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Faculty of Engineering - Papers (Archive)

2011

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Design Of Water Holding Bulkheads For Coal Mines, Verne Mutton, Alexander Remennikov Jan 2011

Design Of Water Holding Bulkheads For Coal Mines, Verne Mutton, Alexander Remennikov

Faculty of Engineering - Papers (Archive)

Water control has been and remains a fundamentally important aspect of underground coal mine design and operation worldwide. Mining in the vicinity of large bodies of water, below a worked out coal seam or under confined aquifer or abandoned water logged workings is always fraught with the possibility of the danger of inundation. Inrush control is now part the Fatal Hazard Protocols which is a risk based process in all operations. In modern Australian underground coal mines, in which panel layouts have been extended and production rates are approaching 10 Mtpa, there is much focus on the control of water …


Observing Cultural Interactions In Engineering Design,, Timothy J. Mccarthy, Anne Gardner, Thomas L. Goldfinch, Catherine A. Layton, Giles Thomas, Alan Henderson Jan 2011

Observing Cultural Interactions In Engineering Design,, Timothy J. Mccarthy, Anne Gardner, Thomas L. Goldfinch, Catherine A. Layton, Giles Thomas, Alan Henderson

Faculty of Engineering - Papers (Archive)

The University of Wollongong and partner institutions UTAS, UTS, and QUThave engaged in an ALTC funded project to address issues of intercultural competence inengineering. As a major component of this project, observational research techniquesare being employed to assess the current state of intercultural competence in first andsecond year engineering students. The research described in this paper is a processemployed by the authors to observe cultural interactions between students in first orsecond year design subjects. The process involves simple video recordings of the groups¿interactions over the course of a normal project team meeting, which are then coded andanalysed using NVivo 8. …