2014-05-02
Dean's Award for Research Higher Degree Excellence 2013
Congratulations to Dr Stefan Felder on receiving the Dean’s Award for Research Higher Degree Excellence in 2013. Dr Felder’s thesis is titled:
“Air-Water Flow Properties on Stepped Spillways for Embankment Dams: Aeration, Energy Dissipation and Turbulence on Uniform, Non-Uniform and Pooled Stepped Chutes”.
New Civil RHD students who commenced in 2014
Please welcome our new RHD students for 2014:
| 
				 Student  | 
			
				 Program  | 
			
				 Principal Advisor  | 
			
				 Commenced  | 
			
				 Research Group  | 
		
| 
				 Amini Alireza  | 
			
				 PhD  | 
			
				 Dr Hamid Ronagh  | 
			
				 2/01/2014  | 
			
				 Structures  | 
		
| 
				 Doroudi Yashar  | 
			
				 PhD  | 
			
				 Dr Dilum Fernando  | 
			
				 10/01/2014  | 
			
				 Structures  | 
		
| 
				 Edwards David  | 
			
				 MPhil  | 
			
				 Prof David Williams  | 
			
				 18/02/2014  | 
			
				 Geotechnical  | 
		
| 
				 Hamidi Farzin  | 
			
				 PhD  | 
			
				 Dr Alexander Scheuermann  | 
			
				 2/04/2014  | 
			
				 Geotechnical  | 
		
| 
				 Handapangoda Mudalige Dona Harshani  | 
			
				 PhD  | 
			
				 Dr Alexander Scheuermann  | 
			
				 2/01/2014  | 
			
				 Geotechnical  | 
		
| 
				 Irannezhad Elnaz  | 
			
				 PhD  | 
			
				 Prof Mark Hickman  | 
			
				 1/04/2014  | 
			
				 Transport  | 
		
| 
				 Le Xuan Quang  | 
			
				 MPhil  | 
			
				 Dr Vinh Dao  | 
			
				 10/02/2014  | 
			
				 Structures  | 
		
| 
				 Narsey Anand  | 
			
				 PhD  | 
			
				 Dr Hamid Ronagh  | 
			
				 10/02/2014  | 
			
				 Structures  | 
		
| 
				 Obersky Lizanne  | 
			
				 PhD  | 
			
				 Prof William Clarke  | 
			
				 2/04/2014  | 
			
				 Environmental  | 
		
| 
				 Patel Miheka  | 
			
				 PhD  | 
			
				 Prof William Clarke  | 
			
				 2/04/2014  | 
			
				 Environmental  | 
		
| 
				 Peces-Gomez Miriam  | 
			
				 PhD  | 
			
				 Prof William Clarke  | 
			
				 19/02/2014  | 
			
				 Environmental  | 
		
| 
				 Ridgway Thomas  | 
			
				 MPhil  | 
			
				 Prof David Williams  | 
			
				 28/04/2014  | 
			
				 Geotechnical  | 
		
| 
				 Soret-Cantero Gerardo  | 
			
				 PhD  | 
			
				 Prof Jose Torero  | 
			
				 1/04/2014  | 
			
				 Structures/Fire  | 
		
Civil RHD students who have graduated in Research Quarter 1
Congratulations to the following students who have successfully completed their RHD program in the first quarter of 2014:
| 
				 Student  | 
			
				 Program  | 
			
				 Principal Advisor  | 
			
				 Thesis Title  | 
		
| 
				 Abolfazl ESLAMI HASSANABADI  | 
			
				 PhD  | 
			
				 Dr Hamid Ronagh  | 
			
				 Investigating the earthquake performance of FRP strengthened reinforced concrete structures  | 
		
| 
				 Thi Thu Thuy VU  | 
			
				 PhD  | 
			
				 Assoc. Prof. Peter Nielsen  | 
			
				 Aspects of inlet geometry and dynamics  | 
		
| 
				 I GDE BUDI INDRAWAN  | 
			
				 PhD  | 
			
				 Prof. David Williams  | 
			
				 Effectiveness of natural clay, compacted clay and geomembranes in limiting infiltration from coal  | 
		
| 
				 Ilya OTHMAN  | 
			
				 PhD  | 
			
				 Prof. Tom Baldock  | 
			
				 Influence of grain size on swash zone sediment transport  | 
		
Civil RHD students who have submitted their thesis in Research Quarter 1
Congratulations to the following students who have successfully submitted their thesis for examination in the first quarter of 2014:
| 
				 Student  | 
			
				 Program  | 
			
				 Principal Advisor  | 
			
				 Thesis Title  | 
		
| 
				 Behrouz BEHNAM  | 
			
				 PhD  | 
			
				 Em. Prof. Peter Dux  | 
			
				 Urban residential building retrofitting management using neural networks  | 
		
| 
				 Hassan KARAMPOUR  | 
			
				 PhD  | 
			
				 Assoc. Prof. Faris Albermani  | 
			
				 Buckle Interaction in deep sub-sea pipelines  | 
		
| 
				 Mehdi SERATI  | 
			
				 PhD  | 
			
				 Dr Habibollah Alehossein (CSIRO)  | 
			
				 Stiffness and Strength of Rock Cutting and Drilling Tools and Rock-Tool Interactions  | 
		
| 
				 Ahmad TAVASSOLI HOJATI  | 
			
				 PhD  | 
			
				 Prof. Luis Ferreira  | 
			
				 Analysis of cycling in urban comprehensive transportation planning  | 
		
| 
				 Chenming ZHANG  | 
			
				 PhD  | 
			
				 Prof. Ling Li  | 
			
				 Hydrodynamic and thermodynamic processes during evaporation from bare soils  |