Upcoming events
Industrial Design "NEWcastle Products" Exhibition
Date: November 19th; 25th 
Time: 10am-5.30pm; Opening night from 7pm
Location: Newcastle Museum Link Gallery
The annual Industrial Design end of year exhibition is on again in an exciting new location, being held in Newcastle Museum’s beautiful Link Gallery.
The week long exhibition highlights new products developed throughout the year of the Industrial Design program.
Anybody interested in seeing the innovative and creative work the students create is encouraged to attend.
Masters of Architecture "Heist" Exhibition
Date: November 12th – 13th 
Time: 5pm-10pm (12th) 9am-6pm (13th)
Location: Newcastle Town Hall
The Masters of Architecture program is holding it's annual exhibition this November in Newcastle Town Hall.
The exhibition showcases the final year works of the two year Masters of Architecture program, and represents the culmination of five years’ work for the students.
An open invitation is extended to all those interested in joining industry professionals, community members and university staff in seeing the amazing work the students create.
Past events
RoboCup Junior makes triumphant return
Date: 2 August, 2012
Time: 8.30am-2.30pm
Location: The Forum, University of Newcastle, Callaghan
The RoboCup Junior competition will return to the Hunter this August.
Primary and secondary school students are being invited to form a team for the competition, where they will program robots to dance, play soccer and perform rescues.
The event is great way to get students thinking, and learning, about problem solving and new technologies, all while contributing to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics research.
Visit http://www.robocupjunior.org.au/node/168 before Friday 13 July to register for the competition or contact Ryan Jeffery for more information.
Civil Engineering and Mining Rock Mechanics Course
Date: August, 2012
The Priority Research Centre for Geotechnical and Materials Modelling invites civil and mining engineers, geologists, and postgraduate and undergraduate students to attend the 'Civil Engineering and Mining Rock Mechanics Course' in August 2012.
World renowned geotechnical research academics, scientists, geologists and engineers will deliver the program, including Professor Gian Paolo Giani, Professor of Geotechnics and Rock Mechanics, University of Milan, Italy, Dr Marc Elmouttie, Research Scientist, CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering, Dr Ross Seedsman, Geotechnical Engineer, Dr John Simmons, Specialist Slope Stability Consultant, Professor Stephen Fityus, and Dr Anna Giacomini from the University of Newcastle.
The course consists of two days four modules: structures, rock and rock mass; rock engineering for underground openings; rock slope engineering, and rock mechanics applications to coal mining. Attendees can elect to attend one or all of the modules.
More information, download this pdf or contact Dr Anna Giacomini on 02 4921 6254 or email Anna.Giacomini@newcastle.edu.au.
Engineer your future - Career Evenings
Some of the greatest technological achievements of the 20th century, such as electrification, automobiles, health technologies, space travel and high performance materials are part of our lives today because engineers have used their mathematical and scientific knowledge to make them a reality.
Students, parents and teachers are invited to attend one or more of our engineering career evenings to find out morea bout study and careers in engineering.
Light refreshments are provided at all of our career sessions.
Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
Date: Thursday 30 August 2012
Venue: Room EF122, EF Building, Callaghan Campus
Time: 6.00pm-7.30pm
To register email Katherine.Boychuk@newcastle.edu.au or telephone 4921 5798
Chemical Engineering
Date: Thursday 6 September 2012
Venue: Room EB130, EB Building, Callaghan Campus
Time: 6.00pm-7.30pm
To register email Gillian.Hensman@newcastle.edu.au or telephone 4033 9063
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Date: Thursday 13 September 2012
Venue: Room EF122, EF Building, Callaghan Campus
Time: 6.00pm-7.30pm
To register email Kathryn.Killen@newcastle.edu.au or telephone 4921 5541
Construction Management 21st Anniversary Dinner
Date: Saturday 14 April, 2012
Time: 6.30pm –11.30pm
Venue: Newcastle City Hall
The Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment are proud to announce the 21st anniversary of the Construction Management degree.
To celebrate this important occasion the School of Architecture and Built Environment held a semi-formal gala dinner on Saturday 14 April 2012 at Newcastle City Hall.
The degree is celebrated as one of the most innovative building programs in the country and now has graduates working on every continent. Throughout its history, the construction management degree has pioneered distance and online delivery modes, problem-based learning, and is now one of the largest programs of its type in Australia.
Photos of the event can be found on the Construction Management Facebook page.
Free chemical engineering alumni breakfast
Date: Thursday, 29 March 2012
Time: 7.45-9.00am
Venue: Isabella’s Restaurant, Callaghan Campus
Are you studying Chemical Engineering?
If you need a little bit of motivation or want to find out more about what to expect when you finish your degree, then watch five of our chemical engineering alumni share their journey from graduate to professional.
For more info visit http://www.newcastle.edu.au/alumni/advantage-program.html or call 02 4921 6380.
Glenn Murcutt – ‘Architecture for Place’ exhibition
Date: 7 March – 25 March, 2012
Gallery hours: 12pm to 6pm, Wednesday to Saturday
Venue: University Gallery
Presented by the Architecture Foundation Australia, this exhibition featured architecture and drawings by Glenn Murcutt, photography by Anthony Browell, and video documentary by Catherine Hunter and Bruce Inglis.
Murcutt is Australia’s most internationally recognised architect and Architecture for Place profiled a selection of his built work and current projects, through his drawings and his working methods. Browell’s photography captures the essence of Murcutt’s design: harmony between building and nature. The exhibition particularly focused on Murcutt’s houses, private residences that are not open to visitors. With his focus on the sustainability of the natural environment, Murcutt’s works are at the forefront of contemporary architecture. They are eloquent in form and refined in detailing, but primarily concerned with bringing the qualities of the surrounding world into the daily experience of the occupants.
Pursuing an architecture that is rooted in Australia’s culture and its diverse climate and topography, Murcutt is also active internationally, teaching and lecturing as a Professor at Universities throughout the world.
Image above: Glenn Murcutt Magney House, photograph by Anthony Browell.
Women in Engineering High Tea
Date: Friday 16 March, 2012
Time: 10.30am
Venue: EF122
All current undergraduate students, high school students from year 10 to 12 and staff were invited to the University’s Women in Engineering High Tea on Friday 16 March 2012.
The Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment supports its female students and hosts a range of fun activities like this event to help students establish support networks and to communicate the many opportunities available when you choose engineering and building as a course of study and career option.
If you missed the high tea, you can catch up on the event on the FEBE YouTube page.
In Search of Angels, – Images from the University's Electron Microscope Centre
Date: 15 February – 3 March, 2012
Time: Exhibition launch from 6pm
Venue: University Gallery
How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
Medieval philosophers debated whether angels had an ethereal existence as a pure intelligence or whether they had any spatial extent, and if so, how much?
In microscopy, we seek to understand the behaviour of material objects (cells and organisms, metals and ceramics, electronic circuits, etc.) by closer and closer scrutiny. This search not only unearths scientific understanding, but also the inherent beauty of the tiny structures that make up the material world around us and yet which go unnoticed in our daily lives.
This often requires magnifications so large (greater than 100,000X) that the image is quite surreal and disconnected from the object under study.
We are fortunate to have a new Electron Microscope and X-ray Centre on the Callaghan campus and several new microscopes with which to conduct our studies. This exhibition brings together some of the more striking images taken with these instruments and their predecessors, including micro-forests, hidden cities and the labyrinthine surface structures of animal, vegetable and mineral origin.
- Professor Erich Kisi, Academic Head, Electron Microscope and X-ray Centre, the University of Newcastle
For any enquiries please contact the Gallery on 02 4921 5255 or email gallery@newcastle.edu.au
Terror Security and Money: The Evidence of the Value of Counter-Terrorism Expenditure
Date: Wednesday 15 February, 2012
Time: 5.30pm for a 6.00pm start
Venue: Engineers Australia Auditorium, 122 Parry Street Newcastle West
The presentation, featuring guest speaker Professor Mark Stewart, will review key findings of a new book Terror, Security, and Money: Balancing the Risks, Benefits, and Costs of Homeland Security (Oxford University Press, October 2011) that uses risk-based decision theory to determine acceptability of risk which is crucial to prioritise security and protective measures against terrorist events.
For more information and to register your attendance, visit Engineers Australia's Newcastle Branch.
