14 events Coming up
15 May 2012
The Accelerating Universe and The Hunt for Dark Energy
In 1998, two international teams raced to determine the fate of the Universe. Was it expanding or contracting? They found that it wasn't just expanding but that the expansion was accelerating. It was a startling discovery suggesting that an unknow...
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Seminar/Forum12 Jun 2012
Graduate Engineering and IT Expo
The Melbourne School of Engineering is Australia's top engineering school, and a world leader in engineering and IT. We are ranked number 1 in Australia and 25 globally for Engineering and Technology according to the Times Higher Education World ...
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Fair/Expo14 Jun 2012
7:00–8:00PM
Managing water: a system engineering point of view
The Royal Society of Victoria presents this lecture by Professor Iven Mareels, Dean of the Melbourne School of Engineering.
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Free Public Lecture26 Jun 2012
The future of coal and gas in Australia
This seminar in our Energy Futures Series will examine one of the major challenges of our time. Energy analysts and commentators envisage coal and gas playing major, if not dominant, roles in supplying an energy hungry world for many decades. Au...
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Free Public Lecture24 Jul 2012
24 – 25 Jul 1:00PM–3:00PM
The Amazing Spaghetti Machine Contest
Be amazed as teams of year 10 students from around Victoria present their "spaghetti machines" the term for an overly complicated chainreaction machine used to perform a simple task. This year's task is to take a portrait photo! Vote for your fa...
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Exhibition15 Aug 2012
Metropolitan Transport Analytics
A new and integrative approach for understanding places, projects and metropolitan transport sustainability over time. This workshop will exchange new understandings around the role of analytics and visualization for underpinning and explaining u...
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Seminar/Forum12 Sep 2012
Ubiquitous based infrastructure engineering projects in South Korea
The fast growing ubiquitous infrastructure technologies are capable of improving current urban management and infrastructure planning and development potentials. These technological advancement urban infrastructure developments have recently inven...
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Seminar/Forum27 Sep 2012
Transit Stations & Access - New approaches to mass transit stations, access planning & infrastructure
This twoday workshop will review and develop emerging approaches toward improving stationlevel design, planning and infrastructure provision for urban and interregional travel. The program features a handson field visit and station access design e...
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Training/Workshop12 Feb 2013
Intelligent Geospatial Systems
From cars to vacuum cleaners, these days the term 'intelligent system' has become a marketing attribute, perhaps because of the opaque meaning of the term. This presentation outlines the role and prospect of intelligent systems in the geospatial d...
26 Mar 2013
Invitation to a discussion – can we increase our external funding without sacrificing quality?
The University of Melbourne sits at the top of the research tree in this country and has an enviable worldwide position. The Dean of Engineering and our DVC Research, however, have suggested that it is going to be really tough (perhaps impossible...
07 May 2013
Three Films Good, Four Films Bad! An Introduction to Foam Rheology
Since the work of Plateau (1873) and Kelvin (1887), it has been well known that films in a static foam meet threefold (and never fourfold) along junctions, now known as Plateau borders. The fourfold state is energetically unstable and will lead t...
21 May 2013
Aspen Technology presentation
AspenTech is a leading supplier of software for process optimisation across key industries, such as energy, chemicals, engineering and construction, oil and gas, and refining. With integrated aspenONE solutions, process manufacturers can implement...
28 May 2013
From Technology to Sight - looking into the future of the bionic eye
The story of the bionic eye has captured the imagination of people all over the world. Following the announcement of Australia’s first successful bionic eye implants last year, testing of an early prototype device continues with three patients in ...
6:30–8:00PM
Focus on Engineering
Do you love creating solutions to problems and want to make a difference to the world? Come along to find out how to study Engineering at Melbourne. Hear from current students, academic staff and recent graduates about what it is like to study eng...