24.03.10 - Flier

6.00pm - Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB), Level 15, 28 Freshwater Place, Southbank

17.03.10 - Flier

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Presenters: Barry Renaud and John Hoyle

12 noon (for 12.30pm) - Hawken Auditorium, Engineers House (447 Upper Edward St, Spring Hill)

Registration:  
EA QLD Division
Phone: 07 3832 3749
Email: qld@engineersaustralia.org.au

24.02.10 - Technical Presentation

Thesis: A Proposed Orbital Public Transport System for Melbourne.

Place of Study: La Trobe University, Bendigo, Victoria

The thesis examines the feasibility of adopting an orbital public transport system in Melbourne, with a particular focus on the most efficient means of linking the outer suburbs of Sunshine and Broadmeadows. The detailed findings of the thesis conclude that an orbital rail line along the Albion to Jacana Line is potentially viable and worthy of further detailed study.

Thesis: Preliminary Study into Fatigue of Insulated Rail Joints.

Place of Study: Monash University, Victoria.

Thesis: KiwiRail Brake Tester

Place of Study: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

The 2008  RTSA Young Railway Engineer Dr Sakdirat Kaewunruen has just received a  top PhD thesis award from the National Research Council of Thailand. He  received the first prize for the Engineering and Industrial Research category.  A fellow University of Wollongong (UOW)  Mathematics Ph D student  Dr Duangkamon Baowan was awarded the first prize for the Natural Science and Mathematics category.

Dr Kaewunruen is a joint winner of the Distinguished PhD Thesis award in the Engineering and Industrial Research category awarded together with a student from the University of California at Los Angeles.

At UOW, he developed a new design methodology for railway prestressed concrete sleepers, under the supervision of Associate Professor Alex Remennikov.

His discovery has led to the benefits of optimal concrete usage that is found to beneficial from financial, environmental and human perspectives. This discovery won him the “2009 National Engineering Bursary Award” from the Concrete Institute of Australia.

He is presently a specialist with RailCorp, and has served in Engineers Australia’s Interview Assessment Panel for the Chartered Status of Young Engineers.

Dr Kaewunruen is also a member of the External Advisory Committee for the Construction Engineering Program at the University of Western Sydney; is a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Thailand; and also an Endeavour Executive Award holder, which he will spend visiting the Railway Technical Research Institute in Tokyo, Japan.

(With thanks to UOW media service)

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