Alumni news

The Faculty of Engineering Alumni Awards were presented at a cocktail event on Tuesday 21 October in the Banquet Rooms at the Clayton Campus. There was a variety of alumni in attendance, spanning the generations from alumni who graduated in 1952 right up to last years graduates.

The Dean, Professor Tam Sridhar, commented that, "It was pleasing to see so many alumni taking advantage of the opportunity to reconnect with former classmates and staff members. We were honoured to have in attendance our Chancellor, Dr Alan Finkel, one of our own engineering alumni and our Vice Chancellor, Professor Richard Larkins."

An inspiring speech was delivered by Madeleine McManus, a double degree alumnus who qualified with a Mechanical Engineering and Commerce degree from Monash. Madeline spent a number of years in the commercial and project engineering environment working in industries such as chemical, oil and gas and industrial both in Australia and overseas. Madeline is currently a Director for an executive search business, specialising in Engineering and is currently the Vice Chairman of Engineers Australia Victorian Division.

Madeleine is passionate about working with engineers of the future, raising the profile of engineers in the wider community and ensuring the long term success of the profession.

Thanks and appreciation is extended to the Monash Engineering Foundation who so graciously funded the event.

This year was the inaugural year of presenting departmental Alumni of the Year awards. There were many well deserving alumni nominated for the awards.

The winners in each department were:

Chemical engineering
Early Career Alumni of the Year Dr Michael Danquah		Alumni of the Year Dr Roy Armfield
Civil engineering
Alumni of the Year Stephen Blanch
Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering
Early Career Alumni of the Year Doran Ben-Meir		Alumni of the Year Stephen Blanch
Materials engineering
Early Career Alumni of the Year Andrew Micallef		Alumni of the Year Dr Mark Hodge
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Early Career Alumni of the Year Dr Richard Mills		Alumni of the Year Tam Hup Foi