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OF WOMEN ENGINEERS — Record Number in 2015 Top 100 — GENERAL EDITION Vol 87 No 5: JUNE 2015 $7.85 inc. gst INSIDE Poor performance on infrastructure Opportunities across the country Indigenous under-represented ®engineers australia THE GROWING INFLUENCE OF WOMEN ENGINEERS — record number in 2015 top 100 — 01 g - Cover.indd 1 26/06/15 11:08 AM 1032 05 15 a2 CO.pdf 1 14/5/15 10:16 am FROM THE PRESIDENT Strength in diversity y now you will be aware that I am strongly committed to increasing the diversity of the Bengineering profession, because I am certain this will significantly improve the contribution we are able to make to society. I am therefore delighted to see that there are 19 women engineers in this year’s Top 100 Most Influential Engineers, up from 11 in 2014 and only 5 in 2013. There could not be a clearer demonstration of the growing and positive influence of women in our Dr David Cruickshanks-Boyd profession. [email protected] In mid-June, I was privileged to host the launch of the Strategy for inclusiveness, wellbeing and diversity in engineering workplace, at Parliament House in Canberra. The strategy was launched by the Hon Michaelia Cash, the has been proven by research, diversity is not just the ‘right minister assisting the prime minister for women. She was thing to do’ it is the ‘smart thing to do’. supported at this launch by the Hon Karen Andrews, the parliamentary secretary to the minister for industry and Recognition science. The strategy was developed by Dr Marlene Kanga, I would like to give my personal congratulations to the who was national president in 2013, and it is strongly engineers who were recognised in this year’s Queen’s supported by Engineers Australia. Birthday Honours list (see p. 18). It is fitting that the This month also saw the first ever National Indigenous contributions of these engineers to building a better world Engineering Summit, hosted by the University of have been recognised in this way. Melbourne (see p. 16). Engineers Australia has been Tomorrow’s engineers closely involved in the planning for this summit, which On 22 June, I attended an important consultation forum has identified strategies to lift the appallingly low level of led by the minister for industry and science, the Hon representation in the engineering profession of Australia’s Ian Macfarlane, to provide feedback on the government’s first people. response to the important STEM paper released by chief We will be supporting these strategies, and I look scientist Prof Ian Chu bb in September last year, titled forward to a future when the percentage of Indigenous Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics: Australia’s engineers in our profession more closely matches the Future. I was able to emphasise to the minister the critical overall population. need for our school and higher education systems to Our first ever open elections prepare appropriately educated engineers to underpin In late 2015, we will for the first time be appointing new our capacity to be a more innovative and competitive members to our Council (soon to be renamed the Board) Australia. The minister and the chief scientist were left from an open election of members. This is assuming with a clear impression of how Engineers Australia and the governor-general gives assent to our Supplementary our members can assist in this critical agenda. Charter, following our successful governance ballot earlier New national engineering register in the year. We have recently launched a new National Engineering You will by now have seen the call for nominations, Register (see p. 34) to improve the public trust and which closes on 31 July. The skills experience and recognition of engineers in Australia. I am excited by attributes required are clearly documented in the selection this development that we hope will, over time, avoid criteria and I encourage you to consider nominating. the potential proliferation of different state and territory I am very hopeful that we will have a number of strong schemes, which is not in the national interest. I sincerely nominations from a diverse demographic, so that our hope that you will encourage engineers to join this Board has good diversity. As many businesses know and as national register. ENGINEERS AUSTRALIA JUNE 2015 3 03 g - President.indd 3 26/06/15 1:41 PM ENGINEERS AUSTRALIA NATIONAL OFFICE 11 National Circuit, Barton, ACT 2600 phone 02 6270 6555 www.engineersaustralia.org.au [email protected] 1300 653 113 contents NATIONAL PRESIDENT: Dr David Cruickshanks-Boyd, FIEAust CPEng EngExec NATIONAL DEPUTY PRESIDENT: John McIntosh, FIEAust CPEng EngExec NATIONAL IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT: Prof Alex Baitch, HonFIEAust CPEng COUNCILLORS: Dr Steven Goh, MIEAust; Alexandra Meldrum, FIEAust CPEng; John Olson, FIEAust CPEng EngExec; Simon Orton, FIEAust CPEng EngExec; Murray Thompson, FIEAust; Greg Walters (National Vice President – Finance), FIEAust CPEng EngExec. CHIEF EXECUTIVE : Stephen Durkin, FIEAust COLLEGE CHAIRS: Prof Karen Reynolds, FIEAust (biomedical); Prof Robert Burford, FIEAust CPEng (chemical); Gerry Doyle, FIEAust CPEng (civil); Tiina Ratamo, FIEAust CPEng (electrical); Erik Maranik, FIEAust CPEng (environmental); Geoff Sizer, FIEAust CPEng (ITEE); David Singleton, HonFIEAust CPEng EngExec (leadership and management); Michael Lucas, FIEAust CPEng (mechanical); Dr Rob Heywood, FIEAust CPEng (structural). DIVISION OFFICES CANBERRA 11 National Circuit, Barton, ACT 2600, phone 02 6270 6519 NEWCASTLE Engineering sector sees red 122 Parry St, Newcastle West 2302, phone 02 4926 4440 17 NORTHERN GPO Box 417, Darwin 0801, phone 08 8981 4137 QUEENSLAND 447 Upper Edward St, Brisbane 4000, phone 07 3832 3749 SOUTH AUSTRALIA ENGINEERS AUSTRALIA Level 11, 108 King William St, Adelaide 5000, phone 08 8202 7100 SYDNEY 3 President’s column Level 3, 8 Thomas Street, Chatswood 2067, phone 02 9410 5600 TASMANIA 6 CEO’s column Level 8, 188 Collins St, Hobart 7000, phone 03 6218 1901 VICTORIA 8 Letters 13-21 Bedford St, North Melbourne 3051, phone 03 9329 8188 WESTERN AUSTRALIA 24 Launch of Transport Australia society 712 Murray St, West Perth 6005, phone 08 9321 3340 34 National Engineer Register introduced HONG KONG CHAPTER, Paul Freeman, President, [email protected] 71 Engineering Practice Advisory Committee MALAYSIA CHAPTER Dennis Ong, Chairman, [email protected] meets SINGAPORE CHAPTER Percy Jeyapal, President, [email protected] UK CHAPTER CURRENT AFFAIRS Peter Walsh, Chairman, [email protected] ENGINEERS MEDIA 12 Pressure mounts to reform fire safety Engineers Australia magazine, published by Engine ers Media (registered name Engineers Australia Pty Limited, ACN 001311511), a wholly owned subsidiary of 14 Infrastructure audit calls for better Engineers Australia, is a magazine reporting impartially the latest news of interest leadership to engineers. The statements made or opinions expressed in the magazine do not necessarily reflect the views of the Institution. Engineers Media retains copyright for this publication. Written permission is EWS required for the reprinting of any of its content. N BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Mervyn Lindsay, FIEAust CPEng (chair); Stephen Durkin, FIEAust; Terence Jeyaretnam, FIEAust CPEng; 16 Indigenous under-represented in Bruce Roff, FIPA AGIA. engineering HEAD OFFICE: 2 Ernest Place, Crows Nest, NSW 2065 (PO Box 588, Crows Nest 1585), phone 02 9438 1533 17 Engineering sector sees red www.engineersmedia.com.au EDITORIAL EMAIL: [email protected] 18 Queen’s Birthday honours ADVERTISING EMAIL: [email protected] GENERAL MANAGER: Bruce Roff 20 Opportunities for engineers MANAGING EDITOR: Dr Tim Kannegieter across the country DEPUTY EDITOR: Desi Corbett EDITORIAL: Patrick Durrant, Callum Rhodes 22 Australia’s performance on infrastructure ACCOUNTANT: Tissa Mohotti not up to scratch ADVERTISING SALES: Qld, NSW, ACT: Maree Fraser, [email protected] 07 5580 9000 Vic, Tas, SA, WA: Dee Grant, [email protected] 02 9438 1533 ADVERTISING CO-ORDINATOR: Esme Johnstone PRODUCTION MANAGER: Chris Gerelli PRODUCTION: Stefan Novak, Nicole Sidoti EA BOOKS: Dean Clarke Find us elsewhere ENGINEERS AUSTRALIA JUNE 2015 4 Follow@EngAusMag Pyrmont Bridge enters world of 3D 72 Controversial projects offer lessons 77 PROJECT NEWS AUSTRALIA’S TOP 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL ENGINEERS 30 Smart M4 motorway moves up a gear 30 Drones to assess WA goldfields pipeline 41 A breakdown of the country’s top engineers by category, as well as judges’ profiles, VIEWPOINT statistics and an A-Z listing. 32 ‘Use it or lose it’ maxim particularly applies ASSET MANAGEMENT to engineers 72 Pyrmont Bridge enters the 3D world LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT PROCESS ENGINEERING 31 Margot Cairnes on the need for mavericks and odd balls 76 New process for greener steel 77 Controversial projects offer COVER STORY safety lessons 78 Milking it for all it’s worth 36 A higher number of women in this year’s list of Australia’s top GENERAL 100 most influential engineers prompted a roundtable of 26 People and companies prominent engineers to discuss 28 Conference preview – Electrical College the status and future of women Awards gala night in engineering. 80 Terence Jeyaretnam on progressive corporations 81 Obituary – Charles Bubb 81 Diary 81 Classifieds 82 EA Books – The Engineers Bookshop Member of General Edition Vol 87 No 4 ISSN 1448-4951 Reader Average Net Distribution surveys by 33,529 April to September 2014 ENGINEERS AUSTRALIA JUNE 2015 5 FROM THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE Creating valuable partnerships he past few months have seen significant progress on a number of reforms at Engineers Australia and I am Tdelighted to profile two of these initiatives. Stephen Durkin An area of ongoing consideration at EA has been how [email protected] we can continue to build the profile of our profession. You may have seen the recent Roy Morgan Image of Professions Survey 2015, where engineers have now moved from a rating and lawyers in Australia are members of this scheme. of 7th to 5th of the most trusted professions in Australia The NER will also be accessible to members of the public alongside doctors, nurses, pharmacists and school teachers.
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