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SponSorSContents3 QUEEnSLAnD DIVISIon4 President’s Report 5 2012 Division Committee5 2012 Congress Representatives5 Queensland Division Membership6 Director’s Report 6 Queensland Division Key Achievements 7 Financial Report8 Chartered assessment team 9 Member Projects and Student Engagement report 10 Events, Media and Communications report11 DIVISIon GroUpS12 Asset Management Council12 Australasian Tunnelling Society12 Australian Cost Engineering Society13 Biomedical Group13 Burnett Regional Group14 Cairns Local Group14 Centre for Engineering Leadership and Management14 Central Highlands Regional Group15 Central West regional Group15 Chemical College15 Education Linkages Subcommittee16 Electrical Branch16 Engineering Technologists and Associates16 Engineering Heritage Australia17 Gladstone regional group18 Gold Coast Regional Group18 Honours and Awards Sub-committee19 Innovation Subcommittee20 Ipswich Regional Group20 ITEE Qld Branch20 Mackay Regional Group20 Mechanical Branch21 North Western Regional Group21 OverseasQualifiedEngineersSupportGroup22 Professional Development Sub-CommitteE23 Railway Technical Society of Australasia24 Risk Engineering Society24 Rockhampton Regional Group25 Roma Regional Group25 Society for Sustainability and Environmental Engineering26 Structural Branch27 Sunshine Coast27 Toowoomba group28 Townsville Regional Group29 Transport Panel30 Water Panel30 Wide Bay Regional Group30 Women in Engineering32 Young Engineers

QUEENSLAND DIVISION

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Executive Reports A word from the Queensland Executive team...

These are exciting times for the profession! There have been some notable achievements this year, but I knowtheQldDivisionteamofofficebearers and staff will continue a number of strong mandates to achieve more for the profession in years to come.

It has been an amazing journey for me; an honour and privilege to serve my profession and one of the few experiences I will treasure forever. My mandate this year has been about liftingtheprofileofengineering,itsrelevance and role in society through my “PEES”; Professionalism, Engagement, Education, and Sustainability.

The division has been very strategic in encouraging more of our engineers and graduates to pursue chartered status and to become registered. This has been reflectedinstatistics,withQueenslandchartered applications exceeding the total of all other states and territories. The division has also been closely liaising with the Board of Professional Engineers Queensland on disseminating the “Queensland model” to other states and territories, with the ultimate aim of National Registration, even asNationalOfficeadvocate for COAG to act. There is also talk of the new state government’s desire to amend the Professional Engineers (PE) Act to include engineering graduates, technologists and associates, of which we have expressedqualifiedsupport.Itismyview that the PE Act must work for the profession and not the other way round.

The division has been very active this year in positioning Engineers Australia as the dominant voice on engineering issues made possible by a change in media engagement strategy,supportedbynationaloffice.QldDivision is leading this drive nationally and has seen amazing traction in exposure for the engineering profession on prime time

target; 30% female engineering students and 20% female workplace participation. I believe we are on track to achieve this goal in the next few years. While I focused on thecorporateleveltoinfluenceindustry-wide workplace culture, Felicity Briody of WIEQ and Jillian Kenny of YEAQ have recently founded Power of Engineering, to engage year 8, 9 and 10 girls, their teachers and parents, and the community on career awareness in engineering, changing their perceptions and demystifying the stereotypes of the profession.

Engineering is about being empowered to change the world. It is diverse and creative. It opens up choices and opportunities.Itinfluenceseveryaspect of our modern lives. It is about working with people for people.

Student feedback has been overwhelming, with 91% of females expressing an interest

in pursuing a career in engineering, and most amazingly, 57% changed from a “no” to a “yes” after the events. As I write, they are on target

to reach over 1000 females in metro and regional Queensland including Cairns, Townsville, Caboolture, Toowoomba, Ipswich and Mt Isa, by the end of the year.

“Engineering is about being empowered to change the world.”

PrEsiDEnt’s rEPort steven goh, 2012 President, Queensland Division

television, print, radio and online media spaces. I believe the outcomes achieved so far are positive but there is so much we can do to advocate for the profession and on behalf of our communities. In terms of member engagement, we have introduced a Qld Division Events Facebook page as well as a Qld President Facebook blog and recorded videos to diversify the opportunities for engagement using social media. We are also reviewing our member communication strategy for enhancing membership engagement.

The education portfolio has been a big investment for me this year. This includes initiating a conversation about the possible relevance of the PE Act to engineering academics teaching and researching in universities. The other aspect of engaging academia is about listening to the voice of engineering academics operating at the frontline on the role of EA in their professionallife.Wearealsorefining

our school and university engagement strategies with the view to increase the overall pool of students

engaged with Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics education.

As mentioned in my ADM address last year, I believe we must do better to improve the gender diversity in the profession by setting the Women in Engineering 30/20

“It has been.. an honour and privilege to serve my

profession, and one of the few experiences I will

treasure forever”

Lastly, sustainability has been a constant key message of mine, whether that is with my primary school visits or to my fellow engineers. Let us not forget also that sustainability is more than about environmental or social constructs, it is also about addressing our chronic skill shortages, on providing quality and accessible CPD, and better training opportunities for engineering graduates.

One element of graduate development is our engagement with the Queensland Chief Scientist, Dr Geoff Garrett, and Advisor to the Smart Engineering State policy initiative, Prof Graham Schaffer, in expressing our views for developing policies for supporting a knowledge intensive economy built on engineering skills and expertise.

The successful trial of multi-location

technical meetings using video-conferencing facilities of university campuses by our regional groups in Rockhampton, Bundaberg, Emerald, and Mackay must be explored further to take advantage of the available technologies. Also, we have been heavily advocating to governments at all levels, a pipeline approach with local and state infrastructure planning and spending.

I met some amazingly inspired people during my tenure, and would like to take this opportunity to thank all EA volunteers for the time and effort they put into their roles, especially my gratitude goes to our regional members. You are the backbone of our success, and ambassadors of this great profession in this 2012 Year of the Regional Engineering Team!

Best regards Steven Goh, Qld President 2012, Engineers Australia

2012 Division CommittEE

2012 CongrEss rEPrEsEntAtivEs

QuEEnslAnD Division mEmbErshiP

Grade 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 % incr last yr

Graduates 3,108 3,116 3,126 3,120 3,159 1.3%

Members 6,323 6,845 7,485 8,169 9,100 11.4%

Fellows (and others) 832 842 875 899 912 1.4%

Sub-total 10,263 10,803 11,486 12,188 13,171 8.1%

Students 7,679 7,315 7,823 8,322 8,920 7.2%

Total - at 30 June 17,942 18,118 19,309 20,510 22,091 7.7%

•Steven Goh MIEAust (President)

•Dennis Wogan PSM FIEAust CPEng (Immediate Past President)

•Simon orton RPEQ MIEAust CPEng EngExec (Deputy President)

•Blake Harvey MEIAust CPEng

•Bryony Elson GradIEAust

•Chris Warnock FIEAust CPEng

•Hari Krishnan TFIEAust

•Kelly Coverdale MEIAust

•Ken pearce FIEAust CPEng

•Matthew Taylor TFIEAust

•Mike Brady FIEAust CPEng

•peter Ho FIEAust CPEng

•Stuart Lister HonFIEAust

•Geoff Haigh / Tito Cueva •Ken pearce •Matthew Taylor

Barcaldine Water Tower Heritage Marker Ceremony (Mr Andrew Barnes, Mr Dijon Niehaus, Mr Stuart Bourne, Mr Steven Goh, Her Excellency,

Ms Penelope Wensley AC, Governor of Queensland and Mr Ian McEwan)

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Executive Reports A word from the Queensland Executive team...

The2011/2012financialyearhasdelivered some wonderful outcomes for Queensland Division through the achievements and hard work of our many outstanding volunteers and staff. Led by our 2012 Division President, Steven Goh, and our 2011 Division President, Dennis Wogan, we have continued to improve our performance against our strategic plan.

We achieved a rating of 81% against our 2011/2012 strategic plan, an improvement against last year’s rating of 79% and the previous year’s rating of 75%. Forthefirsttimeinseveralyearswehaveexceeded the benchmark rating of 80%, a milestone that should be celebrated. Our aim is to continue the trend of the previous years and build on the solid foundation that has been established.

The Queensland Division Committee has introduced a three year strategic planning cycle. This change in our planning approach will enable us to deliver on longer term outcomes and will

further support the Division in achieving quality results for the engineering team.

A list of our key achievements appears on the following page, however, I would

like to highlight the ongoing membership growth that we have achieved. In 2011/2012 we broke through

the 22,000 member barrier for the firsttime.Themajorityofthisgrowthwas in the Member category, with an increase of almost 1,000 members. Thisisasignificantoutcomeanddemonstrates that Queensland Division is growing strongly.

During the year Queensland Division conducted a record 600 Professional Interviews for Chartered membership. This placed a considerable strain on our processes and I must acknowledge the efforts of all staff and volunteer interviewers who supported this achievement. We have now established a Chartered Assessment Centre in Queensland Division to better support this important activity.

During the year we have also placed a strong focus on enhancing the support provided to our 45 groups spread throughoutthestate.Ourvolunteerofficebearers provide the backbone of our organisation. Without their leadership and commitment to the profession, Queensland Division would not be able to deliver the quality outcomes and successes that we have achieved. Anecdotal evidence indicates that the enhanced support provided by staff is being well received, and we have plans to further develop our support in this area.

Engineers Australia will be refocusing its direction in the year ahead to ensure that it remains relevant to members and key stakeholders, with a focus on member value and enhancing our visibility. The workofourvolunteerofficebearersand staff leave us well placed to take advantage of the opportunities this new focus will provide. Ian McEwan Executive Director Queensland Division

QuEEnslAnD Division KEy AChiEvEmEnts ian mcEwan, Executive Director, Queensland Division

“Our volunteer office bearers provide the

backbone of our organisation”

DirECtor’s rEPort ian mcEwan, Executive Director, Queensland Division

Community Engagement

•Australian Engineering week provided positive outcomes. Over 90 separate events were held throughout Queensland against a target of 80 which attracted over 1,000 participants.

•Support to the Kooma Community project has achieved some positive outcomes. A visit to the Kooma Community was conducted by the National President, Division President, and Executive Director. Engineers Without Borders have obtained additional support for the Kooma Amenities Block project and we have provided $10k in funding to support this activity.

Body of Knowledge and professional Development

•Over 600 Professional Interviews held in the 12 months against an annual target of 350.

•Technical presentations above target with 184 to end of June against an annual target of 150. Average attendance on target at 40.

•Considerable work has been invested into securing volunteers to participate in the Chartered Professional Interviews. Approximately 700 volunteers have been organised to date.

•Honorary Fellows luncheon held in February.

•Unit Chairs meeting held in February with all but one group chair attending.

•Year of Humanitarian Engineer well supported by Queensland Groups with over 20 activities held throughout Queensland during the year.

•OverseasQualifiedEngineersSupport Group well supported.

Leadership and Influence

•Preparation and distribution of the interimandfinalfloodreporthasmet

The Queensland Division Finance Report covers the period 1st July ‘11 to 30th June ‘12. The Queensland Division has recordedadeficitof$228,794againstaplanneddeficitof$202,840.Thisequatestoanetdeficitof$25,954againstbudget.Aportionofthisyear’sdeficitwasfundedfromtheTechnical Initiative Fund Reserve, which constitutes a pool of funds set aside to support future group activities.

InCoME

ThetotalincomefortheDivisionreceivedforthefinancialyear was $2,092,938, which was $8,489 less than budget.

The Division continues to derive its income from the combination of an allocation of subscription revenues fromNationalOffice,sponsorshipofDivisionevents,entryfees,rentfromofficespaceandmeetingroomswithinEngineering House. The graph to the left highlights the percentage split of income received by the Division.

Sponsorship facilitates the Division offering a range of activities and services to members and the community. The importance of all of our sponsorship partners is recognized and appreciated.

Through the continuing support from our volunteer members in various Committees and Groups, we were able to continue to hold many more technical and social events this year with less cost overall to the Division. The local and regional group’s financialresultshowedanincreaseinexpensesby3.6%howeverthis was offset by an increase in revenue by 44%, compared tolastfinancialyear.Thesupportfromourvolunteer’sisinvaluable and we would like to thank those for their efforts. We also thank the many groups who actively sought their own sponsorship partners to support their programs during the year.

finAnCiAl rEPort ian mcEwan, Executive Director, Queensland Division

Income 2011 - 2012

Pictured: Kay Barker and Kim Clayton, Finance Team, QLD Division

the requirements for the development of a position paper on a topical issue impacting the community.

•8 meetings held with government, opposition and DG’s against an annual target of 10. Additional interaction provided through other activities as well. 100% response from Parties in the State Election regarding their policies that concerned members. Their policy positions were communicated to all Queensland members in advance of the election.

•3 Corporate Breakfast events held against a target of three.

•Hawken Address held with an excellent presentation by Zimi Meka.

•All regional groups, with the exception of Roma, were visited in 2011. The 2012 schedule of visits is well advanced and

on track to visit each regional group.

recognition, promotion and Membership

•Fee paying membership growth at 8.1% against an annual target of 2% and achieved over 11% for Member category.

•Excellence Awards held in October 2011. 44 entries received against a target of 40. Positive feedback received on event.

•2 engineers inducted in the Queensland Hall of Fame. Professional and Young Engineer of the Year awarded.

Education and Qualification

•Engineering Deans Luncheon held in November 2011.

•Support being provided to the Education Linkages Group and the Science and Engineering Challenges.

•Careers Expo held with over 1000 attendees.

•Six Universities visited with presentations to over 2,000 engineering students.

•Stage 1 Assessors held workshop in September 2011. Careers advisor presentedtoOverseasQualifiedEngineers Group and at break out session at Careers Expo.

Internal Structure and Administration

•Record number of nominations received for the Queensland Division Committee and Congress representatives.

•Successful Annual Division Meeting held. 140 attendees against a target of 80.

•Financial management at highest levels for some years.

•Working parties established in key areas and they achieved positive outcomes to feed into future strategic planning.

National Allocation

Event Income

Sponsorship Received

Rent Received

Room Hire

Miscellaneous

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Applications and Assessments

We have had another record year of applications and chartered assessments - over 600 applications received and assessed last year which is more than 60% of total applications received in all of Australia. New assessors Col Colquhoun, Don Muir and Alan Collier have settled into their new roles very well.

Chartered Assessment Centre

WehaveanewCharteredOffice(pictured below) on the 3rd Floor of Engineering House dedicated to

chartered assessments and interviews with 3 dedicated full time staff.

Workshops

We have visited all 15 local regional groups in the past 6 months and conducted chartered workshops on the new echartered and 2012 Stage 2 competencies - these workshops were attended by over 600 engineers. The new eChartered electronic system goes live on 20th November and this will streamline the current processes and lower the timeframes involved overall.

ChArtErED AssEssmEnt tEAm mike garrett, national Assessor

EXpEnDITUrE

The Division’s total expenditure for the period was $2,321,732, which was $17,465 more than budgeted. The increase in expenditure was predominantly related to repairs and maintenance to Engineering House. Work was undertaken on the emergency lighting to comply with National Safety Standards.

Expenses during 2011-12 are reported against our six key Objectives as follows:

Community Engagement $ 108,968

Body of Knowledge and Professional Development $ 1,061,255

Leadership and Influence $ 234,920

Recognition, Promotion and Membership $ 516,452

Education and Qualification $ 147,547

Internal Structure and Administration $ 252,590

TOTAL $ 2,321,732

Nationally,EngineersAustraliapreparesconsolidatedfinancialstatementsinaccordancewithInternationalReportingStandards.AcopyoftheconsolidatedfinancialreportisprovidedinthenationalAnnualReportandisavailableonourwebsite.ThenationalconsolidatedfinancialreportshavebeenauditedbyDeloitteToucheTohmatsu.

Queensland Division has met all key internal business cycle milestones and reporting deadlines.

Expenditure by objective 2011 – 2012

Chartered Assessment Team: Joanne, Gemma, and Laura

Chartered Assessment Centre, Level 3, Engineering House QLD

Queensland Engineering Careers Expo

The Qld Engineering Careers Expo promotes employment opportunities in engineering, celebrates engineering excellence and advocates the importance of engineering leadership within the profession. The 2012 expo was held in April at the Mercure Hotel in Brisbane and attracted over 45 exhibitors and 1000 engineering graduates. The event was a great success and we thank the following event partners for their support and commitment; Clough, SMEC, Anglo American, USQ, Worley Parsons, Engineering Education Australia, Brown Consulting, Toowoomba Regional Council, URS, Gold Recruitment, QR National, Aurecon, ATC Williams, iConneq, and Ergon Energy. We look forward to the 2013 expo to be held on 24 July 2013.

regional Engineering Conferences

Each year three Regional Engineering Conferences are held in Queensland. They provide a relaxed forum for the exchange of ideas and learning, giving regional engineers an opportunity to gain valuable CPD hours. The 2012 conference series was hosted in Rockhampton, Mackay and Toowoomba. Over 3000

CPD hours were delivered for regional engineers. Information about the 2013 conference series can be found online.

Australian Engineering Week

InthefirstweekofAugust‘12,EngineersAustraliahostedtheannual Australian Engineering Week. The purpose of the week is to raise awareness of its contributions to society, and position engineering as the career path of choice. During the Week, Engineers Australia, with the support of other engineering organisations and volunteers, ran a series of events that showcased engineering in Australia, and the achievements of local engineering organisations and their teams. Featured events included behind the scenes tours at Dreamworld, the simulated mine at Mastermyne, Newstead House, and the XXXX Brewery. Engineers visited school students around the state and inspired the future generation of engineers. Over 3955 people attended events in Queensland. Photos of the events can be seen at www.facebook/Qld.EngineersAustralia. Thank you to our partner Hyder for their continuous support to Australian Engineering Week in Queensland.

mEmbEr ProjECts AnD stuDEnt EngAgEmEnt rEPort sandra Cottam, member Project manager

Clough display at the Careers Expo.

Presentation at a Regional Conference

Behind the scenes tour of dreamworld for Australian Engineering Week

Expenses 2011 - 2012Community Engagement

Body of knowledge and Professional DevelopmentLeadership and Influence

Recognition, Promotion and Membership

Internal Structure and Administration

Education and Qualification

Division Reports A word from the Queensland Division team...

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Iwouldfirstlyliketothankoursponsors:BrisbaneCityCouncil,Clough, Monadelphous, Cullens Patent and Trademark Attorneys, Calibre, Karel CAD, Project Services, SKM, Hagstrom, and Leighton; for their continued support of the engineering industry.

Queensland Engineering Excellence Awards

The 2012 Queensland Engineering Excellence Awards evening and awards program was a great success. A total of 40 entries were received for the ten general categories and four overall awards. A winner was selected in each category, as well as high commendations in some categories. The awards evening, attended by 450 guests, was sponsored by nine corporate sponsors. The awards night, held at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, was decorated to honour the previous year’s winner; CLEM 7 Tunnel. This year’s R.W.Hawken Award went to Leighton and Abigroup Joint Venture for The Gateway Upgrade Project. Feedback from both the ceremony and awards submission program will assist in improving the future of the Queensland Engineering Excellence Awards.

Corporate Breakfasts

Throughout the year three corporate breakfasts with respected guest speakers were delivered for members, guests and division sponsors of Engineers Australia Queensland. Keith De Lacy AM, past treasurer of Queensland, past chairman of Macarthur Coal and prominent company director presented on Wednesday 18 April ‘12.

Media

Queensland Division’s media strategy has taken a new course this year in positioning our organisation as the ‘go-to’ for engineering expertise. The implementation of this strategy has been successful in creating connections with the media. Engineers Australia Queensland and spokespersons have been featured in many media outlets, including print, online, television and radio, particularly in response to the engineers’ management oftheWivenhoedamduringQueensland’s2011floods.

Member Communications

Throughout the year four editions of the Engineering Queensland newsletter were produced and delivered toallQueenslandfinancialmembers.Thequalityofthese publications have been highly praised.

Queensland division’s communication strategy has been developed to control the number of emails being sent tomembersfromtheQueenslandDivisionoffice.TheQLD Focus email is sent to all members on a fortnightly basis promoting events throughout the state.

EvEnts, mEDiA AnD CommuniCAtions rEPort Kate Condon, Events and Communications manager

DIVISION GROUPS

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AssEt mAnAgEmEnt CounCil

Chairperson: Mark Jordan

Secretary: Jagdish Shinde

Treasurer: Jagdish Shinde

Committee members:

Brad Thompson, Casha Haddad, Erick Alingcastre, Peter Finlayson, Gavin Chadbourn, Keith Bevan, Lutfiye Allahmanli, Peter Oliver, Peter Pennell, Ron Shuttlewood, Aleksander Seizovic, Deryk Anderson, Gopinath Chattopadhyay.

The Asset Management Council is committed to advancing asset management knowledge and capability of members and the broader community. A number of technical presentation sessions were conducted across the year. They ranged from asset management success stories at businesses such as Gladstone Power Station through to updates on the incoming ISO 55001 due in March 2014. The two key achievements over the past 12 months has been the increasing attendences at technical presentations and increasing interaction with organisations in Brisbane.

AustrAlAsiAn tunnElling soCiEty

Chairperson: Christophe Bragard

Co-Chair: Paul Barraclough

Secretary: Diane Mather

Treasurer: Alan Roberston

Committee members:

Andrew Day, Dale Brown Brendan Henry, Jeremy Kruger, Simon Strong, Scott Keniston, Jurji Karlovsek(YP rep), Craig Roberts, Bruce Embery, Matthew Norbert, Warren Mahoney,

The Australasian Tunnelling Society (ATS) is a technical society that aims to advance the knowledge of the Australasian Tunnelling Industry through areas of design, construction and utilisation of underground space, including technical aspects, health and safety, and ecologically sustainable development.

Technical Activities / Highlights:

Feb ‘12 Airport Link TBM Burial with Brendan Henry (130 attendees); Mar ‘12 Introduction to the Revised Shotcrete Guide with Stefan Bernard (85 attendees); Qld Tunnelling Code of Practice Workshop with WH&SQ (55 attendees); Apr ‘12 The Airport Link Jacked Boxes with Jeremy Kruger (110 attendees);

May ‘12 Ambuklao and Binga Hydro Dam Rehabilitation, Philippines with Craig Harrison (75 attendees); Jun ‘12 Specification and Performance of Steel Fibre Reinforced Concrete with Julian Borgert and Alan Ross (70 attendees)

Jul ‘12 Sydney M2 Motorway Tunnel Widening with Andrew Marsonet (65 attendees); Aug ‘12 Bulimba Creek Sewer Update with David Medcalf (80 attendees); Sep ‘12 Managing the O&M at CLEM7 with Brendan Gough (60 attendees)

oct ‘12 Annual Golf day to raise money for Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital raising more than $10,000 for the Foundation.

We have had regular large attendance to monthly technical sessions (60+) with a range of technical talks and speakers from interstate. A delegation of ATS nationally, led by Andrew Day, is intensely engaged with the National Workplace, Health, Safety and Compensation Department in reviewing the upcoming new tunnelling code of practice and ensuring that themodificationsputforwardbytheChamberofCommerceare realistic and valuable for the tunnelling industry.

We have held information sessions at local universities and increased student memberships by more than 80. We are hosting another Annual Industry Golf Day October 2012 to raise money for Royal Brisbane and Women’s hospital. We actively promote and hold joint sessions with other technical societies. Our members regularly attend conferences in Queensland, Interstate and worldwide as delegates and technical presenters.

AustrAliAn Cost EnginEEring soCiEty

Chairperson: Alistair Bowden

Secretary: Chris Allen

Treasurer: Chris Allen

Committee members:

Lou Vidotto

The Australian Cost Engineering Society (ACES) QLD chapter tries to meet on six or more times on the last Tuesday of the month at EngineersAustralia’sofficesinBrisbane.Membersspanawiderange of industries, including oil and gas, minerals and mining, and building. They include project managers, cost engineers, planners, estimators and contract administrators who apply cost engineering skills to support effective cost and schedule control on major engineering and construction projects. ACES wouldlikeEAtoassistinpromotingAACEcertificationsasa

Group Reports A word from your local engineering groups

form of local accreditation for cost engineering professional’s in the Australian state/federal government and industry sectors. Membership has remained strong over the past year with total ACES QLD membership numbers now around 140.

Key Achievements: ACES QLD formed a reasonably active committee in 2012, enabled vision two number streamed ACES presentations,andproctoredAACEcertificationexams.Wemadepresentations and event information available on the website.

ACEShavebeenbenefitingfromactiveparticipationbyAACEmembers currently working in QLD on CSG related projects. The QLDchapterheldaninformalmeetingafterthefirstTechnicalPresentation in February. This proved very worthwhile as a new committee was formed and potential presenters nominated. We hope to expand the ACES QLD committee and increase committee member participation and communication in 2013.

biomEDiCAl grouP

Chairperson: Izmir Congo

Secretary: Elene Spiliotopoulos

Treasurer: Kathryn Chandler

Committee members:

Jenniver Brett, Micheal Collins, Roy Kei, Zoe Campbell, Niki Ikin

The aim of the Biomedical Engineering Group is to promote the discipline, provide professional development opportunities andanopportunitytonetworkwithothersinthefield.


Feb ‘12 Taking the Leap; Cairns Base Hospital Redevelopment

May ‘12 AS NZS 30032011 Workshop; Smart Homes Initiative (Lifetec)

Jul ‘12 Telehealth Technologies in Queensland Health

Aug ‘12 Health Technology Connectivity

Sep ‘12 Australian Biomedical Engineering Conference

Key Achievements: One of the key achievements this year is the activity of the committee. There have been multiple events this year, with good support from the biomedical community. Most committee members were on the ABEC committee so their involvement in organising the conference was invaluable.

burnEtt rEgionAl grouP

Chairperson: Benjamin Taylor

Secretary: Adam Johnston

Treasurer: Adam Johnston

Committee members:

Michael Egan

The Burnett Regional Group serves the Bundaberg and Wide Bay Region. The group raises the awareness of engineering as a profession in schools and allows engineers to meet and gain high quality CPD.

Technical Activities / Highlights: Scholarships for local senior students to attend the Engineering Link Project at CQUniversity Rockhampton. This year Lauren Kelecher from Shalom College received $150.

Jul ‘11 Bundaberg Careers Expo. Committee members managed a stand and assisted high school students and their parents with industry and career advice.

Dec ‘11 AGM and Networking event (20 attendees);

Apr ‘12 YoRET Site visit of the Bundaberg Aviation Precinct with Cameron Beisley, Adam Johnston, Tim Hurn and Adam Wyatt (25 attendees);

May ‘12 YEAQ 2011 streamed presentation with Emma Charlton (15 attendees)

May ‘12 Bundaberg Science and Engineering Challenge Sponsorship of $1000 toward the culminating bridge building activity - Samantha Green, Leonard Strub and Ben Taylor.

Jun ‘12 Scholarships for local senior students to attend the Engineering Link Project. Ten $150 scholarships were awarded. Central Queensland Engineering Risk Management Seminar with presentations from Dr Ron Black of QRMS Risk Management and David Cox. Using the ISL video conferencing services of CQUniversity,fiveregionalgroupssynchronouslyparticipatedin the seminar including Burnett, Rockhampton, Gladstone, Mackay and Central Highlands. (150 viewers). Timber engineering streamed presentation by Len Dalziel from Mackay (25 attendees)

Mar - Jun ‘12 Monthly informal meetings with members at the Old Bundy Tavern at 4:30 pm on the firstThursdayofthemonth.(20attendees)

Key Achievements: Sponsorship of bright-minded senior school students with aspirations for a career in Engineering to attend the Engineering Link Project; establish a sponsorship agreementwithCQUniversityandlinkthefiveregionalgroups of Central Queensland to enable high quality CPD throughout this region; and provide site visits to inform members of recent achievements in local engineering.

Australasian Tunnelling Society Industry Golf Day 2011

TMR Presentation - Ian Gray and Derek Skinner

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CAirns loCAl grouP

Chairperson: Danette McLean

Secretary: Caitlin Pilkington

Treasurer: Jeremy Evans

Committee members:

Simon Steinhofer, Liam Kenny, Daniel Kennett, Victor Adamczyk, Melanie Mildner, Alison Barratt, Sam Koci, Tania Stephens, Sean McGuiness, Jennifer Bentley

The Cairns local group covers the geographical region from Innisfail north as far as the Torres Strait. The group aims to provide interesting events throughout the year to assist members obtain CPD.

Technical Activities / Highlights: Annual Gala Awards Night, 2 x site inspections of current projects within the region, Leadership Day for Young Engineers, A variety of technical presentations and networking events including breakfasts, lunches and after work functions, A family fun day, Golf Day, Support to the Power of Engineering Event, and a BBQ at JCU for the 1st Year Engineering students.

The group undertook a member survey at the beginning of the year and the key achievement for the year has been providing the types of events that the members were seeking. This included a number of site inspections and presentations and the annual Gala Awards night

The group has had a very busy year and tried out a number of different activities and formats. With a slowing economy in Cairns ithasbeendifficulttoattractsponsorship,butthecommitteehas been able to provide a number of activities for low to no cost. Attendance at all functions has been up on last year and is a testament to the effort taken to understand our members.

CEntrE for EnginEEring lEADErshiP AnD mAnAgEmEnt

Chairperson: Blake Barrett

Deputy Chair: Geoff Spencer

Secretary: Stephanie Moroz

Treasurer: Stephanie Moroz

Committee members:

Simon Orton, Ray Whitehead, Paul Sandeford, Darren Smith, John Zannes, Bruce Potter , Luke Ollington, John Taylor, Sam Maloney. Ashfaque Chowdhury, Jarrod Palmer, Mushfiq Rahman, Scott White, Glen Hali

The purpose of CELM is to encourage and empower engineering teammembersforsignificantleadershipandmanagementroles.


Jul ‘11 Central Regional Conference with Blake Barrett; “Northern Regional Conference -Developing Leaders to Inspire Teams” with Simon Orton

Aug ‘11 “Engineering Exposed”. Co-badged with CELM

Sep ‘11 “Looking beyond the Haze” with Glenn Schumacher and John Rolfe (CELM MC Blake Barrett)

Apr ‘12 “Queensland’s Future” with Keith De Lacy (CELM MC Blake Barrett)

May ‘12 Engineering Leadership Conference (Support with mentoring)

Jun ‘12 Risk Management Series “IT security for mobile devices” David Ross CISO. CELM Articles in EA Queensland Newsletter

Key Achievements: The CELM committee completed 2012-2015 planning to support the following National CELM Board strategy focus areas: Leadership Education (Ray Whitehead); Engineering Executive Value Proposition (Blake Barrett); CELM Awareness Education (Paul Sandeford); Mentoring (Stephanie Moroz); Funding (Darren Smith); Governance (John Zannes)

CELM has been working closely with the Queensland Division to align these national focus objectives with strategic domains of Leadership,Influence,andCommunityEngagement.Key2012focus with Regional conferences, blending EngExec opportunities into presentations and MC roles at Division events. CELM Secured sponsorship using similar models as WIE/Q and YIE/Q - for events, mentoring, community and other professional alliances. Effort continues to reinvigorate the CELM Queensland Advisory Group.

CEntrAl highlAnDs rEgionAl grouP

Chairperson: Alicia Ruhl

Secretary: Dayan Abraham

Treasurer: Ying Liu

Committee members:

Manoj Mudjyanselage, Victor Jayawardana, Anusha Jayawardana, Les Crossman, Sue Harrod

The Central Highlands Local Group is formed by a small membership of less than 60, over a large and diverse area. The group aims to encourage members to be involved more into EA activities.


Apr ‘12 Group meeting and Pizza night. The meeting held a discussions on organising groups’ activities for the remainder of the year.

Jun ‘12 President Visit and Dinner. 10 members and their partners attended a dinner with the Queensland Division President, Steve Ghoh and divisional staff, Amanda Ryan, Lesley Schneider. During President’s visit, a few local members joint the Predent and staff and took them around the region including Emerald town floodeffectedarea,FairbianDamandGregoryHighwayFloodDamaged Reconstruction work site 40km north of Emerald.

Jul ‘12 Technical Site Visit - Flood damage. Repairing work on Gregory Highway. CMC is the current road constructioncontractordoingtheflooddamagerepairingwork on the Gregory Highway. The EA local group was invited for a site visit on one of their job site.


Sep ‘12 Chartered Status Presentation and Workshop. John Reid, the national assessor from Engineers Australia was invited to Emerald to give a presentation on the new Chartered Status. Everyone was actively involved and it was a highlight of the year. (30 attendees)

Dec ‘12 AGM & Christmas Dinner.

Key Achievements: At least one event was held every three months. The highlight of the year was the Chartered Status Presentation which attracted around 30 members from the local group. A number of members achieved their chartered status during this year. A big challenge for the Local Group withtheofficebearersmovingawayfromtheregion.Inthisyear, three Chairpersons ran the group from the beginning and two treasurers were appointed due to the situation.

CEntrAl WEst rEgionAl grouP

Chairperson: Stuart Bourne

Secretary: DIjon Niehaus

Treasurer: John Roworth

Committee members:

Daniel Larsen (Past Chair), Simon Bourne (Vice Chair)

Our aim is to interact with engineers in the central and far west and represent Engineers Australia . This years events included; E-chartered presentation, the Barcaldine Water Tower Heritage Marker Ceremony, Presidents dinner with the president and Qld CEO, various regular meetings. The marker cermony for the Barcaldine Water tower by the Qld Heritage Panel and the Qld Goveror was a highlight for the year.

ChEmiCAl CollEgE

Chairperson: Iain McGuffog

Secretary: Alasdair Beveridge

Treasurer: Ainslie Just

Committee members:

Robert Jorgensen, Jo Kirby, Emma King, Olivia King, Charles Nunez plus IChemE constituent members of the Joint CEC.

The Chemical Group’s aim is to provide value for members and professional development through regular technical seminars, industrial site visits, member networking events and support to chemical engineering students


Jul ‘11 Plant Tour – Caltex Lytton Refinery. This was a re-run of the same event last year because of popular demand. The event was once again over-subscribed. (25 attendees)

Aug ‘11 “In the thick of it” (Waste Management in India) by Rosie Sanderson (Engineers without borders event)

Sep ‘11 “Gas to Liquids and Coal to Liquids” with SSE. Dr Michael Clarke discussed these emerging technologies in Australia. (100 attendees)

oct ‘11 Members’ Recognition Dinner. This event

celebrates members who achieved Chartered and Fellow status with a presentation by Judith Hackitt, UK HSE Director on Industry Safety Trends. (65 attendees)

nov ‘11 Food Engineering & Rheology. Technical presentation by Dr Justin Stokes. (25 attendees)

Dec ‘11 Plant Tour – BP Bulwer Island Refinery. (25 attendees)

Feb ‘12 Annual General Meeting; Asset Management for Climate Change. Technical presentation by Ian Bridge. (16 attendees)

Apr ‘12, Incorporating sustainable development (SD) principles into industrial processing plant design and operation: Developing an SD analogy to HAZOP. A technical presentation by Glen Corder. (24 attendees)

May ‘12 Development of a Platform Nanotechnology for Medical and Industrial Applications (with Nano group). Technical presentation by Darren Martin of AIBN. (17 attendees)

Jun ‘12 Canada’s Oil Sands – a major crude oil resource and now a potential new major mineral resource? Technical presentation by John Oxenford of Titanium Corporation. (65 attendees)

Plant Tour - Carlton and United Brewery, Yatala (including the site’s waste water treatmetn plant). (17 attendees)

Key Achievements: Our key achievements were the successful recruitment of new people into the committee, our dinner to recognise our newly chartered and fellow members, and commencement of planning for CHEMECA 2013 conference to be held in Brisbane

EDuCAtion linKAgEs subCommittEE

Chairperson: Dr David Finch

Committee members:

Geoff Haigh, Steven Goh, Felicity Briody

The group aims to improve the participation in and standards of STEM and Engineering Education. This year we have participated in meetings with industry stakeholders and communication to members and others via speeches at functions. Other activities have been quieter than usual because of illness of one member and extended overseas absence of thechair.Speakingopportunitiesathigh-profileeventshaveassistedinraisingtheprofileoftheissuesbeingraisedbythecommittee. The committee would like to have input into the statistical overview of the profession which is published by EA Nationally to better address the quality issues in engineering education and dispel some of the myths about engineering education that have been highlighted by the committee.

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ElECtriCAl brAnCh

Chairperson: Tapan Saha

Secretary: Mark Blundell

Treasurer: Mark Blundell

Committee members:

Keith Callaghan (Liaison with EESA), David Turner (Electrical College rep. ), David Allan (IET Liaison), Brian O’neill (PDSC rep. , ITEE Liaison), Simon Ellis, Ghavam Nourbakhsh, Chris Hazzard, Kim Boyd, Merv Green, Bryan Cheetham

The aim of Electrical Branch is to disseminate technical knowledge and policy matters from the national and international experts to its members for continuing professional development.


Jul ‘11 Geoff Heydon on Digital Economy - leveraging the NBN and so much more. (11 attendees)

Aug ‘11 Communication and Systems for Power Utility Automation’ IEC 61850 by Pascal Schaub (39 attendees)

Sep ‘11 Present challenges and future of Geothermal Energy in Australia. by Prof. Hal Gurgenci (30 attendees); The Challenges of Battery Manufacture for Distribution Network Storage (Redflow) by Steven Hickey (50 attendees)

oct ‘11 Student Night and IET Present Around the World Qld Final. Universities thesis competition. (24 attendees); Circuit Breaker Seminar-IEC application Guide and recent developments. Anne Bosma. (27 attendees)

nov ‘11 Learning, Applying and Facilitating the Transfer of Electrical Engineering know-how in the Power Industry. byPaulBlanchfield(AGM).(50attendees)

Dec ‘11, Christmas BBQ

Mar ‘12 Terry McConnell on Reducing Network Investment through Demand Management & Energy Conservation (20 attendees)

Apr ‘12 Smart Metering by Bevan Holcom (45 attendees); What Project Managers should know ... and don’t by Vignaeswaran Shanmuganathan b (24 attendees)

May ‘12 DES Richardson on Dragline Recovery. (23 attendees)

Jun ‘12 Precision Spatial Framework: the opportunity of a new infrastructure for Queensland by James Bangay (35 attendees)

Jun ‘12 Electrical Fraternity Dinner / Awards (60 attendees)

Key achievements: The group was very active with 10 technical activities, a 2-day workshop on circuit breakers with

internationalspeakersandthefinalyearuniversitythesiscompetition. The group established a strong relationship with sister organisations e. g. IEEE, IET and ITEE. All activities were highly attended and presentations were made by experts from electricity utilities, consulting and manufacturing companies, the mining sector and universities. Technical presentations are selected from a wide variety of topics that are of current interest to members. Success in the workshop suggests that we should be arranging such workshops more frequently.

EnginEEring tEChnologists AnD AssoCiAtEs

Chairperson: Hari Krishnan

Engineering Technologists and Associates Australia (ET&A) is committed to gaining wider recognition for Engineering Technologists within the engineering industry and general community. The group represents a membership category and therefore does not undertake CPD delivery. ET&A members attend the various CPD activities organised by the relevent colleges and technical societies. In August a joint workshop was held with the Engineering Associates on Articulation options. EA Articulation Manager Dr Eric Hobson and University of Southern Queensland’s Dr Lyn Brodie were the presenters. Over 30 members attended (25 were Technologists). The QLD division’s move in preparing a letter to the responsible state Minister in support of national registration and support of a review of the Queensland Professional Engineers Act to include all engineers including graduates, technologist and associates. As of July 2012 there were 539 Technologists members in the Queensland Division. There is opportunity for membership growth if employers place value of the membership status of Engineers Australia and also if the Professional Engineers Act is reviewed to include Engineering Technologists who provide services within their area of practice and level of competence. I am working towards trying to establish a Qld Division Committee for Technologists; the problem has been in raising interest.

EnginEEring hEritAgE AustrAliA

Chairperson: Andrew Barnes

Secretary: Brian Bacconsall

Treasurer: Brian McGrath

Committee members:

Bill Oliver, Kay Brown, Geoffrey Cossins. Leo Moloney, Norm Traves. Bevan Boyce, Judy Nissen, Paul Coghlan, Kevin Haley, Antonia Niaga, Allan Churchwood, Jim Simmers

Andrew Barnes, Brian McGrath, Charles Oliver, Jim Simmers, Geoffrey Cossins, Bill Oliver and Kevin Haley have represented us on other panels and committees.

Technical Activities / Highlights: The technical program was well supported during the year and included the following:

Feb ‘12 Bill Oliver Eminent engineer TC Deverell

oct ‘12 Isis Downs Sheep Station – Engineering


Developments by Ian Waples

Whilst 2012 was another busy year. Looking back to the goals set at the end of 2011 we have almost exceeded these in most areas including the marking ceremonies. The Committee has been actively promoting Engineering heritage during 2012 and providing assistance and technical commentary on a number of projects during the year including:

The marker program this looks set for another big year in 2013 with several ceremonies already in the planning. During 2012 a ceremony was held for the Barcaldine Water Tower. The local Group provided the majority of the support and a special thanks to Stuart Bourne for organizing the event. The Governor continues to be a great supporter and attended the ceremony in Barcaldine. During 2013 the ceremonies that are already planned are for the Longreach Power Station and Hay Point Jetty. The effort required to prepare the nomination and organize the function cannot be understated and the support from all Panel members has been outstanding.

oral Histories this has slowed during the year with the contact at the Queensland University moving to Adelaide, options are presently being investigated to restart the Oral History program in Queensland.

Web page Brian McGrath continues to update the web page regularly with the help of EA Canberra and is a model for other states to follow.

100 project the panel continues to provide ongoing summaries for sites and a special thanks to Brian Becconsall for all the work on this exciting project.

As Chairman of the committee I would like to thank the committee for all their support and assistance over the last twelve months. The regular attendance has been excellent and the tireless work in the library and other Committee endeavors is greatly appreciated by the Profession. During the next twelve months there a several goals that I would like to achieve which will help develop and promote Engineering heritage through out the community:

Increasing to four technical evenings throughout the year.

Proceeding with nomination and heritage markers of several engineering sites throughout QLD including. Hay Point Jetty and Longreach Power Station

Key Achievements: Undertaking two oral histories during the year, and the ongoing support for the 100 Year project with EHAQ

glADstonE rEgionAl grouP

Chairperson: Mark Frost

Secretary: Josh Worley

Treasurer: Andrew Wiffen

Committee members:

Paul Green, Kris Zahn, Malcolm Leinster, Robert Dunnett, Lee Warren, Mark Porter, Richard Furness

The Gladstone Regional Group aims to provide a forum for members in the Gladstone regional area to interact through both CPD and networking activities, and to provide a sustainable foundation that nurtures the interests of engineers.


Feb ‘12 Queensland Energy Resources - Shale Oil presentation

Mar ‘12 Water Board - Horizontal directional drilling presentation.

LNG and Dredging project harbour tour.

May ‘12 Queensland Young Professional Engineering of the Year 2011 presentation on career (Emma Charlton).

May ‘12 Rio Tinto Alcan Yarwun Alumina Refinery site tour.

Jun ‘12 EA QLD Visit with President Steven Goh and Executive Director Ian McEwan; Timber Design Presentation - ISL at University.

Jun ‘12 Risk Seminar - ISL at University.

Aug ‘12 Machine Safety Breakfast with Frank Schrever; Regional Preparation for Chartered Engineering Application Workshop with Mike Garrett; CQU Stress Corrosion Cracking Presentation with Prof Raman Singh.

Sep ‘12 Design of materials handling machines to AS4324.1 with Richard Morgan; Wiggens Island Coal Export Terminal (WICET) breakfast presentation with Dale Coward.

oct ‘12 Lessons from an Engineering Career -with Eminent Speaker Dr Trevor Bird; Earthquake Hazard in Central Queensland with Mike Turnbull.

nov ‘12 Gladstone Region Awards night; Materials Innovation in Mining and Processing (Seminar and Workshops)

Dec ‘12 Annual General Meeting

Key Achievements: Increased presentations and CPD provision to the local area, increased participation at local events, continued sponsorship of local region school bursaries in science, participation in school science challenge, increased participation in the local EA management group committee Improved use and accuracy of group emailing system.

Heritage Committee at the Grafton to Brisbane National Railway Link Presentation

IEEE Presentation

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golD CoAst rEgionAl grouP

Chairperson: Erwin Oh

Secretary: Carmel Kennedy

Treasurer: Terry Green

Committee members:

Stephen Thackwell, Grant Eudey, Allan Johnson, Jeung-Hwan Doh, Geoff Brown, Edwin Salazar, Dr Kriengsak Panuwatwanich , Prof. Warren Day, Dr Kamal Kamalarasa. Prof. Yew-Chaye Loo, Dr Sanaul Chowdhury, Dr Gary Chai, Tom Gabele, Carl Hager

The Gold Coast Regional Group aims to hold regular, inclusive events that cover various topics that are relevant and interesting to the members.


Jul ‘11 GriffithUniLaboratoryLjuboVlacic(GriffithUniversity)“Mechatronics”

Aug ‘11 The Colonial Golf Course Ian Woodall “The Tao of Everest”

oct ‘11 Field Trip : Banora Point Upgrade (PacificHighway,Sexton’sHill)

nov ‘11 The Colonial Golf Course AGM Dennis Wogan (President Queensland Division)

Keynote Address Bill Weeks “Queensland Flood Enquiry and Engineers Australia Submission” and Engineers Australia Submission

Feb ‘12GriffithUniversityDrOzSahin(GriffithUniversity) “Decision Dilemmas for Adaptation to Sea Level Rise: How to, when to?”

Mar ‘12 The Colonial Golf Course Mr Andrew Moser (Origin Energy) “Coal Seam Gas Groundwater Management”

Apr ‘12GriffithUniversityIanUnderhill(GriffithUniversity) “Engineered Wood Products Developed from Plantation Waste Materials”

May ‘12 The Colonial Golf Course Dr Benoit Gilbert (GriffithUniversity)“ColdFormSteel”

Jun ‘12GriffithUniversityBobXiaoboQu(GriffithUniversity)“Quantitative risk analysis for urban road tunnels”

Key achievements: The Gold Coast Regional Group has consistently achieved good numbers at the technical presentations. We recruited some new committee members who were able to use their contacts to arrange a couple of good presentations. The monthly activities organised by Gold Coast regional group has provided a total of 15 CPD hours for the regional members.

There were a number of highlights during the year including the Coal Seam Gas presentation in March (79 attendees) and the April event (Engineered Wood Products -54attendees);InadditionafieldtriptothePacificHighway upgrade at Banora Point was organised.

honours AnD AWArDs sub-CommittEE

Chairperson: Stuart Lister

Committee members:

T Baxter, P Hollingsworth, C Button, D Wharton

Engineering Excellence Awards The Year 2012 awards

attracted 40 high-standard entries covering 34 projects.

There were seven Excellence Awards and ten High

Commendations. In addition, the overall top RW Hawken

Award was made to Leighton Abigroup Joint Venture for

“Gateway Upgrade Project” and other overall awards were

made for Sustainability, for Innovation and for Leadership.

The judging panels included Cliff Button, Mark Blundell, Joe

Abercrombie, Michael Waldby, Brian Becconsall, Iva Dinolova,

David Royston, Adriana Bodnarova, Tom Baxter, Peter Ho,

David Thorpe, Haider Yousif, Doug Hargreaves, Liz Schofield,

David Finch, Grahame Baker, Else Shepherd, Leeanne Bond

and Stuart Lister. We appreciate the efforts of the judges in

making their valuable time available for application of their

experience and skills in assessing the diverse range of entries.

Hawken Address At the Hawken Address in October, Andrew

Buckley was awarded Queensland Professional Engineer

of Year 2012 and David Marks was awarded Queensland

Engineering Associate of Year 2012. These Awards are

based on contribution to engineering work, contribution

to the community and advancement of the engineering

profession. Young Professional Engineer of Year 2012 is

Robbie Marshall. Bill Wild presented the Hawken Address.

other personal Awards Submissions were made regarding

personal awards for Queensland engineers by Engineers

Australia and also to the relevant authorities for Australian

Awards and for State Awards. Simon Bartlett, John

Fenwick and Tom Baxter, were received awards under

the Australian Honours system. The June 2012 Engineers

Australia Journal listing of the Top 100 Australia’s Most

Influential Engineers included the following Queenslanders

- Andrew Buckley, Campbell Newman. Andrew Liveris,

Colin Jensen, Zimi Meka, Ian Young, Geoff Brown, Max

Lu, Shaun Cox, Rob Sindel, Geoff Garrett, David Hood,

Santo Rizzuto, Mark Menhinnitt, Nev Power, Merryn York,

Mark Kendall, Barry Broe and Michael Caltabiano.

Hall of Fame This award is designed to recognise


Queensland engineers who have contributed significantly

to the profession and community. Julie hammer was

inducted into the Queensland Hall of Fame at the

Hawken Address in October 2012 together with the

name of deceased member Sir James Foots.

Stuart Lister expresses appreciation to members of the

Honours & Awards Subcommittee, Kate Condon and

other Division staff for their support and assistance.

innovAtion subCommittEE

Chairperson: Dr David Thorpe

Secretary: Ketul Parekh

Committee members:

David Thorpe, Sam Fernando, Shankar Rajpal, Butt Waqar, Ketul Parekh, Lucas Skoufa, Andrew James, Andrew Paterson, Chris Lee, Daniel Eghbal, Reino Sonnekus, Paul Sandford, Richard Taylor, Dennis Vesely, Matthew Walpole, Stephanie Moraz

The main aim of The Innovation Subcommittee is to

promote innovation within the Queensland engineering

community for the benefit of individual members,

their organisations and ultimately for the betterment

of Queensland. Also, to take the innovation promotion

message to the national level of Engineers Australia and

contribute to recognise and promote engineering innovation

throughout Australia. The innovation subcommittee has

been established and, although based in Brisbane, welcomes

engagement from engineers throughout Queensland.

Technical Activities / Highlights: The innovation

Subcommittee conducted five technical presentations

and two workshops in the period of 1 July ‘11 – 30 June

‘12. Topics included the innovation in the different fields

of engineering as process, product, software, and etc.

We utilised local guest speakers predominantly with

one session conducted by the Eminent Speaker Series.

The average attendance was 20 members, students and

non-members. The Innovation subcommittee members

conducted two workshops on innovation during this period.

Jul ‘11 Are Electric Vehicles the Future? with Roy Leembruggen.

Aug ‘11 Entrepreneurs Workshop. Alistair Smith and others

Sep ‘11 Real Time Perception. Dr Jonathan Roberts the

Research Director of CSIRO’s Autonomous Systems Lab

oct ‘11 Perfecting Images (use of high performance

superconducting magnets and magnet

systems for MRI) with Stuart Crozier

Mar ‘12 Recent Developments on Green composites

- From Domestic Products to the Aerospace

Industry. with Professor Alan Lau (USQ).

May ‘12 Learn from Successful Companies: How Boeing

Achieves Excellency in Engineering. Glen Hendry

Jun ‘12 Business innovation Workshop. Sam

Fernando and David Thorpe

Key Achievements: We Promoted innovation at

National level - Innovation promotion by the Innovation

Subcommittee has not been confined to Queensland only.

Through the Queensland Division it took the innovation

promotion to the national stage. These promotional

activities contributed to the formation of an Innovation

Taskforce appointed by the National Council. This panel

consisted of experts in the innovation area, which

prepared the Innovation in Engineering Report.

Last June, Engineers Australia released the Innovation

in Engineering Report highlighting ways to promote

engineering innovation in the country. A copy of this report

was handed over to the Federal Government through the

Federal Minister for Industry and Innovation, Greg Combet,

at a ceremony held in Canberra. This report highlighted the

role of engineering-related industries as a major innovation

driver leading productivity and making a major contribution

to the Australia’s economic growth and security. It identified

several actions to promote engineering innovation in the

country, especially the actions that can be taken by the

Australian Government. Innovation Subcommittee has

been a major contributor to this much deserved awakening

and has been in the forefront in Australia promoting

engineering innovation for many years. It is the first

committee in Engineers Australia dedicated to promoting

engineering innovation within the engineering community.

The innovation subcommittee Inspired other states of

Australia to build Innovation Subcommittees - The Innovation

Subcommittee stood alone for many years in Engineers

Australia as the sole dedicated committee to promote

engineering innovation. Now it has a new sibling – the Sydney

Division also has also formed a similar committee. Actions

are being taken to form another committee in Melbourne in

the near future. Indications are that many other divisions are

following Queensland Division footsteps and soon a family of

committees dedicated to promoting engineering innovation

will be established under the Engineers Australia umbrella.

The Innovation Subcommittee organised presentations on the

first Wednesday of the month and held meetings on the third

Thursday of every month at Engineering House, Brisbane. Our

presentations were centered on educating the audience on

innovation and sharing success stories to motivate others.

We welcome people who are passionate on

innovation, willing to promote innovation and

willing to assist with educating other engineers and

the wider community to join the committee.

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iPsWiCh rEgionAl grouP

Chairperson: Robert Grant

Secretary: Roxane Kinnane

Treasurer: Jennine Holliday

Committee members:

David Thorpe, Barry Payne, Clayton Berlin, Joe Tam, Peter Jones

Our aim is to promote engineering in the local community, provide activities and speakers for professional development for all engineers and training for becoming a Chartered Engineer.


Sep ‘11 David Hood, Presentation

Dec ‘11 Christmas Party

Apr ‘12 Hastings Deering Site Tour

May ‘12 Gateway Bridge Site Tour. Port of Brisbane

Jul ‘12 Chartered Status.with Mike Garrett; Toowoomba Range with Dave Stewart

Aug ‘12 Engineering Week. Water Rocket. RAAF Amberley Site Tour

Sep ‘12 Risk Management presentation. Split Yard Creek Site Tour

Key Achievements: The Ipswich Regional Group is starting to get great attendances at site tours, presentations, and workshops and will stive to keep all events relevent, varied and friendly.

itEE QlD brAnCh

Chairperson: Robert Ellen

Secretary: Brian O’Neill

Treasurer: Brian O’Neill

Committee members:

Bolle Barkowsky, Ljubo Vlacic, Michael Lees, Manu Hingorani, Shannon Hayden

The Information, Telecommunications and Electronics Engineering Branch (ITEE) aims to advance the professional development of members by providing education and networking opportunities in Information Technology, Telecommunications, ElectronicsEngineeringandrelatedfields.Wearealsoactiveincooperating with groups and kindred bodies in other engineering fields.TheITEEbranchseekstohaveabroadrepresentationfrom all areas of the ITEE profession including, academia, small business and large organisations. 2012 has been a very productive year for the branch by ensuring high quality presentations are provided that are relevant to all areas of industry and represent high value CPD. Particular emphasis this year has been placed on developments in Intelligent Transport Systemswiththefirstofwhatareproposedtobeannualworkshopsondevelopmentsinthisfieldwillbeheldinnov ‘12.

Key achievements: The ITEE branch has maintained and further strengthened close ties with kindred organisations this year. Joint events have been held with Electrical Branch, CBME, IET, IEEE, WIE, CELM and YEA.

mACKAy rEgionAl grouP

Chairperson: Peter Foley

Secretary: Karen Oliver

Treasurer: Tony Muguira

Committee members:

Alan Jones; Arun Patil, Bruce Wolsey; Eleanor Chan; Fae Martin; Hamed Kafashzadeh; Jack Shao; Jane Ada; Mahdi Rahmani; Michael West; Michelle Elvy; Reg Millett

The Mackay Regional Group services members from the Mackay, Whitsunday and Isaac regions. The group aims to provide CPD for around 460 members in the area.


Aug ‘11 Presentation to High School Teachers on Maths in Engineering; Presentation by Nat Dzadey on Humanitarian Work in Ghana; Presentation at MAIN Breakfast on RPEQ/CPEng and CPD; Presentation to Year 7 Students at Victoria Park School

Sep ‘11 Project Presentation by CQU First Year Engineering Students

oct ‘11 Presentation on Obligations of Principal Contractor/Superintendent.

Dec ‘11 AGM (Annual General Meeting)

Jan ‘12 Bus Tour on The Waste Cycle

Feb ‘12 Meet & Greet the Qld Division President

Apr ‘12 Presentation by Emma Charlton

Jun ‘12 Presentation by Jacquie Shiels on Threats to the Reef; Presentation on Timber Engineering; Central Queensland Engineering Risk Management Seminar

Key Achievements: The committee target has been to provide an average of one function per month, and this has been achieved. The attendance at functions has been increasing. There was interaction with the Rockhampton, Gladstone & Bundaberg Regional Groups for Video Conferenced presentations using CQU facilities.

mEChAniCAl brAnCh

Chairperson: John Scott

Secretary: Cameron Dowd

Treasurer: Omer Alic

Committee members:

Roger Buckley, Rezwanul Huq, Josua Kirsch, Gigie George, Mathew Walpole, Derek Mulder, Mitchell Whiteman

The mechanical branch aims to expand the body of knowledgewithinthefieldofmechanicalengineeringthrough the delivery of technical presentation material that is relevant, current and engaging to the audience.


Feb ‘12 Cairns Base Hospital Redevelopment

Apr ‘12 Mining Automation Engineering Week - Stone Brothers Racing Tour

Aug ‘12 Mechanical Branch Annual Dinner


oct ‘12 Carbon Nano-Tubes as Solid lubricant; Prize Winning Engineering

Key achievements: Delivery of technical presentations withafocusonemergingfieldswithinthedisciplineofmechanical engineering. Topics including carbon nano tubes as solid lubricants and SCRAM propulsion technology were presented. Also the branch built on the previous year efforts with greater audience in attendence at technical presentations and an increase in committee membership.

north WEstErn rEgionAl grouP

Chairperson: Monica Joseph

Secretary: Karen Oliver

Treasurer: Adeola Sopade

Committee members:

Kevin Johns, Scott Degenhardt

The North Western Local Group covers the Mt Isa and Cloncurry Regions. The purposes of the group is to provide memebers living in the area the opportunity to be part of Engineers Australia.Thisfinancialyear,wehostedavarietyofeventswhich provided members the opportunity to be involved in Engineers Australia and also keep up to date with CPD.


Jun ‘11 “Using continuous mining equipment to develop an open cut mine operation” by David Morrison.

Jul ‘11 Smarter and Faster Steel- A demonstration of Practical Building Information Modelling. (video)

Aug ‘11- Power from the Deserts for a substainable Electricity Supply. (video); Engineers Ball in conjunction with AUSIMM. This is the key networking event of the year for engineers and business in the region.

Sep ‘11 ESSO Longford Gas Disaster, presented by one of our local engineers; School Competition- Design a Paper Plane. School students and Adults designed a paper plane and prizes were awarded for distance and complex, creative and decorative designs.

oct ‘11 New Requirements for Australian Steel Standards and Using Complying Steel, presented by One Steel

Mar ‘12 Aspects of the January 2011 Brisbane River Flood (Video Presentation); Mt Isa Mining Expo was a networking event held in conjunction with AUSIMM, which allowed Engineers to network with various exhibitors. Exhibitors provided technical presentations on various equipment.

ovErsEAs QuAlifiED EnginEErs suPPort grouP

Chairperson: Haider Yousif

Secretary: Hossein Rashidi Zadeh

Treasurer: Niloo Tarakemehzadeh

Committee members:

Anita Lamb-Nicholls, Fabrizio Garzon, Tatiana Sanchez Castano, Cassio Donato, Samad Afkar, Joshua Kok, Golboo Mosavari, Neelima Thota, Mina Awad, Ragi Awad and Barbara Rogers.

TheOverseasQualifiedEngineersSupportGroupwasestablished in February 2011. The group consists of 15 members including engineers from KBR, SMEC, Santos, LogiCamms, Queensland Rail, Southbank Institute of Technology, Brisbane City Council and representatives from Department of Education, Training and Employment, Brisbane North Institute of TAFE, and Department of Immigration and Citizenship. The Group’s vision is to ensure successful developmentofoverseasqualifiedengineers,enhancetheir participation in the engineering profession and to increase awareness of the Group and its programs.

The Group’s aims and objectives are to provide skilled overseas engineers guidance and motivation to improve their communication and chances of securing employment in the Australian engineering industry; Facilitate knowledge and participation in the technical professional development programsprovidedbythevariousdisciplinespecificunitsof Engineers Australia; Provide social and networking opportunities for career development and training opportunitiestoassistoverseasqualifiedengineer’sintegrationand effective deployment in the Queensland engineering workforce,andEncourageandsupportoverseasqualifiedengineers who are non-members of Engineers Australia to

become members and advance their professional development.

Technical Activities / Highlights: The Group conducted 10 network events in the period of 1 July 2011 to 30 June 2012. The Group’s network events attracted good number of overseas qualifiedengineers(OQE’s)andassistedinachievingtheGroup’sobjectives and vision to ensure successful utilisation of OQE’s and enhance their contribution to the engineering profession. It helped also to increase the OQE’s awareness of the Group and its programs. It provided OQE’s with the opportunities to network with potential employers especially those who are experiencing shortages of engineers and engineering skills.

The QLD division staff with committee members Monica Joseph and Karen Oliver

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The Group encourages an exchange of ideas with various providers of training and work experience programs. The Group also delivers success stories at each event in order to motivate and provide directions for newly migrated engineers to progress their professional development. The average attendance for the Group’s events was 100 members, students and non-members. Details of other events are as follows:

Jul ‘11 Employer-sponsored Skills Visa Options Network with a speaker from the Department of Immigration and Citizenship who provided and overview of employer-sponsored skills visa options, as well as the immigration-related budget announcement.

Sep ‘11 Stage 1 Competency Clinic Workshop. The workshop relatedtoindividualswhoholdengineeringqualificationsthat are not accredited or recognised by Engineers Australia, and who may be seeking admission to Engineers Australia onthestrengthoftheirqualificationsandexperience.Explore a Different Road. The event enhanced the OQE’s knowledge about job opportunities in regional QLD. The event featured the challenges of living and working in regional communities and how to obtain employment in these areas.

oct ‘11 Resume: Your Key to Success The event enhanced OQE’s knowledge about how to write a CV that will give them the best chance of success, and provided them with ways to improve their CV’s and avoid common mistakes.

nov ‘11 Mining, Oil and Gas Opportunities. The event was a good opportunity to all OQE’s to network with organisations in the mining, oil and gas industry that are experiencing shortages of engineers in this discipline.

Mar ‘12 Mining, Oil and Gas with Richard Senescall, Luke Simpson, Sean Blanche and Lilly Tayebian. This was a repeat duetothesignificantsuccessofthepreviousevent;Effective Networking Skills. Anita Lamb-Nicholls, Andy Cocksedge Daniel FrazerandSamAfkar.OQE’smetanumberofinfluentialrepresentatives from across QLD’s engineering industry. It also offered useful tips on ways to improve networking skills and develop long-term business relationships.

May ‘12 Engineers Australia Membership with Steven Goh, Sandra Cottam and Megan Purdy (Engineers Australia). The event enhanced OQE’s awareness of how to become amemberofEngineersAustraliaandthebenefitsofmembership in addition to a networking opportunity.

Jun ‘12 Recruitment and Preparing Good Resumes with Sean Blanche and Anita Lamb-Nicholls. The group organised this event to provide OQE’s with instructions to improve their CV’s and highlight common mistakes that should be avoided. Women in Engineering with Azam Zeinalzaheh. (Joint Network with WIE). The event was a good opportunity fortheoverseasqualifiedfemaleengineerstonetworkand meet other women in the engineering industry.

ProfEssionAl DEvEloPmEnt sub-CommittEE

Chairperson: Cliff Button

Secretary: Cliff Button

Committee members:

Peter Ho, Brian O’Neill, Jo-ann Kirby, Kate Brand, Geoff Spence, Shelley Ferguson, David Ross, Casey Millbeam, Haider Yousif , Anthony Gaffney, Matthew Kluck, Mal Mathie, Iian McGuffog, Zoe Campbell, David Thorp, Andrew Day, Hari Krishnan

This committee provides a co-ordinating role between all the Division’s Technical Units for the delivery of our Technical programs. The committee also undertakes special Engineering Practice review tasks at the request of the Division Committee – to further utilize the committee’s wide range of representation from our Technical Units.

During the year it was agreed that, on a rotating basis MembershipOfficeStaffwouldattendthemeetingforthefirst¾hour to address “administration issues” this has proved successful and “add-on” minutes and general information has been circulated. We are also grateful that Ian McEwan has attended several meetings and covered many issues of common concern.


Individual Technical units have provided over 250 invaluable presentations throughout the year. Feedback is suggesting some rationalization whereby quantity of presentations may reduce in favour of quality, will be pursued in 2013.

Through the past year, technical presentations generally have been well attended, with the overall trend in members’ attendances - steadily increasing. Marginal increases in the use of video-streaming further supports our CPD objective – has also been note.

Technical programs involving “conventional” evening seminars, selectedfieldvisits,lunch-timemeetingsand“hands-on”workshops have also been noticeably, well subscribed. Improved recording procedures covering attendee names are enhancing CPD (Audit) data – and ultimately allow “real time” appraisal of CPD attendances. No “shows” and walk-up attendees provide difficultyforthecurrentevolvingsystem.Roombookingissueshavesignificantlyreducedfrompastyearsbuttheopportunities for joint unit activities have markedly grown.

As in 2011, our objective remains to encourage employers to include some in-house video streaming of pertinent presentations within their work culture. Under our charter to assist with Engineering Practice issues, the Chair and several PDSC members have also participated in the review of the Professional Engineers Act / Regulations – to culminate inaPositionPaperDocumentontheramificationoftheAct. This advice has “struck” concerns, in relation to full member publication, from EAs Legal section. It is hoped that these issues can be resolved in the next few months.

Our second major Engineering Practice issue was chaired by Peter Ho and resulted in an issues paper on “Legalistic Constraints on Engineering Practice” – resulting from the Flood Enquiry,


being submitted to EA Council / Congress for further action.

The demand for CPD continues to grow as the number of Professional Interviews for Chartered Membership has grown (at times over 50 interviews per month) – this partially related to the fact that the Board of Professional Engineers now requires all Registered Engineers to complete CPD of some type / duration as CPEng Members.

With changes earlier in the year the nationally conducted Eminent Speaker program has been more strongly integrated into ourmonthlyspeakerprogramstothebenefitofallconcerned.

In conclusion, I would like to pay tribute to our Committee’s Members and their associated Technical Units - for their invaluable contribution to the success of the Technical activities of our Division.

rAilWAy tEChniCAl soCiEty of AustrAlAsiA

Chairperson: Alexander Howie

Secretary: John Davey

Treasurer: Mark Roome

Committee members:

Colin Cole, Sekar Dhanasekar, Shelley Fergusson,Barrie Griffiths, Andrew Matthews, George Nikandros, Dave Schonfeld, Clive Shepherd, Cameron Smart, Mark Wishart, Stuart Lawton


Inthe2011/2012financialyeartheCommitteehasorganised17technical meetings and events for our members worked towards the hosting of CORE2012 in September 2012, and presented an RTSA award. Many of the Committee members and several of Chapter members are directly involved in the preparation of the Conference On Railway Engineering (CORE) to be hosted by the RTSA Qld Chapter on the 11 and 12 of September this year.

The Chapter Chair presented the prize for the RTSA Wheel Rail Student Thesis Award to Dr Paul Bellette at the University of Queensland on the 18th of July this year. Paul’s post graduate thesis was titled The Influence of Speed Variation on Wear-Type Rail Corrugation Formation and Growth.

The Thesis describes an investigation into the effects ofspeedvariationsofpassingtrafficontheformationmechanism of rail head corrugations. The research containedinthethesishighlightsthesignificantinfluencethatvariationsintrafficspeedhaveontheformationofcorrugations and it prompts further investigation into the feasibility of using variations of speed as a novel method of controlling the formation and growth of corrugations.

Jul ‘11 Annual General Meeting. Dinner, and Trivia Extravaganza. (130 attendees)

Aug ‘11 Crowding, Passenger Load Standards, and Operationally Efficient Service Patterns. David Glover Consultant – URS Systemwide. David provided an insight into a range of options in these areas, with a view to quantifying and understanding the differences, opportunities and pitfalls in looking to overseas

examples to improve the performance of Australian railways in the areas of crowding and reliability. (34 attendees)

Sep ‘11 High Speed Rail – The Australian Context with David George. David discussed the history of high speed rail projects in Australia and gave an update on the current project to to bring high speed rail to Australia. (38 attendees)

oct ‘11 CRC For Rail Innovation – Project Update with Dr Chris Wullems, Tim Constable, Dr Chris Gourlay. Updates were given on two of the CRC For Rail Innovation projects; Affordable Level Crossings and New Wheel Steels. (25 attendees)

nov ‘11 Future Trends; Signalling and Train Control Systems in Heavy Haul Rail with Anthony Macdonald – Ansaldo STS (Presented by Mr Vijay Kumar – Ansaldo STS). This presentation looked at examples of new signalling and train control technologies in heavy haul rail applications. (45 attendees)

Feb ‘12 Transnet’s Capital Upgrade with John Marshall. John gave a presentation on the capital works projects underway to improve the capacity of Transnets rail and port network. (28 attendees)

Mar ‘12 Overhead Wiring for Dummies with Trevor Bagnall, Joe Percy, Keith Rosbrook, James Goffey, Simon Matthews-Frederick and Eric Rudorfer. A panel of six subject experts gavepresentationsonaspecificareasofoverheadtractionwiring. (110 Attendees); Transport Data Recorders with Mike Hill. Mike gave a presentation on the development of data recorders for transport vehicles and explained the various units used in the Australian rail industry. Mike also explained the use and value of the data recorded. (33 attendees)

Apr ‘12 Axle Counters – Dispelling the Myths and Demonstrating the Benefits with Dwayne Allan. Dwayne explained the two track vacancy detection systems; track circuits and axle counters. Dwayne then covered the advantages of axle counters. (28 attendees)

May ‘12 Toowoomba Range Flood Recovery with Dave Stewart. Co-hosted with Toowoomba Regional Group. Dave talked about the damage to the Main Line on the Toowoomba Range asaresultofthefloodsinearly2011.Healsoexplainedtheprocess and works undertaken to reinstate the track. (40 attendees); Gold Coast Light Rail. Pradeep Mohan (Bombardier Transportation). Pradeep outlined Bombardiers role in the Gold Coast Light Rail Project with an emphasis on the Signalling and Communications systems. (82 attendees)

Jun ‘12 Overhead Wiring for Projects. David Lassen (QR), Adrian Williams, Laing O’Rourke. David discussed how Queensland Rail managed and planned it’s network Capacity. Adrian gaveanoverviewoftheAdelaiderailnetworkelectrificationproject. (71 attendees); Adani Rail Project with George Davis. This presentation gave an overview of the Adani corporate structure and presence in Australia, the planned Carmichael Mine, development of the Abbot Point and Dudgeon Point Ports, and proposed Carmichael Railway. (80 attendees)

Since July 2001, the QLD Chapter has held events in the following categories: Education (18), Business Operations (38), Rollingstock (29), Perway (24), Signalling, Communications, Traction Power and AGMs (<20). The Queensland Chapter

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has 239 members including 1 Life member, 15 Female members (6% of members), and 19 Student Members.

The Queensland Chapter Committee is working on a programme of technical meetings and activities for the next 12 months. The Committee is keen to hear what you would like to learn, to hear about or what you can offer. Are you working on a fascinating project? Please contact any of the committee members and tell them what you think!

risK EnginEEring soCiEty

Chairperson: David Cox

Secretary: Ainslie Just

Treasurer: Ainslie Just

Committee members:

Jim Whiting, Jeff Jones

The Risk Engineering Society actively contributes to the effective management of risks in the workplace and in the community. We do this by collecting and disseminating information on all aspects of risk engineering, organising technical meetings and conferences, and liaising with interested organisations. We place special focus on risk issues associated with construction, design, safe plant operation and management.


Aug ‘11 Brisbane River Flood: Managing the Community Impact Technical Presentation. The presentation focused on how Brisbane City Council responded to, and led the recovery from, the biggest natural disaster Brisbane has faced in at least 37 years. The presenters were two Brisbane City Council executives who performed senior roles in the Brisbane Disaster CoordinationCentreduringtheheightofthefloodcrisisandthe clean-up that immediately followed. (25 attendees)

nov ‘11 Risks Associated with the Coal Seam Fracturing Process. The presentation, by an industry specialist from a major oil and gas company, covered the basics of fracture stimulation and discussed operational process controls, including Drilling methods for fracture stimulation, factors: seam thickness, depth, and fracture properties, risk controls and mitigation, commercial imperatives to isolate coal seams, landowner notification&involvement,andcodesofPractice.(47attendees)

Mar ‘12 Safety in Design. Michael Ord presented on the use of facilitation techniques to identify and manage safety risks in the design process. Dr Paul Johnston provided his insights into making the SiD process a “business as usual” consideration. He discussed from a “lessons learned” perspective how a project team can instil a positive SiD/risk culture where timeframes are limited and the workforce is constantly changing. (87 attendees)

May ‘12 Dealing Reasonably with Irrational Fear. Dr Andrew Rae, a Research Fellow from the University of York in the UK, pondered, via a highly stimulating and interactive presentation, the question of how to reasonably assess and regulate risks in society, and risk-framing. (46 attendees)

Jun ‘12 Engineering Risk Management Seminar. The Burnett

Regional Group hosted a risk management seminar in Bundaberg that was live streamed to attendees in Rockhampton, Mackay, Gladstone and Emerald. 3 hours of risk-based continuing professional development, comprising: risk management techniques and a case study by Dr Ron Black; and the application of risk management to disaster planning and recovery by David Cox from the Brisbane City Council. (130 attendees)

Key Achievements: Completion of 4 technical presentations inBrisbaneduring2011/12,andafifthtechnicalpresentation in Bundaberg in Jun ‘12 as part of the Year of the Regional Engineering Team. Participation in the planning of the Risk 2012 national conference, which was successfully held in the Hunter Valley in Sep ‘12.

roCKhAmPton rEgionAl grouP

Chairperson: Sarah Blackman

Secretary: Dan Peacock

Treasurer: Peter Kane

Committee members:

Steve Senini (Past Chair), Stuart Harvey, Ben McMaster, Chris Hegarty, Imran Kahn,

The Year of the Regional Engineer was a highlight this year that reinforced the aim of the Rockhampton Regional Group, to continue focus on regional connectivity and disaster management.

Technical Activities / Highlights: The Central Region Conference was hosted by Rockhampton Regional Group and held at CQUniversity, Rockhampton on the 10-11th August, to coincide with Engineering Week. The conference was a huge success, with 103 attendees from the local region. Sponsorship was received from SMEC, CQUni, AECOM, Cardno, Transport and Main Roads and Ergon Energy, who have all given positive feedback and were happy with their involvement in the conference and the exposure received. Three keynote speakers gave an excellent disaster recovery focus to the conference, including local, and international recovery activities. A further 17 papers were delivered by local engineers, covering a broad range of activity in the local region. The conference also provided an excellent opportunity for CQUniversity to showcase it’s recently rennovated engineering precinct and to make valuable connections between the university and local industry. The conference also contributed to leadership and development with a special session on Professional Development with speakers from BPEQ, EA and CELM.

The conference dinner attracted only 54 attendees, and in future some focus will be given to ensure that attendees indicate intention to attend the dinner. However, feedback from the local engineering community following the conference was very positive. Several senior attendees indicated it was the best conference they had attended, which is a very high accolade.

Overall, the conference delivered approximately 1400 CPD hours to the local members, enhanced the links between local industry and the community, recognised local membersforsignificantendeavours,raisedtheprofileof


EA in the local community and was very successful.

Key Achievements: Support was provided to the central region, by sharing of speakers through the CQU’s ISL this year and this brought a more respectable standard to the development of our Regional Engineering community. Site visit by the Gladstone group to Yarwun 2 Aluminium RefineryExpansiononthe31Maytoviewtheinitialstagesof commissioning of the $2.4 Billion development. Also the President’s visit and Dinner held in Gladstone in June.

The presentation of Timber Engineering Supported by the Structural College was streamed live from Rockhampton to Bundaberg, Gladstone and Mackay in late June. In June the Risk Management Workshop was Organised and streamed live by the Maryborough/ Burnett local group to Mackay, Rockhampton and Gladstone via CQU ISL Seminar on Disability Access Standards was presented in September by the Rockhampton group. This month Eminent Speaker Dr Trevor Bird talked on Radio telemetry and streamed live from Rockhampton to Gladstone, Mackay and Bundaberg

This year local Rockhampton Engineer Terry Hill was honoured with prestigious Engineers Australia Award for his significantworkinthecommunityandwiththetransportand Main Road’ Program Delivery and Operations Regional Director at the Central Regional Conference Dinner in Aug 2012. The Gencon dinner on the 14th of June was again supported by Engineers Australia to enhance the progress and development of Young Engineers. Awarded the Engineers Australia Central Queensland Prize and Fault Guthrie Award

Locally our Committee members did an excellent job this year organising the events, Site visits and the Regional Conference. Accounts and administration support was centralisedwiththeQueenslandDivisonoffice.Allourcommitteemembersandsupportofficerscommittedthe energy and time that made this year a success.

romA rEgionAl grouP

Chairperson: Sandy Stewart

Deputy Chair: Tony Allen

Treasurer: Kieren Walters

The aim of the Roma Regional Group is to bring together as many engineers, across as many disciplines as possible, working and delivering engineering projects and services across the region to share their experiences of working in remote regional Queensland.

Technical Activities / Highlights: With a very busy working year and limited resources, 2011/12 was dedicated to delivering the extensive array of projects essential to maintaining the economic and social viability of Region. In July 2011 the reconstructionoftheregionfromits3rdfloodinasmanyyears, was well underway. Combined with the continued expansion of the Energy and Resources sector, particularly in the area of Coal Seam Gas, there was little time left for

anything else. Keep in mind that many of the engineering resources that have been working out here are not ‘local’. A large proportion of engineering staff are on FIFO or DIDO rosters; often working up to 21 days straight and then making their way home (away from the region) for a well deserved break.

Ifwemoveforwardafewmonthswefindtheregion,yetagain,hitbyfloodingrainsinNovember2011andJanuary2012. This event is particularly bad for area such as Mitchell, Roma, Surat and St George. It was during and immediately after this event that we saw the community come together to undertake another gruelling clean up and recovery process. A number of industry bodies (including many engineering based companies) donated time and resources to the recovery effort and this support was well received by the local communities.

Key Achievements: After almost a year with little activity by theRomaRegionalGroup;andfinallyhavingjustalittletimeto dedicate; it was time to reignite some interest in the group. A “Committee Builder” email was distributed to local members in May 2012 and it was well received with a number of people responding with their expressions of interest to either be involved and attend future events. It was with this that the group has taken this into creating momentum for 2012/13.

soCiEty for sustAinAbility AnD EnvironmEntAl EnginEEring

Chairperson: Sandy Stewart

Treasurer: Matt Kluck

Committee members:

Anne Kovachvich, Lara Harland, Steve Posselt, Michael Clarke

SSEE is a learned body which exists to promote information transfer regarding sustainability and environmental issues of relevance to the engineering profession.


Jul ‘11 Wild Rivers Legislation Steve Posselt and Scott Buchanan.

Aug ‘11 Site tour Hassell office fitout as part of engineering week (8 attendees); Seminar - Conflict Synergies: Climater, Engery and Water with Dr Jamie Pittock and Dr Barrie Pittock. (25 attendees)

Sep ‘11 Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) & Coal-to-Liquids (CTL) with Dr Michael Clarke. Carbon Tax - outcomes and costs (30 attendees)

oct ‘11 Escaping Silos - SSEE 2011 Conference 2 day conference and 1 day of workshops held at the Brisbane Conference and Exhibition Centre and hosted by the SSEE Qld committee. (103 attendees); Annual Qld Environmental Student Night undergraduates from Qld universities present their thesis projects on Environmental topics. (66 attendees)

nov ‘11 Energy and Emissions with Matt Kluck. (12 attendees)

Feb ‘12 Climate Skepticism - effective countering of climate misinformation with John Cook. Lively debate. (49 attendees)

Mar ‘12 Peak Resources: Oil, Phosphorous, Food . . . with Three speakers on the topics of Peak Oil (a Positive Place-Making Tool), Peak Phosphorous (taking the piss), and Peak Food (38 attendees)

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Apr ‘12 Toxins in the environment - is mass ecological extinction our future? with Dr Matt Landos. Matt is an aquatic veterinarian well known in Queensland and New South Wales for his work, particularly in relation to the ongoing Gladstone Harbour investigations. Matt followed on with hisprevioustalktoSSEEinNovember2010onfishkillsinthe Noosa River, with a discussion on the wildlife health crisis resulting from exposure to toxins. (14 attendees)

May ‘12 The Living Building Challenge with Liam Murray Arup’s Queensland ESD Technical Leader Liam Murray. Liam provided an overview of current practices in the UK, illustrating the connection to the Living Building Challenge, for which one of the measures is Carbon Zer. (23 attendees)

Jun ‘12 Ethics and Sustainability in Engineering with Dr Peter Bowden, University of Sydney, Department of Philosophy Peter asked the audience to consider if engineers have a particular obligation of care given the many forms of critical infrastructure upon which society relies. This presentation examined the ethical issues faced by engineers, and the approaches taken by responsible people in the industry, including Engineers Australia. The Qld Chapter AGM was held in conjunction with this seminar. (40 attendees)

The Qld SSEE chapter committee continues to be active in delivering continuing professional development events to our members and other engineering and sustainability professionals in Brisbane. Monthly seminars have continued through 2011 and 2012, where attendees have enjoyed networking and the renowned catering at supper after presentations on a variety of topics.

struCturAl brAnCh

Chairperson: Dr Peter Ho

Secretary: David Donnan

Treasurer: Dave Hargreaves

Committee members:

Dr Ron Blackwell, Dr Sean Brady, Tom Dawes, Mike Fordyce, John Gardner, Arturo Guadalquiver, Dr Tim Heldt, Dr Rob Heywood, Ruiwen Kong, Phil Latham, Michael Salu, Jordan Wan, Dr June Zhang, Tobias Hodson, Andy Gardner, Ali Habibi

The prime objective of the structural branch is to promote structural engineering through technical presentations, seminars, learning workshops and Forum.


Jul ‘11 “Structural Engineering for Extreme Events” (80 attendees); “Critical Item in the Design of Cold-Formed Steel Sheds” with Stephen Healey, (60 attendees)

Aug ‘11 The design of the OPAL nuclear research reactor with Bob Harrison (60 attendees)

Sep ‘11 Behaviour of reinforced concrete building in real earthquakes with Michael Salu (35 attendees)

oct ‘11 Sustainable design influences on structural engineering with Rob Dickie, (40 attendees); Best of University student presentations with Prof Colin O’Connor

(25 attendees); Introduction to FRP reinforcement in concrete in Queensland, (55 attendees)

nov ‘11 Terror, security and money: optimal expenditures on security and protective structures, with Prof Mark Stewart (35 attendees)

Dec ‘11 What can engineers do with old and new stainless steel with Dr Graham Sussex (25 attendees)

Feb ‘12 Dynamic Response Spectrum Analysis of Structures with Arturo Quadalquiver, (85 attendees)

Mar ‘12 Machine Foundation Design with Lonnie Pack & Darren Beaumont (90 attendees)

Apr ‘12 Design Challenge of the Soleil Tower with Ryan Campbell (65 attendees); Passing on Knowledge - 2011 IStructE Gold Medal Paper with Dr Allan Mann (70 attendees)

May ‘12 How safe are your engineering materials with Dr John Fenwick (45 attendees); Panel Discussion: Career Success with Peter Burnton, Prof Peter Dux, Mike Fordyce and Rob Mowat (85 attendees)

Jun ‘12 Diagnostics and Rectifiaction of Concrete, with Matthew Lamb-Johnson and Michael Slater (52 attendees)

Key Achievements: Thisyearweorganised6thAsiaPacificForumStructuralEngineeringforExtremeEventsatGriffithUniversity Gold Coast Campus on 7 Jul ‘11 attended by some 80 Engineers from China, Singapore, Malaysia, UK, New Zealand and local Australia Engineers. Seven speakers (Dr Tom Connor, Prof Kenny Kwok, Prof Paul Grundy, Des Bull, Justin Leonard, John Carpenter and Rade Musulin) presented topics on Climate Change, Tall Building behaviour subject to Wind, Disaster Risk Reduction, Earthquake on Effect on Structures, Bushfire&Structures,FailurePreventionthroughManagementof Uncertainty, and Tropical Cyclone Damage Risk Insurance.

A special edition of the Australian Structural Engineering Journal is being prepared to incorporate some of the papers presented and submitted as formal review papers.

This is a joint committee between IStructE Australia Regional Group Queensland and Structrual Branch.


sunshinE CoAst

Chairperson: Mark Porter

Secretary: Bruce Johnson

Treasurer: Kevin Williams

Committee members:

Peter Benkendorf, Amy Turco, Carl Linderman, Larry Griffiths, Gina Leach, Bill Thew, Scott Roche, Ross Ullman, Alexander McCart-Wickham

The Sunshine Coast Group aims to promote the ideals of Engineers Australia within the local area which extends from Caboolture to Gympie in the north. A continuing focus of our local committee has been to attract younger members to EA.

Technical Activities / Highlights: The Sunshine Coast committee conducted 10 technical presentations in the period July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2012. The presentations conducted on a monthly basis have drawn on guest speakers predominantly from local industry. However, a developing relationship with the University of Sunshine Coast (USC) has also provided the opportunity to secure presenters from the academic sphere.

Our presentations attracted an attendance of 45 on average, this included approximately 10 mainly “graduate/ non-members” from the university.

Jul ‘11 Presentation by Graham Royle Construction Manager for Abigroup Contractors Ipswich Motorway Upgrade – Building Bridges under Traffic

Aug ‘11 Spills, Elves and White Magic – The Pioneering Days of the Air Force’s Electronic Warfare Squadron with Air Vice-Marshal Julie Hammer AM

Sep ‘11 the National Congress of Engineers Australia To Be or Not To Be – Registered? with Geoff Haigh Deputy Chair BPEQ

oct ‘11 The Canterbury Earthquake – Triumph and Tragedy. with Dr George Walker; EA Group & Local Industry sponsored dinner to celebrate accreditation of USC Civil Engineering Degree

Feb ‘12 AGM: Development as a tool in helping to solve the war on terror in Afghanistan with Col. Stuart Yeaman

Mar ‘12 Management on the Sunshine Coast with Paul O’Keefe.

Apr ‘12 Customised Dewatering Pumps for Mining with Scott Kruger Weir

May ‘12 The Canterbury Earthquakes – Triumph and Tragedy with Dr. George Walker

Jun ‘12 Timber Engineering with Len Dalziel; Acid Sulfate Soils Occurrence and Management in the Sunshine Coast Region with Brett Egen.

A highlight of the year was held in October where EA joined with local industry to celebrate the accreditation of Engineering Degrees at USC. Over 100 members, partners and local identities attended the dinner.

Key Achievements: Ongoing focus to increase local “Engineering Graduate” membership and general participation from the local engineering community.

tooWoombA grouP

Chairperson: Brock Tomkins

Secretary: Nadine Story

Treasurer: Alex Wright

Committee members:

Brad Davis, Cornelius van der Meulen, Mainul Islam., Brian Kenny, Matthew Zillmann, Charles Cheers, Jacinda Boully

Weareagrouplookingtoengageandincreasetheprofileof engineering within the Darling Downs community and to provide an avenue for members to network via technical meetings and networking events


Jul ‘11 Steven Goh hosted a breakfast presentation at Cafe Forte themed on the Year of Humanitarian Engineering which highlighted the things we take for granted in the developed world. In the 12 months preceding this presentation, Steven travelled to the remote parts of Nepal to the base camp of Mount Everest. Clean drinking water, sanitation and electricity are all essentials in our modern lives. More often than not, we take these essentials for granted until the day when their service to society is disrupted. This was a great event to highlight the theme of 2011.

Aug ‘11 Wetalla Water Reclamation Plant on Goombungee Road. This visit focused on the biological nutrient removal side of the plant. Visits in the past have focused on the RO plant at the rear of the facility of which TRC was commissioned to produce A+ quality water by the New Hope Corporation for their New Acland Coal Mine. The group has hosted this site visit several times as it generally receives notable attendance. Engineers Ball Casino Royale. This ball was a student initiative.

Sep ‘11 Support to the CH-47D Chinook Helicopters in the Middle East Area of Operations. Captain Paul Bellas from the Cargo Helicopter Management Unit gave this presentation at the University, discussing the engineering and logistics support to those aircraft, spare parts required to be held and the associated cost, actions to prevent environmental degradation, technology change management and rate of effort generation.

oct ‘11 Stahmann Farms Nut Factory visit hosted by The Toowoomba Group. The group toured from the sorting area to the holding and packaging area. One of the major challenges faced at the time of construction was to build a concrete slabwithsufficientcapacitytowithstandthefreezingandthawing of nuts in storage. Interestingly enough, they ended up digging down 12m, pouring a 6m deep slab, loading 3m offillandtoppingoffwithanother3mdeepslab.Andaftermany decades in operation the slab has not cracked.

nov ‘11 The Strengthening Grantham Site Visit was a bus tour of the affected areas and was chaired by Nicola Mead and hosted by Ged Brennan from GenEng Solutions. The focus of the tour looked at the construction of Stage 1 of the reconstruction efforts which included 90 fully serviced lots, extensive open

2011 Student presentation winner Amy Lovisa of James Cook University with Guest Speaker Emeritus Prof Colin O’Connor, Judges and fellow student presenters

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space and an open-level crossing which was primarily for those Grantham residents wanting to relocate to the new subdivision.

Dec ‘11 End of year event. We combined a BBQ with a powerpoint presentation from guest speaker Greg Valler of RME on a suspension bridge he designed (through RME) and constructed in Laos with the help of the local village. It was a great presentation that highlighted the challenge of getting the design fabricated in the country, designing the anchors to be large enough to span the 54 metres but still be small enough to be transported in the local trucks, and having the villagers dig out and concrete two (2) consistent 10m3 footings with only 5L buckets.

Mar ‘12 Surat Basin tour. Bus tour all around the Kogan Creek Power Station and their coal mine which is transported by a conveyor belt around 5km. Interestingly, the mine was closetobeingflooded,withwaterlappingatthebaseoftheconveyor belt which luckily sat a bit over 600mm off the ground preventingdamage.Afterlunch,thefinalpartofthistourwasa presentation on local infrastructure issues by Graham Cook: The Director of Engineering Services at WDRC. Graham looked at the challenges they are facing by trying to meet the needs of not only themselves, but all the private companies who are setting up temporary or permanent camps needing road access, electricity, stormwater and sewerage connections.

Apr ‘12 Repeat presentation Due to the success of Greg Vallers’ presentation on November 26 of 2011, Greg provided an up to date version of the same presentation to on-campus USQ students at the Steel Rudd College.

May ‘12 Range Crossing Flood Recovery hosted by RTSA. The event focused on the damage that was caused to the railnetworkeastofToowoombainthe2011floods.DaveStewartfrom QR gave an overview of the history of the rangeanditssignificance,theextentofflooddamageonthe rail network, determining scope of works required and assembling the response team, assessing the risks, resourcing and procurement, and site establishment and integration. One of the major challenges David discussed was the logistics involved in reparing and rebuilding the rail track.Dalby Central Ergon Substation. A bus was organised to take attendees on a technical site visit to the Dalby Central Ergon Substation. The visit focused on the new substation which was built to meet the increasing energy demand in the local area. Being an indoor substation, the audio and visual impact typically incurred by outdoor substations was eliminated. This visit also provided attendees with an understanding of the inner workings of a distribution substation and the commissioning process, which by chance made this event possible. Australia-Wide Science and Engineering Challenge initiative. USQ once again hosted the and as in past years EA continued to sponsor the successful event. These types of initiatives are very important in spreading awareness of the various applications that maths and science have toward engineering. Designed to demonstrate the varied

and practical elements of a career in science or engineering, the Science and Engineering Challenge in particular aims to inspire students to study science and engineering at a senior level.

Jun ‘12 AGM. This involved a summary of the previous years’ events as well as a electing the new committee for 2012/3 for the coming year of operation. This event was attended by the Toowoomba Regional Council Mayor Paul Antonio and the EA Queensland Division President Steven Goh.

Key Achievements: Toowoomba Regional group has been actively involved in organizing activities in the region at regular intervals within the region including technical presentations, site visits and other promotional activities. These events provided CPD activities for its members and provided avenues for networking with their fellow members.

toWnsvillE rEgionAl grouP

Chairperson: Carson Care

Secretary: David Madden

Treasurer: Christian Jensen

Committee members:

Ben Lancini, Dale Armbrust, Dinyar Bharucha, Elle Searston, Frank Hall, Govinda Pandey, Jill Parsons, John Vollugi, Julie Lovisa, Katja Bormann, Mark Daniell, Ruchira Wickramasinghe, Shani Boag, Erwin Van Wyk

The Townsville Regional Group aims to provide Continuous Professional Development (CPD) opportunities and professional support for our membership base. With around 1100 members in the greater Townsville region, the Townsville Regional Group aims to enhance the professional development and opportunities of our membership through technical site visits and presentations, eminent speaker presentations as well as a number of non-technical and social networking opportunities for engineering professionals and associates.


Jul ‘11 Working Overseas Technical Presentation hosted by the Regional group and WIE group where presentations weregivenonthebenefitsandperilsofworkingoverseas

oct ‘11 2011 Annual Golf Day at Rowes Bay Golf Club. (60 attendees); Why do Thing go Wrong? with Professor John Atkinson.(20 attendees); University Presentation with CN Barton Medal - where the top engineering students from each discipline present their theses.

nov ‘11 Engineering and Resources Excellence Awards Excellence Awards The 3rd Townsville Regional Engineering and Resources Excellence Awards, ticket sales were at capacity and in excess of 200

Dec ‘11 AGM. (20 attendees)

Mar ‘12 Speed Networking Event Social Hosted by the Townsville WIE group, this event provided an opportunity for engineers in the region to network and meet some different colleagues

May ‘12 Gen2X Debate & Networking Social Coordinated through YEA-Q, this was a vibrant evening that pondered


the question: Are Engineers Still Required Now that we have Google? (40 attendees). JCU Cyclone Testing Facility Technical Presentation with Dr David Henderson followed by a visit through the cyclone testing facility. (60 attendees) Mt St John Water Treatment Plant Site Visit. An excellent site visit through a modern waste water treatment facility (18 attendees)

Key Achievements: The2011/12yearhasseenasignificantamount of work by the Townsville Regional Group in coordinating a variety of different activities and events, with the intention of adding value and providing Continuous Professional Development (CPD) opportunities to our membership. The September quarter of 2012 has supported these opportunities, with six events that have been successfully executed, including one site visit and two technical presentations.

The present committee includes a diverse group of individuals with varying experiences, which has allowed the group to program activities that maximise the exposure to our membership. One of the major achievements has been the number of participants that have been in attendance at our activities. The group will continue to build on this momentum to continue delivering value to our local membership.

In 2013, the Townsville Regional Group will incorporate a new focus to the group charter. As well as maintaining the existing professional development opportunities for our regional membership base, the Townsville Regional Group will also aim to have further involvement with Townsville schools in order to promote to students ‘what engineering is’, as well as encourage school students to consider studying mathematics and science at school.

trAnsPort PAnEl

Chairperson: Richard Jones

Secretary: Paul Gottke

Treasurer: Tanya Moe

Committee members:

Shalendra Ram, Edward Chung, Haider Yousif, Jaco Van Der Berg, Julie McEvoy, LarryGriffiths,SteveWilliams,TerryRossitto, Zach Clark, Daniel Suman, Satyam Thakar, Chris Warnock

It is our vision and mission that the Transport Panel be respectedandunderstoodasthepeakbodywithinthetrafficransport engineering industry for providing technical advice ontraffic/transportmatters,developingappropriatepoliciesfor these matters in association with the National Committee on Transport Engineering, providing comments on local traffic/transportmatters,providingcommentonreports,policies and documents prepared by other organisations thatarerelevanttothetrafficransportindustry,improvingand encouraging links with other associated professions and developing the knowledge and expertise in the industry through assistance with continuing education and training.

Ourmissionistoprovideleadership,influenceandsupport

to improve the quality and sustainability of the Australian transportsystem.Weaimtoinfluencegovernmentpolicy,promote excellence in transport systems analysis techniques and education, provide expert guidance to Engineers Australia members and others, encourage informed debate on transport issues, provide direction to research and investigation, and communicate with state panels/branches and other stakeholders on transport issues

The EA QLD Div Transport Panel also has a connection with NCTE and we assist them with nominations for NCTE Transport Medal (every 2 years). Together with NCTE, we encourage our university students (post graduate) for NCTE Student Prize, assist with contributions to NCTE Discussion Papers, and we assist with NCTE reviews of competencies for transport engineering.


Jul ‘11 Connecting SEQ2031 with Ken Deutscher, covering the broad range of transport policies incorporated in the draft, including a focus on the “rail revolution” project, a strategic road network plan, a freight plan and considerably enhancing active transport.

Aug ‘11 Pacific Motorway Site Visit for Engineering Week. Those attending the site tour received some insights as to how innovative engineering design can be used to upgrade andexpandamajorhighwaytoensureitmeetsfuturetrafficand community requirements. TMR Director General Round Table Discussion. David Stewart provided an insight to TMRs Major Programs & State Planning Program. David has agreed to hold quarterly meetings with the Transport Panel; Planning to Succeed with John Olsen. With over 40 years experience, John spoke before he stepped down from the industry about the important issues and challenges facing transport planning today. His talk provided some insights into what our industry can do in order to achieve the future we all aspire to mould.

oct ‘11 Annual Student Evening with Presentations from UQ andQUTstudentsfromtheirfinalyearprojects/thesis.

nov ‘11 Cross River Rail with Luke Franzmann. Presentation of work on the Cross River Rail project and insight to the transport aspects in relation to the Environmental Impact Statement.

Dec ‘11 AGM Christmas lunch/dinner.

Feb ‘12 Leading QLD Women in Transport Breakfast with Emma Thomas and Julie Mitchell present at a joint event with transport Panel and Women in Engineering providing their wealth of knowledge and experience working in engineering.

Mar ‘12 Brisbane Lord Mayor Breakfast with Lord Mayor Graham Quirk. Quirk released Brisbane’s Economic development plan and Long Term infrastructure plan to ensure that Brisbane maximises this opportunity we need to have a well connected city.

Apr ‘12 Transport and Public Strategy – Linking Policy Goals to Action with Eminent Speaker Greg Martin. The presentation looked to the high order policy goals of productivity, prosperity and livability and strategies to address the complexities of determining public interest imperatives, dealing with multiple and competing interests, addressing reluctance

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to change, engaging with the community for acceptance anddefiningthetransitionpathforimplementation.

Key Achievements: We continue to work with other transport related groups to strengthen and widen our reach. We have improved liaison and connections with students and Universities. The panel has held Quarterly meetings with DG of TMR, Michael Caltibiano - new members from areas missing in the Transport Panel, being aviation and Universities.

WAtEr PAnEl

Chairperson: Anthony Gaffney

Secretary: Robert McGlinn

Treasurer: Blake Boulton

Committee members:

Paul Boswood, Paul Prenzler, Bjorg Thorsteinsson, Bill Weeks, Ish Bhuiyan, Franz Jacobsen, Toby McGrath, Kuhan Kuhanesan, Dave Callaghan, Steve Clark, Lisa Pollard, Emily Reid, Suzanne Burrow

The main aim of the water panel is to provide regular technical presentations that allow the water engineers to openly discuss and exchange thoughts / information.


Mar ‘12 QRA Planning for stronger, more resilient floodplains - Part 2

Apr ‘12 Manual for Assessing Hazard Categories and Hydraulic Performance of Dams. with John MacIntosh / Michel Raymond; Sediment properties, flow patterns and turbulence durign the January 2011 event in Brisbane River with Hubert Chanson

May ‘12 What is best practice floodplain management with Duncan McLuckie

Jun ‘12 Implications of climate change on the hydrodynamic behaviour and ecological functions fo the Snowy River estuary with Tim Womersley

Jul ‘12 Lessons from Large Floods with Rory Nathan

Aug ‘12 Lockyer Valley Flood Risk Management Study with Greg Rogencamp

Sep ‘12 19th Queensland Water Symposium

oct ‘12 Undergraduate Award Evening with Michael Woodhouse

nov ‘12 2012 QUDM review: responding to lessons learnt with Russell Cuerel & Grant Witheridge

Key Achievements: participation in committees such as Qld coastal plan, tidal works, QUU stakeholder, Qld Flood Commissioing sub committee, ISHS 2014 organising committee, Qld water sympoisum, michael woodhouse awards

The Qld Water Panel continues to provide high quality technical presentations, host a successful water sympoisum in terms of technical content, attendance andprofit,supporttheundergraduateengineersinmrecognising their contribution to the wider knwledge bases of engineers, and continues to be involved with the wider Engineers Australia strategies / committees.

WiDE bAy rEgionAl grouP

Chairperson: Robert MacGibbo

Secretary: Maria Fuchs

Treasurer: Maria Fuchs

Committee members:

Colin Moes, Chris Mooney, Don Hill

Acontinuingdifficultyfacedbythecommitteeistheprovisionofsuitable speakers for our evening meetings. We are endeavouring to increase our meeting attendance to make a visit to the Group worthwhile for a visiting speaker from the Divisional list.


Mar ‘12 The Challenges, Opportunities and Risks of Supporting Growth and Development in the rapidly growing Fraser Coast Area with Mr. Wayne Sweeney.

May ‘12 The boy who wanted to be an astrophysicist, wished he was a surgeon, dreamed as a restauranteur, was disguised as an accountant, but always an engineer with heart, who found his first love again? with Mr. Steven Goh

Jun ‘12 Timber Structures with Mr. Len Dalzie, Structural Group

Aug ‘12 Chartered Status Workshop with Mike Garrett, National Assessor. Bruce Highway Upgrade (Cooroy to Curra) with Mr Rod Tebbutt

The Group was again represented on the committee formed by the Rotary Clubs of Hervey Bay to stage “The Fraser Coast Science and Engineering Challenge 2012” at the PCYC. The event was again enthusiastically supported by local High Schools. The Group provided . speaker to address Year 10 students at Maryborough High School during the last term of the year on Engineering Career opportunities and subject selection for years 11 and 12.

WomEn in EnginEEring

Chairperson: Jo Kirby

Secretary: Azam Zeinalzadeh

Treasurer: Jessica Holz

Committee members:

Catherine Smith (Vice Chair), Kate Brand, Felicity Briody, Jennifer Charlesworth, Zoee Shelly. Samantha Kerr, Kristina Schaeffer

Women in Engineering Qld (WIEQ) has the charter of “Attract, Retain, Support and Celebrate” and organise our activities to cover these areas. Committee members regularly volunteer their time to present to schools and for student mentoring programs to help attract more students both male and female to the profession and the committee is currently developing an education strategy to enable us to do this more effectively. To help with the retention of female engineers we have a number of leadership and joint technical events where successful female engineers present their achievements. To support and celebrate we hold a number of different styles of networking events to help build professional relationships within the industry and


support for engineers on sabbatical while starting a family or for other reasons so industry networks can be maintained.


Aug ‘11 Women Engineering Qld Student Workshop. Two-day event conducted by the Qld Resource Council, aimed at female highschool and University engineering students (200 attendees); WIE Trivia Night. Held during engineering week and well attended by both students and industry members (85 attendees) AGS Joint Event. Joint technical event with the Australian Geomechanics Society showcasing outstanding projects from four female Engineers from around Australia. (85 attendees)

Sep ‘11 WIE Leadership Breakfast with Kathy Hirschfeld. Attracted a record attendence including Hon Karen Struthers Minister for Communities and Housing and Minister for Women, Division president Dennis Wogan and EA Qld Executive Director Ian McEwan. The major sponsor Sedgman Limited was given recognition and the new WIEQ banners were showcased. (104 attendees)

oct ‘11 Healthy, Wealthy and Wise: how to get ahead and have work life balance with four prominent businesswomenonhealthbothpersonalandfinancial,conveying the correct business image and competing in the business world in general (55 attendees)

nov ‘11 Bare Foot Bowls Social networking event to allow members to get together before the Christmas period (25 attendees)

Dec ‘11 Committee Christmes Dinner. Opportunity to thank the committee for their time and effort for the past year (10 attendees)

Feb ‘12 Baby Engineers. This event is designed to give engineers on a career break an opportunity to network and assist them with the transition back into the work force (10 attendees); Leading Women of Transport Breakfast. Highlighted the career journeys of Julie Mitchell and Emma Thomas and saw yet another record attendance. The new Engineers Australia National CEO, Stephen Durkin, Qld Division President, Steven Goh, and Qld Executive Director, Ian McEwan were in attendance. (140 attendees)

Mar ‘12 Ladies “Lunch-Lesson-Links” Learn to Play Golf day.

Opportunity for members to get an hour lesson with a golf pro plus play nine holes with the golf pro assisting players aroundthecoursewiththeaimofgivingthemtheconfidenceto take part in corporate golf days. (25 attendees).

Inaugural “Power of Engineering” Student Workshop. This workshop saw year 9 and 10 students from 6 Brisbane high schools attend hands on workshops at QUT and hear addresses from successful female engineers. The students were then escorted to multiple industry sites to see engineers at work. (133 attendees); Baby Engineers. as above (10 attendees)

Apr ‘12 EA Qld Career Expo Service Numerous WIEQ had a stall at this year’s expo which sparked a lot of interest from not only the expo attendees but also from fellow industry stall holders. Baby Engineers. Gives engineers on a career break an opportunity to network and assists them with the transition back into the work force (10 attendees)

May ‘12 Baby Engineers. as above (10 attendees) Cocktail Fundraiser for QUT’s EWB, GEMS and FoME. WIEQ was approached by the QUT student groups to assist in raising funds for them to participate in assembling birthing kits for Birthing Kit Foundation to send to areas of Africa, Asia andSouthPacific.WIEQthenheldthiseventjointlywithYEAQ to help raise $2420 to assist this cause and to raise theprofileofhowengineerscanhelpthoseincountrieswithout the facilities we take for granted (144 attendees)

Jun ‘12 Baby Engineers. as above (10 attendees); Inspiring Women.JointeventheldwiththeOverseasQualifiedGroup to highlight how two female engineers from Iran overcame many obstacles to establish successful engineering careers in Australia (45 attendees)

Key Achievements: We were able to secure $10000 sponsorship fromSedgmanLimitedforthefinancialyear2011/2012aswell as smaller event sponsorships to help us deliver a high standard of events to our members. We have consistenly seen large member participation at our events; This would largely be attributed to our events having a reputation of being high quality and the volunteer work the committee performs at various educational workshops and industry events in

“Ladies lunch-lesson links” Golf Day

Fundraising efforts

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promoting engineering as an outstanding career for women. Our leadership breakfast was attended by the Hon. Karen Struthers Minister for Communities and Housing and Minister for Women and this has lead to the WIEQ committee being invitedtoworkwiththeminister’sofficealongsideotherindustry groups to develop a educational strategy within the government’s Women/Girls in Hard Hats program; this saw WIEQ secure a $10000 grant to hold the inaugral “Power of Engineering” event. The Power of Engineering has now been developed into its own stand alone incorporated group to allow it to work with many industry organisations to deliver educational workshops accross the state where WIEQ will lend support buy sourcing inspirational female engineers to present at the events. The development of “Baby Engineers” to support engineers on sabaticle from their careers was an idea held in previous years that was realised in 2011/2012 and has been gathering growing numbers of attendees both male and females. We look forward to 2012/2013 being just as successful by consolidating on the initiatives started this year and expanding our scope to our regional members.

young EnginEErs

Chairperson: Jillian Kenny

Secretary: Antonia Niaga

Treasurer: Chris Leaman

Committee members:

Alexandra Kelly, Ashfaque Chowdhury, Bill Hutton, Casey Milburn, Felicity Briody, Femme Rounds, John Carr, Jordan Wan, Luke Palmen, Mat Parker, Michael Austin, Muhammed Tahir, Robert Ellen, Tara Manning

YEA Queensland seek to promote the continuing professional development and networking of young engineers throughout Queensland.

Sponsorship and Awards: The Major Sponsor for the 2012 calendar year was KBR. Other sponsors includedAecom, Aurecon, Brown Consulting, Cardno, Central Queensland University, Defence Force Recruiting (multiple events), Flanagan Consulting Group, Hatch, James Cook University Cairns, John Holland, SKM, VISIS, Goodlife, Elio Moda, Fleetpoint (in conjunction with Queensland Young Lawyers)


Feb ‘12 Steven Goh Meet and Greet Introducing the YEAQ committee to student and graduate engineers and launch Year of Regional Engineering Team

Apr ‘12 Young Professional Engineering of the Year presentation. Networking event to provide a forum that offers engineers an opportunity to network with their peers, senior engineers and managers in their local region.

May ‘12 Graduate Transition: The Way Forward. Panel discussion of what established engineers wished they knew as graduates (lessons learned). Birthing Kits. Co-hosted with WIE to raise funds with the QUT chapter of Engineers Without Borders/GEMS/FoME to assemble birthing kits for women in developing countries. Young Engineers vs Young Lawyers comedy debate The debate of who makes the better politician, Engineers or Lawyers. Although valiantly articulated, the Young Engineers conceded defeat. Gen2X: “Are Engineers required now that we have Google?” A unique opportunity to network with peers, senior engineers and other professionals in the Townsville region and celebration of the Year of the Regional Engineering Team. Panel discussion and topical debate on the nominated theme. Co-hosted with Townsville Regional Group and Women in Engineering (Twsv). Gen2X: “Is the Fraser Coast perfectly situated to service the resource sector?” Inaugural Hervey Bay Gen2X networking event and celebration of the Year of the Regional Engineering Team plus open forum panel discussion and topical debate on the nominated theme. Co-hosted with Wide Bay Regional Group. 2011 Young Professional Engineering of the Year. Presentation streamed from Gladstone to Bundaberg and Mackay, to provide a forum that offers engineers an opportunity to network with their peers, senior engineers and managers in their local region.

Jul ‘12 “Inspired Leaders”. Esteemed panellists discussed their views on leadership in an engineering context. Co-hosted with CELMQ, ITEE, WiEQ.

Aug ‘12 Enchanted Gala Ball. In addition to a great party we announced the 2012 Young Professional Engineer of the Year QLD.

Sep ‘12 Cairns Leadership Day with Pat Flanagan, Stephen Chong, Wendy Ackland, Pat McGuire and Nicky Jurd. Covered a


variety of fundamental leadership skills. Personal and Professional Development Workshop by The Frank Team. Interactive workshop session about Networking and Leveraging Relationships.

nov ‘12 Trivia and Committee Elections Engineering triviaplusgeneralofficebearerelections(optional).

Key Achievements: In 2012 YEAQ have expanded on our objective

to provide access to our presentations and activities to young engineers in regional areas. This year the committee included Regional Representatives from Cairns, Gladstone, Hervey Bay and Townsville, each of whom organised very successful events in their local regions. In addition, we streamed a number of these events to venues in other regional locations.

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