CQU Executive Dean and Pro-Vice-Chancellor Professor Elizabeth Taylor AO has been named among 'Australia's 25 Most Influential Female Engineers'.

Professor Taylor is featured in the list compiled by 'The Magazine of Engineers Australia (Civil Edition)' and published this month (October, 2007).

Managing Editor Dietrich Georg, of publisher Engineers Media, says the list is a celebration of the Year of Women in Engineering and was compiled by a selection advisory panel of industry leaders.

The magazine notes that Professor Taylor has presided over a radical restructuring of the Faculty of Sciences, Engineering & Health.

"The faculty is no longer organised along traditional discipline lines but along project or contextual lines. The 3 departments are now Sustainability, Infrastructures and Systems," Professor Taylor is quoted as saying.

"This new organisation better reflects the project-based curriculum approach used at the faculty, as well as allowing more interaction between groups with diverse knowledge and experience.

"We are creating a more porous organisation where we are all part of a larger system.

"This way we enable cross-fertilisation between disciplines. For instance, human sciences and engineering work together in areas such as rehabilitation and elite sport, or occupational health and safety people cooperate with engineers on ergonomic equipment. The organisation is designed to allow for a constant interchange of ideas."

Professor Taylor is also deputy chair of the Board of Engineers Media and a member of the board and international representative of RedR (Registered Engineers for Disaster Relief) Australia.

She is also President of the Australian Council of Engineering Deans and Chair of the Queensland Board of Professional Engineers.