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Contents
Geomatics
• Head’s Report04
Developing future leaders who
solve society’s
infrastructure challenges, and
lead the transformation of
societies through the
provision of world-class
Teaching, Research and
Engagement.
• Industry Advisory Group (IAG)
08
• Department Staff
10
• Highlights
12
• Honorary Fellows
22
• Awards - Staff & Associates
24
• Research Initiatives
30
• Grants
33
• Research Centres
36
• RHD Awards & Activities
41
• Graduations
48
• Visitors50
• Publications
52
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Head’s
Report
I am very pleased to present our Department of Infrastructure Engineering 2015 report and achievements.
In 2015, we continued to work towards strengthening the
Infrastructure Engineering identity and to improve our visibility and profile as an integrated Department with three
disciplines, both within the University community and
also among our global peers. The high quality researchers,
academic staff and students we attracted demonstrate
a productive and inclusive environment for all and put
the Department in a
unique place.
across a range of interests from water productivity to
infrastructure designs and protection, to urban sustainability and connectedness and to disaster management.
In the context of these major research themes, we also
addressed reservoir engineering, transport design and
management towards renewal of energy and building
materials.
One of the highlights of 2015 was welcoming our new
academic staff who commenced in 2015: Prof. Anne
Steinemann, Professor of
Civil Engineering and Chair
of Sustainable Cities; Prof.
The Department is
The Department continues to drive
Stephan Matthai, Chair of
working on its growth
Reservoir Engineering; Prof.
strategy plan in line
major research themes across a range
Majid Sarvi, Professor in
with Melbourne School
Transport Engineering; Dr
of Engineering’s vision
of interests from water productivity to
Mahdi Disfani, Lecturer in
on growth strategy, to
Geotechnical Engineering;
expand our research
infrastructure designs and protection, to
Dr Kourosh Khoshelham,
and teaching capaLecturer in Geomatics; Dr
bilities and student
urban sustainability and connectedness
Behzad Rismanchi, Lecturer
experience. In line with
in Building Energy Engineerthe MSE 2025 vision,
and to disaster management
ing; Dr Marco Ghisalberti,
the Department is deSenior Lecturer in Environveloping its work plan
mental Fluid Mechanics, and
and future direction,
Dr Elisa Lumantarna, Lecturer
incorporating all its research capabilities across three disIn Infrastructure Engineering. We also welcomed several
ciplines. The main focus is on more impact, an integrated
Research Fellows. All of these high quality and outstandapproach and wider engagement and collaboration with
ing appointments are in line with our strategic plan.
industry, government, and community.
Four of our staff received well-deserved promotions, and I
In line with the School of Engineering and the University
congratulate Dr Mohsen Kalantari, A/Prof. Tuan Ngo, Prof.
strategic planning, our intensive strategic planning day
Colin Duffield and A/Prof. Yongping Wei.
gave rise to several fruitful discussions on our future
priorities. We are now at the halfway point of our 20132017 strategic plan, and this was a good opportunity to
reflect on the work we are doing in a rapidly changing
global environment. As part of the plan, the Department’s
industry engagement committee is developing a strategy
for industry and international engagement, focusing on
department-wide priorities. In line with these plans, the
Department continues to drive major research themes
I would also like to welcome Ms Eileen Doufas-Shea who
succeeded Ms Rose Macey as Executive Assistant to the
Head, and to thank her for her tireless and intelligent support throughout 2015. A warm welcome also to our new
Academic Liaison Coordinators, Ms Hai Do and Ms Claire
Grist, who together have been working hard to support
students enrolling in IE subjects and courses.
Our Industry Advisory Group provides valuable insights on
our strategic planning and teaching and research programs.
Representing a broad spectrum of industries, each member
is a vital link to the external stakeholders who comprise
their field of expertise. We welcomed three new members to the group in 2015: Ms Catherine Eymin from Yarra
Trams, Dr Sharon Davis from the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, and Mr Graham Hawke
from the Bureau of Meteorology.
We also sought to deepen our engagement with staff
and students, delivering activities that acknowledged the
research undertaken by RHDs and early career researchers in the Department, as well as increasing engagement
with new and existing staff, including our honorary staff. In
August we hosted a luncheon for honorary staff. The event
was well attended from industry and academia, and several
interesting ideas were suggested for the future in a lively
and overwhelmingly positive discussion. I warmly thank all
those who were involved and we look forward very much
to working with you all in future.
Two of our illustrious honorary staff received major
recognitions in 2015. I congratulate the Honourable Gary
Nairn, Chair of the Advisory Committee to the Centre for
Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration, who
was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the
2015 Queen’s Birthday Honours, and A/Prof. Geoffrey
S. Sutherland, who received the Medal of the Order of
Australia (OAM) in the 2015 Australia Day Honours. I also
congratulate Emeritus Professor Tom McMahon, who was
inducted into the Engineers Australia Hall of Fame. These
recognitions of our colleagues’ contribution to engineering
reflects the vitality and strength of our department. We are
fortunate to have such brilliant and generous engineers as
our colleagues and friends.
As part of the School of Engineering new executive structure I have taken on the role of Associate Dean International, developing several major partnerships with institutions
around the world. I thank our professional and academic
colleagues across the School and University for their valuable assistance in this space.
The Department conducted an international Symposium
on Smart Future Cities: The Role of 3D Land, Property and
Cadastre Information in early February. The event was well
attended by Government officials and related Industry
as well as several universities, with representatives from
several countries. We also hosted the 2nd International
Symposium on Disaster Management, with the theme
Working Together for a Safer World, with dignitaries and
notable experts from around the world. Officially opened
by The Hon. Jane Garrett (Minister for Emergency Services;
Minister for Consumer Affairs, Gaming and Liquor Regulation) the latest innovations, research and practice related
to disaster management were presented. Special thanks to
our CDMPS team for organizing such a successful event.
The department has been successful in securing several
ARC Linkage Grants this year, including on auxetic materials
for protection from extreme loads; on drought, climate
change and water scarcity; on geopolymers and ground
improvement; and a grant to develop an urban analytics data infrastructure building on the Australian Urban
Research Infrastructure Network.
Our Department has had a successful year, with funding
being awarded for several new initiatives. Our new ARC
Training Centre for Advanced Manufacturing in Prefabricated Housing, under the leadership of Prof Priyan Mendis and A/Prof. Tuan Ngo, is one of these new initiatives.
This centre will help to create a globally competitive prefabricated housing industry in Australia, which will create
a sustainable training ecosystem between industry and
universities to unlock the potential growth of Australia’s
prefabricated building industry. The funding provides for
14 PhDs and 6 post-doctoral positions for four years. Dr
Lihai Zhang’s successful integration of structural engineering and biomedical outcomes was recognized with
a Johnson & Johnson Medical research contract and a
research grant from the Victorian Orthopaedic Research
Trust. Prof. Colin Duffield has been granted a RAPID start
research grant for his work in Indonesia with different
institutions.
Several of our academic staff have received awards for
their outstanding contributions to research across disciplines. A/Prof. Tuan Ngo and Dr Jonathan Tran received
a Defence Capability Improvement Award for their work
in optimising structural systems at the Defence Materials
Technology Centre (DMTC) conference in Canberra.
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At MODSIM2015, Prof Andrew Western was presented with
a MSSANZ 2015 Biennial Medallist and Fellow Award, and Dr
Tim Peterson was a recipient of a 2015 Early Career Research
Excellence Award.
I also take this opportunity to thank our Industry Advisory
Group members and all our industry partners for their support and expertise. Particularly, I would like to thank Mr Chris
McRae, the Chair of the IAG, for his outstanding leadership.
Dr Guillermo Narsilio, in collaboration with a colleague from
the School of Mathematics and Statistics, was awarded funding
for a workshop on ‘Mining Data for Detection and Prediction of
Failure in Geomaterials’ at the Australian Academy of Science.
This represents a significant step forward for Engineering in the
sciences in Australia. At the 11th annual Victorian Spatial Excellence Awards (VSEA) presented by the Spatial and Surveying
Sciences Institute (SSSI), the RISER project, including A/Prof.
Allison Kealy and Prof. Matt Duckham, won two awards for
spatial excellence, while I was humbled by the Institute’s award
for ‘Professional of the Year’.
I would also thank others who helped ease me into the operation of the department, and my several new roles through the
year. Our department EAs, Eileen Shea and Pauline Woolcock
and their assistant team, Chris Charman and Jenny Smith, all
who have been indispensable. In addition to Head of Department role, my responsibility as Associate Dean-International
would have been impossible without my EA Eileen Shea and
her team. At the same time I was Director of Centre for Disaster Management and Public Safety, and kept ahead of that job
only through the great contribution of Centre Manager Ged
Griffin and the senior advisory team.
Our postgraduate students have also been successful, with
two prestigious scholarships being awarded to Joost van der
Linden and Olga Mikhaylova. Congratulations to both of these
outstanding students.
At the beginning of 2016 we started the year by focusing more
on our growth strategic plan as part of MSE 2025 vision, and
welcomed a new theme, Ocean Engineering with a great academic team to the department.
Professor Anne Steinemann has gained recent media recognition for her study of volatile organic compounds in common
household products. Several colleagues have delivered keynotes at different international conferences, and also several
media contributions. Our Surveying and Geomatics Collection
has been selected to be part of a summer exhibition at the Ian
Potter Gallery, and together with the many academic conferences and visits we are a significant international presence. I
congratulate everyone on their work in such initiatives both
within and outside academia.
Special thanks to all colleagues and senior executives across
the University, and in particular the School of Engineering, the
Dean Prof Iven Mareels, Deputy Dean Prof Peter Scales and
their team for their ongoing operational support and contribution to the life of the Department.
The Department’s laboratories recently received significant
funding from MSE to support new infrastructure, and Dr Mahdi
Disfani and A/Prof. Graham Moore were granted funding to
prepare pre-laboratory online learning materials and protocols
for MSE.
I thank all of our academic and professional colleagues for
their work throughout the year, teaching, supervising, demonstrating, arranging field trips and being generous with their
time, expertise and guidance to our students and colleagues.
In particular, I thank Prof. Andrew Western (Deputy Head) and
our Discipline Leaders for their leadership and hard work: Prof.
Colin Duffield for Civil Engineering; Prof. Stephan Winter for
Geomatics; and A/Prof. Mike Stewardson for Environmental
and Hydrology Resources; and A/Prof Graham Moore, Chair
Education Committee.
I thank our students, not only for their work on our own research but also their contributions in many other ways, helping
their fellow students and taking an active part in the life of the
Department. Special thanks to the Graduate Infrastructure Engineering Students (GIES) team for their excellent contribution
It’s an exciting and dynamic time indeed.
Prof. Abbas Rajabifard
Head of Department
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Industry Advisory
Group (IAG)
IAG 2015 Members
The Department continues to benefit from the guidance of
the external members of its Industry Advisory Group, which
meets three times a year.
Industry
Mr Chris McRae (IAG Chair)
Executive Director, Land Victoria,
Department of Environment, Land,
Water and Planning
Mr Garry Liddle (IAG Deputy Chair)
Deputy Secretary Transport,
Department of Economic Development, Jobs,
Transport and Resources-Victoria (DTPLI)
Mr Mark Allen
Strategic Project Manager, City Design,
City of Melbourne
Mr Peter Ryan
Managing Director
WBHO Infrastructure
The Hon Gary Nairn
(Former Federal Minister),
Consultant to AAM Group
Mr Dominic Ancaro
Director, Navire
Mr Glenn Cockerton
Managing Director
Spatial Vision Innovations
Ms Catherine Eymin
Director, Infrastructure
Yarra Trams
Mr Mark Judd
Manager, Innovation Select Solutions
Geomatic Technologies
Dr Rory Nathan
Technical Director, Jacobs SKM
Mr Dean McIntyre
Manager-Victoria, GHD
Ms Sharon David, Executive Director
Water Resources, Water & Catchments (DELWP)
Mr Graham Hawke, Deputy Director,
Environment and Research Division,
Bureau of Meteorology
Environmental
Our Industry Advisory Group meets in
March, August and November.
The March meeting in 2015 was
dedicated to IAG-Disciplines
meetings.
Academia
Professor Abbas Rajabifard
Head of Department
Professor Peter Scales
Deputy Dean, Melbourne School
of Engineering
Professor Andrew Western
Deputy Head of Department
Professor Stephan Winter
Discipline Leader, Geomatics
Assoc Professor Colin Duffield
Discipline Leader, Civil
Assoc Professor Michael Stewardson
Discipline Leader, Environmental
Hydrology & Water Resources
Ms Pauline Woolcock, Secretary
Geomatics
Civil
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Department Staff
APPOINTMENTS
SENIOR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Prof. Abbas Rajabifard, Head of Department and Associate Dean (International)
Prof. Andrew Western, Deputy Head of Department & Chair, Research Committee
Prof. Stephan Winter, Discipline Leader, Geomatics
Assoc. Prof. Colin Duffield, Discipline Leader, Civil & Deputy Chair, Industry Engagement Committee
Assoc. Prof. Michael Stewardson, Discipline Leader, Environmental Hydrology and Water Resources &
Chair, Industry Engagement Committee
Assoc. Prof. Graham Moore, Chair of Education Committee
ACADEMIC STAFF (T&R AND RESEARCH)
Civil Discipline
Prof. Colin Duffield
Prof. Ian Johnston
Prof. Stephan Matthai
Prof. Priyan Mendis
Prof Anne Steinemann
Prof. Majid Sarvi
Assoc. Prof. Nelson Lam
Assoc. Prof. Lu Aye
Assoc. Prof. Helen Goldsworthy
Assoc. Prof. Russell Thompson
Assoc. Prof. Tuan Ngo
Dr Behzad Rismanchi
Dr Sam Yuen
Dr Lihai Zhang
Dr Guillermo Narsilio (Future Fellow)
Dr Felix Kin Peng Hui
Dr Elisa Lumantarna
Dr Jonathan Phuong Tran (Research
Fellow)
Dr Rackel San Nicolas (Research Fellow)
Dr Asal Bidarmaghz (Research Fellow)
Dr Massoud Sofi (Research Fellow)
Environmental Hydrology &
Water Resources Discipline
Prof Andrew Western
Prof. Hector Malano
Prof. Stanley Grant
Assoc. Prof. Michael Stewardson
Assoc. Prof. Graham A Moore (Teaching
Specialist)
Dr Meenakshi Arora
Dr Dongryeol Ryu
Dr Marco Ghisalberti
Dr Angus Webb
Dr Murray Peel (Future Fellow)
Dr Yongping Wei (Future Fellow)
Dr Justin Costelloe (Senior Research
Fellow)
Dr Avril Horne (Research Fellow)
Dr Tim Peterson (Research Fellow)
Dr Chun-Hsu Su (Research Fellow)
Dr Lisa Lowe (Research Fellow)
Dr Joanna Szemis (Research Fellow)
Ms Eleanor Gee (Research Fellow)
Ms Simranjit Kaur (Research Assistant)
Prof. Anne
Steinemann,
Chair of
Sustainable Cities
Prof. Stephan
Matthai
Chair of Reservoir
Engineering
Prof Majid
Sarvi
Chair in Transport
Engineering
Dr Kourosh
Khoshelham
Lecturer in Spatial
Information
Geomatics
Dr Marco
Ghisalberti
Senior Lecturer in
Hydrology & Water
Resources
Dr Behzad
Rismanchi
Lecturer in
Building Energy
Geomatics Discipline
Prof. Abbas Rajabifard
Prof. Stephan Winter
Prof. Matt Duckham (until end June)
Assoc. Prof. Allison Kealy
Dr Mohsen Kalantari Soltanieh
Dr Joseph Leach (until March)
Dr Kourosh Khoshellham
Mr Clifford Ogleby (Teaching Specialist)
Dr Benny (Yiqun) Chen (Research Fellow)
Dr Katie Potts (Research Fellow)
Dr Nicole Ronald (Research Fellow - until
end May)
Dr Mihai Tanase (Research Fellow)
Dr Maria Vasardani (Research Fellow)
Dr Ida Jazayeri (Research Fellow)
Dr Ronny Kutadinata (Research Fellow)
Dr Mahdi Miri
Disfani
Lecturer in
Geotechnical
Engineering
Dr Angus Webb
Senior Lecturer in
Hydrology & Water
Resources
Dr Asal
Bidarmaghz
Dr Ronny
Kutadinata
Research Fellow
Mr Kenny Qi
Jing Tan
Research Fellow
Geomatics
Teaching Periodic
Geotechnical
PROFESSIONAL STAFF
Dr Elisa
Lumantarna
Lecturer
Civil Engineering
Mr Hamzeh Zarei
Teaching Periodic
Dr Maria
Vasardani
Lecturer
Geomatics
(Feb-July)
Dr Massoud
Sofi
Mr Phil
Christopher
Teaching Periodic
Teaching Periodic
PROMOTIONS
Ms Eileen Doufas-Shea, Executive Assistant to the Head
of Department
Ms Pauline Woolcock, Department Administrator
Ms Hai Do, Academic Support Coordinator
Ms Claire Grist, Academic Support Coordinator
Ms Corine Skey Nankoo, Assistant, Australia China Centre
on Water Resources Research
Ms Chris Charman, Administration Assistant
Ms Jenny Smith, Administration Assistant
Assoc Prof
Dr Yongping Wei
Dr Tuan Ngo
Colin Duffield to
to Associate
to Associate
Kalantari to
Professor
Professor
Professor
Senior Lecturer
Dr Mohsen
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Highlights
Opening Ceremony Melbourne-Shenzen Rehabilitation Research Centre
International Smart Cities
Symposium
In February, the Department through CSDILA conducted a successful International Symposium on
Smart Future Cities: The Role of 3D Land, Property
and Cadastre Information. The event was well attended by people from Government (Federal, State
and local levels), related industry and other universities, with representatives from 14 countries.
Dr Lihai Zhang participated in the opening ceremony of the Melbourne-Shenzhen Rehabilitation Research Centre in
Shenzhen, China. Above: Dr Lihai Zhang (5th from left) and colleagues at the opening of the MSRRC in Shenzhen
Visit by Indonesian Delegation, Indonesia-Australia Centre
The Infrastructure Research Cluster of the Indonesia Australia Centre, co-led by Assoc. Prof. Colin Duffield, met in
Melbourne in March, and included a visit to the Department. Important themes emerged such as sustainability,
disasters, infrastructure planning and the use of non-destructive testing on infrastructure assets. The 30 delegates
enjoyed a fruitful planning meeting, a visit to the Centre for Disaster Management and Public Safety—CDMPS—and a
demonstration of non-destructive testing.
Keynote Presentation at World Cadastre Summit and Awards, Turkey
Prof. Ian Williamson and Prof. Abbas Rajabifard (above right) were honoured to be invited to deliver keynote addresses
at the World Cadastre Summit 2015 Congress and Exhibition Istanbul, in April. This Summit was attended by over 3,000
delegates from 87 countries including 30 ministers. Both Professor Rajabifard and Professor Williamson were recognised
with awards for their contribution to the concept of the Cadastre and land administration.
The IE Department 2015 Strategic Planning Day was held on July 6 to discuss topics including
engagement, balancing teaching demand and capacity, delivery strategies, the research process and research training, growth planning including space and staffing requirements and ideas, collaboration opportunities and ECR plans.
A broad and enthusiastic discussion was held and ideas developed for the Department.
Tsinghua University Delegation
Professor Abbas Rajabifard met with Prof MA
Lan (Vice Dean, Research) and his colleagues
and students, and MSE colleagues, to introduce
MSE2025 and discuss further collaboration
opportunities. MSE has a long partnership with
Tsinghua including the Australia-China Joint
Research Centre on River Basin Management.
Policy Dialogue with partnerships Victoria
Assoc. Prof .Colin Duffield presented at a policy dialogue with Partnerships Victoria held in Melbourne in May.
The dialogue engaged Australian private-public partnership experts in discussions that aimed to enrich knowledge,
insights, and experiences on such partnerships. It served as a venue for Australia to share its experience, particularly
that of the State Government of Victoria. Australia’s rich experiences with institutional framework, procurement policies, evaluation methodologies, and implementation and monitoring of projects were also discussed.
The dialogue was co-organized by the PPP Center, AusTrade and Partnerships Victoria, with support from the Asian
Development Bank and the Philippine Embassy in Australia.
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UCI Water PIRE Visit
2015 United States UCI-PIRE UPP Down Under
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Visit to Chile
World experts discuss territorial
information and intelligent cities
Smart cities of the future and the importance of
generating territorial information for the decisions of
politicians and businessmen were some of the topics
debated by world experts in geospatial information
in the international seminar "Information Territoral
for the management public and access citizen",
organised by the Ministry of National Property. Prof
Abbas Rajabifard as the keynote speaker stressed the
importance of the layers of information of various
kinds that are and will be the basis of smart cities.
The Department hosted lunch for 25 students and staff from the University of California Irvine, UC San Diego, and UCLA
during Week 3 of the 2015 UCI-Water PIRE UPP Down Under (Monday 15 June – Saturday 25 July). The group was led by our
colleague Professor Stan Grant at UC Irvine.
Prof Rajabifard, with a concept completely modern
in what can be achieved with spatial information,
pointed out that the role of the agencies concerned
to collect this type of data, such as the national
system of Territorial Information (SNIT) of the Ministry of national assets in Chile, will have a fundamental role in lands and
properties in 3D information.
IE Department and IBM Workshop
He based his presentation on the importance of spatial information in response to the emerging needs of people and
organisations, as the expectations of consumers, improving the processes and the economy, to pose as a main concept of
intelligent cities, the relationship between the Government, industry and citizens.
Water PIRE Visit
The Department held a joint workshop with
IBM on 18 August to discuss opportunities,
options and research areas for collaboration.
The themes for discussion were Smart Cities,
Disaster Planning, Response and Management,
and Environmental Systems
Assoc. Prof. Allison Kealy was
appointed a Fellow of the
International Association of
Geodesy Executive Committee at its meetings in Prague,
Czech Republic, in June.
Allison was appointed an IAG
Fellow in recognition of her
services during 2011-2015, in
particular as the Vice- President of Commission 4 on
Positioning and Navigation.
Women in IE Lunch
The Department hosted a lunch to discuss opportunities and related issues of importance within our female cohort. Our
Equal Opportunitiy representatives, Assoc Professor Helen Goldsworthy and Dr Murray Peel attended.
Infrastructure Workshop, Jakarta
A/Prof Colin Duffield conducted a major infrastructure
workshop for the Indonesian government in Jakarta.
Visit by APCO International
In April 2015 the Centre For Disaster Management and Public Safety (CDMPS)
welcomed executive management representatives from the Association of
Public Safety Communications (APCO) International, President Mr John Wright
and First Vice President Mr Brent Lee and British APCO Chief Operating Officer
Geoff Naldrett who undertook an inspection of the CDMPS Laboratory and
received presentations on the research projects being undertaken.
The visitors expressed their satisfaction with the considerable progress that
had been made by the CDMPS in the past 12 months with the establishment
of the Centre’s Laboratory and noted the research projects that had particular
relationships with mission critical communications.
Steel Design Week
The yearly “steel design week” with URS (now AECOM) as a part of the assessment for CVEN90035 Structural Theory and
Design 3 was held inAugust. The key person from URS leading this activity was Martin Hewitt, Associate Director, Structures
at AECOM.
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OPEN DAY
Water Group Retreat - July
The Environmental Hydrology and Water discipline held a retreat 13-15 July to consider various challenges and
opportunities that we face the coming five years including the need to increase student numbers, the redevelopment of facilities across MSE, growing the international visibility of the group, and strengthening our RHD program. The retreat was held in a large holiday house overlooking St Andrews Beach, buffeted by waves generated
by the Antarctic vortex that also brought snow to the mountains and threatened floods in Melbourne.
The Department had another successful Open Day on Sunday, 16 August, with almost 4000 visitors to Engineering.
The two lab tours were very popular. We also had a huge
amount of traffic at our engineering stands in Wilson Hall,
and good attendance in display areas in Melbourne School
of Design. Special thanks to the open day coordinators from
the department, people who delivered information sessions
and ran very interesting lab tours.
Lab Tour - August
Our laboratories are an integral part of our Department and are designed to support research and teaching
activities of various subjects. A tour was arranged for all staff to visit our current facilities. This was an opportunity for our staff to get a comprehensive view of the current status of our labs’ instruments and capabilities. Our
five laboratories are: Wet lab (Water Resources & Hydrology); Francis Lab (Structure); Vasey Lab (Environmental);
Geotechnical Soil and Water Lab; and Sexton Lab (Ecohydraulics).
Mitko Alexandrov, Sam Amirebrahimi, Bahman Esfandiar, Mohsen Azadbakht and Prof Abbas Rajabifard
US-Arcadia Visit - Science and Engineering STEM Round Table
Science and Engineering hosted a round table event for the Arcadia US Study Abroad Delegates. They were
addressed by Prof Abbas Rajabifard (Assoc Dean Internationa) and Assoc Professor Graham Moore from
Engineering and Assoc Prof Andrew Drinnan from the Science Faculty.
Global coverage of Professor
Anne Steinemann’s research
has been printed in over 300
newspapers, magazines, television, radio, and in podcasts
internationally, plus over 200
newspapers in Australia.
Professor Steinemann’s
television and radio appearances include The Project,
ABC Radio Sydney, ABC Radio
Tasmania, 3AW Radio, 9 News,
Channel 10, 4BC Radio Brisbane, PBS News Hour, with larger stories in progress with
the BBC and National Geographic.
Prof Anne Steinemann was appointed to the NSF
International/American National Standards Institute, Joint Committee for Health-Based Standards
for Consumer Product Emissions.
Dr Mahdi Miri Disfani was
elected as the Secretary of
Australian Geomechanics
Society, Victoria Chapter, for
the next two years.
Dr Guillermo Narsilio was
elected as the Deputy Chair
of the Australian Geomechanics Society, Victoria
Chapter.
Assoc Professor Nelson Lam was interviewed by the national engineering
magzaine “Jurutera” on one of his many
visits to Malaysia in 2015 that culminated in the completion of the draft
Malaysia National Annex to Eurocode 8
for the seismic design of structures. The
document was released for public consultation by the Malaysian government
before becoming part of the building
law for Malaysia.
In 2015 the ARC Linkage Project “Talking about
Place was completed. It is documented at http://
telluswhere.net, and a video is shown at: https://
youtu.be/8BnAN_53dcQ
The World Geothermal Congress 2015 was held in
Melbourne. The Geothermal Group of the Department of Infrastructure Engineering at the University
of Melbourne presented a paper on the shallow
geothermal installation at Elizabeth Blackburn School
of Sciences, during the conference and also invited
participants to see the school after the presentation.
PhD student, Olga Mikhaylova presented her preliminary finding on the geothermal installation at EBSS
during the WGC2015
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Australian Academy of Science
Elizabeth and Frederick White Research Conferenceat at UoM: Mining
Data for Detection & Prediction of Failure in
Geomaterials
This event on 13-14 July was hosted by Infrastructure
Engineering and Mathmetics - Dr Guillermo Narsilio was
host and he and Dr Mahdi Miri Disfani were presenters.
2nd International Symposium on Disaster
Management
On October 12-14 the Centre for Disaster Management and Public
Safety successfully hosted the 2nd International Symposium on
Disaster Management, at the University of Melbourne. The event
aimed to present and discuss the latest innovations, research and
practice related to disaster management, and attracted delegates
internationally from 14 countries, and nationally from a range of
sectors across Australia. The theme for the event was ‘Working
together for a safer world’ and during the event the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction was celebrated and marked
by dedicated sessions on community resilience and disaster risk
reduction activities and research.
The Symposium was officially opened by The Hon. Jane Garrett
(Minister for Emergency Services; Minister for Consumer Affairs, Gaming and Liquor Regulation).
Mr Ged Griffin addressing the audience, Day 1
Pre-Symposium Workshop
Prof Peter Scales (Acting Dean, Melbourne School of
Engineering) and Prof Abbas Rajabifard (Director, Centre
for Disaster Management and Public Safety and Head of
the Department of Infrastructure Engineering) opened the
meeting welcoming 27 attendees from all over the country, ranging from the former Chief Scientist to the Australian Federal Government Prof Robin Batterham to 9 Early
to Mid-Career Researchers and international delegates.
This Australian Academy of Science Conference aimed to
advance, at the most fundamental level, the state-of-thescience in the observation, modelling and simulation,
and prediction of geomaterial failure. With an excellent
balance between Mathematicians and Engineers (but still
a skewed distribution of researchers/consultants), delegates participated in robust discussions facilitated through
guided questions and exchanged ideas and perspectives.
Especially invited plenary lecturers, Prof Carlos Santamarina (Georgia Tech/KAUST) and Ronaldo Borja (Stanford)
opened each day of the conference. Themed presentations were delivered by both researchers from mathematics and statistics and by engineer researchers/consultants
who are experienced in the analysis of real-world data
and know real engineering problems. For each cluster
or theme, generous time was allocated for discussions
involving all the floor.
In this way, this meeting introduced new directions and
perspectives in the study of geomaterial failure to Australian researchers. More details of the program and the
conference itself can be found at the following link, which
has been available to the public since June 2015: https://
go.unimelb.edu.au/?link=7uqn
Panel Discussion with L-R: Assoc Prof Colin Duffied, Mr
Chris Body, Mr Jonathan Coppel, Mr Brian Kelleher
Public Sector Week (Building Capacity/Building our State)
L-R: Prof James McCluskey, Mr Tony Pearce, The Hon Jane Garrett, Prof
Abbas Rajabifard, Prof Iven Mareels.
Day 2 of the Symposium was followed by a Gala Dinner
which was held to encourage networking and collaboration opportunities following the event. A poster competition was also held which featured research posters
showcasing current disaster management research.
Dr Guillermo Narsilio delivered a seminar about “Geothermal heating and
cooling for buildings – achievements and opportunities – “ during the “Public
Sector Week” (22-26 June 2015). The group was invited by the Victorian
Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources
(DEDJTR) to share lessons learned and provide examples of new businesses
and job opportunities arising from this new energy technology while improving
the environement.
More information at: http://events.publicsectorweek.org.au/event/107
The Endeavour Engineering & IT Exhibition
The Endeavour Engineering & IT Exhibition, a student-led event guided by Prof Andrew Western, was held on 22 October. This
event showcases engineering and IT for tomorrow by presenting the amazing final-year projects that Engineering and IT students develop during the last 6-12 months of their studies. It offers a unique opportunity for the public and school students
to see how engineering and IT make a difference to our society and the technologies of the future. Related activities during
Expo week included the Industry and Awards Night, where awards for the best final-year projects are delivered.
Keynote Speaker - Day 2
Mr Neil Comrie AO APM, Department of
Premier and Cabinet, Victoria
Keynote Speaker - Day 2
Mr Greg Scott, United Nations InterRegional Advisor, Global Geospatial
Information Management Initiative
Keynote Speaker - Day 3
Mr Craig Lapsley, Commissioner,
Emergency Management Victoria
Prof Abbas Rajabifard presented the best research poster award to Eleanore Doolan, Emma Eltringham, Brett Sheehan and Stephan White for their
research project “Archaeological Exploration using Terrestrial and Airborne Photogrammetry and Laser Scanning. A case Study: Dzveli, Georgia”.
KEY OVERSEAS VISITS
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Earthquake Engineering
The Australian Earthquake Engineering Society and the New
Zealand Society of Earthquake Engineering of the Pacific
Conference in Earthquake Engineering (PCEE) was held in
Sydney from November 6-8. This conference was last held in
Australia 20 years ago at the University of Melbourne.
Assoc Prof Helen Goldsworthy was part of a team that
formed the organisation committee for the 2015 conference, and was also on the technical committee. This was
a major event attracting participants from many countries
around the Pacific. Many members of staff and postgraduate
students from the University of Melbourne Department of
Infrastructure Engineering made presentations at the conference including Elisa Lumantarna, Nelson Lam, Helen Goldsworthy, Anita Amirsardari, Ryan Hoult, Yusak Oktavianus
and Tilak Pokharel. During the conference and on behalf of
the Australian Earthquake Engineering Society, Assoc Prof
Goldsworthy gave a tribute to Nigel Priestley, who died in
December 2014. He was an inspirational world-renowned
academic who visited the University of Melbourne several
times over the last 20 years (once as a Tewkesbury visiting
scholar) and gave some very well attended public lectures.
February
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Professor Hector Malano attended the International Workshop
on Water Security and Groundwater Management in the Age
of Climate Change, New Delhi. This workshop sponsored by the
Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)
was jointly organised by the University of Melbourne, The
Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), The International Water
Management Institute (IWMI) and Indian Institute of Tropical
Meteorology (IITM).
Dr Mahdi Miri Disfani presented at the Australia New Zealand
Geomechanics Conference in Wellington, NZ.
Assoc Prof Nelson Lam delivered the keynote presentation
“Modeling of Seismic Actions in Regions of Low to Moderate
Seismicty” at the Symposium on Future Development of Seismic
Design, co-organised by the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering Kong Kong Branch and the Hong Kong Institute of Steel
Construction.
March
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Meeting re the rebuilding work being carried out in
Nepal:
Dr Lihai Zhang, as a Founding Director, attended the opening
ceremony of the Melbourne-Shenzhen Rehabilitation Research
Centre in China.
Prof Colin Duffield was an invited expert at the UNECE project on
PPP Standards for Roads in Singapore. This was a joing program
between Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, INSEAD and Singapore Management University. The topic was “Governing PPPs:
After the Ri bbin Cutting, then what?”
On the evening prior to the PCEE, Assoc Prof Goldsworthy
arranged for key engineers and academics from New Zealand and Australia to meet with representatives of groups
within Australia, such as the Friends of Nepal Association
and Aussie Action Abroad, who will be helping with the
rebuilding work in Nepal after the devastating earthquake
that occurred there in April 2015. The most important result
from that meeting was a commitment from those present
to review designs being proposed for schools and housing.
Links were also fostered between these volunteer groups
and engineers in Nepal who can assist in ensuring that the
correct practices are used when the structures are actually
being constructed.
April
Establishment of a new Earthquake Mitigation Research Unit (EMRU) within the Centre for the Disaster
Management and Public Safety
May
The aim of this unit is to enhance the capacity of countries
to prepare for hazardous earthquakes and hence to reduce
the overall impact when such an event does occur. The key
capabilities are listed as follows:
Key Capabilities of EMRU:
• Assessment of earthquake hazards
• Assessment of vulnerabilities of building structures and
development of fragility curves
• Development of innovative design approaches and
technologies for Australia and other regions of low to
moderate seismicity and also for regions of high
seismicity
• Experimental testing using the Departmental shaking
table
• Advice and assistance in the rebuilding process in
current disaster areas.
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Yusak Oktavianus (PhD student supervised by Assoc Prof Helen
Goldsworthy) presented a paper at the New Zealand Society of
Earthquake Engineering annual conference held in Rotorua.
Prof Abbas Rajabifard visited Saudi Arabia as part of the university senior delegation to participate at their internal Education
& Exhibition Conference. He also visited and delivered a talk to
Ummul Qura University in Mecca.
Professor Abbas Rajabifard and Prof Ian Williamson delivered
keynote addresses at the World Cadaster Summit 2015 Congress
and Exhibition in Istanbul, Turkey.
Assoc Prof Nelson Lam on a joing invitation from Korea University
and the National Seoul University, delivered lectures on earthquake engineering in regions of low to moderate seismicity.
Dr Angus Webb travelled to Milwaukee, WI, USA to attend and
present at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Freshwater
Science.
Tilak Pokharel (PhD student supervised by Assoc Prof Helen
Goldsworthy) was part of the Learning from Earthquake mission to Nepal from 29 May-13 June.
June
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Professor Stephan Winter and Dr Maria Vasardani attended the
Advancing Geographic Information Science Conference in Bar
Harbor, USA.
Dr Guillermo Narsilio was invited to and presented a lecture at
the International Symposium on Energy Geotechnics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, June 1-3,
ISSMGE TC308 on Energy Geotechnics.
Dr Guillermo Narsilio visited Cambridge University in the UK, in
particular Prof Kenichi Soga’s group, 4-6 June 2015, under his Future Fellowship. A joint ARC Linkage Project application resulted
from this trip.
Assoc Professor Russell Thompson attended the 9th International conference on City Logistics in Tenerife.
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Dr Dongryeol Ryu delivered an invited seminar titled “Impact of Irrigation Development
and Climatic Factors on Regional-Scale Evapotranspiration in the Krishna River Basin,
India” at Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea.
Professor Abbas Rajabifard attended a seminar in Chile where world experts discussed the
future and importance of generating territorial information for the decisions of
politicians and businessmen.
September
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Prof Hector Malano, Dr Dongryeol Ryu, Dr Meenakshi Arora and Mr Brian Davidson organised a Special Session on the Impact of Rural and Urban Development on Local-toRegional Freshwater Cycles, at the 10th Conference on Sustainable Development of
Energy, Water and Environment Systems, September 27-October 2 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The Special Session focused on approaches and methodologies to assess observed or
projected changes of the freshwater cycles in coming decades or century as a result of land
use, land cover changes and urban expansion, and their implications for water resources
planning and management. Further details on the conference can be found at: http://www.
dubrovnik2015.sdewes.org/dates.php’ (from November 2015 IE Newsletter).
Prof Abbas Rajabifard and Dr Dongryeol Ryu met with with the Director of the Spatial Information Research Institute of Korea to discuss CDMPS and SIRI; research collaboration on land
administration, spatial information and disaster management; and draft and confirmation of
timing of MOU.
Prof Stephan Winter attended the Conference on Spatial Information Theory in Santa Fe,
USA.
Dr Guillermo Narsilio (on behalf of Prof Ian Johnston) made a 1-hour “Spotlight presentation” at the 2015 IGSHPA Training, Conference & Expo in Kansas City, MO, USA October 5 - 8,
2015 (Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at the Crown Center).
Assoc Prof Nelson Lam delivered the keynote address at the Institution of Structural Engineers World Conference in Singapore.
October
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Professor Abbas Rajabifard presented the keynote talk at Smart Korea 2015 in Seoul, South
Korea.
November
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Dr Ronny Kutadinata attended the Disrupting Mobility Summit in Boston, MA, USA.
Dr Lihai Zhang was a keynote speaker at the 6th International Conference on Computational
Methods in Auckland, New Zealand addressing “Osteoporotic bone fracture healing under
the locking compression plate system”.
Professor Stephan Winter attended the ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS Conference in Seattle, USA.
Dr Guillermo Narsilio, Dr Asal Bidarmaghz and Dr Mahdi Miri Disfani presented at the XV Panamerican Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (XV PCSMGE), 15-18
Nov. This time, the XV PCSMGE – Buenos Aires 2015 coincided with three important events
for geo-professionals: the 8th South American Conference on Rock Mechanics (CSMR), the
6th International Symposium of Deformation Characteristics of Soils (IC- BA2015 ) and the
XXII Argentinian Congress of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (CAMSIG XXII).
Dr Guillermo Narsilio also delivered part of a pre-conference course (with colleagues from
USA, Brazil and Spain), Co-chair “stream 1C - Geo-engineering for energy & sustainability”
of the Panamerican Conference in Buenos Aires, and made presentations at the National
University of Cordoba and the Catholic University of Cordoba, in Cordoba.
Assoc Professor Russell Thompson presented at the Volvo Centre of Excellence on Sustainable Urban Freight Systems Review at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA.
Professor Colin Duffiled was the University of Melbourne representative in Minister Robb’s
business week trade mission to Indonesia. He presented the keynote address at the Infrastructure Policy Dialogue.
December
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Professor Andrew Western and Dr Tim Peterson attended the American Geophysical Union
(AGU) Fall meeting in San Francisco, USA.
Dr Angus Webb travelled to New Zealand to attend and present at the Annual Meeting of the
Australian Society for Limnology (run in conjunction with New Zealand Freshwater Science
Society), and to attend research meeting of the newly formed ecological resilience consortium.
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Honorary Fellows
L-R: Dr Lihai Zhang, A/Prof Nick Haritos and
A/Prof Lu Aye
L-R: Dr Jack Morgan, Dr Max Erwin, Prof Len Stevens, Prof Tom McMahon
On 27 August, the Department hosted a luncheon for Honorary Staff. Forty of
the Department’s honorary staff community attended the lunch. Professor Abbas
Rajabifard, the Head of Department, opened the event by welcoming Professor Ian
Bishop as MC and Honorary and Department staff, who shared their perspectives
and discussed closer engagement and contribution. Prof Iven Mareels, the Dean
of MSE, presented the MSE 2025 vision and Professor Abbas Rajabifard, Professor Stephan Matthai and Assoc Professor Michael Stewardson brought the guests
up-to-date on the strategic directions of the Department. Professor Len Stevens,
Professor Tom McMahon and Professor Ian Williamson gave a brief overview of
their long association with the Department, both as former staff and as members
of the honorary staff community. Mr Chris McRae, Chair of our Industry Advisory
Group (IAG), and one of the many honorary staff from industry, gave an overview
of the value of a closer association with industry. Discussion groups explored the
benefit of increased activity by building opportunity for students (mentoring, guest
lectures, increased exposure to industry) and involvement in strategic research
collaboration.
New Honorary Appointments 2015
Prof Ian Johnston
Dr Stephan Brown
Mr Valentine Lehr
Mr Chris Body
Mr Xiang Cheng
Dr Fjalar De Haan
Honorary (Professorial Fellow)
Honorary (Principal Fellow)
Honorary (Senior Fellow)
Honorary (Senior Fellow)
Honorary (Fellow)
Honorary (Fellow)
Dr Nicole Ronald
Honorary (Fellow)
Dr Chun-Hsu Su
Honorary (Fellow)
Mr Graham Hawke
Honorary (Fellow)
Prof Ian Johnston
L-R: Prof Stephan Winter, Dr Zaffar Sadeq,
Mr Glenn Cockerton
Professor Ian Johnston retired at the end of 2015
from his position of Professor of Geotechnical Engineering, and his long association with MSE.
Professor Johnston will continue his involvement with
the geothermal research he has been leading for a
number of years and, in particular, the significant Victorian State funding he was awarded in 2012 which
was extended for an additional 2 years to 2018.
L-R: Mr Peter Dapiran and Dr David Wilson
In 2012 he was recognized by the Australian Geomechanics Society as a recipient of the John Jaeger
Memorial Award, the highest award of the Australian Geomechanics Society selected once every four years for ‘contributions of the highest order over a lifetime
commitment to the geotechnical profession in Australia’.
Professor Johnston has brought extensive industry experience to the Department
and his contribution and leadership in his field of research as well as his role as
trainer/mentor, and career adviser to RHD students will continue to be valued.
We thank Professor Johnston for his long-standing commitment and contribution
to the Department of Infrastructure Engineering, and the wider University.
Prof Iven Mareels
Prof Graham Hutchinson
& Prof Len Stevens
Mr Chris McRae
Prof Stephan Matthai
Prof Abbas Rajabifard & Prof Ian Bishop
Professor Johnston has now been appointed as an Honorary Professorial Fellow.
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Awards
Victorian Spatial Excellence Awards (VSEA)
Victorian Professional of the Year 2015
Staff & Associates
Professor Colin Duffield and PhD candidate Gigih
Atmo’s paper “Improving investment sustainability
for PPP power projects in emerging economies:
value for money framework”, published in Built
Environment Project and Asset Management,
was selected by the journal’s editorial team as a
Highly Commended Paper of 2014. The paper ws
mentioned as one of the most impressive pieces of
work the team had seen in 2014.
L-R: Dr Mohsen Kalantari, Dr Ali Aien, Prof Abbas Rajabifard, Mr Brian Marwick, Dr
Serene Ho
Professor Rajabifard was announced as the Victorian Professional of the Year 2015.
The SSSI (Spatial Science and Surveying Institute Australia)
Spatial Excellence Awards celebrate the achievements of top
spatial information enterprises and individuals, and recognise
outstanding achievers who are pre-eminent in their field.
Dr Mahdi Disfani, together with Dr Guillermo Narsilio
and Mr Tabassom Afshar (Sessional Research Assistant at IE), were successful with their application for
access to the Australian Synchrotron Imaging and
Medical beamline to study the “Micro-scale behaviour
of recycled construction and demolition material:
focussing on particle shape and breakage”.
The access is for 4 days of beam time and was
awarded through a competititve application process.
Dr Guillermo Narsilio and Prof Antoinette Tordesillas
from the School of Mathematics and Statistics were
awarded funding to organise and host the 2015 event
at the Australian Academy of Science. They coordinated a workshop on “Mining Data for Detection and
Prediction of Failure in Geomaterials”.
Professor Colin Duffield was an invited speaker at
the Australian Club in April, the Cambridge Society in
August and at the 2nd Internaational Symposium on
Disaster Management in October.
Professor Rajabifard is Head of Department of Infrastructure
Engineering, as well as Director of the Centre for Spatial Data
Infrastructures & Land Administration (CSDILA) and Associate
Honours Lists
The Honourable Gary Nairn, who
served as Federal Member for
Eden Monaro 1996-2007, was
appointed an Officer of the Order
of Australia (AO) in the General
Division in the Queen’s Birthday
Honours. Mr Nairn was awarded
the appointment for distinguished
service to the Parliament of
Australia, to the communities of
New South Wales and the Northern
Territory, to the surveying and
spacial sciences, and to disability support groups. Mr Nairn is a
member of the Department’s Industry Advisory Group.
Associate Professor Geoffrey S
Sutherland OAM was awarded the
Medal of the Order of Australia
General Division for service to
engineering, and to education, in the
2015 Australia Day Honours list. Geoff
is an Honorary Principal Fellow of the
Department.
Prof Rajabifard receiving the award and with Dr Zaffar Mohammad Gouse
Dean (International), and has active research in the areas of
SDI, Land Administration and land management, spatial enablement, spatial enabled government and societies, disaster
management, 3D platforms and virtual jurisdictions.
As a result of the award, Professor Rajabifard is nominated for
the National and APSEA awards (Asia-Pacific Spatial Excellent
Awards), which will be announced early 2016.
Research Project Award
L-R: Mr Glenn Cockerton who presented the Award and the RISER team: Assoc
Prof Allison Kealy, Dr Peter Zhang, Mr Mark Garvey, Prof Matt Duckham
The RISER project was nominated in the category of Award for
Technical Excellence. The project won the award with the judges noting that “In a category filled with excellence, the RISER
project stood out as a benchmark of technical excellence that
addressed a significant need using a complex mix of technologies requiring significant integration.”
The RISER team accepting the Award.
The RISER project also went on to receive the Victorian Government Award for Spatial Excellence, the highest accolade of the
awards. As a winner of the VSEA, the RISER project will now
go forward to the national Australia Pacific Spatial Excellence
Awards (APSEA) to be announced in March 2016 at the national
Locate conference.
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IE Service Awards
Thornton-Smith Medal awarded by the
Department of Infrastructure Engineering
At our Department End-of-Year function in December, Ms Eileen Doufas-Shea and Dr Sam Yuen were each presented with a Service Award to acknowledged their outstanding contribution to the Department.
The Department of Infrastructure Engineering awards the
Thornton-Smith Medal every year to a graduate of the Geomatics
Discipline who is considered to have made an outstanding contribution to the engineering profession in the field of Geomatics.
The medal is in commemoration of James Thornton-Smith, the
foundation head
of the former Department of Surveying, who was instrumental in
the development and introduction of the course program of what
has
become today Geomatics and Spatial Information.
The 2015 recipient is Mr Ian Ireson, Director Land Registration
Services, Land Victoria and Deputy Registrar of Titles. He is
Victoria’s representative on the Australian Registrars National
Electronic Conveyancing Council as well as holding positions on
other state and national committees related to surveying and
land administration.
Throughout his career Ian has had a strong commitment
to providing e-business solutions and improving services in
surveying and land administration including Victoria’s digital
cadastral map base, survey marks, aerial photography and
online information services for surveying, plan and property
information. In the early nineties his skills in this area were well
regarded and he provided international consultancy services
to the Singapore Government’s Planning, Building Control and
Roads Departments. He led the implementation of land titles
automation, electronic conveyancing and the water register into
Victoria’s business processes.
Prof Stephan Winter (left), Geomatics Discipline Leader,
He is currently responsible for the implementation of national
presenting the award to Ian Ireson
lectronic conveyancing, electronic plan lodgement and other
national land administration initiatives in Land Victoria and reforming business processes and services to maximise the
benefits of these initiatives.
MODSIM 2015
At the Conference dinner on 3 December, Prof Andrew
Western was named as a recipient of a MSSANZ 2015
Biennial
Medallist
and Fellow
award.
MODSIM
2015
Awards
Dr Tim Peterson was named as a recipient of a 2015
Early Career Research Excellence award.
Prof Andrew Western
Dr Tim Peterson
Best Poster Award - International Symposium
A/Prof Colin Duffield, Prof Stephan Winter, A/
Prof. Russell Thompson, Dr Ronny Kutadinata,
and RHD students Rahul Deb Das, Subham
Jain, Michael Rigby and Zahra Navidikashani,
with MSE and Monash colleagues, won the
Best Poster Award at Disrupting Mobility,
a Global Summit Investigating Sustainable
Futures held in Cambridge, MA on November
11-13. Their poster, “Shared, Autonomous,
Connected and Electric Urban Transport”
showed results of various aspects of the ongoing ARC Linkage Project Integrating Mobility on
Demand in Urban Transport Infrastructures
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FUNDING AWARDS
Dr Mahdi Disfani (left) and Assoc Prof Graham
Moore (right) were granted funding to prepare
pre-laboratory online learning materials and
protocols for the Melbourne School of
Engineering.
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Lake Eyre Basin (LEB)
The management of the Lake Eyre Basin (LEB) was awarded the Theiss International River Prize at the RiverSymposium conference in September 2015. This is a very
prestigious award worth $500,000 and the LEB is the first
prize winner where the emphasis has been on sustainable
management and protection of the system rather than
rehabilitation of a catchment/basin that has been adversely affected by river regulation or pollution. It is a great
example of community-government-science-conservation
working together on a huge, cross-border basin and the
Dr Mahdi Disfani was awarded an ARC Linkage grant for
“Development of deep soil mixing technology utilising
industrial by-products”, led by Swinburne University of
Technology.
Dr Disfani also received a $20,000 Teaching Grant forhis
project: Transforming pre-lab and post-lab learning in the
MSE with e-learning.
Dr Dongryeol Ryu and colleagues
were awarded Melbourne Networked
Society Institute seed funding for a
proof-of-concept proposal in environmental remote sensing and UAV
applicaition to disaster management.
Professor Colin Duffield was awarded a
RAPID start research grant for his work
in Indonesia with Monash University,
ITB and ITS in Indonesia.
Following the successful submission of an EOI to ANLEC,
Professor Stephan Matthai’s team has been invited to
present the detailed work program for a research and
reservoir engineering project entitled “Alternative Modelling and Simulation for Structural and Aquifer Traps”.
This project will resolve CO2 injection dynamics and the
role of faults in potential storage complexes. The use of
unstructured simulation grids will permit the realistic
representation of these features in the simulations.
Coupled flow - geomechanics and reactive transport
simulations will be conducted on models of Gippsland
CO2 injection candidate sites. This numerical simulation
research will help to clarify the impact of faults on the
storage capacity and potential leakage mechanisms of
these injection targets.
Another invited research and development proposal entitled “Upscaling saturation functions in heterogeneous
porous media” to be funded at 500k/yr over a period
of 3 years and jointly submitted with FEI (Canberra,
Portland, US) is also awaiting funding.
prize was awarded “for its impeccable efforts to integrate
community, government and scientific perspectives to
encourage sustainable economic growth while protecting
the natural flows of the basin’s rivers from water resource
development, mining, pollution and other threats”. Dr
Justin Costelloe is a member of the LEB Scientific Advisory
Panel that was involved in the nomination of the LEB in
conjunction with the Queensland and South Australian
Natural Resource Management Boards covering much of
the LEB. Dr Costelloe is currently working on a project on
the Diamantina River that is investigating key hydrological
and eco-hydrological aspects of the complex flow regime
of the Diamantina River. It has three major strands that
aim to increase understanding of:
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Professor Stephan Winter and a
larger team of colleagues across MSE
were awarded a Carlton Connect Rd 3
seed fund project. While the project
is still ongoing, a major work of 2015
was the smart mobility survey in
partnership with MIT, SMART, and the
Department of Transport in Victoria.
Reservoir Engineering Project
Distribution of waterholes that provide refuge to fish
and other aquatic animals.
Surface water – groundwater interactions in the river
and how this affects surface water quality and
ecosystems.
The relationship between flow patterns, soil conditions
and riparian tree distribution and regeneration.
Three further CO2-sequestration related proposals to
ANLEC are under review.
ARC Lief Grant - Urban
analytics data infrastructure
The Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructure and Land Administration
(CSDILA) was awarded a one-year
ARC Linkage infrastructure, equipment and facilities (LIEF) project, led
by Prof. Abbas Rajabifard in collaboration with 5 other research centres.
The project aims to develop an
urban analytics data infrastructure
that builds on the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure
Network (AURIN). This digital data infrastructure intends
to enable the integration, harmonisation, connectivity and
scalability of multi-source urban datasets. This infrastructure
is required to underpin the next generation of data-driven
modelling and decision-support tools to enable the design of
smart, productive and resilient cities. These capabilities are
predicated on the adoption of ISO standards, development
of new ontological frameworks and an urban data dictionary
to enable semantic inferencing of datasets and the development of data structures and services. This framework would
then be applied to data relevant to people, land and urban
infrastructure to support comparative and multi-dimensional
analytics.
One 1-M AUD per year - 3 year research proposal to the
federal governments CCS R&D fund is also under review
by Australian government.
Above: Simulation of C02 injection into a two-dimensional model of a 25 metre wide, 5 metre tall quarry
face exposing a highly permeable river-channel with
large permeability and porosity variations. CO2 saturation is shown using rainbow shading and permeability
using grayscale.
Dr Guillermo Narsilio received
teaching funding for new triaxial
testing equipment and new geophysical testing equipment.
This project aims to develop the digital infrastructure
required to underpin the next generation of data driven
modelling and decision-support tools to enable smart,
productive and resilient cities. This project will capitalise and
add value to the AURIN platform, create a positive impact on
the fragmented data landscape that persists in Australia, and
empower new capabilities in urban analytics. This project
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Research Initiatives
Reservoir Engineering
In November, Professor Stephan Matthai
initiated an inter-institutional research programme involving Prof.
Lutz Gross (University of
Queensland) and Prof.
Andre Revil (ISTERRE
and the University of
Grenoble, France). This
international research
proposal is currently in
review by the Australian
CCS R&D Development
Programme. The scope of this initiative is the accurate
simulation, forecasting, and monitoring of carbon
dioxide behaviour in the subsurface as a prerequisite
for safe and cost-effective CO2 abatement. Supporting
the Australian clean coal and energy sectors in this
quest, with tools and expertise that will boost productivity by transforming traditional discipline-separated
sequential workflows, is the goal of this multidisciplinary reservoir engineering - hydrogeophysics - simulation-guided engineering project. Via new multiphysics software integrating: 1) fine-grained parallel
space-time adaptive injection simulation, 2) forecasting of the CO2-plume geophysical signature, 3) inverse
analysis of the plume, and 4) simulation-driven design
of injection and monitoring systems, this initiative
aims to improve subsurface knowledge and advance
the understanding of Australia’s storage capacity.
Demonstration and validation of this new carbon dioxide storage methodology will occur with datasets from
Otway, Aquistore and a Chinese CCS site.
Under the auspices of the Peter Cook Centre at UoM,
and together with Stanford and Cambridge Universities, Prof. Matthai designed a research project on re-
active transport and the associated geochemical CO2
trapping mechanisms in geological reservoirs. These
processes are highly dependent on the nature of
structural and lithological heterogeneities. However,
to date, important cm- to meter scale heterogeneities
are not incorporated into storage complex models
because they can neither be seismically imaged nor
represented by grid cells. The project will determine
capillary, dissolution and mineral trapping over time
for open and closed saline aquifers accounting for
such heterogeneities. A series of coordinated process
studies using experimental, (semi-) analytical and
numeric approaches will be carried out with the aim
to estimate the proportion of CO2 trapping by the
different mechanisms over time. The CO2CRC Otway
and the SaskPower Aquistore sites will be used as case
studies, as there is detailed geological information
available. Ultimately, the project will advance the
conceptual representation of CO2 trapping over time
in saline aquifers (IPCC, 2005) to a (semi-) quantitative
representation based on our case studies. This project
is currently under review by BHP Billiton.
ENSG, Nancy and RING consortium (France), the company Kidova in Paris (France), and the ETHZ (Switzerland) just launched a collaboration aiming to raise the
level of physical realism of subsurface multiphysics
simulations creating a next-generation set of numerical simulation tools for geothermal energy extraction
from naturally fractured rocks. The CSMP++ software
developed by Prof Matthai and co-workers will be at
the centre of respective research and development
efforts. This new international collaboration will
focus on the design of geothermal energy extraction
schemes under geologically challenging conditions
and will involve integrated field studies, laboratory
characterisation, geological modelling and numerical
simulations.
In 2015, the UAV Research Unit of CDMPS focused on
two main objectives: to undertake research on innovative use of the UAV platform in disaster management and
environmental sensing and to establish a university-wide
platform to facilitate
diverse applications of
the new technology. Dr.
Dongryeol Ryu received
seed funding from the
Melbourne Networked
Society Institute (MNSI) for
“A Framework for Remote
Sensing and Data Analysis
Using Fixed and Mobile
Sensors in a Combined
Sensor Network” with Drs. Kazmierczak and Fuentes
and from the DEDJTR-UoM Innovation Seed Funding
for “UAV-borne Infrared Thermography for Plant Water
Stress”. His team conducted a number of UAV-borne field
experiments to develop methods to map ground target
structures and Wplant water stress, and the results were
presented by Kate Park and Andrew Nolan at the 2015
MODSIM Conference in Gold Coast, Queensland.
Funded by the Melbourne School of Engineering, they
added a UAV-mount lightweight LiDAR (AL3-32 of the
Phoenix Aerial Systems) to the UAV Unit’s equipment.
The LiDAR is a very important addition to their existing
capability in multispectral (visible, near infrared), hyperspectral and thermal infrared sensing.
The Melbourne Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration
Platform (MUASIP) will be launched in February 2016
funded by the Melbourne Collaborative Research Infrastructure Platform (led by Dr. Ryu). MUASIP will provide
end-to-end services to the UAV-borne sensing for scientific and engineering research and applications. MUASIP’s
contributing partners include Mechanical Engineering,
School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, School of Geography, School of Science, School of Earth Science, School
of BioSciences, Melbourne School of Engineering, Faculty
of Science, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Science,
and the aerial media company XM2 (www.xm2.com).
UAV-borne field experiment in the DEDJTR stone fruit orchard site in Tatura, Victoria.
Geotechnical Group
Dr Guillermo Narsilio’s ARC Future Fellowship officially started in January 2015. His
team will develop new models for studying
the performance of ground heat exchangers, including energy piles, to improve the
design and efficiency of geothermal systems for cooling and heating buildings, and
contributing to reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.
Transportation Engineering for Smart Cities
In November 2015, Professor Majid Sarvi, Transport Engineering, initiated a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary research program in transportation engineering
for smart cities in collaboration with several staff across the department, school
and the university as well as many reputable international researchers from Europe and USA. The aim is to enable the University of Melbourne to establish itself
as a national and international powerhouse in cutting-edge transport engineering
research in the context of smart cities. This will be carried out by establishing
new connected transport engineering laboratory and research program which will
focus on the application of advanced transport engineering modelling, simulation
and optimisation, digital technologies, sensor network, interactive visulaisation,
data analytics and high speed computing in planning, design and operations of the
smart cities transport and transport infrastructure.
UAV-borne field experiment
a
The team was highlighted by the
Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute.
See link: http://sustainable.unimelb.edu.
au/going-underground-clean-energy and
in the Melbourne Energy Institute report
(page 11): http://www.energy.unimelb.
edu.au/files/site1/docs/2323/MEIAR-2014_WEB.pdf
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Geothermal Heating & Cooling for Buildings
Sustainable Energy Pilot Demonstration (SEDP) Program
Prof Ian Johnston and Dr Guillermo Narsilio’s Geothermal
energy research is undertaken under the Victorian Government Sustainable Energy Pilot Demonstration (SEPD)
Program, and was created to:
1. Collect detailed information from ~ 25 new and retrofit
buildings.
2. Develop comprehensive in-ground design data for
Victorian conditions.
The factors being investigated in real-life conditions include:
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Geometrical arrangement of components
Materials used
Importance of orientation, depth and component spacing
Ground fluid types and flow rates, and
Operating characteristics of the Ground source heat
pumps GSHPs used.
It is also aimed at demonstrating the efficacy of direct geothermal energy in Australia.
Many full scale projects are coming online and understanding of these systems is leading to more cost effective design
of Ground heat exchangerGHE systems.
Geothermal for heating and cooling technology is here
today, improving the environment and reducing energy
demand.
The newborn industry is creating jobs to support this ‘new’
energy technology.
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Public sector (initial) co-investment is crucial to build
capacity
Examples of opportunities have been conveyed to
government
Redevelopments (Fisherman bends, Maribyrnong
Defence site)
Metro rail project: geothermal tunnels and stations
Integration with other green technologies
New
Urban Analytics Data Infrastructure (UADI). A. Rajabifard,
R. Stimson, M. Kalantari, B. Randolph, C. Pettit, J. Hunter,
J. Corcoran, S. Bierman, R. Stanton, B. Norman, P. Perez, R.
Wickramasuriya. ARC LIEF Grant with UNSW, IQ, UWA, UC,
UoW. ARC LIEF Grant (LE160100174) 2016. $805,000.
Melbourne Collaborative Research Infrastructure Platform
(MCRIP) Fund: Melbourne Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration Platform (MUASIP) - $120K (UoM) + $200K (MUASIP
Partners) led by D. Ryu and A. Western, and involving several researchers from the department.
Indoor Air Quality, Australia Department of the Environment,
Clean Air and Urban Landscapes Hub, $8,880,000.
Investigator: A. Steinemann (with P. Rayner, Science, Lead
CI). Purpose: To investigate, measure, and evaluate risks of
indoor air pollutants within urban microenvironments and to
compare with outdoor air pollutants. 2015-2021.
Melbourne School of Engineering Major Teaching Infrastructure Fund: Field Infiltrometer – ($14K) led by D. Ryu.
Melbourne School of Engineering Strategic Equipment
Fund: Light-weight LiDAR for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle –
($208K) led by D. Ryu.
Melbourne Networked Society Institute (MNSI) Seed Funding: A Framework for Remote Sensing and Data Analysis
Using Fixed and Mobile Sensors in a Combined Sensor Network – ($60K) led by E. Kazmierczak, D. Ryu, S. Fuentes.
Sustainable, Livable, and Resilient Urban Systems, Australia
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Organisation (CSIRO), $500,000. Lead CI: A.Steinemann.
Purpose: To develop and implement principles for sustainable
urban systems, including innovations for water and energy
sustainability, healthy buildings, and resiliency for extreme
events. 2015-2021.
DEDJTR-UoM Innovation Seed Fund for Horticultural
Development: UAV-borne Infrared Thermography for Plant
Water Stress Mapping – ($25K) led by D. Ryu, S. Fuentes,
M. O’Connell.
Geothermal Modelling
ARC Linkage Project Grant (LP140100495), Predicting water
quality at the catchment scale: learning from two decades
of monitoring, Western, Ryu, Webb, Leahy, Schreiber,
Watson, Waters, Goudey. ($315K (ARC) + $165K (Industry).
2015-2018.
Elizabeth and Frederick White Research Conference on
Mining Data for Detection and Prediction of Failure in Geomaterials. Australian Academy of Science. A Tordesillas
(Faculty of Scienes) & G Narsilio (Engineering). $10,000 (+
5,000 from UoM).
Grants
Simplified analysis method for irregular multi-storey buildings in an earthquake”, E. Lumantarna and M. Sofi (CIs),
Universityof Melbourne; Early Career Researcher Grants
Scheme; 2016.
Notice of Intent for Participation in 2015-16 Horizon 2020:
Knowledge Exchange for Efficient Passage of Fishes in the
Southern Hemisphere, J.A. Webb, University of Melbourne.
Horizon 2020 - European Union - Notice of Intent Strategic
Contribution; 2015; NCD, $30,717.
Victorian Environmental Flows Monitoring and Assessment
Program. Stage 5 - further analysis of the VEFMAP data.
M. Stewardson; Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental
Research, $69,778.
The study of locking compression plate configuration
in osteoporotic condition. L. Zhang, M. Richardson, M.
Pirpiris (2015-2016). Victorian Orthopaedic Research Trust,
$14,880.
The development of an innovative computer-based simulator for the optimization of physiotherapy techniques after
orthopaedic surgery. L. Zhang, M. Richardson, M. Pirpiris.
Awarded by NanAo People’s Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong, P.R. China, $315,000. 2015-2017.
Impacts of climate change and watershed development on
whole-of-basin agricultural water security in the Krishna and
Murray-Darling Basins. ACIAR Project LWR/2007/113. H. Malano, B. Davidson, D Ryu.
International workshop on adaptation of water resources
management to climate change. H. Malano & B Maheshwari.
ACIAR Project No C2014-001
Soil model scoping study. H Bornstein, S Ryan, S. Weckert,
A. Resnyansky, R. Dale, C. Nelson, D. Shanmugam, R. Smith,
K. Bateman, M. Saleh, L. Edwards, G. Narsilio, A. Bidarmaghz. Defence Materials Technology Centre, DMTC, 2015.
$15,000.
Triaxial testing and characteristic curve. M Disfani and G
Narsilio. 2015. BRTS Pty Ltd.
The development of a novel computer simulator for bone
fracture healing. L. Zhang, M. Richardson, M. Pirpiris
awarded by Johnson & Johnson Medical, $210,000.
2015-2017.
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On-Going
Geothermal energy: Harnessing and emerging technology,
G.Narsilio; ARC, Future Fellowship 2014-2018. $719,954 (+
$300,000 from UoM, totaling >$1M).
Collapse Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Buildings in
Regions of Lower Seismicity. Nelson Lam – Discovery Project
DP140103350, Australian Research Council (ARC), Non-lead
grant with Swinburne University of Technology, 2014-2016.
Cost-Effective Mitigation Strategy Development for Building
Related Earthquake Risk. N.Lam and H. Goldsworthy in
collaboration with University of Adelaide (leading), Swinburne
University of Technology and Geoscience Australia, Bushfire
and Natural Hazards CRC, 2014-2020.
Development of Efficient, Robust and Architecturally-flexible
Structural Systems using Innovative Blind-bolted
Connections, ARC Linkage Project LP110200511, H.
Goldsworthy, E. Gad, B. Uy and S. Fernando, 2012-2015.
Partnerships in International Research and Education (PIRE):
Low energy options for making water from waste water; US
National Science Foundation (NSF). S Grant, A. AghaKouchak,
R. Ambrose, P. Bowler, B. Cooper, R. Detwiler, S. Elghobashi,
D. Feldman, S. Jiang, L. Kohne, R. Lejano, L. Levin, L. Riley, M.
McBride, M. Prather, J.D. Saphores, D. Rosso, B. Sanders, A.
Sengupta, E. Stein, M. Sutula, W. Tang, L. Treseder, J. Vrugt, R.
Brown, P. Cook, A. Deletic, T. Fletcher, A. Hamilton, I. Marusic,
D. McCarthy, D. Ryu, M. Stewardson, A. Western, 2011-2016.
A holistic integrated design approach for building envelopes
incorporating sustainability, security and safety, ARC Linkage
Project LP110100429, L. Aye, T. Ngo, 2012-2015.
Bridging the gap between cartilage biology and osteoarthritis
risk prediction, NHMRC Project Grant APP1051538, Gardiner, D.
Smith, L. Zhang, A. Grodzinsky, D. Lloyd, T. Besier, 2013-2015.
Automated groundwater level mapping: a tool for catchment
scale estimation of aquifer storage changes, fluxes and
hydrogeological properties, ARC Linkage Project L P130100958,
A Western, A Frost, E Carrara, X Cheng, C McAuley, 2013-2016
A New-Generation Flood Forecasting System Using
Observations from Space, ARC Linkage Project LP110200520, A
Western, D Ryu, J Walker, S Sooriyakumaran, C Leahy, W Crow,
QJ Wong, D Robinson, L Renzullo, 2011-2015
Fork safely – Improving safety of ordinary forklifts by
automating task-specific operations, ARC Linkage Project
LP130100113, D. Oetomo, A. Kealy, M. Cox, T. Drummond,
W. Ho Li, I. Mareels, S. Winter, 2013-2017.
From Environmental Monitoring to Management: Extracting
Knowledge About Environmental Events from Sensor
Data. ARC Discovery Project DP12010072, Duckham, Kealy,
Richter, Winter, Kininmonth, Klippel, Laube, Lyon, MedyckyjScott, Wark, 2012-2015.
Pre-disaster Multi-Hazard Damage and Economic Loss
Estimation Model. A.Rajabifard, N. Lam, M. Kalantari, in
collaboration with Deakin University and Asian Disaster
Preparedness Centre, Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC,
2014-2017.
Collapse Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Buildings in
Regions of Lower Seismicity. N. Lam – Discovery Project
DP140103350, Australian Research Council (ARC), Non-lead
grant with Swinburne University of Technology, 2014-2016.
Direct Geothermal Energy Pilot Demonstration Projects
for Victoria, Victorian Government Department of State
Development, Business and Innovation (DSDBI), Energy
Technology Innovation Strategy: Sustainable Energy Pilot
Demonstration (SEPD) Program 2012, I. Johnston, G.A.
Narsilio and others, 2012-2016.
The role of turbulence in transporting waterborne material
within streambed sediments and across the sediment-water
interface. S. Grant, M. Stewardson, K. Chauhan, ARC, DP13,
2013-2015.
Advanced Protective Armour, Defence Material Technology
Centre (DMTC), T. Ngo and P. Mendis, 2009-2015.
Integrating Mobility on Demand in Urban Transport
Infrastructures. ARC Linkage Project, Winter, Duffield, Kulik,
Kotagiri, Thompson, Wallace, Savelsbergh with industry
partners Public Transport Victoria, VicRoads, Yarra Trams,
Royal Automobile Club Victoria, and Haasz Technology,
2012-2014
Hydrologic modelling for a changing world, ARC Future
Fellowship FT120100130, M.C. Peel, 2012-2016.
Webb, Dr James Angus, Long-Term intervention monitoring project monitoring and evaluating the ecological
outcomes of commonwealth environmental watring
(Goulburn River selected area) Stage 2, UOM Commercial
Ltd: 2014-235, $3,289,289.
iMoD – Integrating Mobility on Demand in Urban Transport
Infrastructures, ARC Linkage Project LP120200130, S. Winter, C.
Duffield, L. Kulik, R. Kotagiri, R. Thompson, M. Wallace, 20122015 (extended).
Predicting water quality at the catchment scale: learning from two decades of monitoring, A. Western.
Aust Research Council; Linkage Projects;2014;NOV;
LP140100495, $315,000.
Bushfire and Natural Hazard CRC research on earthquake hazards, vulnerability of Australian-designed RC walls, moment-resisting frames, buildings with irregularities including
those featuring the use of transfer girders, seismic damage loss modelling
ARC Linkage Grant on development of structural systems using innovative blind-bolted
connections, A. Western; D. Ryu; JA Webb; P. Leahy; E. Schreiber; M. Watson; D. Waters;
R. Goudey, Aust Research Council; Linkage Projects;2014-2017; NOV; LP140100495,
$315,000.
Automated groundwater level mapping: a tool for catchment scale estimation of aquifer
storage changes, fluxes and hydrogeological properties, ARC Linkage Project, Western, Frost,
Carrara, Cheng, McAuley, 2013-2016.
Better Water Management Through More Focus on Ecological and Social Sciences (Future
Fellowships) Awarded by Australian Research council, Yongping Wei, 2013-2018.
RISER: Resilient information systems for emergency response, 2012–2014. Duckham,
Kealy, Moran, Vecchiola, Rawlinson, Smarr, Harris, Australian Research Council, Linkage
Grant Scheme, $720,000.
Fork safely: improving safety of ordinary forklifts by automating task-specific operations.
Oetomo, Kealy, Winter, Drummond, Mareels, Cox. 2013–2016, Australian Research Council, Linkage Grant Scheme, $195,000.
Sustainable Energy Pilot Demonstration (SEPD) program, Department of Primary Industries, State of Victoria, Direct Geothermal Energy Pilot Demonstration Projects for
Victoria, I. Johnston, G. Narsilio, , D Payne, M Wearing-Smith, G Noonan, $1,614,195.
2012-2016.
3D Land and Property Management. ARC-Linkage Project, A. Rajabifard, I Williamson, T. Ngo.
2012-2016.
Planning and managing road transport systems for extreme events through spatial
enablement, Sarvi, Rajabifard, Seible, Thompson, Miller, Wall, Leighton. LP140100369, 20142017, $560,000.
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Research Centres
THE CENTRE FOR SDIs &
LAND ADMINISTRATION
(CSDILA)
DIRECTOR: PROF. ABBAS RAJABIFARD
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR: DR MOHSEN KALANTARI
Established in 2001, CSDILA provides a focus for research
in spatial data infrastructures (SDIs), spatial enablement
and land administration by building on ongoing research
relationships and creating new links through extended
collaboration at both national and international levels.
The activities of the Centre are based on a three-pillared
approach: the development of a Research Program; a
focused Postgraduate Training Program; and facilitated
knowledge transfer including a Visiting Program. Research in the Centre is conducted by staff members of
the University of Melbourne, research fellows, honorary
affiliated national and international members, research
higher degree students associated with the Centre, and
international academic and industrial visitors and collaborators.
The Centre’s Advisory Board comprises distinguished Australian and overseas leaders in spatial science and related
technologies from academia and industry. Meetings,
reports and information dissemination ensure that the
Advisory Board members are informed of the research
achievements and directions. Advisory Board members
also encourage the promotion of networking linkages and
research opportunities between the Centre researchers
and their own institutions and contact networks.
The Centre has also continued to contribute significantly to many high-level strategies and development of
policies and tools, both nationally and internationally,
most important to the realisation of Intergovernmental
Committee on Surveying and Mapping’s Cadastre 2034
strategy document. We continue our strong performance
in publications with 43 publications in 2015, bringing our
total close to 500 publications since the Centre’s inception in late 2001. Over the last five years, there has been
an increase in funding and research higher degree (RHD)
candidate enrolments; in total, we have now successfully completed 27 RHD students. We have also seen an
One of the highlights for the year 2015 for the Centre includes the successful grant from the Australian Research
Council’s Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (ARC LIEF) scheme. (see page25). Titled “Urban Analytics
Data Infrastructure”, this grand project won over $1.4m to develop the digital infrastructure required to underpin
the next generation of data driven modelling and decision-support tools to enable smart, productive and resilient
cities. The Centre will lead this project, which involves 5 other research institutes from the University of New South
Wales, the University of Queensland, the University of Western Australia, University of Canberra, and University of
Wollongong.
Prof Rajabifard was invited to deliver four keynote addresses internationally in 2015, including at the World Cadastre Summit in Istanbul, Turkey, the 13th South East Asian Survey Congress in Singapore, and Smart Korea congress.
increase in visitors to the Centre and our website, which
attests to the Centre’s strong foundation and provides evidence that the Centre is going from strength to strength
and is in a strong position for future major grants.
The Centre has gone from strength to strength in the last
year. In terms of knowledge transfer, the Centre and its
members has had a very productive year either hosting
visitors or contributing to national and international
seminars and conferences. In total, Centre members
made 10 visits around the world in 2015 and hosted more
than 25 individual researchers and several delegations
from governments, industry, and academia of different
countries. In particular, among our visitors, representatives from Singaporean, Malaysian, Chilean and Korean
governments were specifically interested in pursuing
future engagement and research collaboration. The visiting component continues to be a successful initiative for
the Centre, facilitating the cross-pollination of ideas for
better research and training.
In February, the Centre hosted experts from Australia, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Denmark, the
Americas and Asia from various universities and industry
organisations as part of the “International Symposium on
Smart Future Cities: The Role of 3D Land and Property
and Cadastre Information”. This symposium was held on
2nd and 3rd of February in the University of Melbourne.
Images: WCS Website
In February, the Centre was visited by South Korean delegates attending the International Symposium on “Smart Future Cities: The Role of 3D
Land, Property and Cadastre Information” held in
the University of Melbourne.
In March, Ms Denise McKenzie, the executive director of Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) visited
CSDILA and met with Professor Abbas Rajabifard
and Professor David Coleman from the University of
New Brunswick, Canada.
The Centre has been, and remains at the forefront, in the development of spatial enablement, SDI and land administration systems that facilitate decision making within the context of sustainable development objectives at local,
state, national and multi-national levels.
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CENTRE FOR DISASTER
MANAGEMENT AND
PUBLIC SAFETY
DIRECTOR: PROF. ABBAS RAJABIFARD
MANAGER: MR GED GRIFFIN
Highlights and accomplishments from 2015 include:
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In April, Hosna Tashakkori Hashemi was awarded the 2015 APCOA Young
Public Safety Innovation Award during the 2015 APCO Australasia Conference
and Exhibition for her outstanding research regarding Integrated 3D Indoor
and Outdoor Situational Awareness for Emergency Management.
•
In May the CDMPS team of Alireza Kashian, James Hung and Dr. Benny Chen,
supervised by Prof. Abbas Rajabifard and Dr. Mohsen Kalantari, received the
runner-up award in the 3rd Australia-Netherlands Water Challenge for their
presentation of ‘WarnWave: Social Interaction, Public Awareness and
Collaboration at the time of Disaster’, which focused on potential usage of
mobile critical moments.
The Centre for Disaster Management and Public Safety (CDMPS) had a very successful year conducting a range of research,
engagement and training activities throughout 2015. The biggest activity of the year was the 2nd International Symposium on
Disaster Management event which was hosted and organized by CDMPS at the University of Melbourne in October. The event
presented and discussed the latest innovations, research and practice related to disaster management worldwide and attracted
international (from 14 countries) and national delegates from a range of sectors across Australia. This event built off engagement
activities that took place earlier in the year including a range of visits within Australia and also internationally.
Hosna Tashakkori
Research visits this year included:
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April 2015, Prof. Abbas Rajabifard, Dr. Mohsen Kalantari,
Dr. Katie Potts, and Dr. Benny Chen
visited the NSW Rural Fire Service
Headquarters in Sydney to attend a
workshop on bushfires and natural
hazards and to view their state-ofthe-art incident operations centre.
The Operations Centre is equipped
with sophisticated interactive digital
mapping system to allow discussions of strategy to occur
around a live display of the fire-ground, and all data feeds
from the other emergency service agencies are displayed
for greater cooperation and information flow.
May 2015, Vanessa Guzman Mesa
from Los Andes University Colombia (Universidad De Los Andes
– Uni-Andes) spent 3 months with
CDMPS to conduct research related
to Disaster Management.
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September 2015, Prof. Abbas Rajabifard and Mr. Ged Griffin travelled to Santiago in Chile for a number of meetings
– (1) to meet with the Chilean National Office of Emergency of the Interior Ministry (ONEMI) to discuss collaboration opportunities between ONEMI and the Centre for
Disaster Management and Public Safety; (2) to meet with
researchers from the Catholic University of Chile to further
research collaborations on disaster management; (3) to
hold discussions with the Research Center for Integrated
Disaster (CIGDEN), a centre that brings together key agencies from the areas planning, civil protection, and infrastructure to develop actions to help mitigate the impact of
disasters on the population and urban areas.
Water Challenge
Shihara Perera
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In October Shihara Perera was awarded first place in the ISDM research poster competition for her submission on Modelling Impact by Hail.
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Throughout the year three committee meetings were held, with an executive committee meeting held
on May 13th, and two International Advisory Committee meetings held on March 6th and August 6th.
In November 2015, Dr. Katie Potts travelled to Kathmandu,
Nepal to attend and present at the International Workshop
On The Role of Land Professionals and SDI in Disaster Risk
Reduction: In the Context of Post 2015 Nepal Earthquake.
Following the Centre for Disaster
Management and Public Safety
Executive Committee meeting
in May, all the attendees toured
the CDMPS Lab where a few brief
discusisons were held with some
of the lab students and staff.
Chile Visit
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ARC TRAINING CENTRE
FOR ADVANCED MANUFACTURING
OF PREFABRICATED HOUSING
DIRECTOR: PROF. PRIYAN MENDIS
RESEARCH DIRECTOR: ASSOC. PROF. TUAN NGO
The Department of Infrastructure Engineering is
leading the ARC Centre for Advanced Manufacturing
of Prefabricated Housing (ARC-CAMPH) under the ARC
Industrial Transformation Training Centre Scheme. $4m
in funding over 4 years from the Australian Research
Council and matching funding from industry will be
made available to establish the ARC-CAMPH.
The Centre is being established as a collaborative
venture that will see the University partnering with
University of Sydney, Curtin University of Technology,
Monash University, industry body PrefabAUS and a
group of companies led by Amoveo.
Aim of the Centre:
This centre aims to unlock the potential growth of
Australia’s prefab building industry by creating a
sustainable training ecosystem between industry
and Australian Universities that will prepare the
next generation of engineers and scientists to apply
advanced
manufacturing
principles to
pre-fab modular
buildings. This
highly trained
workforce driven
by the needs of
the customer
will identify
innovations
in the use of advanced materials, design for direct
manufacturing and assembly and automated
manufacturing. This customer focused innovation will
secure the Australian industry’s competitive advantage
in the pre-fab building global value chain leading to local
employment growth and increased exports of finished
products, componentry and expertise.
The Opportunity:
The Australian construction industry creates more
than $150bn contribution to GDP (10%) of which
the manufactured modular housing sector currently
contributes only $4.6bn (3%). The ARC-CAMPH aims to
provide new knowledge, methods and technologies as
well as highly skilled PhD and postdoctoral researchers
to support the research and development that will
propel the sector beyond 10% share of the $150bn
market (2013) in the next 5 years. The Training Centre
will create a sustainable research partnership between
university-based researchers and the Australian
prefabricated building industry and composite material
manufacturers. This will enable the development
of sustainable, reusable, smart, and affordable
building systems and contribute to creating a globally
competitive prefabricated housing manufacturing
industry in Australia.
Expected outcomes of the Centre activities:
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Construct 90% faster than traditional methods
Reduce total costs by 50%
Create new jobs
Achieve 100% re-use of componentry
Recycle 80% of site waste
Reduce transport, labour, and site preliminaries by
70%
Expand export opportunities
Secure and maintain competitive advantage in
global value chain
RHD Conference,
Awards & Activities
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Postgraduate
Conference
Our annual Postgraduate Conference took place on Friday, 13
November at the Rendezvous Grand Hotel, Flinders Street,
Melbourne.
This annual event was most successfully organised by the committee of our Graduate Infrastructure Engineering Society (GIES).
The event was well attended by 130 RHD students, staff members
and guests.
The keynote speaker was Mr Brendan Driscoll, Director Project
Strategy, Melbourne Metro Rail Authority. Guests discussion panelists were: Dr Davood Shojaei, Dr Jessey Lee and Dr Brett Anderson.
Best Journal Paper Prizes in each Discipline were won by: Jing
Sun (Civil), Margarita Saft (Environmental) and Hosna Tashakkori
(Geomatics).
“Logic will get
you from A to
B. Imagination
will take you
everywhere.”
Albert Einstein
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Awards
Hosna Tashakkori receiving her award
L-R: Daniel Nordinson, Alexander McCluskey and Matthew Oka with the Sir
Ronald East Prize.
Environmental and Civil Engineering graduates Daniel Nordinson and Matthew Oka, who won the 2015 Sir L. Ronald East
Student Prize, (Victorian Water Engineering Branch, Engineers
Australia), sponsored by Jacobs, for their final year research
project ‘Penetration of turbulence into a gravel bed: informing models of hyporheic exchange’, undertaken as part of the
ARC Discovery Project ‘The role of turbulence in transporting
waterborne material within streambed sediments and across
the sediment-water interface’, led by Professor Stanley Grant
and supervised by Alexander McCluskey.
Abdallah Ghazlan was awarded
a Best Paper Award at the 2nd
Australasian Conference on Computational Mechanics (ACCM 2015) in
Brisbane for his paper “A Numerical
Investigation of the Performance of
a Nacfre-like Composite under Blast
Loading”, co-authored with Dr Tuan
Ngo, Dr Jonathan Tran and A/Prof.
Nelson Lam.
This is another achievement for the APTES group, which
highlights appreciation of the significant work by top
researchers across multiple disciplines.
At the 2015 IE Postgraduate Conference, the Best Journal
Publicaton Awards were won by Jing Sun (Civil), Margarita
Saft (Environmental) and Hosna Tashakkori Hashemi
(Geomatics).
During the 2015 Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials Australasia Conference and Exhibition
Hosna Tashakkori Hashemi was awarded the 2015
APCOA Young Public Safety Innovation Award on 29
April 2015 for her outstanding PhD research regarding
Integrated 3D Indoor and Outdoor Situational Awareness for Emergency Management. Hosna’s supervisors
are Prof. Abbas Rajabifard and Dr Mohsen Kalantari. The
staff and students at the CDMPS congratulate Hosna
on this outstanding achievement in recognition for her
hard work and world leading research.
Enayat Moallemi won the
Best Student Presentation
Award at the MODSIM 2015
Congress in December for
his paper “Dynamic Modelling of Energy Transitions
Using a Coupled Modelling-Narrative Approach”,
co-authored by E.A. Moallemi, F.J. de Haan, B.A.
George, J.M. Webb and L.
Aye.
PhD Candidate Joost van der Linden was
awarded granted an ISSMGE Foundation
travel award to Standford University,
USA.
PhD Candidate Olga Mikhayalova
was awarded an Endeavour Research
Fellowship to Cambridge University.
Australia-Netherlands Water Challenge
LET'S TALK RESILIENCE! was the theme of the third Australia-Netherlands Water Challenge, the winners of which
were announced at the Floodplain Management Association
National Conference on Thursday May 21 in Brisbane.
Within the context of the knowledge exchange partnership
on floods and droughts between Australia and the Netherlands – initiated after the Queensland floods in 2011 - ambitious students and young professionals from across Australia
were challenged to contribute their own ideas for a more
climate-resilient Australia.
The team of Alireza Kashian, James Hung (PhD Students in
Geomatics) and Dr Benny Chen (Research Fellow),
supervised by Prof. Abbas Rajabifard and Dr Mohsen Kalantari, received the runner-up award in this challenge for
their presentation of WarnWave: Social Interaction, Public
Awareness and Collaboration at the time of Disaster, which
is mainly focused on potential usage of mobile apps for social
engagement of people in critical moments.
After several selection rounds, the four best teams were
invited to present their ideas at the FMA National Conference
in front of 400 flood management experts and a jury, chaired
by Dutch Consul-General, Mr. Willem Cosijn.
Mohammad Sedeghat joined SKM’s research team winning a university scholarship covering his tuition and fees
as an overseas student.
Shihara Thimanthi Perera won
the Best Presentation Award at
the 2015 Postgraduate Conference and the Best Poster Award
at 2nd International Symposium
on Disaster Management.
Amir Orangi won a prestigious
Australian Federal Government
Endeavour fellowship to spend 6
months at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology to
work with Prof Yu-Hsing Wang on
developing cost effective geophysical sensors for geotechnical and
geoenvironmental (and agricultural) applications.
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Activities
Our Graduate Infrastructure Engineering Society (GIES) represents the
graduate students of the Department. The society organises regular
events, providing social cohesion amongst the graduate student group
Nepal Earthquake
Several of our students from Nepal responded to the earthquake in their home country by using their research project studies..
One RHD, Mr Tilak Pokharel, didn’t expect to put his work into practice so suddenly. Tilak came to the University of Melbourne
in 2013 to pursue his PhD in structural and earthquake engineering with one of Australia’s leading experts, Associate Professor
Helen Goldsworthy.
He was determined to put his training to good use and contacted Associate Professor Goldsworthy. With the help of the Dean
of Engineering, Professor Iven Mareels, she arranged funds to
send him with a group of Australian and New Zealand engineers travelling to Nepal to help the recovery effort.
He flew to some of the hardest-hit areas, including the district
of Sindhupalchowk (left). The death toll there was 3,531, and
more than 65,000 buildings were damaged.
Tilak was awarded with an International Engagement Strategic Fund for “Learning from Earthquake mission to Nepal” to
cover his expenses on his reconnaissance mission to Nepal in
the aftermath of the earthquake
Geomatics RHDs
In June the Geomatics research students went on a research retreat. In
five groups they competed for the
best research proposal idea. They
developed proposals such as a web
tool for easy access to the state of
a smart city, optimizing individual
evacuation routes for a predicted
flash flooding, localizing a person
indoor based on their verbal place
description, or studying the transport capacity in a densifying city.
Staff members in the room were
impressed by the enthusiasm and
the results produced within the
course of a single day.
In September the PhD
students of the
Geomatics Discipline
went on a field trip to
Belgrave to test a mobile phone app used
to survey/collect travel
and activities data of
its user. The group did
a few tasks and visited
several places to test
the accuracy of the
tracking and travel
mode prediction of the
app.
and opportunities to network with industry.
GIES was proactive in the past year
through organising and hosting several
social events. In early May, GIES annual
general meeting was held to elect new
committee members. During the year,
two BBQ outings and a soccer match
were organised for faculty members
and the RHD students in the department of Infrastructure Engineering.
Towards the end of last year, GIES was
affiliated with the Graduate Student
Association (GSA) which would subsequently augment exposure within the
university and funding.
2014-2015 Outgoing Committee
2015-2016 Incoming Committee
Inaugural Soccer Match - March
GIES organised many activities during the year
including, in Semester 1, a soccer match to
welcome all new and returning students and
staff, with teams consisting of players from the
different disciplines: civil, environmental and
geomatics.
BBQ - September
Thermal Response Testing
RHDs Linden Jensen-Page and Qi Lu
(left) ran a Thermal Response Test to
estimate the thermal conductivity of
the gorund at Thornbury.
Another Thermal Response Test
was performed on the geothermal
boreholes located at the Walter Boas
Building of the University (right).
GIES organised a BBQ in September for staff, students and visitors.teams consisting of the different disciplines: civil, environmental and geomatics.
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Graduations
Dr Muneeb Ali and Assoc Prof Nelson Lam
Dr Jane Lai with Assoc Prof Colin Duffied and her family
Dr Davood Shojaei, Prof. Abbas Rajabifard, Dr Serene Ho
Prof Ian Johnston, Dr Asal Bidarmaghz, Dr Guillermo Narsilio
2015 Graduates - PhD
Dr Asal Bidarmaghz
Dr Iwona Conlan
Dr Tshewang Lhendup
Dr Raymond Lumantara
Dr Vidal-Paton Cole
Dr Robert Pipunic
Dr Davood Shojaei
Dr Serene Ho
Dr Jane Lai
Dr Saeed Miramini
Dr Rubel Biswas Chowdhury
Dr Eleanor Gee
Dr Madhuwanthi Rupasinghe
Dr Maryam Saydi
Dr Joost Kuckartz
Dr Muneeb Ali
Dr Amir Valizadeh Kivi
Dr Ebadat Ghanbari Parmehr
Dr Azadeh Mousavi
Dr Yuxiang He
Dr Zelalem Tesemma
Dr Kumudu Rathnayaka
Dr Rojit Shahi
Dr Maduwanthi
Rupasinghe
Prof Ian Bishop and Dr Maryam Saydi
Dr Ebadat Ghanbari Parmehr, Prof Clive Fraser and Dr Yuxiang He
Dr Eleanor Gee
“Go confidently in the
direction of your dreams.
Dr Tshewang Lhendup & Dr Raymond Lumantarna
Live the life you have
imagined”
Dr Lihai Zhang and Dr Saeed
Miramini
Assoc Prof Graham Moore and Dr Rubel
Biswas Chowdhury
Henry David Thoreau
Dr Amir Valizadeh Kivi
Prof Andrew Western, Dr Zelalem Tesemma, Dr Murray Peel, Assoc. Prof Yongping Wei
Dr Vidal Paton-Cole
Dr Azadeh Mousavi and her supervisors Prof Matt
Duckham and Prof Ramamohanarao Kotagiri
Dr Joost Kuckartz
Dr Kumudu Rathnayaka and her supervisors, Dr Meenakshi Arora, Mr Peter Roberts (Yarra Valley Water) and Prof Hector Malano
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Visitors
SEPTEMBER
Prof Stig Enemark
(Denmark)
Prof David Coleman
(Canada)
Dr Daniel Steudler
(Switzerland)
Mr Luis Vergara (Columbia)
Dr Christoph Kinkeldey
(Germany)
Mr Alexiander Gruber
(Austria)
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OCTOBER
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Dr Daniel Steudler
Prof David Coleman, University of New wick, Canada
Dr Zhixuan Yang, P.R. China
Mr Kwak Byungyong, South Korea
Mr Wonho Song, South Korea
Bruns-
Dr Zhixuan Jenny Yang
(P.R. China)
Mr Francesco-Mallard-Marini, Ms Agnès Mustar (France)
Prof Priyan Mendis with Prof Luc Taerwe, Ghent University Dr Ashmita Sengupta (USA)
(The Netherlands)
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Ms Vanessa Guzman Mesa
Prof Stig Enemark, Denmakr
Dr Yuangfeng Qiu, Wuhan Institute of
Technology, P.R. China
Ms Li WeiFujian Agriculture and Forestry University,
Fuzhou, P.R. China
APRIL
Prof Zhongjing Wang, Vice Dean (Research), School of
Civil Engineer, Tsinghua University, PR China
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University of Twente, The Netherlands
L-R: Dr Inge Broekman, Coordinator Internationalization Student Affairs & Institutional
Erasmus Coordina-tor, Prof. Marcus Pandy, A/Prof Colin Duffield, Prof Stephan Winter, Prof
Geert Dewulf, Professor of Planning and Development and Head of the Department of
Construction Management and Engineering at the University of Twente, and Mr. Victor van
der Chijs, President University of Twente
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Dr Christoph Kinkeldey, HafenCity University Hamburg,
Germany
Mr Ugo Verlingue, Bordeaux Sciences Agro, France
Ms Nibha Gupta, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, India
A/P Heloisa Firmo
Mr Kancharla Surendra Reddy, Indian Institute of Technolody, Madras, India
Ms Lucie Schotman, University of Technology, Delft,The
Netherlands
Dr. Nicolas Ray, Head of “Environment Modeling & Geoprocessing” Unit (UNEP/GRID-Geneva)
Ms Leila Halajian, Iran
Prof Devra Davis, USA - Dean’s Lecture
Prof Lim Tian Kuay, (TK) Singapore National Environment
Agency.
DECEMBER
Dr Nicolas Ray (Switzerland) Mr Ugo Verlingue, Mr Romain Bellanger (France)
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Mr Salil Goel, India
Mr Alexander Martini, Karlsruher Institute of
Technology, Germany
Dr Shoubo Li, Nanjing University of Science &
Technology, P.R. China
Ms Juliette LeCoz, ESTP (École Spéciale de Travaux Publics
et de l’Industrie de Paris), France
Dr Ashmita Sengupta, Southern California Coastal Water
Research Project (SCCWRP), California, USA
Ms Wenxiu Shang, Tsinghua University, P.R. China
Dr Fleur Loveridge, University of Southampton, UK
Professor Geert DeWulf, Head of the Department of Construction Management and Engineering at the University of
Twente, The Netherlands.
NOVEMBER
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Mr Salil Goel
Ms Garima Lakhanpal, India
Ms Ilaria Rambaldi, Alma Mater Studiorum, Bologna, Italy
A/P Amir Ahmad Dehghani
Mr Guanghui Xu
Ms Fuyu Hu
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Mrs Maryam Abdolahpour, University of WA
Professor Abdul Aziz Abdul Samad, UTH Malaysia
Assoc Prof Noridah Mohamad, UTH Malaysia
Assoc Prof Amir Ahmad Dehghani, GAU (Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources), Iran
Professor Ray Levitt, Professor of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, Stanford University, USA.
JUNE
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Mr Romain Bellanger, CESI Saint Navarre, France
Mr Luis Vergara, Columbia
Ms Agnès Mustar, ESTP (École Spéciale de Travaux Publics
et de l’Industrie de Paris), France
Mr Francesco Mallard-Marini, ESTP (École Spéciale de
Travaux Publics et de l’Industrie de Paris), France
Dr Daniel Paez Barajas, Columbia
Mr Alexander Gruber, Austria
A/P Kristian Krabenhoft
Mr Alexis Deneux, France
Visitors from Kunhwa Engineering & Consulting Company and the Incheon
Development Institute , South Korea, who discussed demand-responsive transport.
JULY
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Mr Salil Goel
Ms Fuyu Hu
(P.R. China)
Delegation from Arcadia US Study Abroad - STEM Roundtable
AUGUST
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Prof Lim Tian Kuay (TK)
(Singapore)
A/P Heloisa Firmo, Polytechnic School (POLI), Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil
Assoc Prof Noridah Mohamad and Prof Abdul Aziz Abdul Samad
(Malaysia)
Dr Fleur Loveridge (U.K.)
Ms Luci Schotman
(The Netherlands)
Ms Ilaria Rambaldi
(Italy)
Mr Alexis Deneaux
(France)
Assoc Prof Amir Ahmad
Dehghani (Iran)
Ms Wenxiu Shang
(P.R. China)
Mr Salil Goel (India)
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Publications
B1 RESEARCH BOOK CHAPTERS
C1 JOURNAL ARTICLES REFEREED
Bishop, I. D. (2015). Sequential Experiences in Energy Producing Landscapes. In C. N. Silva (Ed.), Emerging Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities in Urban E-Planning (1 ed., pp. 230-251). Hershey, PA, USA: IGI
Global. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-8150-7.ch011
Acreman, M., Arthington, A. H., Colloff, M. J., Couch, C., CrossAcharya,
S., George, B., Aye, L., Nair, S., Nawarathna, B., & Malano, H. (2015).
Life Cycle Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emission Analysis of Groundwater-Based Irrigation Systems. Irrigation and Drainage, 64(3), 408-418.
doi:10.1002/ird.1896
Bitenc, M., Bitenc, M., Scott Kieffer, D., Khoshelham, K., & Vezočnik,
R. (2015). Quantification of rock joint roughness using terrestrial laser
scanning. In Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume
6: Applied Geology for Major Engineering Projects (pp. 835-838).
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-09060-3_150
Bitenc, M., Kieffer, D., Khoshelham, K. (2015). Evaluation of Wavelet
Denoising Methods for Small-Scale Joint Roughness Estimation Using
Terrestrial Laser Scanning. In S. O. Elberink, A. Velizhev, R. Lindenbergh, S. Kaasalainen & F. Pirotti (Eds.), ISPRS Annals of Photogrammetry,
Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences (Vol. II-3/W5, pp.
81-88).
Bo, M. W., Arulrajah, A., Choa, V., Horpibulsuk, S., Horpibulsuk, S.,
& Disfani, M. M. (2015). Deep compaction of granular fills in a land
reclamation project by dynamic and vibratory compaction techniques. In Ground Improvement Case Histories: Compaction, Grouting
and Geosynthetics (pp. 263-274). doi:10.1016/B978-0-08-1006986.00008-8
Calheiros, R., Kasim, H., Hung, T., Li, X., Lu, S., Wang, L., Palit, H., Ngo
T., Buyya, R. (2015). Adaptive Execution of Scientific Workflow Applications on Clouds. In O. Terzo, & L. Mossucca (Eds.), Unknown Book (1
ed., pp. 73-88). UK: CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group). doi:10.1201/
b18021-5
Dewulf, G., Garvin, M. J., & Duffield, C. (2015). Multinational comparison of the tension between standards and context in PPP. In Public Private Partnerships in Transport: Trends and Theory (pp. 267-291).
Marino, R., Clarke, K., Manton, D., Stranieri, A., Collman, R., Hallett, K.,
& Borda, A. (2015). Teleconsultation and Telediagnosis for Oral Health
Assessment: An Australian Perspective. In S. Kumar (Ed.), Unknown
Book (1 ed., pp. 101-112). Switzerland: Springer International Publishing.
Pipunic, R. C., Ryu, D., & Walker, J. P. (2015). Assessing Near-Surface
Soil Moisture Assimilation Impacts on Modeled Root-Zone Moisture
for an Australian Agricultural Landscape. In V. Lakshmi, D. Alsdorf, M.
Anderson, S. Biancamaria, M. Cosh, J. Entin, G. Huffman, W. Kustas,
P. VanOevelen, T. Painter, J. Parajka, M. Rodell, C. Rudiger (Eds.),
Unknown Book (Vol. 206, pp. 305-317). Amer Geophysical Union.
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Thompson, R. G. (2015). Vehicle orientated initiatives for improving
the environmental performance of urban freight systems. In Green
Logistics and Transportation: A Sustainable Supply Chain Perspective
(pp. 119-130). doi:10.1007/978-3-319-17181-4_7
ZHANG, L. (2015). Computational modeling of bone fracture healing
by Using the theory of porous media. In Z. Liu (Ed.), Unknown Book
(1 ed., pp. 127-128). London, United Kingdom: Imperial College Press.
doi:10.1142/9781783266852_0064
Aghabayk, K., Sarvi, M., & Young, W. (2015). A State-of-theArt Review of Car-Following Models with Particular Considerations of Heavy Vehicles. Transport Reviews, 35(1), 82-105.
doi:10.1080/01441647.2014.997323
Aghabayk, K., Sarvi, M., Ejtemai, O., & Sobhani, A. (2015). Impacts of
Different Angles and Speeds on Behavior of Pedestrian Crowd Merging. Transportation Research Record, (2490), 76-83. doi:10.3141/249009
Aien, A., Rajabifard, A., Kalantari, M., & Shojaei, D. (2015). Integrating
Legal and Physical Dimensions of Urban Environments. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 4(3), 1442-1479. doi:10.3390/
ijgi4031442
Alamdar, F., Kalantari, M., & Rajabifard, A. (2015). An evaluation of integrating multisourced sensors for disaster management. International Journal of Digital Earth,RTH, 8(9), 727-749.
doi:10.1080/17538947.2014.927537
Alvarez-Garreton, C., Ryu, D., Western, A. W., Su, C. -H., Crow, W.
T., Robertson, D. E., & Leahy, C. (2015). Improving operational flood
ensemble prediction by the assimilation of satellite soil moisture:
comparison between lumped and semi-distributed schemes. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 19(4), 1659-1676. doi:10.5194/hess-191659-2015
Arora, M., Malano, H., Davidson, B., Nelson, R., & George, B. (2015).
Interactions between centralized and decentralized water systems in
urban context: A review. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 2(6),
623-634. doi:10.1002/wat2.1099
Arulrajah, A., Disfani, M. M., Haghighi, H., Mohammadinia, A., &
Horpibulsuk, S. (2015). Modulus of rupture evaluation of cement stabilized recycled glass/recycled concrete aggregate blends. Construction and Building Materials, 84, 146-155. doi:10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2015.03.048
Arulrajah, A., Disfani, M. M., Maghoolpilehrood, F., Horpibulsuk,
S., Udonchai, A., Imteaz, M., & Du, Y. -J. (2015). Engineering and
environmental properties of foamed recycled glass as a lightweight
engineering material. Journal of Cleaner Production, 94, 369-375.
doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.01.080
Askarizadeh, A., Rippy, M. A., Fletcher, T. D., Feldman, D. L., Peng,
J., Bowler, P., Mehring, A.S., Winfrey, B.K., Vrugt, J.A, AghaKouchak,
A., Jiang S.C., Sanders, B.F., Levin, A., Taylor, S., Grant, S. B. (2015).
From Rain Tanks to Catchments: Use of Low-Impact Development To
Address Hydrologic Symptoms of the Urban Stream Syndrome. Environmental Science & Technology, 49(19), 11264-11280. doi:10.1021/
acs.est.5b01635
Atmo, G., Duffield, C., & Wilson, D. (2015). Structuring procurement
to improve sustainability outcomes of power plant projects. Energy
Technology & Policy, 2(1), 47-57. doi:10.1080/23317000.2015.1025152
Atmo, G., Duffield, C., & Wilson, D. (2015). Attaining value from private investment in power generation projects in Asian emerging economies - an
empirical study from Indonesia. CSID Journal of Infrastructure Development, 1(1), 64-78.
Ding, C., Tuan, N., Lumantarna, R., Mendis, P., & Zobec, M. (2015). Investigations of Cavity Pressure Behaviors of Double-Skin Facade Systems Subjected to Blast Loads. Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities,
29(5), 9 pages. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)CF.1943-5509.0000674
Azizian, M., Grant, S. B., Kessler, A. J., Cook, P. L. M., Rippy, M. A., &
Stewardson, M. J. (2015). Bedforms as Biocatalytic Filters: A Pumping
and Streamline Segregation Model for Nitrate Removal in Permeable
Sediments. Environmental Science & Technology, 49(18), 10993-11002.
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dos Santos, D. R., & Khoshelham, K. (2015). 3D mapping of indoor
environments using RGB-D data. Boletim de Ciencias Geodesicas, 21(3),
442-464. doi:10.1590/S1982-21702015000300025
Bagloee, S. A., & Sarvi, M. (2015). Heuristic Approach to Capacitated Traffic Assignment Problem for Large-Scale Transport Networks. Transportation Research Record, (2498), 1-11. doi:10.3141/2498-01
Barria, P., Walsh, K. J. E., Peel, M. C., & Karoly, D. (2015). Uncertainties in
runoff projections in southwestern Australian catchments using a global
climate model with perturbed physics. Journal of Hydrology, 529, 184199. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.07.040
Basiri, A., Amirian, P., Marsh, S., & Moore, T. (2015). Automatic detection
of points of interest using spatio-termporal data mining. Journal of Mobile Multimedia, 11(3-4), 193-204.
Bishop, I. D. (2015). Location based information to support understanding of landscape futures. Landscape and Urban Planning, 142, 120-131.
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Casas-Mulet, R., Alfredsen, K., Boissy, T., Sundt, H., & Rüther, N. (2015).
Performance of a one-dimensional hydraulic model for the calculation of
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Casas-Mulet, R., Alfredsen, K., Brabrand., & Saltveit, S. J. (2015). Survival
of eggs of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in a drawdown zone of a regulated river influenced by groundwater. Hydrobiologia, 743(1), 269-284.
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The effects of hydropeaking on hyporheic interactions based on field
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Determining vertical leakage from the Great Artesian Basin, Australia,
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Diaz-Vilarino, L., Khoshelham, K., Martinez-Sanchez, J., & Arias, P.
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Centerlines from Mobile Laser Scanning Data. Remote Sensing, 7(5),
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Feldman, D. L., Sengupta, A., Stuvick, L., Stein, E., Pettigrove, V., & Arora,
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Fieber, K. D., Davenport, I. J., Tanase, M. A., Ferryman, J. M., Gurney, R.
J., Becerra, V. M., Walker, J.P., Hacker, J. M. (2015). Validation of Canopy
Height Profile methodology for small-footprint full-waveform airborne
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in Australia. Irrigation Science, 33(2), 141-152. doi:10.1007/s00271-0140454-0
Fox, D. R. (2015). Selection bias correction for species sensitivity distribution modeling and hazardous concentration estimation. Environmental
Toxicology and Chemistry, 34(11), 2555-2563. doi:10.1002/etc.3098
Fu, B., Zhang, L., Xu, Z., Zhao, Y., Wei, Y., & Skinner, D. (2015). Ecosystem
services in changing land use. Journal of Soils and Sediments, 15(4), 833843. doi:10.1007/s11368-015-1082-x
Gao, P., Jiang, G., Wei, Y., Mu, X., Wang, F., Zhao, G., & Sun, W. (2015).
Streamflow regimes of the Yanhe River under climate and land use
change, Loess Plateau, China. Hydrological Processes, 29(10), 2402-2413.
doi:10.1002/hyp.10309
Gao, Y., Walker, J. P., Allahmoradi, M., Monerris, A., Ryu, D., & Jackson, T.
J. (2015). Optical Sensing of Vegetation Water Content: A Synthesis Study.
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote
Sensing, 8(4), 1456-1464. doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2015.2398034
Ghazlan, A., Ngo, T. D., & Phuong, T. (2015). Influence of interfacial
geometry on the energy absorption capacity and load sharing mechanisms of nacreous composite shells. Composite Structures, 132, 299-309.
doi:10.1016/j.compstruct.2015.05.045
Greet, J., Webb, J. A., & Cousens, R. D. (2015). Floods reduce the prevalence of exotic plant species within the riparian zone: evidence from
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