TechNet National Conference 2008 Catalysts for Innovation University Of : 3 - 5 December

Conference Program

Day 1: Wednesday 3rd December

Time Location Event 12:00 - 2:00 Building 67 foyer Early Registration Tour Options: Highlights of UOW 2:00 - 5:00 Building 67 Innovation Campus & Science Centre UOW Tree Walk

5:00 - 6:00 Building 67 foyer Early Registration 6:00 - 8:30 Building 41 Welcome Function

Day 2: Thursday 4th December

Time Location Event 8:00 - 9:00 Registration and Coffee 9:00 - 9:10 Welcome 9:10 - 9:20 Official Opening - Patron of UOW TechNet Professor Judy Raper Building 67 Lecture Theatre Plenary Address: Professor Bert Roberts 107 9:20 - 10:15 “Technological innovations of the Stone Age: chronologies, catalysts and consequences of human ingenuity”

10:15 - 10:20 Overview of Day 1 Sessions 10:20 - 10:50 67 Terrace Morning Tea and opportunity to view Trade Show and posters

Building 67 Keynote Address: Professor Julie Steele 10:50 - 11:35 Lecture Theatre “Innovations in textile biofeedback technology: From bouncing 107 breasts to noisy knees”

67.104 67.102 67.101 S5 – Framework for Managing distress and grief in providing world class animal researcher and Finding Innovation and technical services in technologists – A peculiar Jumping the Hurdles Higher Education facilities 11:35 - 12:15 workplace issue Mark Hayne Paul Jones & Peter Veronika Tatarinoff (QUT) Building 67 McGregor (UNSW) (USYD, Improve Group) Establishment of a new Green Chemistry in an technical services element Kinetic Art with undergraduate laboratory at microcontrollers 12:15 - 12:35 Roza Dimeska Grant Shepherdson Chris Kitson (UOW) (Griffith University) (Uni of Canterbury) 12:35 - 1:35 67 Terrace Lunch and opportunity to view Trade Show and posters

Manual Handling in the Are we heading for a major Preparation for lab classes Laboratory and the current accident? to maximize learning Ergonomic Turmoil 1:35 - 2:15 Building 67 Ellen Manning Glennys O’Brien Nina Oosthuizen (UOW) (UOW) (BlueScope Steel)

Comparing Results of Analytes using Hitachi 917, Metertek SP- 830 Spectrophotometer and Jenway 6300 Spectrophotometer Waste Management - Pharmaceutical Drug Christopher Jackson Siga Practices, issues and Analytical Profile & learnings 2:15 - 2:50 Building 67 Fred Wong Overnight technological Adrian Oehm (USYD) innovation from manual testing (BlueScope Steel) to automation at the Fiji School of Medicine Manasa Mainaqelelevu (Fiji School of Medicine) 2:50 - 3:20 67 Terrace Afternoon Tea and opportunity to view Trade Show and posters Development of risk assessment and control forms and a Studying @ 15000 RPM: Event Diary and Event relational document tracking The QUT Motorsport System –Our virtual 3:20 - 4:00 system: Innovation for efficacy Program conscience and efficiency Jon James Lesley Potgieter Lyn Spencer (QUT) (BlueScope Steel) Building 67 () The innovations used in Action Plan for OGTR Managing Spatial Data for the operations of the BSB Inspections use in teaching and research Science Faculty Store 4:00 - 4:20 Susie Head Heidi Brown Anton Vogels (Griffith University) (UOW) (UNSW) 6:30 - 11:30 Conference Dinner at the Novotel Ballroom

Day 3: Friday 5th December

Time Location Event 9:00 - 9:30 Registration and Coffee Keynote Address: Dr James Wallman 9:30 - 10:15 Building 67 Lecture Theatre “Swatting the myth: why flies are good for you” 107 10:15 - 10:25 What is TechNet ? (Peter Kay, Chair TNA) 10:25 - 10:30 Overview of Day 2 Sessions 10:30 - 11:00 67 Terrace Morning Tea and opportunity to view Trade Show and posters 67.104 67.102 67.101 Electrical Appliance Inspection, So I’m supposed to run this lab Testing and Tagging – Why, What idiot specified that? course in and I’m in Who and What Carmel Johnson & Perth 11:00 - 11:40 Frank Jones and Richard Greg Tevelen Matthew Kenrick Szczepanski (QUT) (UWA) (UNSW) Rain Rain Come Again- A case A day in the life of an Ecology How I murdered SimMan study in upgrading custom Field Officer Greg Tuchin equipment 11:40 - 12:05 Building 67 Corrine de Mestre (UOW) Lincoln Hudson (UOW) (QUT) Simple and cost-effective Secure Storage, Handling and Modernising and Restoring Civil data acquisition and Record Keeping of Therapeutic and Environmental Engineering control solutions for Goods Laboratories 12:05 -12:25 university technical staff Veronica Tatarinoff Matthew Mackay Wolfgang Maier (UNSW) (QUT) (QUT) 12:25 - 1:25 67 Terrace Lunch and opportunity to view Trade Show and posters Albatrosses: An energetic Million Dollar Store that Working with perspective sells nothing Hydrofluoric Acid 1:25 -1:50 Harry Battam Noel Haynes Jose Abrantes (UOW) (QUT) (UOW) Building 67 Special Interest Forum Special Interest Forum Special Interest Forum Visual Art Catalysts for 1:50 – 2:50 Influencing the Decision Makers Competency Assessment Innovation

2:50 - 3:20 67 Terrace Afternoon Tea and opportunity to view Trade Show and posters 3:20 - 3:35 TechNet 2009 - Sustain: People Places Resources (Elizabeth Halladin) Building 67 3:35 - 3:50 Lecture Theatre TNA Australian report 107 3:50 - 4:00 Conference Closure 4:00 - 6:00 UniBar