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Engaging Indigenous people within Higher Ed

CQUniversity's Office of Indigenous Engagement recently hosted a visit from the Oodgeroo Unit of Queensland University of Technology (QUT), at Rockhampton Campus.

Professor Anita Lee Hong, Director of the Oodgeroo Unit, and Lone Pearce, Project Officer, met with Office of Indigenous Engagement staff to discuss employment issues and best practice models for engaging Indigenous people within the higher education sector, including governance matters.

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IRIS researchers eye the prize 

Published on 08 December, 2011 

Postgraduate student researchers this week went head to head for the title of 'best presentation', during a conference run by CQUniversity's Institute for Resource Industries and Sustainability (IRIS)...

This 'third annual' event was held at Rockhampton Campus, with video links to other campus venues.

PhotoID:11733, L-R Judges David Gilmour and Mick Alexander, guest speaker Helen Newell, posgrad Elise Crawford, judge Ted Gardner and postgrad Rahat Hossain
L-R Judges David Gilmour and Mick Alexander, guest speaker Helen Newell, posgrad Elise Crawford, judge Ted Gardner and postgrad Rahat Hossain

Students presented topics ranging from the influence of slope steepness on eucalypt forests and analysing risk from people using new technology, through to multi-robot systems for sniffing out odours and the best ways to drive lengthy coal trains.

One presentation described using frogs to gauge the health risk of a newly discovered soluble toxin in our waterways, while another described how native frogs are more susceptible to herbicides than toads.

Rooftop greenery systems, sunlight disinfection for aquaculture, degradation of tubes and piping in a shale oil refinery, solar-assisted air conditioning, and the impact of energy neutral technology on Australia's power network were among other topics discussed.

Students heard from guest speakers including Capricorn Enterprise CEO Mary Carroll and Helen Newell from the Australian Institute for Commercialisation.

PhotoID:11750, Overall presentation winner Elise Crawford with Professor Kerry Walsh
Overall presentation winner Elise Crawford with Professor Kerry Walsh

Their presentations were judged by grazing industry stalwart Mick Alexander, IRIS Senior Research Fellow Ted Gardner and David Gilmour, CQUniversity's new VET & Industry business development manager.

Overall Winner: I-pad 2 (32GB) Prize donated by Gladstone Ports Corporation

Elise Crawford, CRE ‘Improving safety through robust and functional socio-technical systems a human  factors concern'

Session Winners - Kindle E-reader Prizes donated by Queensland Alumina Limited

Session 1: Engineering

Ali Baniyounes, PERG ‘Assessment of solar cell assisted air conditioning for an institutional building in a subtropical climate' 

Session 2: Engineering and IT

PhotoID:11751, Conference presenters, speakers and judges
Conference presenters, speakers and judges

Iuliana Cismaru, PELM ‘ High temperature damage of candidate materials in a shale oil refinery'

Session 3: Environment and Life Sciences

Sadia Khan, CPWS ‘Development and evaluation of a solar photocatalytic disinfection (SPCD) apparatus for treatment of aquaculture systems'

All other Student presenters received a $30 gift voucher donated from the CQUniversity Bookshop.

The Conference was recorded and can be accessed by clicking the following  link http://onlinemedia.cqu.edu.au/media_request.htm?file=cqu/research/iris/iris_postgrad_conference_051211&start=00:07:41&end=07:40:50&formats=16.