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Introduction
Professor Mark Wainwright,
Dean of the Faculty of Engineering.

New Careers For Engineers
Engineering graduates have long travelled the career path from technical engineering to management, but there is a growing trend for engineers to be recruited into non–traditional engineering organisations from the beginning of their careers.

Around the Schools...

• Biomedical Engineering
  CRC partnerships advance biomaterial developments by Bruce Milthorpe
• Chemical Engineering and Industrial Chemistry
  Novel photocatalysts by Vicki Chen
• Civil and Environmental Engineering
  SCENE, a new interactive CD–ROM by Brian Uy
• Computer Science and Engineering
  CSE wins at RoboCup by Sarah Martin
• Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications
  A Virtual Classroom by Branko Celler
• Geomatic Engineering
  Barrier Reef airborne gravimetric survey by David Sproule
• Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
  Solar thermal power plant by Graham Morrison
• Mining Engineering
  School’s first female PhD by Sarah Martin
• Petroleum Engineering
  The economics of CO² disposal by Guy Allinson and Victor Nguyen
• Photovoltaic Engineering
  A royal visit by Attachai Ueranantasun

Graduate Profile - Chris Norman
Chris Norman (BE Hons Naval Architecture ’87), is 37 years old and a founding partner in the Perth–based company Austal Ships. Austal is the largest commercial shipbuilder in Australia and a world leader in aluminium ship construction.

Letters

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