last updated June 1999.
FACULTY

OF

INDUSTRY STUDIES

MECHANICAL  ENGINEERING  ACADEMIC  STAFF

Head Teacher

Trevor Schokman    [Room M2.10    Phone  92173214]
Industrial experience: Power generation, steel industry, mining engineering.
Teaching areas: contract engineering, project management, design, management, engineering mechanics, fluids/thermo, maths.

Head Teacher

Graham Brown  [Room M2.9    Phone  92173550]
Industrial background: Agricultural engineering,farm machinery.
Teaching areas: Fluid power, engineering mechanics, design, drawing, computing.

Teachers

Subra Bala  [Room M2.11    Phone  92173984]
Industrial background: Singapore Polytechnic, cement manufacture, milk processing.
Teaching areas: Finite Element Analysis, CAD, computing, engineering mechanics, management, MYOB accounting software.
Supervises refresher courses for overseas qualified engineers, consults on human resources.

Harry Boogaerdt   [Room M3.12    Phone  92173806]
Industrial background: Manufacturing and chemical industries.
Teaching areas: Management (including strategic planning, people, project and financial management, innovation), engineering project, TQC, engineering mechanics, fluids/thermo, design, electrical.
Spent many hours in 1996 marketing and redesigning Faculty courses.

Brian Doak   [Room M2.13    Phone  92173521]
Industrial background: Air conditioning.
Teaching areas: Air conditioning, building services, engineering mechanics, fluids/thermo, materials, drawing, design electrical.

Adam French   [Room M2.16    Phone  92173665]
Industrial background: Mining, construction, fabrication and printing.
Teaching areas: Engineering mechanics, design, finite element analysis, CAD.

Krishna Keswani   [Room M3.11    Phone  92173456]
Industrial background: Air conditioning, manufacturing, design.
Teaching areas. Air conditioning, refrigeration, design, engineering mechanics, fluids/thermo, CAD, computing, maths, electrical.

Brian McLauchlan   [Room M3.11    Phone  92173456]
Industrial experience: Experimental testing and analysis, rail vehicle dynamics.
Teaching areas: ESP for engineers, noise, vibration, condition monitoring, management, computing, CAD, engineering mechanics, design, electrical.
Developing flexible delivery material for condition analysis.

C.F.L.Morris  [Room M2.6    Phone Australia 92173803]
Industrial experience: Crane design. Systems-analyst programmer. Network-Systems manager
Academic interests:  Flexible education.  A.I.by Simulation of Neural Networks. TCP/IP Networks.
Publications: "Using the WWW for Education" IVETA '99;  Application of statistics to estimate seat belt safety.'98; Transport, energy & pollution, '97; "ACAD 12 on IBM PC", ISBN 0646057065 '91; "A Resource control & monitoring Program" TAFE Comp. Conf '84; "VAX BASIC", NSW Gov. Printer '81; "The Atmospheric Boundary Layer" Proceedings, Auck. Uni. Engg. Soc '71.

Jeff Ruckley   [Room M2.10    Phone  92173214]
Industrial experience: Railway project engineering, engineering underwriting.
Teaching areas: CAD, computing, drawing, design, engineering mechanics.
Developing computer based class booking/enrolment/mark reporting system.

Cathikesu Somasundram (Som)  [Room M2.12    Phone  92173521]
Industrial experience: Fluid dynamics research, university lecturing.
Teaching areas: Fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, maths, engineering mechanics.

Sri Suntharam [Room M2.12    Phone  92173521]
Industrial experience: Mineral processing, copper mining, patents.
Teaching areas: engineering mechanics, drawing, materials, computing, CAD, electrical, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics.

Vijay Vijayanayagam (VJ) [Room M2.13    Phone  92173521]
Industrial experience: Project engineering, maintenance management
Teaching areas: Maintenance engineering, project engineering, management, drawing, fluid mechanics, CAD, computing, design, engineering mechanics.
Assisting Jeff Ruckley with computer enrolment system.

Technical Officer:

Steve Singline
Expert at drawing machine repairs and all matters mechanical.

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