From the 19th -23rd August, UQ Fire had the opportunity to attend the World Conference on Timber Engineering (WCTE 2018) held in the CEOX Convention Center, in Seoul, Korea. The WCTE is the most prestigious international event in timber engineering, … Continue reading World Conference on Timber Engineering, Seoul 2018
UQ Fire PhD candidate Ian Pope has completed a 7-month research exchange programme with the Building Research Establishment (BRE) Centre for Fire Safety Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. Ian received the Sir Peter Gadsden Britain Australia Award 2018 from … Continue reading Ian Pope at The University of Edinburgh
Angela Solarte (PhD candidate) will represent UQ Fire in the 2018 School of Civil Engineering Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition. If you’re around, it would be great if you could come along to show your support; there will be afternoon tea. … Continue reading 3MT Competition (School of Civil Eng.)
On Tuesday 19 June 2018, it took place a poster presentation event in the Advanced Engineering Building at The University of Queensland, where our students enrolled in the BE-ME in Civil and Fire Safety Engineering presented their progress in their … Continue reading BE-ME(2018): Poster presentation
A PhD researcher from UQ Fire, Mohamad Lutfi Ramadhan, has recently been selected as one of The University of Queensland’s 2018 Global Change Scholars Program awardees. This prestigious program will provide a great cohort experience to 30 PhD students selected … Continue reading 2018 Global Change Scholars Program
Over the last three weeks, PhD Students Mr Mateo Gutierrez and Mr Ian Pope presented their work on the fire performance of bamboo at institutions around the United Kingdom. On the 28th March, they met Dr Bhavna Sharma and other … Continue reading Bamboo research tours around the UK
Our very own Mateo Gutierrez will be presenting at the upcoming Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) Young Researchers’ Conference to be hold in London. Last year, Mateo was awarded the 1st price during the Australia IStructE Young Researchers’ Conference for his presentation entitled “Design … Continue reading IStructE YRC 2018, London
Carmen Gorska Putynska was recently featured as an ambassador of the SAGE Pilot of Athena SWAN program to address and improve gender equity in the science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM) disciplines. Forty-five Australian organisations, including universities, medical research institutions and government … Continue reading UQ Women Create Change
From the 16th to the 23rd of December, I had the opportunity to work as a volunteer in the construction and updating of several bamboo facilities that were utilized during the Woodford Folk Festival 17/18. Architect Jed Long from Cave … Continue reading Bamboo construction at Woodford Folk Festival 17/18
The Australia Regional Group from the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) held the Inaugural Young Researchers’ Conference, 8 December 2017. At the event, PhD students Andrea Lucherini, Carmen Gorska, Mateo Gutierrez, and Vinny Gupta (MPhil) gave oral presentation on the outcomes … Continue reading Institution of Structural Engineers
