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News Engineers Australia Northern Division

October 2009

Survey House 14 Shepherd Street Darwin GPO Box 417 Darwin NT 0801 Telephone (08) 8981 4137 Fax (08) 8941 3449 Email nt@engineersaustralia.org.au Website: www.engineersaustralia.org.au

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President’s Report 2009 Engineering Excellence Awards Director’s Report CDU Careers Fair Sunchase Darwin Tiger Brennan Drive Open Day Darwin River Dam Site Visit National Science & Engineering Challenge—Darwin High School National Assessor Visit—Register now Poole’s Ponderings Young Engineers Make it Happen Yyoung Engineers Annual General Meeting Calendar of Events

From the President Well the Division’s Engineering Excellence Awards are over and the winning projects and people are to be congratulated. What a range of projects. What a fine dinner. Thanks to attendees for making it such a success. You will be pleased to know Adam James has completely recovered from his voice ailment. While I heard many positive comments, one adverse comment I heard was why was there so many contractors on the podium and so few consultants.

for you to contribute to our organisation by nominating for positions on the management committee. The committee is made up of elected and appointed members and represents a broad spread of the engineering disciplines and activities. If you are interested and want to get more information call me or Len (your incoming President) or Bronwyn. Peter Hagan, President

Many of our members are with contractors and we thank them for their support, as well some of our consultants have been consistent entrants in the awards over many years. We are pleased to get quality entries from our members. It is up to members and their employers to make sure they enter and get the recognition they deserve.

2009 Engineering Excellence Award Project Entrants

Recent national polls have shown the climate change has fallen in importance since the onset of the global financial crisis. All those who attended Ron Cox’s repeat presentation on climate change and its challenges will attest that initiatives need to be taken and EA locally will endeavour to see that the issue remains high on the agenda both at a Territory and National level. The top end has some particular issues with the nature of the river systems and continuining research into this area is critical. Again I encourage you to visit makeitso.org.au and register. Building our profession is vital to the ongoing or improved wellbeing of our communities. We need your help. Sponsored Student Group

Finally our Annual General Meeting is on 3rd December. Please come. There is an opportunity

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