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Chris Hale discusses transport funding structures for The Conversation
Dr Chris Hale from the Department of Infrastructure Engineering has written for The Conversation about the politicising of infrastructure spending.
20 May 2013
Chris Hale discusses infrastructure spending with ABC News 24
Dr Chris Hale, from the Department of Infrastructure Engineering, has spoken to ABC News 24 about infrastructure funding in the Federal Budget, the current ‘bidding war’ for infrastructure and better solutions for the future.
16 May 2013
Geothermal power heats up on campus
Power at the Campus Sustainability Centre is now being generated by the University’s first shallow geothermal system.
26 April 2013
Priyan Mendis discusses the need to audit Australian fertiliser plants
Professor Priyan Mendis from the Department of Infrastructure Engineering spoke to ABC Radio National's The World Today on Friday 19 April, discussing the need to audit Australia's fertiliser plants.
22 April 2013
eResearch to benefit urban Australia
Professor Richard Sinnott has spoken to Annie Rahilly about the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN) project and the challenges of collecting and managing very large data sets that will have far reaching impacts on urban Australia, for this month’s edition of Voice.
8 April 2013
Humanitarian projects broaden horizons for Civil Engineering valedictorian
Civil Engineering graduate Quan Lau has been keeping busy in recent months. Not only has she just commenced her graduate role at AECOM as an engineer in the Water Resources and Coastal Management team, she has recently returned from India where she was taking part in a study trip with Engineers Without Borders (EWB).
3 April 2013
First Master of Engineering graduates join the Alumni community
The Melbourne School of Engineering has welcomed the first cohort of Master of Engineering graduates to its Alumni community. There were 615 Engineering and IT graduates in total at December’s graduation event at Melbourne’s Royal Exhibition Building.
3 April 2013
2013 MAP Info Night and beyond
The 2013 MAP Info Night on Thursday 11 April will provide information about MAP for 2013 including application process, timelines and future events.
20 March 2013
Disaster Management Platform collaboration announced
The University of Melbourne, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and NICTA have jointly announced that they are collaborating to develop the Australia Disaster Management Platform (ADMP), a next generation open standards-based IT platform aimed at improving disaster management, protecting communities and potentially saving lives.
14 March 2013
Maps and minds: Making car and mobile navigation systems people friendly
Spatial information science and geomatics expert Professor Stephan Winter, from the Department of Infrastructure Engineering, has spoken to Dr Shane Huntington for the latest edition of UpClose.
11 March 2013
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