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Fun run starts new QUT
QUT and Brisbane College of Advanced Education for- mally amalgamate today (Tuesday I May).
The new QUT is one of the largest universities in Australia with more than 20 000 students.
A 6.5 km fun run on Sunday morning marked the begin- ning of amalgamation week for staff and students on QUT's four Brisbane campuses. More than 300 took part in the fun run from the QUT Gardens Point campus in the city, through the Queen Street Mall, to the BCAE (now QUT) Kelvin Grove campus oval.
Education Minister, Mr Braddy ran the last few metres and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Dennis Gibson, was among the serious runners.
Addressing a BBQ breakfast at the finish, Mr Braddy said the new university was an exciting development in Queensland education.
"QUT is our first real multi-campus university in Queensland, resembling more the North American style university than the traditional British model,'' he said.
"In the new 'unified national system' of higher educa- tion in Australia, there is no question that size is important in attracting federal government funding support."
The Minister said the amalgamation would bring wider choice for students and many opportunities for staff in the new university.
"QUT already has a fme reputation for professional courses with a balance of theory and practical skills, and for research applied to industry and community needs," he said.
'A university for the real world'
The amalgamated QUT has gone on television to promote itself as ·a university for the real world'.
A >eries of seven 15 ~econd commerciah has been
pwduced, running rnrensivety for first two weeks of amal- gamation. Together, the commercials indicate the diversity of the new university. Each has a common theme: the relevance to the real world of what people at QUT are doing.
The commercials were produced internally by QUT's Educational Television Unit and the people In the commer- cials are real people associated with the university, not paid models. They include an employer, a lecturer. a graduate and four students.
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Education Minister, Mr Braddy, crosses the line with the leaders in the QUT to BCAE amalgama- tion fun run on Sunday 29 April. Beside him are Vice-Chancellor of the new QUT, Professor Dennis Gibson (left) and Acting Director of BCAE (now Academic Pro Vice-Chancellor of QUT), Professor Alan Cummina.
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Rat purge is a breath away
Biologist Mr John Wilson investigating a unique approach to rat control.
A rat's breath could be its own kiss of death if research conducted by a QUT biologist survives field testing.
Mr John Wilson, a coordinator at the QUT Centre for Biological Population Management, has pin- pointed two chemicals emitted in rat breath during feeding which signal a kind of "seal of approval" to other rats.
Within 12 months, Mr Wilson hopes to have developed an attractant based on these chemicals which will significantly increase rat consumption of toxic baits.
As a commercially available con- trol, it could save millions of dollars worth of sugar cane and cereal crops lost every year through rodent damage.
Mr Wilson conducted the research during a Professional Experience Pro- gram (PEP) at the Denver Wildlife Research Centre in North America last year.
He said a number of years studying the palatability of toxic baits had prompted his theory that the clue might lie in the way rats communicate about food.
"I had some idea that they might be attracted to food by the same sort of
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cues as humans are - like when we drive past a pizza shop and suddenly feel like pizza," he said.
At the Denver centre, his research team ·began experimentation by giving a group of rats fresh food and food that had been partially eaten by other rats.
Consistently, the rats were attracted first to the partially eaten food samples. This led to the hypothesis that the rats breathed or secreted something onto the food to alert other rats to a "safe" food source.
Unlike humans who can breathe in and out of the nose and mouth, rats can only breathe in through the nose and out through the mouth.
Mr Wilson used a gas chromatog- raphy mass spectrometer to analyse exhaled and inhaled breath samples.
Comparisons of the two samples pin- pointed the two vital chemicals- carb- on disulphide and carbonyl sulphide.
Toxic baits covered with the chemicals were trialed in Mackay cane crops last month, and although results have not been fully analysed, figures look encouraging according to MrWilson.
Another field test in cereal crops on the Darling Downs is now underway.
The Denver centre will also trial na-
tive Australian rats under similar laboratory conditions.
Rats typically attack cane crops by biting into cane stalks. This stresses the plant, stops sugar production and gives rise to fungal and bacterial in- fection. They attack mature cereal crops by nipping the stem to feed on the grain.
Mr Wilson spent 10 months based at the Denver Wildlife Research Centre from March last year to February.
The centre is part of the United States Government Department of Agriculture and is considered the largest centre in the country for ver- tebrate pest research.
Although Mr Wilson was based at the centre for the ten-month period, he spent a considerable amount of time courtesy of the US government travelling to Mexico, Uruguay, Ar- gentina, Rome and Chad in Africa to speak and advise on biological pest control.
Mr Wilson said the experience was personally fulfilling and also developed a significant pool of inter- national contacts which would boost research and exchange possibilities at QUT.
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Busy times ahead for new QUT
The formation of the new OUT is one of the most significant results of the Dawkins revolution which started less than three years ago.
In that short time we have all moved from being staff and students of colleges heavily coordinated by various government agencies, to being, today, staff and students of a new Australian university with our own act of parliament. This change has been accomplished with great community support and the total endorsement of the Queensland and Commonwealth governments.
Most importantly we have continued to teach greater numbers of students, expand our educational profiles and develop our research and other community services. The last three years have been marked by increasing staff commitment and energy across all campuses.
Much remains to be done. In the short term we need to become one institution in the way we think and operate. Due to our common heritage which valued professional practice and community service we are already the kind of university we want to be: responsive, energetic, real world. But to convert this shared goal into a fully operational university is going to take time and hard work. Systems of university governance, shared values, strategic plans and organisa- tional structures all need to be considered and determined. The university values of openness, honesty and tolerance are going to be tested during this period.
Another aspect of our shared heritage is that of too much to do and not enough people to do it.
Given the changes which are upon us, the new things we have to do, the rate of growth projected for OUT and the growing expectations of the communities we serve, I have no doubt that all areas of OUT are going to be even busier in the foreseeable future.
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Top graduates receive medal
The university's top bachelor degree graduates for 1989 received QUT Medals at graduation ceremonies held at the Queensland Cultural Centre from 17 to 24 April. The medals, recognising academic excellence, were awarded to outstanding students in each of the seven faculties: (from back left) Jennifer Dickfos (law), Shane Mather (science), Charlotte Brooks (business), Dr David Evans (business), Lance Beggs (information technology), Rebecca Well wood (science), and (from front left) Maria-Rita Reale (business), Katrina Schmid (health science), Suzanne Fraser (business), Ruth Richardson (built environment). Collin Biggs and David Dart (engineering) and Deborah Hamilton (law) were absent.
New home for health service long awaited shot in the arm
The Health Service at Gardens Point campus has moved from Old Government House to new, larger premises on the lower ground floor of the Community Building.
The new health offices occupy what until recently was known as the Vice-Chancellor's Suite. The area has been given a facelift with the old wood panelled walls and beige car- pets replaced with soothing pastels.
Along with the aesthetic elevation has come practical improvements.
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toilets accessible to patients, for ex- ample: "Students and staff whom we required urine samples from had to walk over to the library!"
There are now two toilets - one with an adjacent shower for chemi- cal spills, burns and the like while the other has been designed for the disabled.
A new minor surgery area, nurs- ing treatment room for minor in- juries and a larger, less dreary recovery room have also been added.
The old premises had only the
single consultation room, restricting the number of doctors on duty at any time to one. This has been remedied with consultation rooms for both Dr Kingsford and Dr Johnson.
The service's total consultations increased last year to more than 7500 from 6500 in 1988.
Sister Gough said figures for the first three months of this year sug- gested a larger jump again.
The service is open from 8.30am to 6pm Monday to Thursday and 8.30am to 5pm on Fridays.
Merger promises new opportunity
We have lift-om The amalgama- tion between Brisbane College of Advanced Education and QUT was official from 1 May.
The four campuses of QUT now are officially titled: Gardens Point, Kelvin Grove, Kedrori Park and Carseldine.
A Sunshine Coast Centre at Nam- bour, a BCAE initiative, caters for primary teaching, accountancy and a general first year of a business degree.
The Vice-Chancellor of new QUT, Professor Dennis Gibson, said: "We are now about the eighth largest of 32 universities in Australia. ·
"In terms of breadth, the combined university covers all but a few course possibilities. Together with this comes a greater opportunity for combined courses and degrees.
"While undergraduate courses in the professions will remain the priority, we still need to develop depth at the postgraduate, PhD and professional doctorate levels."
Professor Gibson said the gauntlet had been thrown down for the new in- stitution to create "something innova- tive in the postgraduate domain, rather than the usual fuddy-duddy PhD style degrees".
He said the university was looking to the Federal Government to stand by its commitment to support amalgamated institutions. QUT had asked for $8 mil- lion for amalgamation expenses and got $1.6 million.
"Gardens Point campus must be the busiest campus in Australia with num- bers bordering on overcrowding. Many of the buildings at Kelvin Grove and Gardens Point campuses are old and in need of renovation or replacement.
"We need better facilities," he said.
Another area of high priority for the Vice-Chancellor will be attracting the research funds necessary to establish a profile worthy of such a large institu- tion.
"In order to raise our game we must spend money wisely on those people who will produce the research goods in areas where we can lead Australia."
Professor Gibson said State Govern- ment support for the Sunshine Coast Centre could aid campus expansion plans, although this was not likely until 1994.
There is no clear picture of the per- manent academic and administrative structures of the new QUT.
Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic), Professor Alan Cumming, said a highly • interim structure was approved. !lis, title also was interim.
He said: "The amalgamation is an opportunity to review academic struc- tures and programs in terms of national priorities, such as course length.
"A major advantage of mergers is that they afford institutions an occasion to react and reassess their structures to deliver services in a more efficient manner.
"The merger also has an urban and rural advantage because the institution is being seen as a community univer- sity with a large catchment area ex- tending to the Sunshine Coast.
"Both partners are committed to ser- vicing the community with a feet on the ground approach to courses.
"Cost efficiency will also come with the increased size, although I don't believe this will be achieved until we see a significant growth in student numbers," Professor Cumming said.
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The Red Cross will visit Gardens Point campus to collect blood dona- tions on 10 May. Officers will be sta- tioned in the Community Building be- tween 9am and 3.30pm.
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French student initiates uni overseas exchange program
A French student has initiated a QUT exchange program in in- dustrial design which may eventual- ly be expanded to include students from other European countries as well as America and Asia.
Cristophe Damour, 26, who arrived at QUT with Daniel Sahores, 22, early in February to start a six month exchange, wrote to QUT suggesting an interchange of students with L'Universite de Tech- nologic de Compiegne.
Industrial design senior lecturer, Ms Vesna Popovic, said that through the ex- change program, the ftrst to be officially registered at QUT, Christophe and his colleague would study at QUT while Thierry Delarue, a QUT student, spent the first half of this year at Compiegne.
Each year for the next five, students will participate in the exchange.
Ms Popovic said the program opened the door for many similar arrangements with other international institutions.
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A mild mannered journalist really saw red when she approached a biologist for a research story.
During the interview, the animal researcher mentioned that his work was prompted by observing subliminal cues affecting human appetite.
Forgetting she was wearing a red outfit, the reporter innocently asked:
"Do you mean the way the colour red is supposed to stimulate appetite?" The biologist paused for a moment and grinned: "So what am I supposed to make of that. You're covered in red and I haven't eaten lunch yet!"
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Professor Bruce Molloy, author of the new book on Australian film, "Before the Interval", denies he has been trying to lure feminist film critics. He is in the Penguin book list as "Molly Bruce".
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The OUT cricket team won the Warehouse A 1 division premiership last month, taking the title from runners-up Peninsula.
OUT batted first to notch up a score of all out for 173. Top players were Rob Webster, a computing graduate, with 47 runs; Brian Champion, a part-time student, with 45 runs; and information technology student, Tony Flynn, with 40 runs.
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Physicist, Mr Ross Dunlop, has been giving guidance to a young Brisbane high school student resolute on taking an olympic title.
Brisbane Grammar School student David Harris' talent is not in cycling, swimming, athletics or even eating chocolates (the QUT Choco/ympics was held last month), but physics! He has been chosen as one of eight Australian students competing for selection on team for the 1990 International Physics Olympiad.
Mr Dunlop has been training David for selection.
The French students have two design projects to complete before returning to France for summer. The first will look at innovative means of transport for the individual in the next century, while the other is exploring product and system development for the Australian space industry.
Australian language idiosyncrasies have not concerned the French students who insisted that the discipline of in- dustrial design relied on "the universal language of technology".
Above: French exchange stu- dents, Daniel Sahores (left) and Christophe Damour, sharing the Australian pie and beer "meal".
Cultures blend at Carseldine
While Daniel said he had avoided Vegemite and other Australian gour- met delicacies, he admitted to having bought a surfboard.
And has the exchange caught the in- terest and imagination of their French university colleagues? "Oh yes, everyone wants to come over," Chris- tophe said.
Ultrasound course enters masters level
QUT is training a new breed of highly-skilled medical sonographers through Australia's first masters de- gree in ultrasound technology.
Course coordinator, Associate Professor Brian J Thomas, said the Master in Applied Science (Medical Ultrasound) had attracted considerable interest within Queensland and inter- state.
"There was certainly an acute need for such a postgraduate course in Queensland," he said.
"Medical ultrasound technology is rapidly advancing and until the intro- duction of this course, sonographers in Queensland often had to acquire their
Kelvin Grove may be part of new railway link
QUT students and staff at the Kel- vin Grove campus could find park- ing hassles solved if an inner-city rail service proposal comes to fruition.
Brisbane City Council and the State Government are considering the scheme in consultation with the Herston-Kelvin Grove Action Group, QUT staff and the North Brisbane Hospitals Board.
The loop would follow the existing railway through Central, Roma Street, Bowen Hills and Fortitude Valley stations.
It would also include new stations at Gilchrist Avenue, Norman by near the Kelvin Grove campus; Bowen Ridge Road near the Royal Brisbane Hospital; and Cartwright Street, Windsor.
QUT Director of Administration, Mr John Nelson, has been involved in meetings with Brisbane City Council Alderman David Hinchliffe (Spring Hill) and Labor MLA for Brisbane Central, Mr Peter Beattie.
"We are very keen on the idea be- cause it would really alleviate a serious parking problem around the campus and in the surrounding com- munity," Mr Nelson said.
knowledge and skills on-the-job rather than in any fom1al way.
"A postgraduate course like this will encourage further education and re- search into the area."
The Department of Physics intro- duced the course in 1989 and ap- pointed Ms Margo Harkness as lecturer and assistant co-ordinator. She has ex- tensive experience in medical ultrasound.
The first intake of 21 students started in second semester last year and another 21 are ready for the second intake next semester.
Ultrasound equipment is commonly used in obstetrics and in the diagnosis of liver and gall bladder complaints.
Unlike the use of ionising radiation in X-rays, the ultra sound technique uses high frequency sound waves.
A diagnostic probe placed on a patient's skin emits sound waves which are then reflected back to the probe. The ultrasound unit then trans- lates the reflected sound waves into a two-dimensional image on a monitor screen.
Under the provisions of the new course, students must have two years' work experience in medical imaging before entry is granted.
The first stage in the program is a one-year Graduate Diploma in Medical Ultra Sound. It involves two intensive seven-week blocks of formal lectures and a total of 30 weeks clinical ex- perience.
Students with a high enough grade point average in the graduate diploma can then elect to continue with a re- search/thesis year to obtain masters qualifications.
Medical instrument companies have backed the new course by providing six ultrasound machines on loan - a deal which will give students valuable practical experience on campus.
The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology also offers a graduate diploma course.
An array of arts, crafts, food, dance and music decorated the Car- seldine Campus when the week-long Multicultural Festival came to a finale on Saturday 7 April.
Showers did not dampen the spirit of 2000 people who attended the day's activities.
Coordinator and humanities lec- turer, Geraldine Castleton, said:
"This year's theme, 'Towards our future', lent itself to having Com- monwealth gold medallist, Karen Van Wirdum, open the day's celebrations.
"The task of achieving a multicul- tural Australia rests in the hands of our youth."
More than 150 primary school students from Zillmere and Zillmere orth State Schools, dressed in car- nival spirit, piped music from homemade musical instruments and performed a puppet show.
Clarinets made from water pipes and funnels, flutes from odd pieces of pipe and flower pot drums accom- panied the puppet show.
The day featured entertainment by Scat!, one of Australia's most highly acclaimed vocal jazz en- sembles, and the Brisbane College Symphonic Band, the city's largest community band.
Dancers and musicians from a variety of ethnic groups performed throughout the afternoon.
Seven students from the Univer- sity of Papua New Guinea captured audience attention with traditional dances.
The students are studying at Car- seldine and Kelvin Grove campuses for a year.
One of them, Mr Neville Unduka, is an expressive arts students who ex- hibited his work at another festival highlight, a Melanesian art exhibition.
The exhibition of more than 100 items included masks, carvings, woven sculptures, pottery, weapons and body ornaments.
Papua New Guinea student, Mr Neville Unduka, performing a traditional dance at Carseldine Campus Multicultral Day.
Student designs surgery device
QUT mechanical engineering stu- dent has designed a device which im- proves the chances of success of opera- tions to correct knee misalignment.
Such operations require the removal of a wedge of bone from the tibia or lower leg bone to amend joint deform- ities or misalignment due to degenera- tive arthritis.
Commonly used methods have in- cluded external rods drilled through the knee, internal stapling and "blade and plate" fixation.
These gauge the size of the wedge to be removed using X-rays taken when
the patient is standing. The angle of the bone wedge to be removed in surgery is not accurately defined in these tech- niques, decreasing the probability of success and risking complications.
In the most severe instances the bone either side of the removed wedge may not close together causing further damage, or one side may break off.
The technique, developed by final year student Brad Reid, more accurate- ly defines the angle of bone to be removed using a prototype jig. Using a similar but refined removal principle, Reid's prototype jig allows the wedge
angle to be predetermined and fixed prior to surgery using pins drilled into the tibia.
A frame to the side of the knee holds and guides two pins which are drilled through the tibia to set the wedge angle to be removed.
The technique requires less surgery, thus decreasing the likelihood of infec- tion.
The jig was designed as a materials processing subject project under the supervision of senior lecturer Mr Alan Crooks.
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High school teacher, Andrew Mann, was the last BCAE graduate to cross the floor during graduation ceremonies last month.
When the 27-year-old was handed his Graduate Diploma in Teaching (Secondary) on April21 on the stage of the Performing Arts concert hall, it marked the last BCAE qualifica- tion issued before the amalgamation with QUT.
Mr Mann, who started teaching economics, outdoor education and tourism at the Redland Community College this year, was inspired to
Twins see double in work time
An interview with Leisa and Katrina Schmid confirmed the theory that twins think alike- one would start a sentence which the other completed.
Optometry graduates, the sisters admitted the ability to draw from each other's expressions probably helped in their successful quest to shine in academia.
"We always feel that we make in- dependent decisions," Katrina said,
"but we definitely influence each other," Leisa finished.
Both women, who have enrolled as PhD candidates, graduated at a Per- forming Arts Complex ceremony on 19 April with first class honours.
Katrina was awarded a QUT Medal at that ceremony as an outstanding graduate from the Faculty of Health Science.
The sisters chose to pursue a career in optometry after a long and exhaust- ing search which ended after talking with Professor Ken Bowman.
"He showed us that there is a diverse range of options available to optometrists," Katrina said. "And it's a clean profession - you don't dirty your hands," Lei sa added.
For her PhD Leisa is investigating the factors which contribute to motion sickness. She will be assessing the theory that conflicting information about balance from the eyes and ears cause motion sickness.
Katrina is researching the develop- ment of the ocular structures in chickens with a view to better understanding of myopia (shortsightedness).
pursue a teaching career after a lengthy involvement in outdoor education.
After finishing high school in Toowoomba and a working holiday around England, he started a four- year Bachelor of Business (Hospitality Management) at the former Queensland Agricultural College at Gatton in 1981.
Before completing the degree he worked for a year with the Australia Outward Bound School based in Can- berra and joined them again for another year after his graduation in
1985. After a year travelling down the east coast of Australia and another year working in outdoor education at Meebunn-Bia near Rathdowney, Mr Mann decided to take the one-year BCAE graduate diploma secondary teaching course at Kelvin Grove.
"The quality of the teaching at BCAE prepared me well for my posi- tion here at Redland," Mr Mann said.
"Staff applied the most recent education theories and encouraged a discovery-based learning approach.
Twins Katrina (above) and Leisa Schmid.
She is conducting some tests at the University of Queensland. and ad- mitted that this external contact dis- pelled any fears she had held about completing both undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the same in- stitution.
Leisa investigated the possibility of studying in Sydney earlier this year but decided against the move.
Their father, David Schmid, works as a laboratory technician in QUT's chemistry department.
Samantha thrives on hectic pace
Energetic Samantha Organ-Moore jump she performed after graduation.
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Teaching 100 children dance and song while studying communications created little problem for Samantha Organ-Moore.
She was one of more than 2000 people who graduated at ceremonies in late April.
In fact, Samantha appears to thrive on working 25 hours a day.
While studying full-time she also ran two dance, song and theatre schools for children, worked as a freelance journalist, accepted a position as communications manager for Greening Australia (Queensland), was script writer for The Fun Factory, employed a fire-eater and was a professional entertainer.
To make matters more difficult she was living at Caboolture, the home of one of her schools, opened the other in Capalaba and entertained in shires all around South East Queensland.
Although commitments have forced Samantha to close the Capalaba school, the other attracts constant work from shire councils, shopping centres, charity groups, school fetes - and Freeps concerts.
The troupe entertained thousands of people at this year's Australia Day Freeps at New Farm Park, for instance.
Samantha chose QUT's communication course because it was listed under so many occupations. "I looked up copy writer, script writer, journalism, public relations and audio visual qualifications and they all pointed to com- munications," she said.
So what is left for someone who has accomplished so much, been awarded a letter of special commendation for academic achievement and all before her 21st birthday?
"I've decided to follow an academic career and my goal is to earn my PhD before I'm 28," she said.
On path to that dream Samantha is studying a full-time Master of Public Administration and working as a re- search assistant.
"And because of the way the Red- land Community College is directed I am able ~ apply these ideas very well."
A total of about 1600 of the 2700 students eligible to graduate were ex- pected to attend the BCAE gradua- tion ceremonies.
Since the amalgamation of the four BCAE colleges (Kelvin Grove, Ked ron, Carseldine and Mt Gravatt) in 1982, about 20 700 students have been awarded qualifications ranging from associate diploma to masters
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Employment rate healthy for most OUT job hunters
Unemployment among QUT's new graduates last year was a low 1. 7 percent, according to the latest Graduate Destinations Survey.
The figure means only 23 of the 1338 respondents who completed courses at the end of 1988 were still actively seeking full-time work in April 1989, their month of graduation.
QUT conducts the Graduate Des- tinations Survey every year in conjunc- tion with the Graduate Career Council of Australia.
Of the 1945 graduates, 1338 responded to the survey. A total of 1157 (86.5 percent) were employed full-time and 60 (4.5 percent) part- time, 27 of them pursuing full-time work.
Seventy-three (5.5 percent) con- tinued in full-time postgraduate study and 25 ( 1.8 percent) unemployed graduates stated they were not seeking employment.
Almost a third of the graduates (30.1 percent) were lured into private profes- sional practice, '!'<'hile another third (33.35 percent) found work in govern- ment or semi-government organisa-
tions. Ninety-six graduates (7.8 per- cent) were working in manufacturing while 72 (5.9 percent) ventured into business or finance.
The survey also lists job descriptions and salaries in relation to the course studied, sex and age.
For example, it reveals that a 21- year-old Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) male graduate working as a quantities engineer and a 22-year-old male field geologist are both earning
$30 000 a year.
The Bachelor of Applied Science (Optometry) was the undergraduate course which led to the highest average annual beginning salary: $35 375 for males and $33 571 for females.
Other well-paid young professionals include electrical engineers ($27 423), mechanical engineers ($26 454) and computing graduates ($28 014.)
Built environment graduates appear to be the lowest paid in their first year:
$15 689 (males) or $17 745 (females).
Bachelor of Laws graduates are paid on average $\6 523 (males) or $\7 058 (females).
Suzuki challenges science educators
Science education should place more emphasis on philosophical and historical perspectives, according to well-known Canadian scientist, Dr David Suzuki.
Science graduates often did not un- derstand their work in a social context and arts students tended to emerge from their studies as "scientific savages", he said.
He was speaking on ABC radio about the future of science education in Queensland with QUT Science Faculty Dean, Professor Ron Gardiner, and third year biology student, Simon Yanderduys.
It was part of Dr Suzuki's visit to Brisbane toward the end of March to promote his new book "Inventing the Future".
Professor Gardiner said he agreed science education in Queensland universities was often too specific and students were pressured to specialise too early.
"I am in favour of encouraging science students to spend a significant proportion of their time studying non- science disciplines and our program at QUT allows them to do that," he said.
"But I would like to see the reverse situation take place and have some of our multitude of business and law stu- dents undertaking some basic science while at university.
"There is a propensity among scien- tists to be somewhat blinkered and to see their goal fairly well defined and not want to be diverted from it."
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Dr Suzuki said the history of science, particularly its more sinister applications, was virtually ignored in science education.
"When I first got my professorship at the University of British Colombia, my students started asking me about the implications of genetic engineering ... and although I had an excellent education in the States, I had to go back to my books for a history of genetics,"
Dr Suzuki said.
"To my horror I discovered that the Nazi race purification program had been instigated by geneticists.
"Now all I'm saying is why wasn't I even taught this in school? The fact is that scientists create their own history they edit out the things that make us look bad and they create the history of science in the heroic mode where we are these wonderful people who are doing great things for society. I think that is a very dangerous thing because we'll repeat history again."
Dr Suzuki also criticised the way science was taught in secondary schools.
"When kids get to high school generally they are just going through puberty and basically they have been brain damaged by all these hormones rocketing through their bodies.
"They basically are walking gonads and when they are looking at the world they are just thinking about sex.
"So you have to take these young kids and realise they have this problem at that age and make what whatever you are doing relevant to their lives."
'Total Quality Management' is on trial in Science
Quality management concepts usually associated with business are being translated into a unique QUT review of higher education practices.
The Total Quality Management (TQM) program, used by companies like BHP, Ford and IBM, is being tri- aled in the Science Faculty.
The Key Centre in Strategic Management is supervising the project through a Federal Department of Employment Education and Training (DEET) grant worth more than $36 000.
Novel method for computing
Computers in the future will com- bine traditional computing with optics technology to help overcome present limitations in application, says a QUT computer scientist.
Dr Joaquin Sitte said the sequential manner in which computers processed information restrained the type and speed of computations.
"The traditional computer splits complex tasks into elementary sequen- tial processing operations. Presently, the speed at which an operation can be completed depends on the electronics of the computer," he said.
"Electronic technology is reaching its limits."
Dr Sitte is an avid proponent of alternate computing technologies. He believes the development of optic com- puting and neurocomputing, a technol- ogy inspired by perceptions of how the brain works, have been stunted because of the success of traditional computing techniques.
But now these alternate tech- nologies were being recognised be- cause of the constraints electronics had placed on conventional computing.
Neurocomputing technology is non- linear or non-sequential. Computing using this technique is based on artifi- cial neurons, many of which work simultaneously and interconnect.
However, he said the majority of neurocomputing still worked on electronics.
The basis of neurocomputing is in- terconnecting neurons which require access between themselves. Electronic circuits are laid out on a plain and would thus require massive cross- wiring for interconnections in a neurocomputer.
"Using optical computing would overcome this problem because light beams can cross without affecting the signal," Dr Sitte said.
He said a purely optical computer had not been produced yet and development was still in an elementary stage.
"Nobody knows how to make a totally optic computer from input to output and I don't expect one will be developed in the next five years," Dr Sitte said.
eural computing has become a big boom area over the past five years with four international journals and many international conferences annually dedicated to the subject.
It is part of a $102 400 managerial review project within QUT and is thought to be one of the first known applications of TQM in an Australian higher education institution.
Bond University has also used the package in a study of library procedures.
In its translation into the teaching realm, TQM refers to students as "raw materials", graduates as "finished products" and employers as "customers".
In other areas, administration, teach- ing and technical staff are also seen as
"customers".
TQM asserts that if product quality is improved in the eyes of the con- sumers, productivity will increase, costs will be reduced and a secure long- term competitive advantage will be ob- tained.
The concept also involves a team work approach to identify and analyse problems, and improve performance and service quality.
Three groups within the Science Faculty have formed to review specific
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Symbols of security viewed from within a circular sculpture won a QUT visual arts student first prize in the Churchie Exhibition of Emerging Art.
Second year Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts) student Nic Drum- mond now has his sights on an over- seas trip after winning the $3000 Na- tional Australia Bank prize.
Nic, 18, is the first student in the three-year history of the exhibition to take out the overall prize.
A total of 251 exhibits by artists under the age of 30 years were judged.
Nic titled his work "Torchlight Securities". It features silk screened materials and torchlight shaped wax moulds bearing
"secure" images like houses, dogs, shoes and beds.
Mounted off the ground on a nine- metre metal ring, the sculpture is
viewed from within - another fea- ture fostering a "cosy" feeling.
The Churchie Exhibition for Emerging Art seeks to encourage artists making the transition from art school. It was held from March 30 to April! at the Anglican Gram- mar School grounds.
Fellow student Cathy Thompson, 21, won the $500 John Dimitriou Architects Award for Decorative Arts for her piece en- titled "Three Box Chairs".
Second and third year students are now involved in an art ex- change with students from the University College of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba.
QUT work is displayed at the university gallery, while art from Toowoomba students is exhibited at The Palace Gallery in Merivale Street, South Brisbane. Exhibits close on 3 May.
ETV is ready to shoot teaching videos
QUT's Educational Television Facility (ETV) is breaking new ground in the university's lecture rooms with video resources following installation of a highly sophisticated and cost-ef- fective computer editing system.
After about 12 months planning and negotiation, ETV is making full use of equipment made possible through
$360 000 in funding.
ETV producer/director, Mr Rob Care-Wickham, said that the centre, styled on an American model, was run by professional program makers, all with broadcast and corporate television experience.
ETV can produce videos by either recording an actual lecture, by shooting a prepared lecture in ETV studios, or by hiring professional actors to per-
form a written script.
The Built Environment Faculty was one of the first to use ETV expertise, and the resulting videos demonstrate the potential of this teaching technique.
The first of two built environment videos featured visiting watercolour artist Diane Kelly, showing students the various techniques of architectural rendering. A multi-camera filming operation enabled the ETV team to complete the video in one session and later edit out superfluous material.
The second production for the facul- ty, on pencil sketching with profes- sional illustrator Greg Rogers, was filmed in the ETV studio.
Mr Rogers' art st~io was recreated on set to enhance the credibility of his lecture and to provide him with a com-
fort able working environment. In production. a "matched dissolve" tech- nique was used to edit a time-intensive sketch to about 10 minutes, while still maintaining its vital stages.
As an indication of cost. commercial corporate television costs between $1500 and $3000 per fmished minute, while ETV usually charges an "in-house" fee of about $800 per fmished minute.
ETV uses Betacam SP video tape (broadcast quality), M7 Sony video cameras, an Ampex Vista vision switcher, Ampex Ace 25 computer editor, and Ampex ADO 100 digital effects generator.
An Ampex Alex character generator is also on order from the US
For further information contact Rob Care-Wickham on extension 2207.
areas. The executive group, led by Dean of Science, Professor Ron Gar- diner, is aiming to produce an effective and efficient action planning process for the faculty.
This process will be designed to reduce the costs associated with writ- ing the plan and increase the quality of the plan itself.
Physics Department laboratory manager, Mr Bob Jeffery, is heading the technical support staff group. It will design a process for purchasing, servic-
ing and utilising the instruments and equipment used by science staff and students.
The service teaching group, headed by senior biology lecturer, Dr Habib Yezdani, will be investigating the faculty's teaching service to other schools and departments on campus.
Program approval was granted by DEET in mid-1989 and work started in November last year. A final report is due later this year.
Act is thwarting health studies
Health care research will remain at a crossroads in Queensland until State Government legislation is repealed, according to two QUT nursing lecturers.
Under Section 44 (I )h of the Hospi- tals Act 1936, State Government hospi- tal employees are not allowed to release information acquired in the course of duty.
This was drafted to protect confiden- tial medical information, but according to some in the profession, this provision has been used as a block on general administrative information.
A human resource management sur- vey of 12 puhlic and private South East Queensland hospitals conducted by School of Nursing senior lecturer, Ms Karen Stolz, and lecturer, Ms Irene
Researchers seek flexible govt centres
Research managers from Australian universities have called for greater flexibility in the establishment of the Federal Government's Co-operative Research Centres.
While the Australian Pro-Vice- Chancellors (Research) applauded the boldness and vision of the scheme, the group emphasised the long-term strategic importance of co-operative research ventures.
The new scheme will bring together outstanding researchers located in universities, the CSIRO and other re- search organisations.
The Government will fund the 50 new centres on a dollar for dollar basis, with 15 centres to be established in the first year. The centres, employing 20 full-time researchers each, will be lo- cated on or adjacent to universities wherever possible.
Chairman of the Pro-Vice-Chancel- lors (Research), Professor Alan Gil- bert, said: "A scheme so important will require a minimum of $100 million a year when established. "Some centres will clearly cost more than others and the Government may have to review the total number of centres to ensure that those established are adequately funded."
Coonan, was made possible only by an agreement which protected the in- dividual identity of each participating hospital.
Both lecturers believe the act needs to be freed to make information more readily accessible before detailed re- search into nurse management and health care can be more actively pur- sued.
With the phasing out of hospital training at the end of this year, they perceived the need for a survey which could eventually assist hospitals adopt new human resource management ap- proaches.
The survey, conducted over a six- week period between August and Sep- tember last year, revealed that hospitals generally tended not to keep detailed staff data.
It canvassed information on staff recruitment requirements, allocation to wards/units, development, perfor- mance appraisal, turnover and absen- teeism.
"Our strongest finding was that there was insufficient data collection to enable sophisticated human resource management in hospitals in South East Queensland," Ms Stolz said.
"For instance, absenteeism is known daily but many do not look at the compare between wards which coo indicate specific problems in certain wards.
"The relationship between quality assurance and staff appraisal also needs further exploration.
"At the moment performance ap- praisal tends to be based on process not outcome in terms of health care and so therefore it's hard to say that quality performance leads to quality care."
According toMs Stolz, the advent of pre-registration courses at universities and the recent introduction of degree and masters courses in nursing at QUT will also combine to create more re- search opportunities.
Hospitals are taking the final intake of students this year. By 1993 all nur- ses will be university educated.
The School of Nursing at QUT was established 12 years ago within the Faculty of Health Science. Although diploma courses have always been available, a degree program was intro~
duced in 1986 and the masters level began this year.
Brisbane actor Simon Burvi/1-Homes during the filming of ETV's law library resources video.
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Modern Mozart via computers
Computers are fast making a mark on the modern music industry and QUT music students are keeping pace.
Seven Atari 1040ST micro-com- puters were installed at the beginning of semester to play an integral role in the new Bachelor of Arts (Music) de- gree course at the Kelvin Grove cam- pus.
Students enrolled in this course, as well as others in graduate diploma and diploma music courses, are now able to learn computerised composing and ar- ranging at a level practised extensively in the professional music world.
Mozart would no doubt envy today' s budding young composers who are freed of the tedious detail involved in writing out a brilliant musical score.
But as lecturer Michael Whelan points out, technology has not replaced the need to understand transposition and composition theory.
"It simply lets the musician activate their creative impulses immediately without getting bogged down in all the non-artist detail," Mr Whelan said.
"It can do in about 10 minutes what
normally takes about three hours by hand."
For example, a 32-bar piece would take about an hour to write out neatly by hand. To transpose four instruments in different keys would take about another two hours.
Using a highly-sophisticated Ger- man package called Notator, a musician can compose and record a
piece by playing directly onto a linked synthesiser and then adjust the score by using various menus.
The computer system allows instant replays of particular bars and transposes the key for various instru- ments on command.
A musical score or a digital form of the score can also be displayed on the screen and printed.
School of Music head, Mr Adrian Thomas, said the computers would be of particular benefit to the students in the popular music strand of the course.
"It gives students the capability to
produce commercial-quality results and that, of course, helps when they are putting together their folios of work,"
Mr Thomas said.
Music students Grant Narbey (left) and Michael Burke enter their compositions into the Atari computer system.
Common heritage an asset in forging
QUT and the former BCAE had similar backgrounds which would contribute to the ethos of the com- bined university, QUT Chancellor, Mr Vic Pullar, told April graduation audiences.
Mr Pullar will continue as Chancel- lor after appointment by the State Government of the new QUT Council in July.
"Until 1988, both institutions were part of the colleges of advanced educa- tion sector, funded by the Federal Government only for teaching courses and not for research activity," he said.
"Both taught courses mainly at under- graduate level which were vocational."
QUT became a university on I January, 1989.
"This university status was not just a cosmetic change but heralded a period of great enthusiasm within QUT, build- ing up momentum directed at higher standards for academic staff, students and graduates," Mr Pullar said.
"The new university must maintain that momentum."
Mr Pullar said that as the Queensland Institute of Technology from 1965 to 1988, QUT built a strong reputation for
degrees with a practical relevance to employers' needs and for 'problem- solving' research for industry.
"The technology emphasis and loca- tion in Brisbane's central city helped support a close relationship with the business community and the profes- sions," he said.
BCAE had its roots in colleges of teacher education in Queensland in the 1940s. It was formed in 1982 through an amalgamation of Kelvin Grove, Mt Gravatt and North Brisbane Colleges of Advanced Education and the Bris- bane Kindergarten Teachers' College.
The pre-amalgamation QUT had 12 000 students in the seven faculties of: built environment; health science;
business; law; engineering; science and information technology
While still being the major provider of teacher education in the state, BCAE had diversified to include major schools of: teacher education; the arts;
business; health and welfare and early childhood studies
The pre-amalgamation BCAE had three northside campuses with 8000 stu- dents (while Mt Gravatt Campus merged with Griffith University this year).
Looking to the future, Mr Pullar said it was important that the large, multi- campus university with its broad range of disciplines continued to give stu- dents a balance of theory and practical skills.
"We must build on what is unique about this university and continue to serve the needs of industry and the professions by providing skilled graduates and research assistance," he said.
Chancellor Vic Pullar
QUT surveyors secure exchange with China
QUT's Department of Surveying has established a staff and student ex- change program with Wuhan Techni- cal University for Surveying and Map- ping in China.
Head of Surveying, Professor Kurt Kubik, laid the foundations for the ex- change program during a recent con- sultancy with the World Bank Second Chinese University Development Project.
As part of the contract he visited Wuhan, a specialist university of sur- veying and the only Chinese institution
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in which the subject is taught, to advise on curriculum development and re- search programs.
The exchange has been endorsed by an official cooperative agreement be- tween the Queensland and Hubei province governments on education matters.
Professor Kubik said the exchange was the only one in Queensland offer- ing staff positions to Chinese academics.
The first Wuhan academic began a year of study at QUT this semester, and
another will join for six months' study from April.
The entry standard at Wuhan amazed Professor Kubik.
Wuhan accepts 500 students from the 1.2 billion people who live in China.
"This would convert to an equivalent of a 995 TE score where only one student from Queensland would be admitted if Australia had such stringent and exclusive entry re- quirements," he said.
Professor to join study on future
What can we do today to build a better future for the next genera- tion?
That is the challenge facing the World Futures Studies Federation, an 80-country strong organisation which has nominated QUT communication principal lecturer, Associate Professor Tony Stevenson, to join its World Ex- ecutive Council.
Asia plays key role: Braddy
Educators must accept Asia is but- tering Australia's bread in order to properly prepare school leavers, the Minister for Education, Mr Braddy, told an education forum at Kelvin Grove campus on 18 April.
Mr Braddy said no Australian could escape the charge that stu- dents were not equipped for life in this country, given our close and growing relationship with Asia.
He said Australians were "thick"
when it came to recognising the im- portance of Asia in the nation's fu- ture.
"We just haven't prepared oursel- ves. We still teach Australian, European and English culture and history almost exclusively," he said.
Mr Braddy was addressing more than 100 teacher education staff and educators at the forum titled "State developments and implications for faculty structure and course offer- ings".
He called on teachers to help rec- tify what he described as "our dis- grace".
The Minister would like 20 per- cent of school leavers in the year 2000 to possess formal Asian lan- guage skills, and all students to have a basic knowledge of Asian culture and history.
He was also confident that it would not be far in the future when Queensland would have 100 percent retention of students to grade 12.
"Lifting the permissible age for school leavers to 16 will help reten- tion figures. At the moment, Queensland students must remain at school until age 15," he said.
When the federation formalises his nomination during an annual general meeting in Budapest, Hungary, this month, Professor Stevenson will be- come the council's only South Pacific representative.
"Basically the organisation is about educating people to think about the fu- ture," he said.
A father of two adult daughters him- self, Professor Stevenson believes that the present generation is "stealing the future from its children" if it does not address current world problems now.
Formally established in 1973 at a conference in Paris, the federation is a
non-profit, independent association
teaming academics, professionals and policy makers from around the world.
"The organisation is interested in political and economic systems for the future, the way people participate in decision making and how we utilise technology for the benefit of humanity," he said.
"It is also interested in developing
more courses on the future within the education system, encouraging re- search into it, and getting in touch with leaders of the various countries."
Professor Stevenson describes his involvement as a federation member over the past two years as a "very rich and amazing" opportunity to meet people from many countries. It took him to China in September 1988 and to Japan in November last year.
Given his academic expertise in communication, he sees the exploita- tion of new communication tech- nologies as vital in furthering future world relations and global problem solving.
Greed, environmental degradation, and personal and national debt are the key "dark clouds" looming ahead, he says.
"There are too many people inter- ested in themselves and not caring for each other. And there is a great ac- cumulation of wealth in the hands of too few," he said.
"But I am an optimist and I believe we can find the solutions if only we can get together and talk across internation- al boundaries."
He hopes to hold a meeting for South Pacific countries on campus within two or three years.
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QUT farewells Coaldrake
Dr Peter Coaldrake resigned from QUT as Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) on 12 April to take up an appointment as Chairman of the Public Sector Management Commission. He will be a guest speaker at an Engineering and Surveying Alumni evening on 18 May. It will start at 6.30pm on level9 "L" Block. Cost is $15 ($1 0 for students). RSVP with money by Thursday I 0 May to Barbara Hosegood, Mechanical and
Honours in Geology has industry support
The launch of the new geology honours program this year has been marked by two industry-backed scholarships.
Carpentaria Exploration Company, a division of Mt lsa Mines Holding Ltd, and AGL Petroleum have sponsored the bursaries through the QUT Foundation. They were awarded to two of the 13 honours students.
Ron Secis was awarded the Carpentaria Ex- ploration Company Honours Bursary and will conduct an engineering geology study into structure and slope stability at the Boral/Bris- bane City Council Pine Mountain quarries.
His study will examine the useful lifetime of a quarry and how to maximise the quality of aggregate extracted.
Ken Evans was awarded the AGL Petroleum Honours Bursary in Geology/Geophysics and will conduct a seismic survey of Moreton Bay.
It will involve sequence stratigraphy of the present day sediments in relation to known data of ancient sediments. This could lead to seismic signatures (or graphic depictions) indicating potential petroleum deposits.
The State Resource Industries Department is collaborating in the study.
Head of Geology, Associate Professor David Gust, said geological education was diversify- ing into non-traditional disciplines.
"Traditionally, geology students have emerged being well versed in geological field mapping and tended to be employed as field assistants on map-
ping and exploration projects," he said.
"Now by going into different subjects, stu- dents will get a broader experience and increase their employment opportunities."
Public speaking on lunch menu for staff
The Staff Development Section has planned a lunch-time public speaking club.
Staff Development Manager, Mr Bill Ryan, said: "The club has been established in response to repeated requests from staff for public speak- ing training."
He said effective presentation skills have be- come more important in daily work.
"Results of stress surveys suggest people fear speaking in front of groups next to dying."
Mr Ryan said negotiations are underway with Rostrum, a non-profit public speaking organisa- tion, to sponsor the series. The organisation could provide expertise and materials to assist the club.
"The club will be open to all staff and hopeful- ly will meet weekly with an enjoyable program of both speaking and learning programs," he said.
Interested staff can contact Sharyn Stokes, Staff Development Section, on extension 2927.
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Tall building group donates cash
The organ1smg body for the International Con- ference on Tall Buildings and City Development, held in Brisbane last October, has donated $24 000 to QUT.
The donation through the QUT Foundation, to further architecture and engineering research, came from the proceeds of that international conference.
Chairman for the conference and respected ar- chitect, Mr Noel Robinson, presented the cheque to Dean of the Faculty of Built Environment, Profes- sor Tom Heath, at a Riverside Centre ceremony on
12 April. The money will fund two $12 000 re- search projects related to the tall building industry.
The architecture project will investigate the use of "building intelligence" for energy conservation in tall buildings.
The other project, to be conducted in civil en- gineering, will research structural problems specific to tall buildings. The projects will be completed within two years.
Right: Brisbane architect Noel Robinson (right) hands over the $24 000 cheque to Dean Professor Tom Health.
Food outlets on the Gardens Point campus have been extended to cater for evening meals. Artists wanting to sculpt their own gourmet creations can order from the Super Sandwich Bar between 4.30pm and 6pm. Crusty French rolls, croissants and made to order sandwiches are available. A tossed salad can now be bought as a healthy, weight conscious accompaniment to a hot meal at either lunch or dinner.
The perfect dessert after such a meal would be the new I 00 percent fruit soft serve icecream. Better still, it has no fat, added sugar or cholesterol.
The Coffee Shop will remain open till about 8pm for pre-made sandwiches and rolls, snacks and drinks.
Good ideas worth $500
Staff can earn $500 under a new university sug- gestion scheme.
The QUT Staff Suggestion Scheme, introduced through the Staff Development Office, aims to im- plement proposals which will improve efficiency or safety.
Initiators could be awarded up to $500, a QUT embossed plaque and a certificate of commendation.
Awards will be made in four categories:
Measurable Savings, Intangible Value, Encourage- ment and Safe Practices.
The Measurable Savings Award will be given where the suggestion has resulted in resources and cost savings, whereas the Intangible Value Award will be given where savings cannot be accurately assessed but an improvement is anticipated.
Submission forms are available from the Person- nel Department in and further information from the Staff Development Office, at Gardens Point.
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Above: A press advertisement based on one of seven 15 second QUT television commercials being screened over the next two weeks. The commercials feature an employer (Mr Barry Paul, Kern Corporation), a lecturer (Ms Donna Berthelsen, early childhood teaching), a graduate (Ms Shair Armistead, television journalist) and four students (Alison Bulloch from Performing Arts, Damien Clothier from Law, Michael Nolan from Business and Deborah Stenzel from Health Science).
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