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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 engineer regional relevance into projects 

Published on 18 June, 2009 

Final-year engineering students will gather at Rockhampton Campus on Friday (June 19) to demonstrate the regional relevance of their major projects.

The annual GECon (graduating engineers) conference will cover topics as diverse as scaffold safety, water supply infrastructure, coal mine electricity system protection, flood mitigation, highway design, biofuels and level crossing control. LINK for examples of projects

The conference runs between 9am and 2.30pm [View Presentation Program] and includes networking between students, academics and industry representatives.

PhotoID:7339, Networking is a key activity
Networking is a key activity

A conference dinner at the Heritage Village on Friday evening will include a guest address by a recent (2006) CQUniversity Co-op engineering graduate Briony Black, who is now the Major Maintenance Team Leader for Rio Tinto Alcan's Gove Operations in Nhulunbuy (NT).