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Student Thesis Previous Winners

2003 Railway Engineering Student Thesis Award Honourable Metnion

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Mr Kittkhun Kittiaram

Thesis: “Vibrations of Railway Sleepers”

Place of Study: University of New South Wales Mechatronic Engineering Faculty.

2003 Railway Engineering Student Thesis Award Honourable Mention

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Mr. Leon Zabel

Thesis: Single Signal Encode

Place of Study: Griffith University (Nathan Campus, Qld) Micro-Electronic Engineering Faculty.

2002 Railway Engineering Student Thesis Award Winner

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Ms Jeanette Aitken

Thesis: Position Determination For Railway Applications

Place of Study: School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications of UNSW

The thesis included current rail signalling and communication systems, relevant accident statistics, Global Positioning Systems, and, a good discussion drawing out both positive and negative issues with Continuous Positioning Systems or CPS. Field Experiments were also undertaken with measurements: on a train, and on roads.

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Mr Evin Jonathan

Thesis: Vibration Damping for Rails

Place of Study: University of New South Wales Mechatronic Engineering Faculty

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Mr Choong Yew Kong

Thesis: Detecting Loose Backing Rings on Vehicles on Axle Rails

Place of Study: University of New South Wales Mechatronic Engineering Faculty