Annual 2005 A

1. hys· ter· e· sis n.
1. The lagging of an effect behind its cause, as when the change in magnetism
of a body lags behind changes in the magnetic field.
2. The annual publication of the Adelaide University Engineering Society,
documenting the most vital parts of the greatest faculty on campus.
Publisher Adelaide University Engineering Society
Editors Julian O’Shea and Alvin Chan
Cover Model Frank the Jellyfish
Published October 2005

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Michael Banning
Ben baker Ben Ernst
AUES President Lisa Moon Jakin ravalico
Gen committee Education Vice-
FINAL YEAR Gen Committee President Women’s Officer
MECHANICAL FINAL YEAR CIVIL FINAL YEAR CIVIL & POSTGRAD CIVIL
ENVICRONMENTAL FINAL YEAR CIVIL
Julian O’Shea Nina HYDBOM Nic THOMSON Craig Tom Vincent
Publicity Officer Gen committee Gen committee BROwETT gen committee
FINAL YEAR THIRD YEAR FINAL YEAR Gen committee POSTGRAD
ELECTRICAL CIVIL MECHANICAL FINAL YEAR CIVIL
mechanical
MICHAEL
Alvin Chan Calvin fine Laura brooks Melissa
QUINCE
Publicity Officer deposed Prez treasurer Hamann
Gen committee
FINAL YEAR CIVIL & FINAL YEAR POSTGRAD Secretary
THIRD YEAR CIVIL
ENVICRONMENTAL Chemical MECHANICAL FINAL YEAR CIVIL
Crystal STEPHanie Amelia
Forrester Hadjinicoloau Alexander
Stoeckel
Hadjinicoloau
Gen committee Gen committee Activities Vice-
President Gen committee
SECOND YEAR CHEMICAL
CIVIL ENGINEER FINAL YEAR CIVIL Second year
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CONTENTS
Faculty Dean’s Report .........................................................................5
The Origins of the AUES......................................................................6
Ramblings of the AUES President .......................................................8
Editorials ............................................................................................10
O’Week Report...................................................................................11
Building Blocks...................................................................................12
Engineers Rock! (Paper and Scissors) ..............................................13
Head of School of Chemical Engineering ..........................................15
CHEMS Report ..................................................................................16
Chem-E-Car .......................................................................................17
Chemical Plant Tour ..........................................................................18
Young Engineers Australia ................................................................19
AUES Secretary’s Report ..................................................................20
AUES Women’s Officer Report..........................................................21
AUES Tutoring Scheme.....................................................................21
Historysis............................................................................................22
Head of School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering ..................25
EEESAU Report.................................................................................26
Final Year Electrical Engineering.......................................................28
SPACED ............................................................................................30
SABFA ...............................................................................................31
AUES Pubcrawl ‘05............................................................................32
Pubcrawl Shirt Design........................................................................36
Pubcrawl Shirt History........................................................................37
Where are they now? Wobbly............................................................38
Head of School of Civil and Environmental Engineering ...................40
Final Year Civil Students....................................................................43
The Big Tug— the Engie vs. Med Trans-Torrens Tug-o-war ............44
Head of School of Mechanical Engineering.......................................48
Formula SAE......................................................................................50
Jay Ron Wong: epitome of brains and brawn....................................52
AIAA ...................................................................................................53
The Party Party ..................................................................................54
AUES Cocktail Night ..........................................................................56
EngSki................................................................................................58
Motoring Corner .................................................................................59
Technical Article—How to Construct a Keg Fridge............................60
Undergraduate Prizes and Scholarships ...........................................62
AdeLAN Report ..................................................................................64
The AUES in Numbers.......................................................................65
2005: the Year in Review...................................................................66
The Full Adelaide Uni Experience......................................................68
This publication may or may not be endorsed
by the University of Adelaide, but this
publication certainly endorses the University
of Adelaide.
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FACULTY OF ENGINEERING, COMPUTER AND MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES
a double degree in Civil Engineering and Arts in 2004,
EXECUTIVE DEAN’S REPORT and in March this year began a PhD in sustainable water
resources research at the Ecole Nationale du Génie Rural
des Eaux et des Forêts in France. Olivia graduated with a
I am pleased to have been
degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2002,
asked to make a
and has since completed her Masters at Cambridge
contribution to this year’s
University in the UK. She will return to Cambridge in
AUES annual publication,
October this year to study for her PhD, which is also in the
which is now in its 60th year.
field of sustainable water resources research, with a focus
on the impact of climate change on the Australian water
A continuous record of industry.
publication over 60 years is
a major achievement and
At the August 2005 graduation ceremonies University
this year’s editors are to be
medals were awarded to David Roberts (PhD student in
commended on their efforts.
the School of Mathematical Sciences), David Baraglia
Publications such as this
(BMathCompSci/BMech student) and Simon Tuke (PhD
provide an important record
student in the School of Mathematical Sciences). Simon
not only of the history of the
Tuke also received the Honours Alumni Medal. Sam
Faculty but also of its activities and the achievements of
Mickan received his PhD in the December 2004
its staff and students.
graduation ceremonies and was awarded the
Postgraduate Alumni Medal for outstanding academic
I have now been in my post as Executive Dean for just achievement. Sam graduated with a BEng in Electrical
over a year having arrived here from the University of and Electronic Engineering in 1998 and is now a Lecturer
Leeds in the UK at the end of July 2004. I have enjoyed in Electrical and Electrical Engineering.
my first year immensely and, although most of my day-to-
day contacts have been with members of staff, I have met
It is, of course, invidious to mention a few individuals and I
many student members of the Faculty socially and on
do so solely to illustrate the range of achievements of
formal occasions. I have attended the annual dinners
student members of the Faculty. The achievements of our
hosted by the School of Civil and Environmental
current students and of our graduates are not only
Engineering and the School of Mechanical Engineering as
personal milestones they also have far-reaching impacts
well as a number of other events including the local heats
on the wider society in which we live. The disciplines
of the Chem-E-Car competition, final year project
represented in this Faculty underpin all developed
presentations and external functions at which our
economies and enable the creation of all new wealth.
students have received awards.
Graduates can look forward to exciting and fulfilling
careers and to making fundamental contributions to
The most recent example of the latter is the Australia national economies, to improvements in standards of
Malaysia Business Council annual Gala Dinner held on 20 living and to sustainable development.
August at which the Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs,
the Honourable Alexander Downer, presented one of the
To all student members of the Faculty who will graduate
prestigious Merdeka awards to Jay Ron Wong, an
this year I wish you well in your chosen careers and I
honours year student in Mechanical Engineering.
hope you will keep in contact with us through your School
and through the University Alumni Association.
Further examples of recipients of prestigious awards
include Katherine Daniell and Olivia Thorne, who are the
To those who will continue their studies at the University
first South Australians to receive a General Sir John
of Adelaide I look forward to further involvement in the
Monash Award. The awards are considered to be among
student activities of the Faculty and being able to refer to
Australia’s most prestigious scholarships, and are up to
equally impressive achievements in this publication next
the value of $150,000 over three years. They are awarded
year. !
for academic excellence, leadership and community
service, without any age barrier. Katherine graduated with Professor Peter Dowd
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The origins of the AUES can be traced back to in this period, and owing to the growing popularity of
Neanderthal days. Unfortunately, caveman Engies were beer, were extremely large. These pubcrawls
severely limited in what they could design by several became known as the Crusades, and tended to go
factors. Examples of these include the fact that the wheel long distances looking for new pubs. Unfortunately the
was square, electricity was something to be avoided, and theme T-shirt was piss poor, and it was too hard to find a
finally (and most importantly) no-one knew how to brew a decent drop in the middle of the desert.
good beer.
Things remained much the same until another major
But as man evolved, so too did the Engie societies - until source of knowledge was discovered - spirits. The advent
the advent of the Romans and the Greeks and their love of spirits gave rise to a giant increase in learning, which
of sharp pointy metal things and sticking them in other became known as the Renaissance period. Modern
people, and using sheets as clothes. Although the wonders such as the alcohol powered car and locomotive
introduction of wine boosted the Engies’ abilities, there were invented, and, with the lack of breath testers, filling
was still a certain spark lacking. The lack of beer sadly up the jalopy took on a whole new meaning. Fortunately,
resulted in the fall of the Roman Empire, as the beer a bright young engineer pointed out that precious alcohol
drinking Gaul and Germanic tribes, aided by their mighty was being wasted on machines that couldn’t really enjoy
beer drinking engineers decided to ‘shut the neighbours the taste or other effects, and so petroleum was used to
up’ once and for all by having a really big barbeque. power vehicles instead.
Around this period Engie societies began to appear in The end of this period saw, in the little known colony of
what was to become known as Asia. Evidence of this can Australia, an initial rising of the AUES, which was
be found in the great Engie scrolls. Apparently a wall- temporarily stunted due to the first appearance of the
building event organised by the local Engie committee got great evil – Prohibition. This dastardly law was made by
a little out of control after a few too many beers. Neither the evils known as ‘law and order’, to prevent the rise of
side was ready to admit defeat. This epic struggle the great society. Fortunately the population rose up in
continued for many years with the wall getting longer and favour of the good drop and threw down the great evil.
longer (which pays testament to the stubbornness of
Engies) until our ancient brethren, the Sciencies, As the Society grew in power and influence, senior
discovered gunpowder, and the Engies came to realise it members of the AUES decided it was time to elect a
was much more fun to blow things up than to build them… president, via a secret ballot. Unfortunately an ongoing
as is still evident today in our pubcrawls! argument between the Germans and the rest of the world
about who brewed the best beer got out of hand and the
It wasn’t until sometime in the middle ages that the holy Great War broke out, so the AUES election was
fluid, beer, came into greater prominence. This gave rise postponed in favour of a barbeque, which seemed a more
to huge feats of engineering; giant pubs made out of appropriated way to settle the argument.
stone and surrounded by moats full of keg dregs. The
reasoning for this is written by the sage Beerscullo in his The issue was finally settled by everyone getting
writings, which state “ye any invader toppled into thy moat hammered and throwing empties at the Germans. But
would consume too much libations (beer) and henceforth unfortunately the issue was to come up again several
be rendered unable to continue fighting, standing, or years later, when a little German brewer with his
talking…”. The first pubcrawls also began to be organised trademark moustache found the evil side of engineering
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and after convincing some of his mates of
the power of the dark side of beer, began
World War II. Once again, the AUES
came up with the excellent idea of
resolving the conflict through a barbeque.
During the barbeque, one of the more
enlightened members of the AUES
bellowed “Hitler’s a D**KHEAD!” and
everybody cheered. Such a bold display
did not go unnoticed by the world leaders
that were present, who in turn used this
cry to inspire allied troops to victory. It
was also decided that such arguments
should never happen again, so the
political arm of the AUES, along with the
enlightened boisterous chap as leader,
became the United Nations, but only after
the first choice “United Breweries” was
abandoned.
In more recent times, the AUES has
continued to grow in power and influence.
While we still undertake historical
recreations of some our most prominent
past events, such as the pubcrawl (a
recreation of the great wall building event
is just a little too daunting), the AUES now
prefers to keep a lower profile. But we
continue to work behind the scenes, and
few important decisions are made without
first consulting the AUES. It is widely
accepted that if peace comes to the
Middle East, it will be due, in no small
part, to the tireless workings of the AUES
and its members, and probably involve a
barbeque.
And so it can be seen that from its humble
beginnings millennia ago, when the
society for engineers was a mere twinkle
in the eye of our strange, yet prophetic,
forefathers, the AUES has developed into
a mighty organisation. While some may
describe its operations as bizarre or even
crazy, society in general has come to see
the AUES as a symbol of all that life
should be, as a beacon of hope guiding
them away from the rocky shoals of their
past to a brighter, more interesting future.
!
Abridged version of Charles Darwin’s
lesser known work, On the origin of
Engies.
Snags are considered acceptable
collateral damage
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Probably the worst task I have Next year’s T-shirt sales may go even better with the
had as president of the AUES acquisition of an EFTPOS machine (onya Bunyip). My
this year has been writing this night is too hazy to recall any more for this column.
report. I mean, writing is what
arts and law students do The term 2 BBQ would have to be one of the BBQ’s of the
because they have nothing year. It was an awesome way to kick of a Friday arvo/
better to do. night. The afternoon came into its own when Jules made
the controversial decision to drop the traditional beer and
Not too many know about this, coleslaw races for some new competitions. This was the
but at the start of each year, four first and possibly the last time I saw someone
members of the AUES simultaneously knacker themselves on a keg and face
committee go down to the SAUA plant into the ground. Bravo Zanker! This, followed by
O’Camp. We put it down as a some eager freshers consuming the somewhat ordinary
recruitment drive for all the contents of the slops bucket, 10% Tooheys New, 10%
freshers, but it is more of an Tooheys Old, 75% water with the rest made up of old
education to the recent school leavers to university life, cups and grass. It was Nic Thomson’s quick thinking
university drinking and the institution which is AUES. which made the sale of the “Tooheys Now” a reality.
Laura Brooks, Nic Thomson, Ben Ernst and I made the
trek to Normanville this year for a night full of drinking and Many thanks have to go to Jules for his tireless effort in
debauchery. After a long night of dominating boat races, bringing back the tradition of the Tug-O-War, and also to
reliving pubcrawl tales to the kiddies and watching topless the med prez Claire. Thank you for providing us with the
women eat CCs and salsa off of each other, it was time best med has to offer, maybe next time… HA! What a day
for us to find some munchies. Cheers goes to chef Nudge though! I never would have thought the foot bridge would
for what was the best tasting 3am nachos and curry I be able to support that many spectators. With the cup four
have ever had! A good night was had by all. The same hours old (purchased that afternoon), and only in our
could not be said for the following day at work. One possession for one, the cup met a bitter end (the ground)
cannot forget Steveo’s mullet. I’ve never seen such a hit
with the ladies, whoever he may be… Michael Banning doing what a president does.
The following week the AUES hosted the O’Week BBQ.
Like anyone worth their pinch of salt, I took a sickie from
work experience to make the event. And what an
afternoon it was! With the student union becoming ever
tighter, there was minimal beer for the wider university
crowd. Certainly nothing like the glory days! And so the
maths lawns were packed with pickled engineering
students, the way it should be. Special mention must be
made of Simon Mason. Simmo was the only one to kick
on late into the night with me on the Barr Smith lawns
hurling abuse at med students as they turned up for
Skulldug. Some ex-committee did turn up a bit later when
a Skulldug cup robbery attempt was made, however
alcohol got the better of us. The only major casualty of the
night was an esky, so if anyone found a blue 50L esky
can you let me know… Simmo?
Following strong T-shirt sales (thanks to all in the
committee who sold shirts) the pubcrawl was shaping up
to be a great night. The unprecedented 900 shirts made a
mockery of beer service in Adelaide, even with two pubs
having specials at any one time it was hard to get to the
bar! Special thanks must go to Amelia for convincing the
pubs that a max of 200 were on the crawl and for
convincing the Crown and Anchor to let us return after
what happened all those years ago. It should be noted
that the AUES is attempting to keep up with technology.
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and did not fair well, cheers Simmo. Even with the win in
the Trans-Torrens tug cup, the day was not entirely
without fault. A combination of keg and gas supply issues
put a premature end to the free beer, not a proud
moment. Congratulations must go to the engie team for
putting runs on the board where it counts, and
commiserations to the ladies on the east side of Frome
Rd.
Only weeks later on a warm sunny Monday morning, I
arrived at uni to be met with an endless array of banners.
Election week was here again. This year however, we
came prepared… we had the Party Party! With the aid of
the civil engineering print quota the Party Party had an
unlimited budget for the campaign, and the Party Party
delivered all week—whether it be free goon sköls with
each T-shirt sale (good effort Hilary), the pollie games or
Ben Baker’s inspirational thrusting in the vote counting
room. Not only did the Party Party poll well, we absolutely
dominated the pollie boat races. People are right when Introducing:
they say politicians have no balls. Well done, Party Party!
TM
the only political party to achieve 100% kicked out status!
Only two weeks later, it was the AUES cocktail night, a
TOOHEYS NOW
night of somewhat better dressed drunkenness. Arriving
fashionably late I was impressed with the level of Tooheys NOWTM! Perfect for those afternoon
“merriness” already achieved, and the amount still to be barbeques, just when all the other beer has
drunk. The crowd was charging through the supplies
though, I have never seen that much vodka go so
run out!
quickly… impressive! You know the night is getting on a
bit when the “I was really drunk one night with this guy/girl Best served lukewarm in large bucket with a
I was keen for and I did this…” conversation starts,
sprinkling of grass to overly keen freshers!
congratulations Jakin on your conquests. The unleashing
of the “engie surprise” was nothing compared to the “Xan
surprise”, that is one big cocktail for one big man, I am Tooheys NOWTM! Proud sponsors of the
unsure of the exact mix, in fact I am pretty sure Xan only
Australian National Keg Stacking
added the mixers to give it different colours. Thanks must
also go to Jo for your guide on how to pash, not much of Championships
an audience outside, though.
Unfortunately, at the time of printing the quiz night was in
the future. This is a bit of a shame, as some of the
funniest things happen when you have a competition for
Banning Loves to SPAM
The Yahoo Group [engie] is the main form of
the questions and a separate one for the amount of
correspondence with our members. Only the AUES
alcohol consumed by the table. I fondly (and partly)
President can send messages to the list. This year there
remember my first AUES quiz night, I will never forget the
has been a surge in the number of emails sent out by our
look on this guys face when mid pash his pickup purged. I
SPAM-loving president, Banning. Banning has sent more
look forward to this year’s event.
emails than any other president since the list was created
in 2002. Banno, you are even impressing Nigerian
On that note, I think it is time I thanked those who made
bankers and penis enlargement companies, good work!
this year possible. Cheers Jules for your drive in bringing
back a bit of history in the Tug-O-War and the printing of
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this publication. Thanks Alvin for putting this publication
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together, you did a great job considering the B-grade 6
Banning
content. Despite the best efforts of the committee, it is 5
Laura who has kept us in the black. Thanks, Laura. Thank 4
you to the rest of the committee for all of your efforts
throughout the year, your contribution has made 2005 one
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AUES President J F M A M J J A S
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Once upon a time, the AUES existed for the sole function I promised myself a few months ago that I wouldn’t write
of creating events worthy of write up in an annual one of those “it is late and the publication is going to print
publication called (you guessed it) ‘Hysteresis’. By the soon” style editorials. Well, it is late and the publication is
80s, the AUES had seemed to forgotten their purpose, going to print soon.
instead organising events for the sole reason of having a
good time. And what dark times they were (you remember
Firstly, did you notice that Alvin’s editorial is first? He
the hairstyles). As of this year, Hysteresis had not been
thinks he’s special just because he does the layouts.
published for 25 years.
When I was younger I used to watch the BBC show Press
What you are holding in your hands (or other
Gang, I think that’s what inspired me to revive and edit
appendages) is the product of the sweat and blood of a
Hysteresis this year. However, unlike Press Gang, I didn’t
quarter century of AUES committees. Well, not literally,
get my own desk, there wasn’t a cool sound track and I
unless you got a faulty copy where I stabbed myself with
didn’t have any lackeys to boss around (except Alvin).
scissors trying to open a box of magazines (here’s a tip -
don’t use scissors to punch holes in cans of pineapple
juice). Despite not being worthy of a children’s television
program, the process of putting together this publication
has been a positive experience. Get advertisers, get
Every year since I’ve been at Adelaide University, the
articles, layout pages, print – putting together a magazine
AUES has struck me as having some of the best social
is simple in theory, but there has been a lot of running
events on offer, usually characterised by ungodly
around and some minor hassles. The cover, for example.
amounts of alcohol. This was truer this year more than
Initially I wanted a cool fractal image, so we contacted a
any other, with the usual fantastic barbeques, the Party
fractal artist from the web about getting one: US$200.
Party Party, a successful cocktail night and the revival of
Then Alvin wanted an image of a bio-luminescent deep
the Tug-O-War. The crowning glory is naturally the largest
sea denizen, so we contacted an image site about getting
pubcrawl on this side of the world (it was good to return to
one: £150. We ended up getting Frank the Jellyfish for a
the Cranker, after having been banned for several years
fiver, and he waived the royalties, this made our budget
due to numerous thefts, including a hot water service).
look a lot better.
What better way to punctuate a fantastic year than with a
permanent record of all the events? A little piece to take
home, read, shove in a box, dig up in 30 years and This publication is for all engineering students, designed
remember that you once knew how to have fun. to showcase some of the important events other than the
thousands of hours staring at a computer in the CAT
suite. We hope you like it.
Of course, the AUES can only do so much, so Hysteresis
contains contributions from many areas of Engineering.
Who knew this much went on at the Uni? Special mention Cheers must go to Alvin for being a graphics guru, for
goes out to everyone who contributed fantastic articles. making all the pages look good and for doing a huge
Thanks to the enthusiasm of these writers, I’ve gone from amount of behind the scenes work. Many hours spent
worrying about lack of content to wondering if it’s all going laying out pages, editing images and digitally
to make it in. I should also apologise for what I’ve done to manipulating the images within this publication for his own
them. entertainment. This paragraph had to be written or Alvin
would have just added in his own. He’s dodgy like that.
Particular thanks should go to Julian, who passionately
spearheaded the return of Hysteresis (without which I That is all. !
wouldn’t know the meaning of the word hysteresis) and
did a great deal of organising for the magazine. Or Julian O’Shea
perhaps I shouldn’t thank him, because he came ‘round AUES Publicity Officer, Hysteresis Editor
and forced me to watch Press Gang for 28 hours.
Thanks to Anna, for being so beautiful ● Thanks to
In conclusion, a short list of overused words in Hysteresis: Banning for leading a great year of AUES ● Thanks to
debauchery, party (which appears over 100 times in just everyone who submitted articles, particularly those who
one article), drunk, thanks, scull/sköl, engineer, 1337, wrote good articles ● Thanks to the Department, Schools
Julian. ! and Clubs Association for their assistance getting this
published ● Thanks to our advertisers, for their support ●
Alvin Chan Thanks to Google images ● Thanks to Frank the Jellyfish.
AUES Publicity Officer, Hysteresis Editor
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11. Orientation week 2005, was held from 21st-25th of AUES Hysteresis 2005
bombarded with paper balls and an exchange of words.
This was then followed by a shake of hands and a “good
onya, mate, good prank” chit chat from the meds and the
whole thing seemed to be over… But wait, there’s more…
Throughout the afternoon there was an unpleasant odour
surrounding the tent. “What’s that smell? Did someone
fart?”, said Melissa. “Wasn’t me! Must have been Ben”,
said Nina.
February. For the AUES this is always a busy time and
Later in the arvo, Lisa walks up and says “Eww, the
this year was no different. The whole week was spent
Torrens is so smelly today!”. “Oh, is that what it was? we
selling pubcrawl shirts and signing up members new and
had thought the boys had been farting again”, said
old. This year we aimed to get more of the first years to
Melissa.
sign up so that they could enjoy a number of years as
AUES members.
After a few hours, the smell was getting worse. “Oh my
gosh banning what did you eat for lunch? That smell is
Monday morning, our troops arrived bright and early and
shocking”. “Why are you blaming me it wasn’t me!" said
9 am. For some of our committee that meant they had to
Banning.
come out of hibernation a fair few hours earlier than they
had been for a number of months. However, after our
When it came time for us to tidy up and pack up the tent
early enthusiasm as the week progressed this 9am start
we found a surprise….A brown paper bag which
became a little difficult. It saw us progressively setup later
contained a smelly brown solid. Yes, you guessed it, a
in the morning due to the tiredness that was setting in
nice little package you get when nature calls. “Bloody Med
from our long days in the heat and the late evening of
Students!” !
socialising and drinking.
Melissa Hamann
With a record 850 pubcrawl t-shirts to sell this year we Not the O’Week BBQ
had a lot of work to do. However, the AMSS (Med
students) also had their own ‘Skulduggery’ event being
held on the Friday evening of O’Week, hmm competition!!
With the cost of the t-shirts for their event, the numerous
amounts of advertising and it being weeks before our
AUES Pubcrawl, the meds were taking away from our
usual O’Week rush for AUES Pubcrawl T-shirts. Not
pleased with this and the bragging of the meds saying
their event would be bigger and better than our own
event, Julian O’Shea decided to take the problem into his
own hands.
Jules, being our publicity officer, replicated the ‘AMSS
Skulduggery’ posters - but instead advertising ‘AUES
Pubcrawl’. These posters were placed over the meds’
O’Week tent and it took them about half an hour before
they noticed that they weren’t what they appeared to be,
When this was discovered AUES members were
Hysteresis How To: Use the CATS Elevator after hours
The elevator in Engineering South is disabled for after-hours access to level
3. It is theorised that it was set up this way to teach students to find an
engineering solution to a simple problem. Well we found the solution – here
it is! (This also works for creating an express lift.)
1. Enter the lift on (or take it to) the ground floor.
2. Press the button for level 1.
3. While the door is shutting put your hands on the inside door as it closes.
4. When to elevator starts to go up, pull the doors (as if to open them)
5. This causes the lift to stop and reset (which involves going to level 3).
6. Press the door open button (as it won't do this automatically).
7. Get out the lift and spend the next 8 straight hours at a computer!
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On Wednesday, 6 July, 2005, representatives of the
AUES, Engineers Without Borders (EWB) and Young
Engineers Australia (YEA) held a one day pilot program
entitled "Building Blocks: Uni for Young Minds" at the
University’s North Terrace Campus. The program,
sponsored by Snowy Hydro, is based upon a highly
successful European program entitled 'KinderUni' piloted Grange Primary School students attaching ligaments and muscles to
by the University of Tϋbingen, Germany. Sixty Year 6 and their wooden legs.
7 students from Grange Primary School and West Lakes
Shore Schools were invited to attend. accompanying practical display involved using an
The key goals of the program were: experimental drop tower to show the effects of
• to promote engineering as an exciting career path, weightlessness in microgravity conditions. This was done
• to promote engineering as a discipline of great by viewing video footage from a wireless camera
benefit to our local and global community, displaying the changing value of a mass on a set of
particularly in sustainable development, scales as they were dropped. Students also viewed
graphs of the changing mass recorded during the drop.
• establishing the relevance of primary school
learning, through maths and science, to The day established the pilot program as a complete
engineering, success. Responses from a post-event survey completed
by 54 of the attendees indicated that 47 (87%) thought the
• encouraging student's interest and future self-
day was better than an average school day and none
driven learning into engineering, and
thought it was worse. All 54 (100%) students answered
• promoting the importance of problem solving and that they now have a better idea of what engineering is
teamwork skills. and 37 (68.5%) view engineering as a fun and exciting
career path (only half of the others (16.7%) did not whilst
The day began with Tim Nelson (Biomedical Engineering the other half were unsure).
student from Flinders University) presenting a lecture on Due to the success of the program, all three of the
the biomechanics of the human knee. The presentation involved parties, AUES, EWB and YEA, would like to see
entitled “Stiff, Squishy and Spongey” was followed by a Building Blocks continue in future years. We plan to
practical component which involved the students expand the program to involve a greater number of
attaching masking tape ligaments and rubber band schools, especially as we are aware of a number of other
muscles to a wooden leg, mimicking the function of a real primary schools that were keen to attend this year’s
human knee. program. !
Laura Brooks
The second presentation, given by Dr Anthony Parker
(Academic Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Computer
and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Adelaide)
concentrated on both the qualitative and quantitative
benefits of wind power to society in comparison to non-
renewable energy sources such as fossil fuels. The
corresponding practical session required the students to
calculate the amount of carbon dioxide emissions saved
by the generation of electricity from a wind farm as
opposed to electricity generation from burning fossil fuels
such as coal or natural gas. The students used real world
data from South Australia’s first wind farm, Starfish Hill,
located on Cape Jervis.
The final presentation, given by Dr Gerald Schneider
(Aerospace Engineer and Senior Lecturer at the
University of Adelaide), focused on the terrestrial
simulation and biological effects of microgravity. The West Lakes Shore School students receiving assistance with their
wind farm calculations
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Engineers Rock!
(Paper and Scissors)
The blood-sport of Rock, Paper, Scissors (RPS) is one
which is played socially often, but rarely competitively.
This year, for the first time a South Australian RPS
Tournament was run. A group of hardened engineering
types and passionate RPS players took up the challenge.
The four qualifying heats ran on Friday nights from the 1st
– 22nd July at pokie-central: Skycity Casino. With only the
top two finishers from each night progressing onto the
State Final it was a hard-fought campaign. The
engineering squad had some success with Ben “The The Engineering State Finalists. Back (L-R): Peter ‘Fists o’ Fury’
Paperboy” Baker comfortably winning heat three. Also, in Mathews, Ben ‘The Paper Boy’ Baker, Lachy ‘Origami’ McFarlane,
the final heat, with the momentum building towards the Brendan ‘Paper Man’ Gordon. Front: Xan ‘Bunyip’ O’Shea, Julian
‘Rock Star’ O’Shea and Hilary ‘Soft Rock’ Schultz-Byard. Absent
state final, the squad was in its best form with a top three (getting a final rub-down): Paul ‘Paper Shredder’ Pincus
finish – Peter “Fists o’ Fury” Mathews overcoming
Brendan “Paper Man” Gordon in a close match (Julian opening match of the night, seems he
“Rock Star” O’Shea coming third in the heat). Of notable was distracted by the multitude of RPS groupies. Of the
mention one of our team, Hilary “Soft Rock” Schultz- final four, engineering students had taken three of them.
Byard, was given a yellow card and an official warning On one side of the draw was The Paper Man against
after he threw an offensive ‘up-yours’ style scissors at an Origami. What Origami lacked in top level play he made
opponent. For the remainder of the season, and to this up for in raw talent, taking the match off his engineering
very day, Hilary is known as the bad boy of South kin to make the State Final. On the other side of the draw
Australian RPS Rock Star lost the match in the final throw, a devastating
result. In the play-off for 3rd place the Paper Man came
In the build-up to the State Finals the organisers of the from behind to win, despite Rock Star having three match
event raised the number of finalists to 16 (the top eight points – seems the Paper Man’s strategy of ‘Scissors
qualifiers from the heats + eight wildcards). Due, in a Never Wins’ had some merit.
large part to the charismatic nature of engineers, the
squad was offered a wildcard place. Skills gained from The final match was extended length format being best-
Management and Professional Practise for Engineers of-five, best-of-five. Origami was competing against some
were implemented and we convinced them for an guy called Matt. There was silence in the crowd as the
additional four wildcard spots. It was shaping up well for two competitors made their throws which became
the team – with a hefty eight man squad for the big deafening applause whenever Origami (the crowd
tournament. favourite) made a winning throw. The game was close
throughout – going to the fifth. Sadly for all engineers and
Friday 29th of July: State Final Night. The turn-out by the for many in the Skycity crowd Origami went down in a
crowd at the Balcony Bar (Casino) was huge. Brendan truly nail-biting final few throws. Overall – 2nd, 3rd and 4th
‘Paper Man’ decided that a suit with Morpheus style – not a bad night for the Engineers. See you RPSing in
sunnies would give him the psychological edge in close 2006! !
matches. Specially crafted shirts with RPS slogans were Julian O’Shea
worn by some of the squad members including such lines
as “Run with Scissors” and “Follow the Paper trail”. Paul
‘Paper Shredder’ Pincus got beaten by a girl in the
Strategies from the top RPS players in SA
“Scissors Never Wins.” – Brendan G., 3rd Best RPS
player in South Australia.
“The skill in RPS is not what to throw but when to throw
it. You see, a Rock is a poor option against Paper – but
if your opponent throws a Scissor it really is a great
strategy” – Ben B.
“Run with Scissors. Scissors wins or draws to two thirds
of all possible throws.” – Hilary SB
“The number of opening throws is limited only by your
imagination; however Rock, Paper and Scissors are the
most common.” – Anon. Paper Man (left) laughs in the face of a focussed Rock Star in the
3rd/4th place decider. As we all know Paper (Man) beats Rock (Star).
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SCHOOL OF Chemical engineering Anne Philcox, Handoko Putra and Gideon Kuncoro have
returned to the School to undertake postgraduate studies.
Thoa Nguyen and Henry Huang were awarded
It has again in 2005 been a year scholarships to undertake postgraduate studies at the
full of challenges but in meeting University of Cambridge. We wish them well. Chemical
those challenges we have Engineering students from all four levels of the program
generated significant featured strongly in the annual round of Dean’s Merit
achievements and highlights. Certificates for outstanding academic achievement.
The School maintained its strong The annual Plant Tour was a great success, with thirty-
commitment to and involvement in two Level 3 students, accompanied by Dr Yung Ngothai,
the CRC for Clean Power from Dr David Lewis, Ms Elaine Minerds, and postgraduate
Lignite. Individual staff have student, Ms Kyleigh Victory visiting seven South
maintained existing research programs or developed new Australian processing sites. The group were taken on
ones with other researchers in the University of Adelaide tours through National Foods, Port Pirie Smelter, the NRG
and with industry, research institutions and universities in Power Station at Port Augusta, WMC’s Olympic Dam,
Australia and overseas. Such collaborations serve to Santos’ Port Bonython Liquids Processing Plant, ACI
diversify and strengthen our research activities and Glass Manufacturers, Coopers Brewery and to finish off a
provide access to equipment and facilities not readily quick trip to Wellington Hotel to sample some of Coopers
available within our School. Dr. Peter Ashman took Fine Ales.
Special Studies Program (SSP) leave in semester 1, A/
Prof. Dzuy Nguyen took SSP leave over the whole year, We have continued with our annual undergraduate
and Professor Keith King took several short periods of student satisfaction survey that was initiated in 2000. It
SSP in semester two. Two of our postgraduate research enables us to gauge student perception of our teaching,
students, Stephen Pahl and Oenone Macintyre, also services and facilities and it provides us with valuable
undertook periods of study leave away from Adelaide to feedback on which to act as we continually strive to make
develop their research skills and take advantage of improvements, subject to financial constraints where
special facilities and equipment available in selected relevant.
institutions overseas. Three of our postgraduate students,
Richard Muhlack, Samuel Phua and Tim Ballantyne were We have put considerable effort into recruiting local and
successful in winning prestigious fellowships and prizes. international undergraduate and postgraduate students.
The research grants, publications and projects Our current mix of local and international students
documented in this report demonstrate the strength and generates a stimulating multinational learning
diversity of the research activities of staff and environment that is appreciated by all.
postgraduate students. This has been maintained despite
the ever-increasing demands on staff time of so many The School is committed to excellence in all its activities
other commitments and the intense competition for with special emphasis on an enjoyable, motivational and
research funds. safe working environment that is free of discrimination
and harassment. The examples of the activities,
We continue to attract undergraduate and postgraduate affiliations, collaborations and achievements of the School
students of exceptional quality and within each cohort a for 2004 demonstrate the exceptional quality of the
significant number of females. The very high quality of the undergraduate and postgraduate students and underline
graduating class of 2004 was reflected by the significant the readiness, dedication and commitment of the
number awarded Honours and their achievements in academic and general staff in meeting the challenges,
winning many scholarships and prizes. Special known and unforeseen. !
congratulations to Thoa Nguyen who was awarded a Professor Keith King
University Medal, a just reward for her outstanding Head of School (Chemical Engineering)
academic performance throughout the undergraduate
program. Four of the 2004 graduating class, Hugh Jones, The third year chemical engineering plant tour.
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In 2005, CHEMS achieved something great; for the first students being offered interviews and employment with the
time in recent memory we managed to fill all the positions companies that attended. We were lucky enough to have
on our committee before the end of first term. In fact, due many companies attend the evening, including Santos, SA
to our highly successful Fresher’s BBQ in week one, we Water, KBR and Adelaide Brighton. The night ended in
recruited two very enthusiastic first year representatives true CHEMS style with an exit to the city, cheese platters
and lots of new members who were only too happy to and all! Thank goodness for those Ian Wark carry bags.
enjoy the complimentary BBQ.
After last year’s hugely successful Quiz Night, the CHEMS
This year we were clever enough to have voted a member committee was determined to make this year’s event even
of the extended Cooper family onto the committee, the bigger and better! Bigger? Well, we didn’t quite beat the
result being that the beer for our BBQs was 100% 120 people who attended last year, but we compensated
sponsored by Coopers Brewery; thank you Joe and thank with the brilliance of the MC. Better? Yes, indeed. With
you Dr Tim. The success of our four BBQs this year can so many fantastic prizes, the committee was struggling to
be partly put down to the plentiful supply of Dr Tim’s give them away by the end of the night. It was not
Traditional Ale, but credit must also go to the fantastic uncommon for a carton of beer to be bestowed upon a
work of the committee members who ensured that all the participating table for absolutely no reason at all.
necessary coleslaw, hash browns and students arrived at
the designated location as required. The biggest and best CHEMS event is yet to be held at the
time of writing. That is the Annual Dinner and AGM, the
2005 was also the inaugural year of our mascot, best opportunity all year (other than the Plant Tour) to get
Exchanger Man. If you’ve seen any of our posters this drunk and dance the night away with your lecturers. This
year you would recognize him as the process flow diagram night combines drinking, voting, speeches, drinking,
symbol for a heat exchanger – with some added features dancing, eating and drinking to produce what would be an
including eyes, a mouth, legs, a cape, and on formal unforgettable night, if only you hadn’t enjoyed the drinking
occasions, a suit jacket and bowtie. quite as much. It seems to be a mystery how the votes
are tallied up amongst all this mayhem and debauchery,
but honestly, that’s really not at the top of your mind when
The acclaimed CHEMS Industry Night was held earlier in
you’re in the middle of a four-hour drinks package. This
the year than previously in order to beat the closing date
event is also an opportunity to say farewell to the final year
for many graduate job applications. Although this meant
students and wish them well with their relocation to the
that the new committee had to swing into action early in
real world. Definitely, this is an event not to be missed. !
first term it proved to be a change for the better, with many
Sally Kernich
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Each year, the Chem-E-Car project is available
to third year chemical engineering students who
wish to take part. In groups of four, the students
must design and build a model car that is
powered and controlled using chemical
reactions. Each of the cars compete in the local
Chem-E-Car competition.
The Chem-E-Cars are not allowed to use
mechanical brakes, electronic timing devices, or
spark based fuses. They must be small enough
to fit inside a shoe box and have a total worth of
under $500 each.
One hour before the competition starts, the
distance that the cars must travel (between 0
and 30m) and the load that the cars will have to
carry (between 0 and 500g) is announced. In
the hour before the competition, the teams do
final tests on their cars to determine how best to
achieve the desired distance. The object of the
competition is for the cars to stop as close to
the desired distance as possible, but the speed
of the car is irrelevant. Each team is allowed
two attempts at stopping as close as possible to the target The winning WINNING TEAM ‘05
distance with the best of the two runs counting as that Chem-E-Car Michael Tait
teams final distance. In the local competition, if the car entry. Katherine Jennings
goes too far past the target distance and hits the wall of
the room where the competition is held, then the car is
Candeece Falland
allowed an extra run. This is due to the space restrictions Paul Hughes
at the venue for the local competition (room N218).
electrochemical cells to using a combustion engine to
This year, four teams took part in the local competition, drive the cars. Regardless of how sure each of the teams
which was sponsored by Santos. The designs varied from were that they could make their designs work effectively
using pressure driven steam engine type systems to while still on paper, everyone learned (or relearned) first
hand that Murphy’s Law never fails, as anything that can
possibly go wrong did go wrong.
Each of the four cars performed well at the local
competition with comparable results from most teams. In
the end, the competition was won by ‘The Purple Cobras’
whose combustion engine driven car stopped the closest
to the target distance after some rushed repairs (Murphy
strikes again). The winning team will be heading up to
Brisbane in the September break to compete against
other teams from across Australia and New Zealand at
the annual CHEMECA conference. !
Michael Tait
Not the winning
Chem-E-Car
entry.
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It appears that many on the 2005 School of Chemical
Engineering Plant Tour have mysteriously fragmented
memories of the five day journey. Being the only person on
Plant Tour who did not drink alcohol (this includes our
supervisors) it is up to me to recap the whole thing.
It seems fitting, then, that our first day was focused on
visiting operations in the heart of the South Australian wine
region. This included an in-depth wine tasting at Rowland
Flat Winery. The wines were described as ‘fruity’, ‘ochre-
like’ and (my favourite) ‘keroseney.’ Of course, the
processes at the place were interesting, too. After several
hours of bus driving we made it to the safest place in the
universe (Port Augusta – or Port Aug’utta as it is
affectionately known). The cabins were warm enough and
had fridges sufficient to hold large amounts of booze. The
next day we ventured to Port Augusta Power and had quite tour of the mine. But we were able to see some very
a view of the town from the upper heights of the station. intriguing unit processes. We returned to Adelaide and
And we received free pens. Next was Port Pirie – and the went our separate ways. Friday, however, we were all
Zinc Lead Smelter. Changing into Oompa Loompa back on our big bus and off to Gropep and (my personal
costumes, we were able to look around their copper and highlight of the tour) National Foods’ Salisbury Milk
zinc refining plants. The smell never left any of us – despite Plant. It was here that two urban myths were crushed:
how much some drank to try and forget it. We were NO, the number at the bottom of Farmer’s Union Iced
provided with gas masks though, it should be said. Coffee has nothing to do with the concentration of
coffee (it is merely a marker to show which packing
Back at Port Augusta that night, fun was to be had. A free machine was used); and the generic brand milks (e.g.
barbeque supplied by the School of Chemical Engineering, Woolies) are made in the exact same way as name
but cooked by us (slave labour), was eaten in no time. brands (Pura Milk). Oh, we were treated to free
Then the drinking, card playing and late night talks began… samples, too. Let me tell you, a FUIC tastes 10 times
and went on and on and on. The ramification of this was a better when you have just seen the process it has gone
very quiet bus on Wednesday and, thus, a very happy Dr. through. I doubt, however, it would taste as nice if you
Ashman. It was on this day that we visited Santos’ saw the cow it came through.
Fractionation Plant in Port Bonython. We were also treated
to a tour of OneSteel’s Whyalla Steelworks later in the day,
in which our friendly tour guide made sure we got good
photographs. In fact, he almost demanded exactly when we
took them, and what of. We departed to Roxby Downs and
arrived after picking up 5 very large pizzas to take with us
to the caravan park there. Enjoying our drinking, pizza,
more drinking, double beds and Foxtel, it was frankly quite
hard to leave the place.
Alas, we had to visit Olympic Dam. It was raining, which
was very rare, meaning that we could not experience a full
So Plant Tour 2005 was an amazing success. A huge
thanks to Mary Barrow for her hard work behind the
scenes, as well as Dr. Chris Colby. Our bus driver did
not participate in the wine tasting, and for this we are
thankful. Credit must also go to Louise Schwarz and
Candeece Falland for designing the highly fashionable
Plant Tour T-Shirts. Of course, last but not least, many
thanks to Dr. Peter Ashman and Andrew Wright for
keeping us amused and on time. !
Aidan McClory
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This year the YEA ran a series of workshops called “Job
YEA-SA has had quite a Search Boot Camp“ with the Australian Computer Society
busy year this year! It all (ACS) focused on Jobs and Job-hunting. There were 6
started late last year with seminars in all; Applications and Resumes ran in March,
the idea of dedicating 2005 Intro into Interviews in April, Interview case studies in
as the Year of the Young May, What Employers Are Looking For in August,
Engineer. After a long Workforce Reality in September and Job Options in
drawn out process, the October. We have had some great turnouts and lots of
National Council approved positive responses so we are considering making this an
and 2005 was made the annual event, so if you missed out there might be next
Year of the Young year.
Engineer! This is the first
time Engineers Australia This year, YEA also extended its arm our to some
has dedicated a year and regional areas thru The Snowy Hydro Regional
could be the last. Ambassadors Program. This involved a small group of
young engineers visiting secondary schools in Whyalla,
The year kicked off with the division’s annual dinner held SA, in April. The young engineers gave presentations
on the 23rd of February at the Observatory function centre. and participated in discussions aimed at exposing the
The dinner was traditionally the division AGM, but this profession of engineering to students, parents and
year they separated the 2 in an attempt to get more teachers. The program, which was funded by Snowy
attendees. Instead, the dinner was used as the state Hydro, received high praise from other YEA committees
launch of the Year of the Young Engineer and as such, around Australia.
the Division sponsored a heap of young engineers to
attend the dinner, with a lot of students from Adelaide uni. There were 2 events held on campus in early August- the
Future Pathways Talks and a Formula SAE meet and
In early March, a busload of Young engineers ventured greet. The Future Pathways Talks are where graduates
out to McLaren Vale in search of Goon and Coon from the Uni come back and do a little presentation on
(Cheese and Wine). The tour was run by the Blessed their experiences at uni and where it has lead them today.
Cheese company and departed Adelaide at 10 am. The Adelaide Uni had talks on Monday 1st August, with three
first winery was Wirra Wirra Vineyards. There, we gorged speakers: Kim Farrant, Matthew Hochman and Ben Misen
ourself on Cabraliete Goat's Cheese and Adelaide Hills and was attended by about 50 students. On the 4th of
Sauvignon Blanc 2003. The next stop was Pertaringa August, the YEA and Mechanical College ran a joint event
where McLaren Vale Bonfire Block Semillon 2002 and on the Formula SAE (FSAE) vehicle. FSAE is a final year
Jersey Milk Gouda were on the menu. After lunch, and a project in the Mechanical department whereby students
bit of sobering up, it was time again to work out the liver at fabricate an open-wheeler racing vehicle from the ground
The Woodstock Winery with Coterie Grenache 2002 and up, and incorporates such things as suspension and
18-month-old Cheddar. The last winery of the day was chassis design, engine management and drive train
Kangarilla Road where we feasted on all the left over development.
food, including a rich Adelaide Blue vein cheese and a
McLaren Vale Zinfandel 2002. Finally, before we departed Engineering week this year was held from the 22nd to the
McLaren Vale, we had to do the mandatory stop off at 26th of August and was sponsored by Australian
Medlow Chocolates- just in case we hadn’t pigged out Submarine Corp (ASC). The highlights of this week were
enough! the launch of the infrastructure report card, Careers Night
and the ASC Networking night. Monday was the launch of
A few weeks later, a former YEA-SA president, AUES the infrastructure report card with a press conference in
committee member, Bachelor of the Year Nominee and the morning, which summarised the report and followed
Banksia Award Winner, Nick Palousis did a presentation by a Luncheon at the Hyatt. The Careers Night was held
of his work with The Natural Edge Project (TNEP). The on Wednesday where 8 graduate engineers addressed
presentation was on sustainability, particularly focused on 80+ high school students and spoke about there discipline
the role of engineers and sustainable engineering of engineering and what type of projects they are involved
solutions. For some background, TNEP is a not-for-profit in. The last of the highlights was the ASC Networking
initiative comprising young engineers and scientists with a Night on Thursday. As the event was predominately
passion for achieving a sustainable future. Hosted by sponsored by ASC, it mainly appealed to mechanical,
Engineers Australia, TNEP is engaged in a number of electrical and structural undergrads and was well
national and international projects with a wide variety of attended.
organisations including the QLD-Environment Protection
Authority, The United Nations and the World Federation of For future events and other info, come visit YEA-SA at
Engineering Organisations (WFEO). 2005 further marks sa.youngengineers.com.au. !
the release of TNEP's flagship publication "The Natural
Advantage of Nations". For more information please see
www.naturaledgeproject.net. Peter Marzec
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Secretary’s Report engineering students signed up for our committee. This
year level had the largest number of members which is a
good sign for the future of the AUES over the next 4-5
This year’s committee has years as these young engineers venture through their
been very hard working and years at uni. A summary of membership breakdown can
have spent many hours be seen in the table to the left. The survey datum was
bringing you the events that taken from 399 members who included their year level on
you as well as ourselves have the membership sign up form.
enjoyed immensely throughout
the year. The committee all This year in the AUES we worked on signing up many first
worked very well together and year students (and other year levels) to APESMA and
there was a lot of team spirit IEAUST (Institute of Engineers, Australia). As both of
which made our job very these memberships are free for all students it was
enjoyable. beneficial to all students. APESMA and IEAUST both
being professional organisations give students an insight
Throughout the year, the into the engineering world, future job prospects,
AUES committee have had in excess of a dozen meetings engineering talks and work experience offers.
from which I have collected minutes. At meetings, we
always had over three quarters of the committee present Throughout the year, the AUES have been involved in
which shows the enthusiasm for the duration of the year organising and running many social events for all of our
remained high. Not only is it committee effort that has members. These include the famous AUES pubcrawl,
made the AUES successful once again this year, but also BBQ’s (O-week, term 2, tug-of-war and Party Party Party),
our members. cocktail night, quiz night and a Hysteresis launch. All
events were a lot of fun and were very memorable for
AUES Membership In 2005 we have had 538 both committee and AUES members.
registered members which makes
1st years 41%
us one of the largest clubs in All in all, the 2005 AUES year was a huge success and
2nd years 19% Adelaide University. The summary
the best of fun, and I have enjoyed being a part of it. !
3rd years 23% of the AUES members for this year Melissa Hamann
final years 17% shows that 164 first year AUES Secretary
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conjunction with International Women’s Day. One of the
Women's OFFICER Report main purposes of this event was to provide a forum where
women in engineering can meet each other and interact
The role of the women’s officer etc, because there aren't that many of us. Held in the
within any organisation is often union cinema, showing Mona Lisa Smile and If These
considered to be quite Walls Could Talk, the turnout to the event was low in
controversial, given that the role comparison to other AUES events, however given the
seems to relate to no more than lack of time for promotion and it being the first time the
half of the members of the event was held this was understandable. All who attended
organisation and in many cases the event enjoyed the popcorn, dips platters and
less than that. However, despite its champagne, that was provided for a $2 donation which
controversy, it is a role which is went to Catherine House, a women’s shelter in Adelaide. I
central to the objectives and think that given appropriate promotion and word of mouth
purposes of the AUES, in encouragement, this could grow to be a staple event in
particular objective 3.1.1 – To the AUES calendar.
promote the welfare and further
the interests of the members of the Society and 3.1.5 – To Having started the year with the intention of running
encourage better formal and informal relationships several women’s events, I have been amazed at how
between members. quickly the year has gone past. In the remainder of 2005
and in 2006 it would be great to see women’s forums
An important function of the Women's Officer of the AUES held, where female speakers from industry are encourage
is providing situations where women in engineering can to share their experiences in the workforce and the
interact, because for some women it can be quite different paths that are can be taken as a woman in
daunting to be in such a male dominated environment. engineering. Another issue that has come to my attention
Establishing links with other women in a similar situation is the lack of promotion of engineering to female high
who might not be in the same tutorials, lectures or school students. I think that encouraging female students
whatever can be really valuable especially when these to select engineering as a career path is a role that the
links are between women in different years of their AUES can play, in particular the AUES Women’s Officer,
degree. Also for first years, it can be quite reassuring to in conjunction with the Engineering School and industry
be able to participate in women's only events especially if groups such as IEAust and APESMA.
they have come from predominantly female environments
(eg an all girls school), as these events tend to be a bit I have enjoyed my year spent as Women’s Officer of the
more relaxed. AUES and wish the best of luck to the new Officer
Bearers and next year’s committee. !
In order to provide such an environment, the inaugural Jakin Ravalico
AUES Women’s movie night was held this year in AUES Women’s Officer
The first year at university can be quite students; the sheer number of students
challenging for students, particularly in a volunteering themselves as tutors ensured Quote of the Day
demanding degree such as Engineering. that there were sufficient tutors to cover all
Hence, the AUES and the Faculty of courses every day of the week. The
Engineering, Maths and Computer feedback received was, as always, mixed. “...be aware that in
Sciences had, until 2002, implemented a Some students used the service regularly the past AUES has
tutoring scheme, where 3rd and 4th year whilst others didn’t use it at all.
run barbecues that
students made themselves available to
have become
assist first year students with their studies in Most tutors felt that they were able to assist
particularly challenging Engineering the students with the majority of their
unruly and
Courses (such as statics, dynamics, problems, but sometimes the students disrupted lectures
electrical systems, logic design, would have a question the tutor was unable in adjacent
programming and process systems). to answer, resulting in frustration for student buildings, so any
and tutor alike. However, feedback disturbance will not
The first semester of 2005 saw the indicated that overall, the scheme ran
smoothly with students and tutors both
be appreciated.”
reimplementation of this scheme, but this
time we tried to improve the program by benefiting, and it was definitely more Engineering Head
rectifying problems which occurred in the effective than in past years. Hopefully we’ll (via email)
past. Greater volumes of advertisement be able to fine tune it for 2006! !
ensured that all first years were aware of
the scheme; name tags and posters were Laura Brooks
used to differentiate tutors from other
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historysis
In 2005, the AUES has been reviving some of its history.
This year marks the resurrection of this very publication,
printed for the first time in twenty five years. We crushed
the Meds in the revival of the trans-Torrens tug-of-war,
again an event not seen in decades. Even the
engineering song of many years gone by was brought
back and sung in high spirits at the annual cocktail night.
With this in mind enjoy this trip back in time and enjoy
some engineering antics through the ages.
Earlier in the year an interested few of the current
committee met with some past legends of the AUES,
1971 AUES Prez Wayne Groom meets current Prez Michael Banning
David Gray (Hysteresis editor 1971) and Wayne Groom
(AUES president 1971). This social gathering over lunch
spectacular AUES successes for 1971”, looking back I
was a great opportunity to hear about their time at
would say that it is one of the most spectacular
university and the tales of the engineering society of the
engineering society successes of all time! This stunt
1970s. This year’s committee gained an enjoyable and
occurred in the early hours of Friday morning of Prosh
interesting insight into the history and traditions of our
week, during an era where Prosh was so big that the
society. Wayne and Dave got the opportunity to hear how
police made frequent passes of the university at night to
the society they were once an important part of has grown
ensure no pranks were being performed. The car was
and changed. A thoroughly enjoyable afternoon for all
towed from its secret North Adelaide location, with
concerned!
Engineers find an innovative solution to the parking problem on
Something we all enjoyed - Wayne brought along some Victoria Drive.
news clipping from the local papers of this era (including
the Advertiser). Wayne and a friend were running in the
Student Representative Council elections (now the
SAUA). As part of their campaign they hired a stripper to
perform a strip on the Barr Smith Lawns and promote
them! The media interest was high but this didn’t do
enough for his campaign however, as he wasn’t elected.
It is hard to talk about great events of the Adelaide
University Engineering Society without talking about the
Great Car Hang of 1971 when a group of engineering
students managed to suspend an FJ Holden underneath
the university footbridge. The Hysteresis report states
“Operation Bridge-hang must rate as one of the most
New and old AUESers collide
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engineering students lining the streets looking out for the student protests. A group of about fifty or so students
police presence. The car was pushed down the grassy marched on parliament house, carrying placards
slopes and under the footbridge. A hand crane (borrowed protesting about the disruptive nature of students
from the engineering department) lifted the car off the protests. They carried down a large wooden temporary
ground then the entire contraption was pushed into the stage where they could stand and yell their message to
centre of the bridge, the chain was attached and the car the cheering crowd. The premier at the time (Steele Hall),
released and allowed to hang in all its glory. A truly great who wanted to be seen in touch with young people came
engineering feat and a great success for the AUES! out and addressed the small but vocal crowd, from on top
of the temporary stage. Whilst this was going on, and the
In the late 1960s and the 1970s protests were real reason behind all of this, two engineering students
commonplace, Vietnam, police brutality and others. In this were hidden inside the stage and were quickly digging a
time a group of engineers organised the protest against hole in the pavement and cementing a toilet bowl! When it
was dry enough the protest dispersed, the stage was
70s style tuggin’ taken away leaving just the cemented toilet.
When civil engineering lecturer Dave Walker was younger
he and his friends would try to squeeze in a quick beer
between lectures (in the ten minutes of time). This would
involve a run to the Richmond Tavern, a quick pint and a
run back. Soon enough this had become a full blown race
– the Dave Walker Richmond Run. The rules were the
same, but had official timing and monitoring of the beer
skölling. Some of the best times were well under the ten
minutes required – 4 and a half minutes.
Now, isn’t history fun? !
Julian O’Shea
The lecturer Stephen Kaneff drove a small MG sports car
Electrical Departmental Anecdotes that was very noticeable in the elec eng car park. In the
early 1960s, a group of undergrad students, as a prank,
Eric Willoughby was a lecturer within the school of managed to get the car into the first floor of the Engineering
electrical and electronic engineering in the 1960s, he North building and parked it outside the Chapman Lecture
typified the eccentric academics who are a source of theatre. Kaneff was not amused. The ringleader of this stunt
many university legends. was a mechanical engineering student: Jack McClean.
On his way home, each evening, Willoughby would start
his car and then realise he had forgotten something in In the mid-1970s, whilst Bob Bogner was Dean, the
his office. Often he would leave his car running as he cleaners in the Engineering North building kept finding used
dashed inside. On one occasion the police came condoms in the secluded third
knocking on his office door—Willoughby had left his car floor and sent a complaint to
running outside for two hours! the Dean to get this stopped.
Eric Willoughby once turned up to a morning lecture In a beautifully understated
with two ties knotted around his neck. His lecture style euphemistic style Bob put up a
consisted of him holding chalk in the right hand and a notice on the landing that read:
board eraser in the left hand—as he wrote with his right “The 3rd floor area may be
hand he would simultaneously be rubbing out with his used only for authorised
left hand. university purposes.”
Around 1966, the very first prospective female
undergraduate student approached Willoughby to see if A visiting European intern student from Germany, Stephan
he would consider a girl for an EE degree for the very Enderling, would often work in the Biomedical Engineering
first time. Willoughby replied: “I don’t think it is a good lab very late at night and then roll out a sleeping bag to get
idea as we don’t have any female toilets here.” a bit of sleep on the floor. Early one morning Stephan was
rudely woken at 5am in the morning by an angry security
In the early 1960s, after Stephen Kaneff delivered a guard. “What’s the problem?” asked Stephan innocently.
lecture on squirrel cage motors, the undergrad students The guard informed him that he was not allowed to sleep in
decided to play a joke on him. The next day Stephen the lab because it scares the cleaners—as they thought
Kaneff received a call from the RSPCA saying he had there was a dead body on the floor. So, the next day
been reported for cruelly caging squirrels. Stephan promptly put a sign on the lab door saying:
“Students are not dead, they are just asleep.”
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