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Professor Yan Zhuge

• Professor in Structural Engineering UniSA STEM
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Yan Zhuge is a Professor in Structural Engineering at UniSA STEM. She now leads a prestigious concrete research team comprising three academics and approximately ten PhD candidates. Her main research interests include green concrete materials,  fibre composite materials and structures. She has published more than 200 JCR Q1 journal papers. Her publications have attracted 7200+ citations with a H-index of 44. She serves as an Associate Editor of Case Studies in Construction Materials (Elsevier, Q1 journal) and acts as a Guest Editor for Engineering Structures (Elsevier, Q1 journal).

Her research endeavours extend beyond publications, as she has successfully secured grants exceeding $5 million for sustainable construction initiatives,... Read more

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Her research endeavours extend beyond publications, as she has successfully secured grants exceeding $5 million for sustainable construction initiatives, including 1 ARC Linkage project, 3 ARC Discovery Projects, 1 ARC LIEF, CI of ARC Nanocomm Hub and ARC training centre, and is leading a SmartCrete CRC project in the past five years. Highlighted among her projects are:

1) 2023-2025, Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery grant (Zhuge, Wang, Ma, Chen), $501, 504. Title: Creating pH-sensitive self-healing concrete using sludge waste for sewers.

2) 2021-2024, Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery grant (Duan, Zhuge, Sanjayan, Li), $768,927. Title: Hydrogen carbon waste into concrete: AI assisted nanoscience approach.

3) 2020-2023, Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery grant (Thambiratnam, Chan, Zhuge), $419,000. Title: Mitigating Vehicular Crashes into Masonry Buildings.

4) 2023-2028, ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Whole Life Design of Carbon Neutral Infrastructure.

5) 2022, ARC LIEF grant (Tao, Zhang, Samali, Uy, Zhao, Hao, Mukherjee, Smith, Zhuge, Heidarpour, Dao, Li, Nguyen, Aslani), $1,213,351. Title: National Facility for Physical Fire Simulation.

6) 2021-2022, Australian Research Council (ARC) Research Hub for Nanoscience-based construction material manufacturing (Zhuge), $90,000, Title: Green bricks from red mud – converting contaminated soil to nonkiln fired eco-bricks.

7) 2023-2027, Two National Industry PhD projects (Zhuge, Benn) with Hallett Group.

8) 2022 – 2025, CRC SmartCrete project (Zhuge, Chow, Rameezdeen), $184,800. Title: Using drinking water treatment alum sludge to make greener and durable concrete.

(9) 2019-2021, National Institute for Forest Products Innovation (NIFPI) (Rameezdeen, Mills, Zhuge, O’Hehir, Chow, Ma), $1,560,000. Title: characterising softwood sawn products in Australia.

Yan has a BEng (Hons) in Civil Engineering and a Masters in Structural Engineering from Beijing, China, a PhD in Structural Engineering from Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia. With a career spanning over 27 years, she has lectured at several Australian universities. She joined UniSA in 2017 as a full professor. Now, she is a Professorial Lead in Research Education, UniSA STEM. Her scientific contributions have garnered several Australian government awards and fellowships, as well as industry partnerships. Since 2019, she has held the position of a member in ARC College of Experts. She was the winner of 2018 South Australia Winnovation award in Engineering category.

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Doctor of Philosophy Queensland University of Technology

Master of Engineering Beijing Institute of Civil Engineering and Arch

Bachelor of Engineering Beijing Institute of Civil Engineering and Arch

Research focus

• Civil Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Materials Engineering
• Interdisciplinary Engineering

Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.

SA Water Scholarship, SA Water, 29/02/2024 - 31/01/2028

Hallett Construction and Mining Materials Pty Ltd. Scholarship, Hallett Construction and Mining Materials Pty Ltd., 01/10/2023 - 30/09/2027

National Industry Phd - Performance Evaluation of Eco-friendly Concrete Produced with Granulated lead smelter slag, Cwth Dept of Education, Skills & Employment, 01/10/2023 - 30/09/2027

SmartCrete 21.R1.0019-P: Using drinking water treatment alum sludge to enhance corrosion resistance of sewer structures, SmartCrete CRC, 01/08/2022 - 31/07/2025

Mitigating Vehicular Crashes into Masonry Buildings, ARC - Discovery Projects, 01/01/2020 - 31/12/2024

Hydrogen carbon waste into concrete: AI assisted nanoscience approach, ARC - Discovery Projects, 01/01/2021 - 31/12/2024

Ind: ARC Research Hub for Nanoscience-based Construction Material Manufacturing, BSMART Holdings, 11/01/2021 - 31/12/2023

ARC Research Hub for Nanoscience-based Construction Material Manufacturing, ARC - Industrial Transformation Research Hubs, 11/01/2021 - 31/12/2023

Large Scale Fire testing furnaces, ARC - Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities Grant, 01/01/2022 - 31/12/2022

Reinforced crumbed rubber concrete for residential construction, ARC - Linkage Project, 20/09/2016 - 30/11/2020

Non-destructive assessment of SA Water concrete assets, SA Water, 29/03/2019 - 28/02/2020

Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus

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Influence of Mixing Procedures, Rubber Treatment, and Fibre Additives on Rubcrete Performance

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• CIVE 5093 Application of Finite Element Method in Civil Engineering (2023)
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The Department of Civil Engineering (DICIV) has been active as a research structure in the University of Salerno since 1995, where it replaced the former Institute of Civil Engineering (established in 1983). On January 1, 2011, it started to deal with the both educational and research activities in the area of Civil and Environmental Engineering, following the university reform in accordance to Law 240/2010.

The DICIV promotes and coordinates research activities in the following areas:

• Transportation System Analysis;
• Building Technology;
• Architectural Design and History of Architecture;
• Hydraulic Engineering;
• Architectural Representation;
• Appraisals and Evaluation;
• Geotechnical Engineering ;
• Hydraulics;
• Sanitary Environmental Engineering;
• Structural Engineering;
• Roads, Railways and Airports;
• Urban Planning;
• Topography;

In particular, the DICIV coordinates and carries out research programs as well as consultancy work with private as well as public Italian and International organizations. It deals with the aforementioned sectors as well as any others that may be compatible with the annual research program.

It also plans and supervises the organization and execution of the following teaching activities:

• Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering;
• Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering for the Environment and Territory;
• Master degree in Civil Engineering II cycle;
• Master degree in Environment and territory Engineering;
• Five years Master degree (under the European Directive 85/384/CEE) with national available access to Architectural Engineering.

Currently, the Department offer the following courses in English (detailed information may be downloaded at the bottom of the page (if available), or can be directly requested to the reference lecturers)

The DICIV organizes scientific seminars and conferences, often in collaboration with national and international organizations, and also promotes the training of students and researchers operating within the associated scientific and cultural areas.

In this framework, it organizes the following PhD programmes:

• PhD in Structural Engineering and Urban Restoration;
• PhD in Environmental Civil Engineering.

The Research Laboratories, in addition to the usual activities of research in the above mentioned areas of Civil Engineering, support the educational activities related to the degree courses and carry out certified testing for external organizations, both private and public.

The laboratories of the Department of Civil Engineering are:

• Transportation System Analysis Laboratory;
• Architectural Engineering - Architectural Design and Methodologies - History of Architecture - Architectural Representation - Topography - Urban Planning Laboratory;
• Bioengineering & Biomechanics Laboratory;
• Geotechnical Engineering Laboratory;
• Environmental and Maritime Hydraulics Laboratory (LIDAM);
• Sanitary Environmental Engineering Laboratory (SEED);
• Materials and Structural Testing Laboratory (LMS);
• Lecture room;
• Library with over 3000 scientific and didactic books;
• Student Computer Laboratory ;
• Remote Sensing Laboratory for Environmental Hazard Monitoring (ReSLEHM).

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UO Sustainable Engineering Practice

Course Level Undergraduate

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Area/Catalogue ENGG 1007

Study Method 100% online

Course ID 170266

Unit Value 4.5

Duration 10 weeks

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To introduce students to the engineering profession through course and project work and interaction with industry. All are designed to help students to develop some of the essential personal and professional skills needed for sustainable professional practice.

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Course resources will introduce students to a variety of areas in sustainable and professional engineering, including the role of the professional engineer, graduate attributes of engineering professionals, career management skills, critical analysis and reflective practice, principles of sustainable engineering, professional ethics, intercultural issues including Indigenous protocols, basic project management principles, effective teamwork, team roles, evaluation of team performance, engineering report writing, effective presentations, locating and using information and referencing.

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The Unique Burial of a Child of Early Scythian Time at the Cemetery of Saryg-Bulun (Tuva)

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In 1988, the Tuvan Archaeological Expedition (led by M. E. Kilunovskaya and V. A. Semenov) discovered a unique burial of the early Iron Age at Saryg-Bulun in Central Tuva. There are two burial mounds of the Aldy-Bel culture dated by 7th century BC. Within the barrows, which adjoined one another, forming a figure-of-eight, there were discovered 7 burials, from which a representative collection of artifacts was recovered. Burial 5 was the most unique, it was found in a coffin made of a larch trunk, with a tightly closed lid. Due to the preservative properties of larch and lack of air access, the coffin contained a well-preserved mummy of a child with an accompanying set of grave goods. The interred individual retained the skin on his face and had a leather headdress painted with red pigment and a coat, sewn from jerboa fur. The coat was belted with a leather belt with bronze ornaments and buckles. Besides that, a leather quiver with arrows with the shafts decorated with painted ornaments, fully preserved battle pick and a bow were buried in the coffin. Unexpectedly, the full-genomic analysis, showed that the individual was female. This fact opens a new aspect in the study of the social history of the Scythian society and perhaps brings us back to the myth of the Amazons, discussed by Herodotus. Of course, this discovery is unique in its preservation for the Scythian culture of Tuva and requires careful study and conservation.

Keywords: Tuva, Early Iron Age, early Scythian period, Aldy-Bel culture, barrow, burial in the coffin, mummy, full genome sequencing, aDNA

Information about authors: Marina Kilunovskaya (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Vladimir Semenov (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail: [email protected] Varvara Busova  (Moscow, Russian Federation).  (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences.  Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Kharis Mustafin  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Technical Sciences. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Irina Alborova  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Biological Sciences. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected] Alina Matzvai  (Moscow, Russian Federation). Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.  Institutsky Lane, 9, Dolgoprudny, 141701, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation E-mail:  [email protected]

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UO Project Management for Engineers

Course Level Undergraduate

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Course ID 170264

Unit Value 4.5

Duration 10 weeks

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The course aims to develop students' engineering application abilities and professional and personal attributes as defined by Engineers Australia. Particularly, it introduces students to relevant concepts, principles and techniques for effective leadership and management of engineering projects. Students will work in multidisciplinary teams to demonstrate the application of the socio-cultural, ethical and sustainable frameworks related to engineering projects.

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Activities will help students develop an understanding of the issues when working on multidisciplinary projects and expose them to a range of tools and techniques required in their discipline. Students will work on projects that will develop their communication, project management, teamwork and critical thinking skills.

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An appropriate Master's Degree in Environmental Sciences, Natural Sciences, Applied Sciences, or Physical Sciences or a related field. In the case of a coursework Master's Degree the applicant must submit a PDF version of the research project that formed part of such a degree. All students with foreign qualifications, including those with qualifications from African countries, must have their qualifications evaluated at SAQA. (www.saqa.org.za) In addition to the before mentioned requirements, all applicants must submit a transcript or an academic record, an updated CV as well as a 5-page PDF concept document describing their intended research. Guidelines for compiling the document can be found on the departmental website. Students will be accepted on the following criteria: Suitability and viability of the intended research; adequate supervisory capacity and research expertise in the department. An approved selection procedure which is in line with Unisa's policies on equality and diversity in the discipline or department will be implemented. Students, who are awaiting Masters examination results, must still submit applications by the due date. Applications will be considered once results become available.

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Application are online only! Applications for admission to master's and doctoral degrees to be open from 2 September to 22 November 2024 . 

Applications for the following qualifications will, however, remain open until the end of June 2025: 

• All qualifications in the College of Science, Engineering and Technology (excluding Computer Science & Information Science qualifications)
• Doctor of Philosophy (90040) - SET, MAT, TEC, CHE, COM, LIF, AST, STA, SCE & PHY options
• Master of Science in Nature Conservation (full dissertation) (98022)
• Qualifications in the Department of Decision Sciences (98597 - ORE; 98598; 98701)  
• MPhil in Financial Management (90158) 
• PhD in Management Studies (90021 - FIN)

Click here  to apply for a student number and apply for admission.

Please ensure that you apply for a Unisa student number (if applicable), apply for admission and upload all the supporting documents during the application period. If you already have a Unisa student number, you proceed to apply for admission and upload all the supporting documents.

You have 10 working days to upload all the supporting documents during the application period. If you do not comply with this requirement, your application will be declined and you will have to re-apply for admission during the current/next application period.

Only students whose application for admission was approved and re-registering students (who made sufficient progress during the current academic year) will be allowed to register online within the approved registration period for the 2025 academic year. Coursework master's degree students must await the official approval of their research proposal module, before attempting to re-register for the next academic year. Students with outstanding fees or a Library block on their accounts, will not be able to register online until these issues have been resolved. No printed registration forms will be accepted.

Click here  for registration information.