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News & Events: School Surveying and Spatial Information Systems ... 2006 ... (2005-04) ...

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13 December 2006 -- The School celebrates with a Xmas BBQ ... photo gallery

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6 November 2006 -- Annual undergraduate thesis conference... click here to view student websites... photo gallery...

5 October 2006 -- First year undergraduate students on bushwalk in the Royal National Park, led by Staff Bruce Harvey and Brian Donnelly.

26-29 September 2006 -- Chris Rizos, Andrew Dempster, Jinling Wang, Peter Mumford, Yong Li, Joel Barnes, Eamonn Glennon, Asghar Tabatabaei attended the 19th Int. Tech. Meeting of the Satellite Division of the U.S. Inst. of Navigation, Fort Worth, Texas, where they presented 11 papers....Asghar was selected winner of a student scholarship to attend this conference. This is the 20th US Institute of Navigation student prize/scholarship awarded to members of the SNAP Lab (the first being in 1988 to Bertrand Merminod, and the 2nd & 3rd to Shaowei Han in 1995 and again in 1996, the 4th to Lao-Sheng Lin in 1997, the 5th to Linlin Ge in 1999, the 6th & 7th to Liwen Dai and Horng-Yue Chen in 2000, the 8th & 9th to Clement Ogaja and Chon Satirapod in 2001, the 10th & 11th to Michael Moore and Hung-Kyu Lee in 2002, the 12th & 13th to Steve Hewitson and Volker Janssen in 2003, the 14th, 15th & 16th to Ravi Babu, Jean Li and Binghao Li in 2004, and 18th & 19th to Michael Chang and Jack Wang in 2005).

12-24 September 2006 -- Assoc. Prof. Dorota Brzezinska, head of the Satellite Positioning and Inertial Navigation (SPIN) Laboratory at The Ohio State University, visiting to jointly develop the SNAPlab-SPIN research agenda.

Andrew Dempster & Dorota Brzezinska at the Royal National Park (17 September)

22 September 2006 -- 3rd year undergraduate student Luke Spitzer was named "Young Student of the Year" by the Sydney Division of Engineers Australia at its Engineering Excellence Awards. Luke also won a prize for "Campus Winner - Industrial Training Report". To cap it off, Luke also came 3rd in the competition for the "Jacobs Australia Engineering Leadership Prize" run amongst the schools of engineering of the UNSW Faculty of Engineering.

2 September 2006 -- The annual UNSW "Courses & Careers Day" was supported by the School, at a Marquee outside the Electrical Engineering Building (UG students & staff chatting with passerbys), manning a desk in the Roundhouse (to answer questions about courses & uni), and a display at the Squarehouse ("ICT Open Day").

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9 June 2006 -- Leon Daras, the School's Administrative Officer for over 22 years retired on 9 June. Friends and colleagues farewelled Leon at a lunch...

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1 June 2006 -- At a (surprise!) ceremony at Wuhan University, Chris Rizos was made an Honorary Professor of Wuhan University. Wuhan University is China's 4th ranked university, and has a long and illustrious history as a seat of teaching & research in Surveying/Geodesy/Geomatics. Prior to 2000, Wuhan University was comprised of several smaller universities, including the Wuhan Technical University of Surveying & Mapping (WTUSM). WTUSM had the largest student body anywhere in the world in the surveying/geomatics disciplines. This tradition continues at Wuhan University. (The President being an ex-academic from WTUSM.)

This is a rare honour, as the School of Surveying & Spatial Information Systems now has two honorary professors of Wuhan University: Chris Rizos and Emeritus Professor (& former HoS) John Trinder. Two of the current staff of the School are also in fact WTUSM alumni: Dr. Jinling Wang and Dr. Linlin Ge. The School continues to work closely with researchers and academics at Wuhan University.

2 May 2006 -- Students & staff enjoy BBQ organised by the Surveying Society & sponsored by the ISNSW Young Surveyors group.

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9-13 April 2006 -- Final year undergraduate students at the Survey Camp at Lake Conjola, led by Dr Bruce Harvey.

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Final year undergraduate students at the Survey Camp at Manly Vale, led by Michael Green.

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28 March 2006 -- One of the highlights of the School Year is the Graduation Dinner which takes place on the evening of the graduation ceremony itself.

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The following prizes & scholarships were awarded to students and graduates of the school at the Graduation Dinner on 28 March 2006... download the Program ...

CO-OP Scholarship Winners: Katherine AVERY, Sian ELLIOTT & Bernice SPARKES

RTA Scholarship Winner: Matthew BRYAN

Rural Scholarship Winner: Bradley JACKSON

The Association of Public Service Surveyors Prize, awarded to: Ryan FIFIELD

The George Bennett Millennium Prize, awarded to: Lucy CHEN

Sinclair Knight Merz Prize, awarded to: Jason PHIPPS

AAMHatch Prize in Surveying & Spatial Information Systems, awarded to: Walter JOHANSEN

E.G. Masters Memorial Prize, awarded to: Sandra HOFMANN

Best Tutor Prize for 2005, awarded to: Yincai ZHOU

Board of Surveying and Spatial Information Medal, awarded to: Sandra HOFMANN

The Consulting Surveyors NSW Prize in Land Development, awarded to: Michael KADZIELA

The Institution of Surveyors NSW Inc. Prize, awarded to: Sandra HOFMANN

Spatial Sciences Institute Prize for Photogrammety & Remote Sensing, awarded to: Wei Hoong CHEN

R.S. Mather Memorial Prize, awarded to: Michael KADZIELA

The Civilcad Prize, awarded to: Michael KADZIELA

20 March 2006 -- MoU signed with Wuhan University

A visit by Prof Jingnan Liu, President of Wuhan University, P.R. China, afforded UNSW an opportunity to renew its Memorandum of Understanding with this prestigious university. Wuhan University was formed from a merger of several universities in the city of Wuhan, including the world famous Wuhan Technical University of Surveying & mapping (WTUSM). The School has had a close relationship with the former WTUSM, having welcomed a number of postgraduate students who have subsequently gone on to complete their PhDs at UNSW. These include Linlin Ge, Shaowei Han and Liwen Dai. Emeritus Prof. John Trinder, a former Head of the School, is also an emeritus professor of WTUSM. A MoU with WTUSM had long expired, and this visit by Prof. Liu was an ideal opportunity to renew links with this important university and its worldclass surveying and geodesy schools.

Mr Yanchu Hu, Prof Chris Rizos, Prof Jingnan Liu, Prof John Ingelson, A/Prof Tim Hesketh, Dr Linlin Ge

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16 March 2006 -- First SurvSoc BBQ for the year, students & staff attended with a special welcome to our first year students ... photo gallery

13 March 2006 -- Three first year students received Co-op Scholarships at the ceremony: Bernice Sparkes, Sian Elliott, Katherine Avery ...

Tony Atkins (Rose Atkins & Assoc. Pty Ltd, Co-op sponsor), Bernice Sparkes (Year 1 Co-op scholar), Sian Elliott (Year 1 Co-op scholar), Katherine Avery (Year 1 Co-op scholar), Phil Hayward (Lean & Hayward Pty Ltd, Co-op sponsor)

26 January 2006 -- Medal of the Order of Australia awarded to George G. Bennett, former staff member and Head of School ... 26 January 2006 ... more

18 January 2006 -- The School hosted a visit by selected high school students of the Indigenous Australians Engineering Summer School ... Craig Roberts, Brian Donnelly, Chris Rizos, Andrew Dempster, Samsung Lim, Steve Hewitson and Yincai Zhou gave demonstrations of, and talks about, various surveying and spatial information technologies.

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