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On the 24th of October the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment held a very successful Postgraduate Research Poster Prize competition with 59 students showcasing their research via the presentation of a poster.

A leading researcher from the University of Newcastle has received $240,000 in funding from the coveted Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project scheme to improve the operation of steam boilers in Australia’s sugar industry.

A University of Newcastle (UON) academic has received global recognition for his work contributing to the advancement and application of engineering, resulting in a significant impact on society.

Dr Andrew Fleming has been awarded the 2016 Batterham Medal by the Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE) at an award ceremony in Melbourne.

The 2016 Australian Control Conference (AUCC 2016) will be held on 03-04 November 2016 in the City of Newcastle at University of Newcastle’s Callaghan Campus.

Associate Professor Andrew Fleming, Professor Rob Atkin, Professor Erica Wanless, Dr Stuart Prescott, Professor Robert Melchers, Dr John Holdsworth, Dr Patrick Cullen and Associate Professor Patrick Spicer have been awarded $440,000 in ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) funding commencing in 2016 for a Facility for Nanometer Scale Microscopy, Characterization, and Fabrication.

Associate Professor Christopher Kellett, Professor Dr Lars Gruene and Associate Professor Sigurdur  Hafstein been awarded $440,000 in ARC Discovery Project funding commencing in 2016 for their research project Activating Lyapunov-Based Feedback - Nonsmooth Control Lyapunov Functions.

Professor Richard Middleton and team have been awarded $350,000 in ARC Linkage Project funding for their research project Integrated feedback control in future wireless communication networks.

Professor George Willis has been awarded more than $443,000 in ARC Discovery Project funding commencing in 2015 for his research project Scale-Multiplicative Semigroups and Geometry.

Professor Rick Middleton has been awarded more than $295,000 in ARC Discovery Project funding commencing in 2015 for his research project Sensitivity Analysis of Networked Feedback Systems.

Associate Professor Sarah Johnson and Dr Lawrence Ong have been awarded more than $355,000 in ARC Discovery Project funding commencing in 2015 for their research project New strategies to transmit data: Coping with exponential growth in demand.

Professor Graham Goodwin and Dr Galina Mirzaeva have been awarded more than $355,000 in ARC Discovery Project funding commencing in 2015 for their research project Harmonic suppression and delay compensation for inverters.