In June 2017 we have successfully tested a P-MSF impact module. A 2.5 ton drop test was conducted to replicate conditions encountered in an automotive impact. The work has been supported by Transurban with an Innovation Grant. P-MSF, a novel material […]
The 2017 Annual Conference of the Institute of Australian Geographers has just been held at the University of Queensland. Twelve academic staff members and PhD students from UON’s Discipline of Geography and Environmental Studies were among the almost 200 participants. […]
As part of her Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAT) funded research project, Chief Investigator Dr Sarah Wright from the School of Environmental and Life Sciences facilitated an international fellows visit for the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (CURS) at […]
We all know that Netflix is not afraid to push boundaries and air controversy. It seems their new film To the Bone is picking up where 13 Reasons Why left off by bringing an important issue to light but perhaps not doing it […]
Today, the Australian Human Rights Commission has released the findings of a national survey commissioned by Universities Australia to provide a greater understanding of the scale of sexual assault and harassment experienced by university students and to inform strategies for […]
ZINE PROJECT DESN1011 First Semester Design Projects DESIGN PROJECTS 1: VISUAL DESIGN EXPERIMENTATION This first year student brief involves the creation of a personal experimental zine. It explores the integration of a variety of visual media, ideas, processes and practices into a personal visual communication project. […]
VISUAL IDENTITY PROJECT DESN1011 First Semester Design Projects DESIGN PROJECTS 1: VISUAL DESIGN EXPERIMENTATION This first year student brief explores the generation and application of a personal Visual Identity. It used the design process to navigate multiple stages in the creation of a logo mark. The brief […]
In the classic 80’s movie, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, starring a very youthful Keanu Reeves, a very profound mantra was born ….. “Be Excellent to each other, and party on dude!”. I’d like to expand on this great wisdom […]
Last semester students seemingly inhaled 16 pizzas. Nothing was left. This time a few survived… not many, enough for leftovers. But we still had a great turnout at our welcome lunch for Semester 2, 2017 with lots of familiar faces of […]
GEOS3330 excursion to Broken Hill provided a new opportunity this year. For the first time since I started doing this excursion, it rained on the field area during the day. Not enough to make us stop, or worry too much […]
It’s the start of Semester 2 … Yay ! Hopefully the stresses of last Semester have been forgotten, and perhaps some lessons learned about what not to do. There are few guarantees in life, death and taxes perhaps, and I […]
TecPIV is my MATLAB GUI package for calibration, correction of images of analogue models, correlation of images to get incremental and cumulative displacements and spatial derivatives. The code is explained in the paper: Boutelier D. TecPIV – A MATLAB-based application […]
PhD student Penny Dunstan’s visually and conceptually astounding exhibition Shadowlands II opens tonight at the University Gallery, Friday 21st July at 6pm. Nature, art, drinks and nibblies will all be in one spot! Penny kindly took me on a tour of […]
While preparing a lab on heat diffusion, I thought it would be interesting to compute the diffusion of topographic relief using the same forward Euler finite difference in 2D (explicit method with central difference in space and forward in time, […]
Development Studies student Adam Kennedy is moving on to new adventures after his colossal New Colombo Plan Scholarship experience in Singapore. The New Colombo Plan provides opportunities for Australian undergraduate students to live, study and work in the Indo-Pacific region. Excitingly now […]
Our Dr Bonnie McBain has been featured in the Conversation for her article on the need for transport reform and with the recent news that some manufacturers are moving towards hydrid and electric cars. This article was originally published […]
In Australia transport accounts for 18% of anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Although we anticipate that the number of cars owned and the distance driven by cars is likely to increase in the future, we are less certain if carbon emissions from […]
Good news travels fast so you may have heard our Phoebe Everingham has just submitted her PhD thesis! Excitingly Phoebe is our first PhD graduate in the field of Human Geography at UON to submit by publication. She has published […]
How is manufacturing changing in 2017? Fortunately, things are looking up. “After years of downsizing and pessimism, there are encouraging signs that manufacturing industry in Australia may be turning a corner. Employment and new orders have grown. Business optimism […]
It seems like every week there is a different awareness campaign attempting to help us live a healthier and happier life. Paying attention to all these different campaigns can be exhausting, and so it’s timely that from the 3rd July […]