It was a rite of passage as 24 graduating engineering students made their final presentations and poster displays at CQUniversity Rockhampton recently.

The students have worked on real-world projects in industrial settings throughout Queensland and further afield, helping companies like Ergon Energy, Bechtel Australia, AngloAmerican, Yass Valley Council and the Wide Bay Water Corporation to improve their processes.

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Cameron Gaffel, Luke Miller and Adam Hargreaves chat before presenting their final projects

Many of the projects have been highly technical with titles embracing corrosion fatigue cracking, bleeding in sprayed bitumen seals, coagulated floc particles, and even dynamic cone penetrometer testing.

Electrical Engineering's Cameron Gaffel even managed to get the term 'voltage droop' into his presentation title on 'tool development and validation for harmonic allocation'.

Mr Gaffel came up early in the program and chatted with other morning presenters including Mechanical Engineering students Luke Miller (efficient walls for timber-framed houses) and Adam Hargreaves (fixture design for a robotic welding system).

Many of the presenting students have already secured employment.

Luke Miller had an audience of kangaroos when he first arrived to check his presentation notes