The Faculty is delighted to offer our congratulations to Steven Davey, Brendan-John Vernall and Christopher Pratt, second year Mechanical Engineering students, who won the national 2009 Warman Competition.

This workshop is aimed at providing state-of-the-art practice in flow assurance for hydrates, one of the largest problems in offshore production and it will be valuable to individuals involved in the field of flow assurance.

Twelve early career researchers in ECM were successful in the 2009 round for UWA Research Development Awards funding for 2010. Congratulations to the winners and also to those that applied, but were unsuccessful. Please consider the feedback you receive carefully and continue to refine your grant writing skills, seek peer review and resubmit to this and other schemes.

The Faculty would like to announce the retirement of Dr Laurence Spencer.
Laurence is one of the longest standing members of the School of Mechanical Engineering.
We would like to wish Laurence and his family all the best for the future.

The Faculty is delighted to announce that UWA Motorsport won the 2009 UWA Award for Excellence in Teaching in the category "Program".

Converting a greenhouse gas into a clean-burning fuel offers two benefits for the price of one. That's the thinking behind a novel process for converting carbon dioxide into methanol at room temperature, developed by a team at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Singapore.

Nine early career researchers in FECM were succesful in the 2008 round for UWA Research Development Awards funding in 2009. This scheme is a great opportunity to:
a) develop grant writing skills,
b) secure funding for pilot projects to support future external applications,
c) build up track record in funding success and
d) establish a relationship or collaboration with a mentor.

Professor Dongke Zhang from the UWA Centre for Petroleum, Fuels and Energy has developed a fuel additive that has the ability to deliver fuel savings and engine performance improvements.

Western Australia dominated the Engineers Without Borders (EWB) 2008 Challenge, with first-year engineering students from The University of Western Australia taking the majority of prizes including