UNSW@ADFA Weekly News - Archives February 24

April 7, 2005

Message From the Rector

There were a number of important events on campus this week. On Monday morning the Acting Commandant and I conducted a briefing and tour of the campus for members of the ADFA Consultative Council and a group of prominent members of the local community. The briefing was very well received with lots of discussion about life at ADFA and the services provided. This was followed by a meeting of the ADFA Consultative Council where matters including student recruitment were discussed and members received a briefing by Defence personnel on alcohol management on campus.

In the afternoon I was joined by members of the ADFA Consultative Council, Senior University and Defence staff for our annual reception for high achieving UNSW@ADFA students. This is an event in the annual calendar that generates a feeling of great pride and affords us an opportunity to recognise the incoming school leavers who achieved a UAI of 98 or better, as well as existing undergraduate students who excelled in their programs in the previous year.

Also on Monday we welcomed two new staff members, Dani Johnson and Mark Priddle, to the UNSW@ADFA Administration team. Dani will be the Acting Deputy Manager in Student Administrative Services for a period of 12 months and Mark has been appointed to the new role of Student Recruitment Manager, located within the Rector's Office. Dani can be contacted on ext: 8730 and Mark on ext: 8782.

On Wednesday 6 April the Vice-Chancellor Professor Mark Wainwright, AM and I hosted the Spitfire Memorial Defence Fellowship Award ceremony at Kensington. Dr Nigel Greenwood was the recipient for the 2004 Award for his project Blue Mongoose, an artificial intelligence guidance system for air defence against cruise missiles. A full story on the evening can be found at: http://www.unsw.edu.au/news/pad/articles/2005/apr/Spitfire.html

Finally, I would like to advise you that I will be away from campus beginning Monday 11 April for two weeks, returning on Tuesday 26 April. During this time Professor Joseph Lai will be the Acting Rector. Any matters that need addressing during this time should still be directed to the Rector's Office where staff will liaise directly with Professor Lai.

Professor John Baird
Rector
UNSW@ADFA

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UNSW@ADFA Recognises High Achievers

UNSW@ADFA recently held its annual ceremony to recognise its high achieving cadets from the Navy, Army and Air Force. The ceremony honored the achievements of both first year cadets who achieved a UAI score of ninety-eight or higher as well as cadets who continue to achieve outstanding results in their university studies.

UNSW@ADFA Rector, Professor John Baird said “groups of outstanding students such as these high achievers show that the future of the Australian Defence Forces is in good hands and UNSW is proud of its long association with the Australian Defence Force.”

From left : The High Achieving Students pictured with Professor John Baird, Rector UNSW@ADFA (left) and Rear Admiral Mark Bonser, AO, CSC RAN, Commander Australian Defence College (right).

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RESEARCH OFFICE REPORT

Engineering-ADFA Research Collaboration Initiative

In November 2004 a delegation of engineers from the UNSW faculty at the Australian Defence Force Academy spent two days in Sydney meeting with their Kensington counterparts. Kensington Campus engineers returned the favour by visiting ADFA in December. The purpose of these meetings was to explore opportunities for research collaboration, networking and sources of funding. Professor Joseph Lai, Associate Dean (Research), noted that "An enormous amount of goodwill went into this exercise and we now hope to harness the synergies for some great outcomes”.

As a result of these meetings, applications seeking a total of $456,099 were submitted for funding under the Engineering-ADFA Research Collaboration Initiative. A total amount of $164,000 was allocated to successful projects which were funded equally by UNSW@ADFA and Kensington.

Prof Lai would like to congratulate the following researchers on their successful applications and looks forward to the successful outcomes of their projects.

Congratulations to :

Drs Amin, Abbass and Barlow: Heterogenous Ensembles for Cursive Handwriting and Fraud Detection $13,000;

Drs Barber, Neely, and Mr Young: Experimental and numerical investigation of supersonic ground effect $13,000

Drs Frater, Marusic, Arnold, Pickering, and Taubman: Application of over-complete wavelet representations to object detection and tracking in video $16,500

Drs Gnanendran, Song, Khalili, and Lo: An integrated approach in modelling granular base materials in a pavement system $ 16,000

Drs Jia, Ge, and Mr Faulconbridge: Quantitative Land Cover Change Monitoring Using Optical and Microwave Remote Sensing Data $15,000

Drs Kara, Kayis, Sarker, Abbass, Ray, and Freeman: A Complex Systems Approach to Quantifying Forrester Effect in Manufacturing Supply Chain $ 12,000

Drs Kayali and Gowripalan: Influence of surface characteristics of fine aggregates on the mechanical properties of ultra-high-strength concrete $9,000

Drs Ladouceur, Sammut, Kolossovski, Kaalund, and Hudson: Proof-of-principle design and fabrication of holographic Bragg reflector devices using planar deposition and e-beam writing techniques. $15,000

Drs Milford and Dempster: Antenna Development for a GNSS Reciever $2,500

Drs Neely, Leonardi, Kleine, Barber, and Mr Young: Development of Thermofluid tools for the investigation of disc brake cooling $11,000

Drs Pota, and Katupitiya: Nonlinear Control of Heavy Agricultural Implements for Precision Trajectory Following $6,000

Ds Shankar, Kelly, Mr Tahtali, Drs Zarrabi, Anavatti, Neely, and Crosky: Integrated online health monitoring system for effective maintenance of structures , $16,000

Mr Young, Drs Furukawa, and Bourgault: Analysis, Synthesis and Development of an Autonomous Micro Aerial Vehicle with Flapping Wings. , $5,000

Drs Chan, Neely, and Shankar: High temperature mechanical properties of nanometric patriculate reinforced advanced aluminium matrix composites for use in Scramjet structures, $14,000

Staff Bulletins

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UNSW@ADFA Teaching Prizes – Rector's Commendations

In order to further increase the profile of teaching, and consequently its quality, UNSW@ADFA is introducing a new type of teaching prize – Rector's Commendation. Rector's Commendations will recognise excellence in one aspect of teaching, rather than the overall general excellence in teaching required for the more prestigious UNSW@ADFA Teaching Awards.

Guidelines

Nominations for a Rector's Commendation for teaching can be made at any time during the year; however, the TLC will only consider awards in July and November each year.
Nominations will be accepted in, but are not restricted to, the following categories.
• Excellence in Classroom Teaching

• Excellent Innovation in Teaching

• Excellent use of Technology in Teaching
Team nominations will be considered where the teaching initiative has involved group effort and development of team approaches.
Recipients of a Rector's Commendation must wait three calendar years before being eligible for another commendation .

Process

Potential recipients do not apply for an award; they are identified through either HOS recommendation, student or staff nomination. Nominations, identifying the category of teaching excellence, should be sent to the Presiding Member of the UNSW@ADFA Teaching and Learning Committee (A/Prof Himanshu Pota, School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering, h.pota@adfa.edu.au, 6268 8197).
Based on the nominations, the TLC will invite short-listed staff to provide a brief document (2 pages) outlining their teaching methods and achievements.
TLC recommends to Rector the names of staff whom it believes should receive an award.
TLC provides feedback to unsuccessful short-listed nominees.

Commendation

The commendations will be in the form of a $500 prize and a certificate that outlines the basis of the commendation. Recipients will be awarded their prize at a UNSW@ADFA Academic Board meeting.

ETS Spotlight on . . . April events

1. Get on Board: How to operate WebCT discussion tools

When: 12.30 – 2.30, Wednesday April 20

Where: Computer Training Room, ICTS

Facilitator: Ms Wanda Jackson

Cost: Free

Bookings: via e-mail to Izabella Warner i.warner@adfa.edu.au

Booking deadline: Monday, April 18

In this face to face workshop participants will be given an orientation to the inner workings of the WebCT discussion tool and have to opportunity to practice basic operations of:

• message composition

• replying and posting

• formatting using the in-built editor

• attaching files and downloading attachments

• message threading

• viewing and compiling messages

This workshop will be of interest to lecturers who have not used the WebCT discussion tool before or those who would benefit from a refresher.

Unisuper Seminars

UniSuper members are invited to the following seminars to be held at UNSW@ADFA. David Prowse, Regional Coordinator of the UniSuper Education and Advisory Service will be presenting the seminars

To register for a seminar, please go to the website below, click on the nominated topic, select the ACT in the drop down menu, click on register.
Registration of your attendance will ensure an accurate number of handouts are available.

http://www.unisuper.com.au/education/seminars.cfm

Thursday, 14 April 2005
2.00 - 3.30 pm in Lecture Theatre 7

Topic: - How much is enough? ? Financial strategies for retirement

This seminar explores the issue of adequacy in retirement savings. Younger members in particular will find it a very useful introduction to the topic of lifetime savings and investment, but the seminar will include material that is very relevant to UniSuper members at all stages of their working lives.
The seminar focuses on your goals and highlights the variables that you can influence to reach your financial goals in retirement. It looks at the options you have to increase the amount of money available to fund your retirement, and some of the main trade-offs and decisions you are likely to have to make. The seminar opens issues such as:
. When to retire
. The implications of increased life expectancy and longer retirement
periods
. What size lump sum buys an adequate income?
. What is a realistic target for how much you'll need to live on in
retirement?
. Building your savings
. Risk and return
. The impact of compound interest
. Government assistance
. Taking advantage of tax concessions

Please note: This Seminar involves filling out a short survey form (about
5 minutes), one before the seminar, one after the Seminar and a follow up 2 months later.

Mavis Comer, Human Resources Officer
Human Resources
UNSW@ADFA
Telephone 02 6268 8726

Absence of Commandant

The Commandant will be absent from ADFA from 27 March until 3 June. He will be attending the Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program. Group Captain Loch Mitchell, the Deputy Commandant, will be Acting Commandant during Commodore Goldrick's absence. The Commandant's personal staff will continue to handle all inquiries and matters relating to the
office. Commodore Goldrick wishes it to be clear to all that he will return!

4 May - Flu injections

Once again the University is giving staff the opportunity to be vaccinated against influenza.

Health Services Australia advises that the antibodies only last about six months, so they will be given on the afternoon of Wednesday May 4 in room SR101. For further details and booking information please telephone Jacqui Jillard on ext. 8707.

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Classifieds

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FOR SALE

Toyota Corolla 1981 with rego until May. She is very old and battered, but very reliable. $500 ono. Contact e.greenhalgh@adfa.edu.au or telephone (w) 6268 8875, (h)6281 0239

Dining Suite - High quality timber square (1500cm x 1500cm) eight seater dining table and eight chairs. For sale for $800.00. Phone 0404 091 491.

WANTED

I am in the process of organising my life so that I can start caring for injured native wildlife to then, once they are fighting fit release them back into their habitat.

To do this I need to purchase Bird Aviaries, Cages with top opening lids (Cat Carry Cages), old towels, sheets etc. The list goes on.

So if anyone has Avairies and/or cages etc they would like to get rid of or sell cheaply I would be very interested.

If you do have any of the above that you would like to get rid of please contact Vicki King on 6268 8719 at work 6287 1101 at home, or email: v.king@adfa.edu.au

WANTED TO RENT

House in Campbell – 3 or 4 bdr., good-sized garden for UNSW@ADFA lecturer, spouse and 5 year old child . Seeking lease for 1-2 years.

Please contact Gary Lea on x6253 or via g.lea@adfa.edu.au

FREE

Wooden Pallets, free to good home. They are located outside at the back of the Main Store.
Feel free to collect them at anytime at your convenience. Contact Canh on ext. 8185 or Gerry 8370 to see if any are available.

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Free Community Lectures

Royal Aeronautical Society Lecture

Joint Strike Fighter

AIRCDRE John Harvey DGNACC

6pm, Tuesday 12th April 2005

Military Lecture Theatre, ADFA

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Asia Pacific Seminar Series at UNSW@ADFA

Will be held on Monday, at 12:10-13:00 in Building 21 at UNSW@ADFA, Northcott Drive, Canberra.

Monday, 18 April 2005

Daryono, Faculty of Law, ANU

Abstract

The complex and contested tenure system has been experienced since colonial times. The competing authorities between state law and adat law, formal bureaucracy and local (adat) institutions and the formal judiciary and informal adat settlement have been persistent as major sources of disputes and uncertainty. Land reform therefore has been addressed to cease the pluralistic tenure by promoting legal unification under Basic Agrarian Law 1960. However the transformation seems to lack comprehensive socio-cultural understandings, which result in uncertainty, conflicting legal substances and wide bureaucratic discretions. By the establishment of current local autonomy post new order government, the adat community has been formally recognised and the pluralistic tenure systems re-emerge but the devolution of central government authority on land affairs has become a source of conflict among competing agencies. This paper describes and examines the transformation of pluralistic tenure system into unified system under Basic Agrarian Law 1960 and the future tenure system post-local autonomy.

All welcome. Thank you.

*The Asia-Pacific Seminar convenors welcome suggestions for seminar

speakers and topics. Please contact 2005 convenors:

Minako Sakai (m.sakai@adfa.edu.au) Paul Tickell (p.tickell@adfa.edu.au)

Website: http://idun.itsc.adfa.edu.au/SOE/Indonesia/apss/apss.html

Map/Venue: http://idun.its.adfa.edu.au/SOE/indonesia/APSS/MAP

To be included into our mailing list, please send your email to apss@adfa.edu.au.

Seminar enquiries: Taufiq Tanasaldy

School of Humanities and Social Sciences

The University of New South Wales at Australian Defence Force Academy,

Northcott Drive, ACT 2600, Australia

Ph:+61-2-6268-8914 Fax:+61-2-6268-8899

Email: apss@adfa.edu.au

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Important Dates

Event		Date
Petro Fedorczenko Lecture - Adams Hall, ADFA		1 June 2005
UNSW@ADFA Degree Conferral Ceremonies		7 December 2005
ADFA Graduation Parade		8 December 2005

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