Senior lecturer Tim Finnigan is featured in today's Sydney Morning Herald, referring to how his innovative ideas on wave power generation have been inspired by nature.
Dong-Sheng Jeng has been funded to research Innovative approaches for wind, waves, offshore wind farm and seabed interaction- a coupled model as part of The University's Sustainable Energy Research scheme.
As part of their first year, students took part in the "Iceberg Harvesting" competition which investigated the possibilities of towing icebergs to Australia to help solve our need for fresh water in the future, as they moved their own "icebergs" across a nearby lake.
While attending a conference in Quebec, Canada, Tim Wilkinson was awarded a $220000 research grant over 3 years to study high strength steel connections.
PhD candidate, Matthew Mason, has been awarded a fellowship to Tokyo Polytechnic University, Japan, a world renowned wind engineering research facility.
As part of the first year course, Professional Engineering 1, students will take part in the "Iceberg Harvesting" competition which aims to investigate the possibilities of towing icebergs to Australia to help solve our need for fresh water in the future.
A freak hailstorm on Tuesday 15 August covered The University of Sydney and nearby areas in a blanket of white, making it look like it had been snowing!
As part on National Engineeering Week, the Assoication of Consulting Engineers Australia (ACEA) organised the annual student Bridge Building Competition in Martin Place, Sydney.
The School congratulates Dr Dong-Sheng Jeng for being awarded an ARC Linkage Grant for the project Port Stephens Flood Tide Delta: Shoreline Management Issues.
One of our most famous graduates, JJC Bradfield, designer of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, was today named in The Bulletin magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential Australians.
The Association of Consulting Structural Engineers (ACSE) has just announced that the winner of the ACSE 2005 Student Scholarship, is Mr Paul Williams, a final year student from last year, based his thesis, "Rectangular Hollow Section Base Plate Connections subject to Uplift".
Forty civil engineers graduated in 1956, nine of them having come to the University as part of the Colombo plan. Fifty years later, eighteen of them were able to return to celebrate their anniversary, some from as far away as Scotland and Canada.
PhD Student Andrew Caska recently visited the Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory at Stanford University California USA. The 3 month visit was organised in conjunction with supervisor Tim Finnigan to give Andrew exposure to one of the best fluid mechanics laboratories in the world.
An eLearning Expo was held in the School on Wednesday 3 May. Nearly 50 academics, postdocs, postgrads and support staff came together to see some of the latest developments in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Learning and Teaching.
Research breakthroughs in cold-formed steel structures, largely spearheaded by the University's Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Professor Greg Hancock, are transforming the way that dwellings are being built in Australia and the region.
Engineering Sydney and the Faculty of Engineering organised a Careers Fair on Tuesday 4th of April 2006. The fair was an excellent opportunity for you to meet and talk to employers about graduate recruitment programs, work placements and vacation employment.
Leading engineers gave exciting and informative presentations on this engineering masterpiece to a packed audience in the Civil Engineering Lecture Theatre this week.
Prof Kim Rasmussen and former PhD student Dr Mike Bambach, have been awarded the Raymond C. Reese Research Prize by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Two University researchers are developing devices that harness the waves and tides of the world's oceans for conversion into clean renewable energy - and one of their designs is directly modelled on a shark's caudal fin.
Three members of Civil Engineering were among the high achievers and bright young thinkers recognised by The University of Sydney Innovation Challenge.
The Teaching Improvement Fund (TIF) provides additional resources to enable faculties and colleges to address areas for improvement identified in Academic Board reviews, and University and faculty-level strategic plans.
This grant funding will support the first phase of refurbishment of the Fluids Laboratory in the Department of Civil Engineering for the purposes of teaching and learning.
Queries on our combined degrees, the flexible first year and the structural engineering stream were some of the most common questions from some budding students.
The role of A/Dean ICT L&T reflects the importance of eLearning in the future directions of undergraduate and postgraduate programs within the University.
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Senior lecturer Tim Finnigan is featured in today's Sydney Morning Herald, referring to how his innovative ideas on wave power generation have been inspired by nature.
Dong-Sheng Jeng has been funded to research Innovative approaches for wind, waves, offshore wind farm and seabed interaction- a coupled model as part of The University's Sustainable Energy Research scheme.
As part of their first year, students took part in the "Iceberg Harvesting" competition which investigated the possibilities of towing icebergs to Australia to help solve our need for fresh water in the future, as they moved their own "icebergs" across a nearby lake. 
While attending a conference in Quebec, Canada, Tim Wilkinson was awarded a $220000 research grant over 3 years to study high strength steel connections.
The end is getting nearer for the class of 2007 as they made oral and poster presentations for their thesis this week
PhD candidate, Matthew Mason, has been awarded a fellowship to Tokyo Polytechnic University, Japan, a world renowned wind engineering research facility.
Prof Kim Rasmussen has been invited to join the Editorial Board of the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering as Associate Editor
A/Prof David Airey shares a large equipment grant for an Advanced Testing Facility for Geological Sequestration of Greenhouse Gases
New staff member Dr Itai Einav receives $280000 to study the micro-thermo-mechanics of sand crushing in geotechnical collapse problems
Civil Engineering graduate Tim Burns returned to Sydney to lecture on the technical details of this important Civil Engineering project.
Undergraduate students showed off their talents in excellent display of undergraduate university humour.
A freak hailstorm on Tuesday 15 August covered The University of Sydney and nearby areas in a blanket of white, making it look like it had been snowing!
As part on National Engineeering Week, the Assoication of Consulting Engineers Australia (ACEA) organised the annual student Bridge Building Competition in Martin Place, Sydney.
As part of the engineering graduation ceremony this week, Bill Mansell was awarded the Degree of Doctor of Engineering (Honoris Causa).
The Association of Consulting Structural Engineers (ACSE) has just announced that the winner of the ACSE 2005 Student Scholarship, is Mr Paul Williams, a final year student from last year, based his thesis, "Rectangular Hollow Section Base Plate Connections subject to Uplift". 
PhD Student Andrew Caska recently visited the Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory at Stanford University California USA. The 3 month visit was organised in conjunction with supervisor Tim Finnigan to give Andrew exposure to one of the best fluid mechanics laboratories in the world.