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Faculty of Engineering December 2007 University o f Wollong ong FACULTY OF ENGINEERING DECEMBER 2007 Dean’s Spot At this time of the year our academic lives. For Faculty hosts large numbers of example, in addition high school students who are to abilities in maths, The Faculty of trying to choose their career science and lan- Engineering and to decide what University guages, we are look- course and which University to ing for any examples would like to enrol in for 2008. Naturally we of leadership, crea- wish all its staff think that Engineering and tive, and imaginative Physics at University of Wollongong or other skills students may and students a offers a wide variety of challenging and have demonstrated. This may Merry Christmas worthwhile careers and so we are very be apparent in non academic and a Happy keen to convince as many students as areas such as sport, music, possible to come to our Faculty. Hence debating, social or other ac- New Year! we run an innovative and comprehensive tivities, either within school or ‘Early Entry’ program. outside of school. We are interested in each student as a com- high school students in their final year at This program was pioneered by Engi- plete person, as this is important in school. neering at Wollongong over 10 years ago, establishing whether or not someone and has now been adopted by most other The early entry program is a wonderful is likely to become a good engineer. Faculties here, and even by other Univer- team effort of staff and students from all sities, such as University of New South So far this year we have interviewed parts of the Faculty and everyone in- Wales, who introduced their own early over 300 people interested in joining volved is impressed with the enthusiasm entry scheme last year. Our scheme aims us in 2008. The majority of these and abilities of the students who apply to introduce the career of Engineering to interviews are held over a two day for an interview. The feedback we receive potential students. We organise personal period, and nearly half our entire is always very positive, with many stu- interviews for every student so they have academic staff and most of our ad- dents, and their parents, complimenting a chance to discuss with practising engi- ministrative and technical staff are our staff on providing such friendly and neers details of exactly what an engineer involved in face to face interviews informative one-on-one discussions. We does in real life. Each potential student is with prospective students. Every believe our early entry program has been allocated an interview time with one of student is also taken on a tour of our proven to be a great success over a con- our academic staff, assisted by a member laboratories by either our technical siderable period, and its popularity with of our experienced technical or adminis- staff or some of our senior under- applicants show that it is much appreci- trative staff. Since our academic staff are graduate or postgraduate students ated by high school students. all practising engineers, and our adminis- where they can see for themselves trative and technical staff are very experi- many examples of real industrial engi- enced with our courses and our technical neering projects, and also talk to our work, this is a very direct way for a stu- current students to find out more Contents dent to find out the answer to the ques- about our courses and the engineer- tion ‘What does an Engineer do?’ ing profession. Over three quarters of Nobel Prize Stimulates 2 our degree students are now accepted We consider that this interviewing proc- Spintronics Research at ISEM into our courses after such interviews ess is a meeting of equals—the student is and we believe this is a much more interviewing us to find out more about thorough and accurate way of assess- Staff News 3 the profession of engineering, and we are ing a student’s ability, and assisting a finding out from the students what ca- student in selecting a University Materials Field Trip to reer they are looking for, and what sort 4 course which is best suited to them, Tasmania of a person they are and what they like than the traditional reliance on only a doing. We recognise that academic at- mark from School exams. Also in tainment at school is only one measure many cases we are able to offer un- of ability. Personal and communications conditional entry into our courses skills, motivation and enthusiasm are all based on the interview and on the important qualities of a good engineer students’ available marks, even before and so we are also very interested in what they have taken their final exam, thus 1 students have achieved in their non- considerably reducing the stress on CRICOS Provider No: 00102B Faculty of Engineering, University of Wollongong Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia Phone +61 2 4221 3491 Website: www.uow.edu.au/eng Email: [email protected] 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics Stimulates Spintronics Research at ISEM This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics, few of the impacts that the GMR effect on the spin related research. awarded to Frenchman Albert Fert and has on our daily life: fast and slim laptops, This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics, German Peter Grünberg, for their multi-functional and slim music players awarded to Fert and Grünberg, will fur- discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance such as IPods, MP3 players, as well as ther stimulate the existing extensive (GMR) has led to newly emerging powerful internet search engines, all re- worldwide research on spintronics. Fur- Spintronics research. “The announce- quire hard disks where information is very ther breakthroughs are expected in new ment is a great vote of confidence in densely packed and stored in the form of physics, phenomena, material and spin the research of Spintronics at ISEM” differently magnetised areas. based devices. “The key issue in spin- said Prof. Dou, the Director of ISEM and Prof. Cook, the Dean of Faculty. This technology may be regarded as the tronics is to find the most effective way first step in developing a completely new to manipulate the electron’s spin in vari- So what is magnetoresistance? The type of electronics. The discovery of the ous materials and devices.” said Assoc. phenomenon magnetoresistance (MR) GMR effect has opened the door to an Prof. Wang. “Our team has been work- is the change of resistance of a con- entire new technological field, spintronics, ing on the discovery of novel spintronic ductor when it is placed in an external where both the electron’s charge and its materials and developing novel ap- magnetic field. In general, the magne- spin are utilised. Spintronics is now a driv- proaches or ideas to manipulate the spin toresistance effects are very small at ing force behind the rapid development of and charge in magnetic semiconductors room temperature for usual non- nanotechnology. based on superconductors, ferroelectric magnetic materials. The MR effect has magnetic materials, diluted magnetic In 1998, Assoc. Prof. Wang and Prof. been of substantial importance techno- semiconductors and other novel mag- Dou of ISEM initiated, for the first time logically, especially in connection with netic materials in the forms of nano- in Australia, the study of new types of read-out heads for magnetic disks and structures, thin films, single crystals.” magnetic materials, the so-called colossal magnetic sensors etc. magnetoresistance materials (CMR) - The scientific community recognizes the According to UOW’s Associate Pro- typical materials for spintronics whose important role electron spin plays, and fessor Xiaolin Wang, the first ARC magnetoresistance is much greater than assures a very bright future for our re- QEII fellow on Spintronic materials GMR observed in metallic multilayers. search groups in ISEM at UOW. To research, and the Coordinator of the Prof. Dou said “We took up the heat and enhance our research on spintronics, Spintronic and Electronic Materials set up a team on spintronic and electronic superconductors and electronic materi- Program in ISEM, “An electron has materials since the initiation of the spin- als, we are organising a symposium to be two important properties. One is its tronic research at ISEM. Some of team’s held in Sydney next year, IUMRS-ICEM negative electric charge; and the other work published in 1998 has had a signifi- 2008. Professor Dou noted “this will be is its spin due to self spinning. The cant impact on the magnetic communities a great opportunity to showcase ISEM’s conventional electronics and its de- as evidenced by the highly cited papers, research activities in this emerging field vices utilise only the electron’s charge e.g. X.L. Wang, S.X. Dou et al, Applied and enhance collaborations on both for information processing, the spin is Physics Letters, 1998 has so far been cited spintronics and superconductors”. completely ignored. When both spin more than 100 times (excluding self- and charge are utilised simultaneously, citations). The spintronic team has initi- astonishing and unusual physical phe- ated a wide search for materials for spin- nomena can result. The electric resis- tronics since then. In collaboration with Congratulations tance of a structure based on the elec- teams from ASNTO and NIMS in Japan, tron’s spin changed significantly in the a new series of three and two dimensional Mechanical Engineering Student Kirsty application of a small magnetic field at cobalt based compounds have been suc- Last has won this year’s Judy Gordon room temperature”. cessfully discovered for the first time and Award. Kirsty received a certificate and great interest has been generated world- “There is no heat dissipation when award of $500.00 at the Illawarra/ wide.
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