Final-year CQUniversity engineering students will showcase their talents to peers, industry employers, high school students and the wider Central Queensland community at the Graduating Engineers Conference - GECon^TM 2011 - this Friday June 17, 2011.

The conference, which is free and open to all members of the community, will be held at CQUniversity Rockhampton from 9am until 3pm. Registration is required for catering purposes.

GECon^TM includes 45 final-year student project presentations and a poster exhibition which allows the students to exhibit their insight into engineering principles, while providing innovative solutions for some complex engineering problems.

The presentation topics include a Dawson Mine Control Voltage Audit, Chemical Spray Unit Design for Sugar Cane Industries, the Impact of Heavy Vehicles on Road Assets Built Over Tidal Flats (Bajool - Port Alma Road), Coal Seam Gas Water Management, a Feasibility Study for the Proposed Gladstone Ports Corporation Limited Tug, and a Study to Find the Feasibility of Fly Ash in a Concrete Mix for Landscape Application.

Conference organiser Dr Fae Martin said the Conference enabled students to showcase their work to the community and also provided a recruitment opportunity for industry.

"GECon^TM allows industry to view the talented new graduates before they officially complete their degrees and to identify suitable employees for their organisations," Dr Martin said.

"The Conference also allows high school students to learn more about what CQUniversity's engineering programs have to offer and the broad range of projects students have the opportunity to participate in."

Graduating engineers and their families will also attend the John Holland Conference Dinner at the Heritage Village on Friday evening.

To register for the Conference contact Shelley Fawcett on 4930 9150 or gecon@cqu.edu.au .