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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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Students catapulted into Engineering studies 

Published on 14 March, 2005 

First-year Engineering students were catapulted into their studies last Friday (March 11) in more ways than one.

For starters, CQU Engineering Dean Professor Elizabeth Taylor awarded nine $1000 Bachelor of Engineering (Co-op)/Diploma of Professional Practice (Engineering) Scholarships to new students who applied after attending the Co-op Open Day last year.

PhotoID:1983 On the same program was the first-year design and build project day, which enabled students to design model aircraft and launch them from a rubber-band catapult.

The scholarships were presented to Mark O’Neil from Yeppoon State High School; Scott Muller from Emmaus College (Rockhampton); Nathaniel Dunnett from Gladstone State High School; Benjamin Bowers from Chanel College (Gladstone); Jarrod Brooks from Pioneer State High School (Mackay); Clint Lamperd from Pioneer State High School (Mackay); Celisa Wilschefski from North Bundaberg State High School; Daniel Baillie from Isis District State High School; and Darren Fraser from Iona College Lindum (South-East Queensland).