla Chung were named winners of the ‘Auckland student Low Impact Design competition’.

Jointly run by the Auckland Regional Council, Housing New Zealand and the University of Auckland, the competition challenges engineering students to redesign a Glenn Innes site, already in the throes of rejuvenation, using Low Impact Design.

Low Impact Design (LID) is a simple concept that requires measures to be built into a design to minimise creation of rain water and contaminants that runoff and pollute rivers and streams.

Sam, a Civil and Environmental Engineering student, explains that LID makes the best use of land available in urban settings.

“Land values only go up in an urban environment so if the green space provides stormwater treatment as well as looking great, then you create a nicer and more nature friendly environment to live in.”

Sam said the basis of his team’s design was to consider stormwater at every stage of the development.

They prioritised areas for development based on proximity to the local stream (Omaru creek), used existing roads where possible and placed native bush areas in the middle of the development. Instead of using expensive green roofs or permeable pavement, their design used rain tanks and carports, which they say perform better than expensive technologies.

“I think what set our design apart from the others was the careful, methodological approach we used, considering all the alternatives at each stage of development. We considered that the client (Housing New Zealand) didn’t want expensive technologies and I think we showed that you can have really good stormwater performance without breaking the bank.”

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Posters displayed in the Engineering Atrium

Jack Lee’s winning poster ‘Modelling Heart Cells during Disease’

Scott Kelly’s 2nd Prize poster ‘Optimising the Hydrodynamic Response of an Oscillating Spar Buoy’

Nirendra Mustafi’s 3rd Prize poster ‘Particulate Matter Emissions of a Dual Fuel Diesel Engine’

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Elizabeth Fassman, Civil and Environmental Engineering lecturer at The University of Auckland, was very impressed by the level of knowledge and ingenuity shown by all the competition entrants.

“Students pulled together a wide range of resources to develop unique designs. The creativity of submissions highlights the challenge of stormwater management: there is no single ‘right’ answer.”

wiRElEss POwER PROPEls sTuDENTs TO THE wORlD sTAgEIt is usually the role of professors to attend international conferences and present groundbreaking work, but at a recent symposium in Sydney, it was undergraduate students in the limelight.

Three Electrical and Computer Engineering students have produced their own research into Inductive Power Transfer or “wireless power” in monorail systems.

They presented their work at the Asia Pacific Symposium on Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics in Sydney on July 20 and 2�.

The Faculty of Engineering is known for its pioneering work on wireless electricity transfer and have licensed much of this technology commercially.

Senior Lecturer Dr Dariusz Kacprzak said the students were inspired by the untapped potential of this new technology and volunteered to conduct their own research on top of their studies.

“They wanted to do something more so we gave them the opportunity to develop this technology. It has been extremely well received and their articles are currently under peer review for publication in some

notable journals.”

Dr Kacprzak also presented his own work on electromagnetic modelling at the conference.

The students, David Spackman, Guhan Sivakumar and Saptarshi Mukerji, developed their research around monorail tracks and how to efficiently transfer power from the track to a moving platform through magnetic fields rather than physical contact.

This technology has been licensed by the University to manufacturing giant Daifuku, who use it in car assembly and clean-room systems.

The students have built on this technology and created new pick-up designs that improve the efficiency of the monorail system while using less materials.

Using IPT in car assembly has many benefits, in particular it is clean technology so produces no sparks or dust.

“Attending the conference was a valuable opportunity to meet researchers from universities in the Asia-Pacific region,” David Spackman says. “We found they were very interested in our research and we discussed future collaborations. We will continue our research this year and are looking at extending it as part of our final year project work in 2007.”

uNiVERsiTY OF AucKlAND TEAM cElEbRATEs REcORD wiN AT sYDNEY DEsigN cOMPETiTiONA team of Mechatronics students from Auckland has beaten �5 universities

from around Australasia to win the prestigious Weir-Warman Design and Build Competition in Sydney.

The Auckland team was made up of second year students Anatoli Koudriachov, Nicholas Wong and Jonathon Platt.

Auckland now holds the record for number of wins at the annual competition, having clocked up its fourth top placing since the competition began.

Now in its �8th year, the competition challenges second-year Mechanical Engineering students to solve practical problems set by the organisers and sponsors Weir-Warman International and Engineers Australia.

This year’s challenge, called Project ABC (Autonomously Beautify Countryside), was to design an autonomous device that would accurately and rapidly distribute wild flower seeds along the highways and byways of the fictitious planet of Gondwana.

The teams manufactured the prototype device themselves using commonly available materials, components and methods.

The devices competed on a model circuit in Sydney made up of roads, trees and fields. They were scored on speed, damage to the environment and ability to plant the fields, with some fields more difficult to reach than others.

Team Manager and Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering Dr Simon Bickerton says this year’s prototype used clever design techniques that set it apart from the others.

“Most of the devices were controlled by a programmable microchip, which ours had, but we also had infra-red sensors and a clever way of doing a 90degree turn.

“The design was well thought-out and executed by some very bright students, who had the added incentive of really wanting to beat the Australians,” says Dr Bickerton.

The University of Auckland’s pictured left.

L-R Jonathon Platt, Anatoli Koudriachov and Nicholas Wong in front of the scoreboard.

The University of Auckland’s device. L-R Anatoli, Jonathon and Nicholas receiving their First Place win at the Awards Ceremony.

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ENgiNEERiNg sTuDENTs cONTiNuED

The Auckland team went well prepared, having cut their teeth in a local competition against fellow Mechatronics students, before securing their trip to the grand finals in Sydney.

The trio acknowledged the support of the Institute of Professional Engineers of New Zealand, who funded two members to travel to Australia. A third member was funded by the Faculty.

Dr Bickerton says students are encouraged to participate each year as it is “a great learning experience”.

“At second year level, there are few projects or competitions where students have the opportunity to be involved from the initial rules stage through to concepts, design, construction, and to finally actually test their invention.

“It’s a great opportunity for students to put what they learn in lectures and tutorials to practice.”

MAORi ARTEFAcTs MAKE lEAP iNTO DigiTAl AgEEngineering students at The University of Auckland are using laser scanning technology to create digital models of precious Maori and Pacific Island artefacts for the Auckland Museum.

The models will provide the museum with valuable documentation for archiving and research purposes.

A wahaika, or club, that once belonged to Captain Cook, will be one of the first artefacts to be modelled by The University of Auckland students.

The students have spent six months developing a laser scanning technique that accurately captures an object’s form and presents it as a computerised 3D model.

This technology is relatively new to museums. It has been used to create digital archives overseas but primarily on inorganic objects, including Michelangelo’s David.

The Maori and Pacific Island collection in Auckland presents new challenges because of the intricacies of organic materials such as feathers, wood and twine.

Student Nanda Surendran says, “We are proud to be using our knowledge in a way that benefits the community. The final 3D models can be used to create electronic archives, interactive displays, for research, and to create replicas.”

Dr Oliver Stead, Head of Collection Management at the Auckland Museum, says a digital archive of the Maori and Pacific Island collection will be invaluable.

“This technology provides the most impartial way of recording an artefact. A photographic archive has a degree of interpretation from the photographer, but this is completely objective,” he says.

“A digital model will often reveal details that have been obscured by dark and shadow and it gives us a better appreciation of its form.”

Captain Cook’s wahaika is being digitised before going overseas as part of a touring exhibition, leaving the museum with a digital model to use for research, education or for interactive displays in the artefact’s absence.

The wooden wahaika was collected by Captain Cook during his first voyage to New Zealand between �768 and �77� and gifted to the Skottowe family of Yorkshire, who had helped pay for Cook’s education. The family donated it to the museum in �953. Historians believe it is from the Rongowhakaata tribe of the East Coast of the North Island.

The students are part of the EPICS initiative – Engineering Projects in Community Service – where teams of engineering undergraduates and academic mentors are matched with community organisations to work on long term projects.

The digitisation project is supported by the government’s Community Partnership Fund as part of the Digital Strategy initiative.

sOFTwARE wHiZZ-KiDs iMPREss AT uNiVERsiTYJulie Kho from New Zealand International College has won a challenge at The University of Auckland to solve a cheating problem that plagues teachers worldwide.

Julie claimed first place in the 2006 Software Engineering Design Challenge by designing a security feature for online forums that prevents students from posting the answers to homework questions. Julie won a top-of-the-line HP Pavilion laptop.

Second place went to David Olsen from Rutherford College, who won a year’s tuition to the University.

Each year the University invites Year �2 and �3 students to submit an original software design. The students behind the

best �3 submissions were invited into the University and given one hour to design a programme to prevent online forums being used by homework cheats.

Julie, who lives in Auckland City, says, “I spend all of my time after school on the computer, for research, study, chatting and surfing. My laptop just broke so I’m really pleased.”

Second place winner David, from Sunnyvale in West Auckland, won a $2000 scholarship to study Engineering at the University. He will begin a Bachelor of Engineering next year, with the intention of specialising in Software Engineering.

The three judges, Associate Professor Gill Dobbie, Director of Software Engineering at The University of Auckland, Chip Dawson from International Business Management Limited and Justin Hamilton from Hewlett Packard, were impressed with the standard of this year’s entrants.

“The competition challenges students to think creatively about using software as a problem solver. Every year we are amazed at the advanced software design skills displayed by students at high school level,” Associate Professor Dobbie says.

The finalists were also given a taste of University life, sitting in on a lecture, visiting sites around the campus, and asking questions of university and industry representatives.

2006 Software Engineering Design Challenge winner Julie Kho

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ROOF TOP REsEARcH cOulD PAVE THE wAY FOR gREENER builDiNgsA living, growing experiment has been built on top of the Engineering Building at The University of Auckland to test the city’s suitability for ‘green roofs’.

Researchers from the Faculty of Engineering turned the roof on Symonds Street into a 200-square foot garden over the course of the weekend, September �6 and �7.

Fully funded by the Auckland Regional Council (ARC), this three-year research project will look into design specifications for green roof systems suitable for both new developments, and to retrofit existing structures.

It will be Auckland City’s first green roof and the first in the region to be built on top of an existing building.

ARC Councillor, and Deputy Chair of the council’s Environmental Management

Committee, Paul Walbran, can see the benefits.

“Green roofs are an ideal solution for reducing stormwater runoff that pollutes our waterways, destroys aquatic life and causes stream erosion, which can lead to flooding. They also have the added benefit of creating habitats for birds and improving insulation,” says Cr Walbran.

Dr Elizabeth Fassman, a lecturer in Civil and Environmental Engineering who is leading the project, says green roofs overseas have reduced stormwater runoff by 50 to 90 percent.

“We would like to know if our locally sourced materials work as well as the materials that have already been proven overseas, and if so, establish the best combination of materials,” Dr Fassman says.

“We’re not just throwing up some soil and plants; we have very carefully selected porous materials that can hold a lot of water. When they are dry, they weigh almost nothing.”

The roof has been divided into six plots with different combinations of lightweight mediums being trialled in each, including

pumice, zeolite, imported expanded clay and bark fines. Soils are not used as they are too heavy for most existing roofs to withstand.

The plots have been planted with 3,600 plants, a combination of natives and sedums, or succulents, selected for their hardiness and ability to withstand droughts or floods.

Ideally the roof will be able to absorb up to 35mm of rain, which will eventually evaporate back into the atmosphere.

Earl Shaver, ARC Specialist Policy Advisor for stormwater, says looking at more sustainable ways to treat stormwater runoff in the CBD and beyond is vital.

“Green roof technology has been proven in many locations around the world and provides numerous benefits, including reducing the total volume of stormwater that leaves a roof, retention of airborne contaminants, reduced stormwater temperature impact, and can be an aesthetic amenity. Keeping the region clean and green could easily include green roofs,” says Mr Shaver.

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1 – Framing plots 2 – Installing drainage 3 – Crane 4 – Hoist substrate

5 – Substrate 6 – Spread substrate 7 – Evening it out 8 – Plant count

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bROADENiNg THE HORiZON FOR biOFuEls New Zealand needs to explore novel sources for producing biofuels if they are to play a greater role in meeting our energy needs, according to researchers at The University of Auckland.

Professor Mohammed Farid, from the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, and PhD student Sam Behzadi, presented this view at an international Chemical Engineering Conference “CHEMECA2006” held in Auckland in mid September (�6 – �7 September).

Professor Farid has been studying the conversion of tallow (animal fat) and vegetable fats into biodeisel for five years and has developed patented technology to process fats into fuel. This technology will lower the production cost of biodiesel in the future.

However, the reliance on conventional sources such as animal and vegetable fats is not sustainable long term. Professor Farid says alternative sources that are cheaper and more abundant need to be identified. At present New Zealand may only be able to meet 5 percent of its diesel needs through biodiesel, but much higher targets can be set if alternative raw materials are investigated.

Biofuels can be either biodiesel, made from fats, or bioethanol, made from cellulose found in plants. The government is considering raising the use of biofuels to 2.25 percent by 20�2. Britain has set a target of 5 per cent by 20�0.

“Vegetable and animal fats are valuable food resources. We should be broadening our horizons by shifting our thinking away from using these resources to more viable feedstocks, which can increase our fuel production capabilities and reduce our reliance on crude oil,” Mr Behzadi says.

“Now is the time to start identifying alternative feedstocks such as micro-organisms and crops that we can harvest in New Zealand for the specific purpose of converting into biodiesel. Then we can start considering targets of at least 5 percent, or even �0 or 20 percent.”

Oils derived from algae, flax or similar natural materials that can be produced easily in New Zealand have been identified by Mr Behzadi as possible alternatives.

“The cost of raw materials accounts for

greater than 70 percent of the biodiesel production cost. For biodiesel to play an active role in our energy needs, it must be produced at a much lower price while still meeting international fuel standards.” Professor Farid says.

The 34th Annual Australasian Chemical Engineering conference was held from �7 to 20 September at the Langham Hotel in Auckland. World experts on chemical and materials engineering presented their insights into industry, research and the profession.

A key note speaker was David Penny from New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, who addressed a National Manufacturing Strategy for New Zealand being released later this year.

A NETwORK cAllED KARENA new government-funded high-speed network for researchers and educators was recently launched at the School of Geography and Environmental Science.

Prime Minister Helen Clark was on campus to announce the arrival of KAREN, the acronym for Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network. It’s faster, bigger and better than broadband, able to carry information at �0 gigabits a second and deliver �0Gbytes of data in �3 minutes. In other words, it’s �0,000 times the speed of standard broadband and able to deliver in �3 minutes what it would take 22 hours on a commercial internet.

KAREN was established by the government for research and education

institutions, allowing them to collaborate more efficiently with institutions here and overseas, and will be a particular boon to science and technology researchers dealing with huge amounts of data. The Engineering Faculty will use it to connect to the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulations (NEES). This is a US-based network of �5 large-scale laboratories spread across the country with experimental facilities, collaboration tools, a centralised data repository and earthquake simulation software.

The NEES network is linked by an ultra-high-speed computer network in the US and researchers in the Engineering Faculty will be able to access it from November through KAREN, when the new high-speed network is fully operational. KAREN is expecting to provide the means for closer national and international collaborations and discoveries. With Auckland’s connection to NEES, advanced research based on experimentation and computational simulations of buildings, bridges, utility systems, coastal regions during seismic events will be possible.

“It’s a fact of life that resources are limited,” says Quincy Ma, from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. “Especially for New Zealand researchers, we must participate in networks like NEES to utilise the resources in the global research funding pool.”

KAREN is being administered by the Research and Education Advanced Network New Zealand (REANNZ), a Crown-owned company established for that purpose. An initial $43 million has been invested to build and run the network for the �8 member institutions, which includes

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Prime Minister, Helen Clark and KAREN. Photograph: Godfrey Boehnke

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tertiary education institutions, Crown Research Institutes and the National Library. The members will eventually be expected to take over the cost of using and maintaining the network.

Published in The University of Auckland News Volume 36 / Issue �6 / September 8 2006

builDERs NEED TO sPEciAlisE TO suRViVE‘Jack-of-all-trades’ builders are becoming a dying breed as the New Zealand building industry becomes more reliant on specialisation, according to research by University of Auckland masters student Yadeed Lobo.

Yadeed, from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has recently completed a thesis into the future skills needs for the building industry over the next 20 years.

His findings dispute prevailing thought that demand for generalist practitioners will increase, with builders widening their skill set to meet shortages.

“This is not the case for the building industry in New Zealand. The findings of the research show that increasing specialisation will be the trend at all skills levels,” he says. “The introduction of occupational licensing will influence this trend until 20�0, but ultimately technology will be the key driver that will cause specialisation to occur.”

Occupational licensing means work critical to the structure of a building will need to be carried out by a licensed building practitioner. Voluntary licensing begins 2007 and compulsory licensing begins in 2009.

In addition, his research found that architects were not part of the skills shortage, but rather disenchanted architecture graduates were not taking positions because of low pay.

His study confirmed that New Zealand’s major shortfalls are for civil engineers (especially structural and fire engineers), carpenters, electricians and building officials.

Over 75 percent of those interviewed saw a revitalised training system as essential to dealing with the future needs of the workforce.

“In the past employers have been reluctant to take on apprentices and more recently, training completion rates for apprentices

have been low. This has had a detrimental effect on the availability of intermediate skills such as bricklaying,” Yadeed says.

New and growing areas of specialisation identified in the study include fire engineers, and subsets of architecture such as concept architects and back-of-house design architects.

Yadeed’s research was based on 40 interviews with individuals from different sectors and levels of the building industry. His study was funded by the Building Research Levy.

FAculTY OF ENgiNEERiNg AluMNi PROFilEWhat are our members up to?

CELESTE TREAGUS

Transportation Specialist

Celeste Treagus is a Transportation Specialist at leading Asia Pacific consultancy Beca. Celeste graduated from The University of Auckland, with a Bachelor of Engineering degree (Civil) and a Master of Engineering Studies (Hons). She recently returned to New Zealand after working for a number of years in South Africa and the UK.

Why did you come back to New Zealand?

My husband and myself were both young and able to travel really easily and move about … all those things, it made sense for us to come back now. It’s not as if the door is closing on travel at all for us.

How does the work culture at Beca compare to where you worked in the UK?

I think one thing that Beca does really well is that people from any section, all over, are really friendly and open to you. One thing I found in the UK is that you can have a fantastic team that works really well but you never really get to talk to the people upstairs.

What sort of opportunities does working at Beca offer you?

I think one of the nice things about Beca is that it’s so diverse. There are lots of different routes to the top, as it were. In a lot of jobs, the next step is your bosses’ job. It’s not like that here at all - they’ll create new positions if they have to. For me the key is that they don’t pigeonhole you and they don’t say ‘this is your path’ they say ‘here are the potential paths.’ It’s excellent

that the change structure is really flexible. That is a big difference from the UK.

How do you find the working environment?

Our section (Beca Transportation) in particular is very supportive. If you can come up with a better way of doing something, then go and tell someone about it, they will listen. We’re busy, we help each other out and we do lots of social activities. One of the differentiating factors for me with Beca is that there seems to be really good support in place, in terms of technical ability. The way that it is set up with Technical Directors, you have these people who are brilliant at what they do, and they are so accessible. You can go and talk to them at any time and they work with you on projects. It allows the technical people to get on with what they love doing. There is huge knowledge in our section.

ENgiNEERiNg NEw ZEAlAND If you’re interested in getting a snapshot about what’s going on in the engineering and consulting sector in New Zealand, take the opportunity to come along to a seminar evening being hosted in London by the Beca Group. Beca has seven senior managers in the UK between �0-20 October who will talk about what’s happening in the sectors they work within (buildings, power, infrastructure, management services) and opportunities available. For your invitation to the seminar on �8th October 2006, or for information about Beca, please contact humanresources@beca.com stating that you heard about Beca through The University of Auckland Faculty of Engineering Alumni News.

EXPERiENcED ENgiNEERsAre you looking for a change or thinking of returning home to New Zealand?

Alumni Engineers of all disciplines are welcome to contact the Faculty of Engineering Employment Manager, Kevin Healey, who may be able to put you in direct contact with the right people in New Zealand Industry.

Email: k.healey@auckland.ac.nz for further information.

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sPRiNg gRADuATiONMore than 2500 students graduated from The University of Auckland during Spring Graduation. They received a total of 2776 qualifications at ceremonies, five in all, on 26 and 28 September.

In time-honoured tradition, graduands and staff processed through the city in colourful regalia from �0am on each graduation day – along Princes Street, Bowen Avenue, Victoria Street East and up Queen Street to the final destination of the Town Hall.

Chancellor Hugh Fletcher personally

conferred �9�9 degrees and diplomas. The rest (857) were bestowed “in absentia” on those not attending.

Speakers at the ceremonies were George Fistonich (Managing Director, Villa Maria Estate), the Rt Hon Paul East QC (barrister), Emily Perkins (author), Dr David Skilling (Chief Executive, New Zealand Institute) and Chris Saunders (Principal of Onehunga High School).

As with Autumn Graduation the Auckland University Engineering Alumni (AUEA) presented each of the Faculty of Engineering’s �2� graduates their own personalised membership card.

The membership card is unique in that it bears the Faculty of Engineering’s Centennial logo, with 2006 being our Centennial Year. Each graduate was encouraged to join us in celebrating this historic milestone as we honour our traditions, celebrate our achievements, and continue our evolution towards becoming the leading engineering school in Australasia.

The Faculty of Engineering is proud of each one of you and your achievements in completing your degree or diploma and offers our heartiest congratulations. The Faculty would like to welcome you to its ranks of Alumni. We wish you every success in your future endeavours.

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lOsT AluMNiLost alumni are graduates of The University of Auckland whom we have lost touch with, and no longer hold a current address for.

We value the contribution that you make to the University and the Faculty of Engineering as one of our alumni and friends. As we gain more and more alumni,

we occasionally lose touch with some of you. We’re keen to get back in touch with these “lost” alumni, but we need your help.

To help us to get back in touch, the University has launched a new webpage that allows you to search by year of graduation, faculty / school, and / or name to see if your classmates or friends are lost, and let us know how we can get in touch

with them.

You can also update your own details online.

Find out more about lost alumni and how you can help at :

www.alumni.auckland.ac.nz/lost

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EVENTs

cENTENNiAl DiNNER – gOlDEN TicKETsOnly �00 tickets remain to the Faculty of Engineering’s Centennial Dinner in partnership with Beca.

Alumni and Friends of the Faculty have been enthusiastically registering for the Centennial Dinner and associated weekend events as individuals, couples and groups. Industry too will have a visible presence at the Dinner with a number of group registrations.

Avoid disappointment by completing the enclosed Registration Form to join us in celebrating this historic milestone in style at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Princess Ballroom with special guest speaker the Rt. Honourable Helen Clark, Prime Minister of New Zealand. Congratulate the Ardmore Fund Undergraduate Scholarship recipients who will be announced during the evening and be entertained by the talented young musicians of the University’s School of Music, all whilst dining on fine wine and food.

We look forward sharing in this memorable event with you.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact

Sharon AndersenExternal Relations ManagerEmail: s.andersen@auckland.ac.nzPh: +64 9 373 7599 ext 88225

wE’RE TElliNg AucKlANDTo celebrate �00 years of Engineering at The University of Auckland, the Faculty of Engineering will open its doors to the

public on Saturday �8 November for one day from 9am – 3pm.

And we’re telling Auckland with the pictured banner, which in the six weeks leading up to the Open Day will rotate between central street and overbridge sites around Auckland City, from the present location of Karangahape Rd (K’Rd). If you are about Auckland City keep a look out.

The day will provide the opportunity to discover how engineering has advanced from the School of Mines in �906 to world class and state-of-the-art in 2006. An appealing array of hands-on activities will be on offer from each of the Faculty’s five Departments:

Chemical and Materials Engineering

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Engineering Science

Mechanical Engineering

and for the first time the Bioengineering Institute.

In addition to hands-on activities the day will include innovative lectures and tours of the Faculty’s City Campus facilities from the teaching and research labs to the spectacular new Engineering Library.

Details to note for your diary are:

DATE: Saturday �8 November

TIME: 9am – 3pm

LOCATION: School of Engineering Building, 20 Symonds Street, Auckland

The complete programme will be available in late October at www.engineering.auckland.ac.nz in the first instance.

As part of our �00 year history, we invite you and your family back to discover what has changed.

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Faculty of Engineering Open Day banner at K’Rd site location.

EMAil AluMNi NEws In the interest of a sustainable future, the Faculty of Engineering produces and distributes Engineering Alumni News electronically. If you would like to receive this publication via email please confirm your preferred email address to Catherine Kerins, Communications Manager at c.kerins@auckland.ac.nz

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DEAN’s cENTENNiAl gOlF TOuRANMENT Consider yourself in the league of Tiger? Or simply enjoy hacking up the fairway?

Birdie or Bogey - Escape the City midweek and play in the Faculty of Engineering Centennial Golf Tournament as hosted by the Dean, Professor Peter Brothers on Wednesday 22 November at Muriwai Golf Club - the Auckland West Coast seaside links course situated in a protected bird sanctuary.

There are a limited number of spaces available in the 72 playing field, use the enclosed Centennial Year Registration Form to register your interest early as to avoid disappointment.

The tournament will be followed by Prize Giving and refreshments. Hireage of clubs and transport to the course will be available.

Do your course homework at www.muriwaigolfclub.co.nz

ATTENTiON ‘…6’ gRADuATEs!If you graduated in a ‘…6’ year – �956. �966, �976, �986, �996, 2006 – the Centennial Dinner is your Annual Alumni Dinner and Reunion Weekend too.

Why not get in touch with old friends and reconnect with your University.

Simply complete the enclosed Centennial Year Registration Form as a group or note anyone you wish to be seated with at the Dinner and we will endeavour to reunite you.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact:

Sharon AndersenExternal Relations ManagerFaculty of EngineeringPh 64 9 373 7599 ext 88225Mobile 021 689 333

FORMER sTAFF sOciAlThe Faculty celebrated its �00 year history with another of its key stakeholders, Former Staff, last night (04 October) at a function in the Deans Suite. 75 former and present staff delighted in reminiscing about Engineering’s evolution from the infamous

Tin Sheds to Ardmore to the existing School of Engineering Building on Symonds Street and the people who helped shape our history.

A number of present staff had the opportunity to meet their predecessors, current Faculty Registrar Keith Willson had the pleasure of meeting D.J. ‘Mac’ McIntyre who was the Faculty’s Registrar from �968 – �974.

The function also provided the Faculty the opportunity to thank Former Staff for their contribution to �00 years of Engineering at The University of Auckland.

THANK YOu TO OuR cENTENNiAl sPONsORsThe Faculty of Engineering’s Centennial Year has been in proud partnership with a number of Industry members:

The Winter Lecture Series (� – 6) were supported by:

All Centennial event Name Badges have been sponsored by:

The Centennial Cocktail Function will be

brought to you by Auckland City Council

And the gala event of the Centennial Year – the Faculty of Engineering’s Centennial

Dinner is in partnership with Beca

Thank you to all those who, this year, have been involved in Celebrating �00 years of Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering and The University of Auckland. Your continued support and commitment to the Faculty is invaluable.

Email s.andersen@auckland.ac.nz

cENTENARY EVENTs cAlENDARImportant dates to remember:

NOVEMBER

• Saturday �8 November Faculty of Engineering Open Day

• Wednesday 22 November Faculty of Engineering Golf Tournament

• Thursday 23 November Honorary Degrees and Distinguished

Awards Ceremony

• Friday 24 – Sunday 26 November CENTENNIAL WEEKEND

• Friday 24 November Cocktail Function

• Saturday 25 November Tours of The University of Auckland,

Faculty of Engineering Labs, and Sky Tower; Auckland Harbour Bridge Climb.

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• Saturday 25 November Centennial Dinner

• Sunday 26 November Tour of the Ardmore and Tamaki

Campuses.

If you would like to join us in celebrating our historic milestone by attending one of the above events please complete your enclosed Centennial Year Registration Form and post to:

Sharon AndersenExternal Relations ManagerFaculty of EngineeringThe University of AucklandPrivate Bag 92019Auckland Mail CentreAuckland 1142, New Zealand

cElEbRATE ENgiNEERiNg 1906 - 2006

THE THEN FAcEs OF NOwProfessor David RyanThen: Senior Lecturer (Theoretical and Applied Mechanics)Now: Deputy Dean

Associate Professor Robert RaineThen: Senior Lecturer (Mechanical)Now: Associate Dean Postgraduate

Professor Ian CollinsThen: Head of Department Theoretical and Applied MechanicsNow: Associate Dean Research

Professor George FergusonThen: Senior Lecturer (Chemical and Materials)Now: Head of Department Chemical and Materials Engineering

Professor Bruce MelvilleThen: Senior Lecturer (Civil)Now: Head of Department Civil and Environmental Engineering

Professor Allan WilliamsonThen: Associate Professor (Electrical and Electronic)Now: Head of Department Electrical and Computer

Professor Gordon MallinsonThen: Senior Lecturer (Mechanical)Now: Head of Department Mechanical Engineering

Professor Peter HunterThen: Senior Lecturer (Theoretical and Applied Mechanics)Now: Director Bioengineering Institute

Professor John BoysThen: Associate Professor (Electrical)Now: Professor (Electrical and Computer)

Professor Geoff DuffyThen: Associate Professor (Chemical and Materials)Now: Professor (Chemical and Materials)

Associate Professor Neil BroomThen: Junior Lecturer (Chemical and Materials)Now: Associate Professor (Chemical and Materials)

Associate Professor Roger DunnThen: Senior Lecturer (Civil)Now: Associate Professor (Civil and Environmental)

Trevor WhiteThen: Technical Officer (Workshop)Now: Technician (Technical Services)

Keith JonesThen: Research Fellow (Mechanical)Now: Contracts Manager (Uniservices)

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YES, I would like to support THE ARDMORE FUND UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP

THE CECIL SEGEDIN ENDOWMENT FUND

NAME:

ADDRESS:

TELEPHONE: EMAIL:

YOUR DONATION: $

CHEQUE made payable to The University of Auckland Foundationor

CREDIT CARD Card Type: VISA MASTERCARD AMEX (CIRCLE ONE)

Card Number:

Expiry Date: Name on Card:

Signature:

Please complete form and return to: Sharon Andersen, External Relations Manager, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 920�9, Auckland, New Zealand Email: s.andersen@auckland.ac.nz Phone: +64 9 373 7599 ext. 88225 Fax: +64 9 373 76�3

THANK YOu FOR YOuR gENEROsiTY. YOu cAN bE PROuD OF YOuR cOMMiTMENT TO MAKiNg A DiFFERENcE iN OuR YOuNg sTuDENTs’ liVEs.

suPPORTiNg THE FuTuRE OF ENgiNEERiNg

Thank You Donors

Our Ardmore and Cecil Segedin Funds continue to be generously supported by Alumni and friends of the Faculty, we are very grateful for your involvement.

Donations have not only been domestic but have come from all over of the world. Recent Alumni events held in Sydney, Melbourne, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur have strengthened the links between Alumni and the School.

Many Alumni attending these functions have gone out of their way to contact fellow graduates they know living and working overseas. These valued advocates for the School have increased the numbers attending functions; subsequently there has been a proportionate increase in donations as individuals reflect on their successes and are willing to recognise the financial assistance needed by young Engineers of the future.

The Ardmore and Cecil Segedin Funds provide material financial assistance through either Scholarship or direct monetary support.

Your donation will have a life which will reach well into the future. As your

assistance sees graduates prosper and grow in their chosen disciplines the real dividend surfaces. The legendary tales of the Ardmore days lives on as does the aura of the much loved Cecil Segedin.

In this our Centenary Year all Alumni can ensure that the spirit and achievements of the past will meet the challenges of the future.

Please make the decision to participate.

Which fund should I give to?

The Ardmore Fund:

The Ardmore Fund is currently operative in terms of disbursement to students in the form of scholarships. This may appeal to those generous donors who prefer to be associated with an instant or more rapid provision of assistance.

The Cecil Segedin Fund:

A fund established in memory of Cecil, who had a compelling belief in the contribution that Engineers can make in Engineering Science and Applied Mathematics. The fund will provide financial support to undergraduate students once it has reached its financial benchmark.

The choice of fund is yours; a donation to either will result in immeasurable benefits for students at the Faculty of Engineering.

How can I give?

You can make a donation using the ‘Giving Form’ attached.OrIf you would like to establish an automatic payment or discuss other ways in which you can support your Faculty we would be delighted to assist. In the first instance please contact:

Sharon Andersen External Relations ManagerFaculty of EngineeringPhone: +64 93737599 ext 88225Email s.andersen@auckland.ac.nz