Microsoft is coming to UOW for a special event to be held at SMART Infrastructure.
The tech giant is recruiting for US and Australian positions and students are encouraged to bring their resumes along. There will be two sessions, targeted to computer science and engineering students but open to all.
See this Facebook post from Careers Central for more information.
In this article in The Conversation, Garry Bowditch argues:
There are a number of factors required to improve the attractiveness of infrastructure as a long-term investment for private funding
These include high design and construction costs, low asset utilisation owing to poor demand management and a reliance on a narrow revenue base such as user charges.
By Garry Bowditch, for The Financial Review.
In the modern life cycle of government agencies, Infrastructure Australia (IA) has done well to secure a second life with the Abbott government. The challenge now is to deliver more tangible results, as it might be its last chance to do so.
IA has witnessed in its lifetime a dramatic escalation in the cost of infrastructure in Australia, making it one of the most expensive jurisdictions in the world to build mega-projects. As a result taxpayers have suffered poor value for money for each dollar spent. Surprisingly there has been little focus on this by IA.
Read the rest at The Financial Review.
Dr John Beckford of Beckford Consulting delivered a very engaging SMART Seminar to open the series for 2014. Continue reading
SMART has prepared a Green Paper entitled “Infrastructure Imperatives for Australia”. The paper sets out aims a way forward for planning, provision and investment in the future infrastructure needs of Australia and addresses a number of key principles that successive governments have overlooked.
This Green Paper and the associated recommendations endeavour to capture the challenges and opportunities identified to ensure a better infrastructure future for our country. Continue reading
Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Design, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy
edited by Dr. Etienne Turpin, Vice-Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow, SMART Infrastructure Facility
(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Publishing/Open Humanities Press, December 2013) Continue reading
By Katie Elcombe and Despina Clancy. This article was first published in the Nov-Dec 2011 edition of UOW’s Innovation and Research Magazine.
It has never been more important than now to ensure that data management is at the forefront of research practices.
Trends in the current global research environment have led towards rapid advances in technology that have taken research efficiency and data management to a new level. The US and UK are leading the way in this emerging field by already promoting the sharing and open use of government data. Within Australia, we have seen the creation of the Australian National Data Service (ANDS) which was established to provide best practice around data management and to ensure that research data collections are treated as national resources.
Unfortunately, the loss and ineffective management of research data is still a reality. Poor data management practices place research data at risk of theft, failure and misuse which leads to the questioning of methodologies and the validation of results. Through the implementation of necessary data management practices, the possibilities of sharing, re-using and transforming research data presents limitless opportunities. Research data is a valuable asset and needs to be treated as such. Continue reading
An explainer, by SMART’s IT Architect Matthew Berryman.
Modelling and analysis of large systems of infrastructure systems carries with it a number of challenges, in particular around the volume of data and the requisite complexity (and thus computing resources required) of models. Our IT infrastructure needs to support the diverse range of models that we use to model integrated infrastructure in the real world. Continue reading
The School of Civil, Mining and Environmental Engineering (CME) through its Centre for Infrastructure Protection and Mining Safety, has successfully co-hosted the 6th International Symposium on Green Mining with the State Key Laboratory of Coal Resources and Safe Mining, China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT). Continue reading
University of Wollongong researchers have received $30million in funding to develop a new world centre for 3D electromaterials and an Australian steel manufacturing research hub. Associate Professor Brian Monaghan from the Faculty of Engineering and Information Services will be at the helm of the Australian Steel Manufacturing Research Hub.