Text Box: SEAg Newsletter Text Box: · 2009 SEAg Conference - Agricultural technology for a changing climate · Special agriculture issue of the Australian Journal of Multi-disciplinary Engineering · SEAg member profile – Miss Loretta McKeering · SEAg prize for Agricultural Engineering students · SEAg Members and Friends Networking Evening at USQ – 7 October 2008 · SEAg Vice-chairman Dr Chris Saunders awarded the Douglas Bomford Trust Paper Award for 2008 · Email form SEAg member (Western Australia) regarding coconut oil as a biofuel · Free book and software available for downloading · CD (video) “Amazing Agricultural Machines” for sale (at a discount price for SEAg members) · Other Conference Announcements · Words from the SEAg Chair

Text Box: Special agriculture issue of the Australian Journal of Multi-disciplinary Engineering

Text Box: A number of selected papers from the SEAg 2007 Conference held in Adelaide have now been accepted and scheduled to be published in a special agriculture issue (April 2009) of the Australian Journal of Multi-disciplinary Engineering (AJMDE). We are hoping to do the same for our SEAg 2009 Conference. So please start to prepare your papers for SEAg 2009 Conference now.

Text Box: Brisbane : A River City Text Box: Volume 1 Issue 1, September 2008

Text Box: Inside this issue:

Text Box: The workshop focuses on the application of imaging techniques and spectroscopic methods in agriculture. These emerging technologies will be increasingly used for monitoring pre- and postharvest processes. Appropriate solutions for agricultural applications are scarce, however. For these specific demands suitable solutions need to be developed in close cooperation between targeted basic research and industry.   The workshop is the first meeting of the working group and the first international event within a series of 15 so far national workshops. It is held as a satellite-meeting preceding the 5th International Technical Symposium on Food Processing, Monitoring Technology in Bioprocesses and Food Quality Management in Potsdam, Germany on August 31 to Sept 2, 2009.

Text Box: Conference announcement - 1st International Workshop on Computer Image Analysis in Agriculture, Aug 27 to 28, 2009, Potsdam, Germany

Text Box: XXXIII CIOSTA & CIGR Section V Conference   http://www.cigr.org/firstannouncementciosta2009.pdf

Text Box: The Conference will be held in Reggio Calabria (Italy) in the period 17-19 June 2009.   The objectives of the conference are to highlight the latest developments in technology and management to ensure sustainable agriculture, agro-systems, forestry and safety, and to promote the exchange of knowledge and experience among scientists, technicians, producers and students.   Reggio Calabria is situated on the southern tip of the Calabrian region, on the eastern side of the Straits of Messina. It is a very ancient settlement and clear traces of the Roman and Greek period are visible. Rebuilt many times after the numerous earthquakes which devastated its urban structure, today Reggio Calabria has a modern layout. The city is the site of a National Museum, very famous for its vast and significant collection of Magna Graecian remains, including the “Bronze Warriors” and the “Philosopher’s head”.   The seaside esplanade, described by the Italian poet Gabriele D’Annunzio as the “finest mile in Italy”, faces the island of Sicily and offers one of the most important botanical gardens. The city has good transport connections to the rest of the world.

Text Box: As mentioned, we would prefer to distribute our news electronically. If you have received this copy by a traditional means and if you’ve got an email address, could you please let us know. Dr Guangnan Chen is our Publications Manager. He can be contacted at: Faculty of Engineering and Surveying, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland 4350. Phone: +61 7 4631 2518, Fax: +61 7 4631 2526, Email: chengn@usq.edu.au.

Text Box: Receiving and Contributing to SEAg Newsletter

Text Box: Words from the SEAg Chair   The Society has clearly been rejuvenated since the 2007 Adelaide conference. There is a renewed enthusiasm within the society and this has manifested in a number of projects that SEAg committee members are currently undertaking.   Firstly, with the support of Engineers Australia we are preparing a special journal issue for the Australian Journal of Multi-Disciplinary Engineering (AJMDE) based on selected articles from the 2007 Conference. The publication will highlight the vast range of topics and areas of interest encompassed by SEAg members and disseminate this to the broader Engineering community. This publication will also promote the 2009 SEAg conference where the same journal publication opportunity will hopefully be made available to participants, in addition to the Conference proceedings.  We hope that this double publication opportunity (conference presentation followed by journal articles) will attract larger number of academics to the 2009 Conference.  The current Special Journal issue is being compiled with the help of Dr Chris Saunders, Dr Guangnan Chen, Mr Erik Schmidt and Dr Thomas Banhazi, as invited editors.  Mr Paul Woolnough of Engineers Australia is providing a high level of general editorial support for the guest editorial team.   Secondly and more importantly, the society is busy with arrangements for the 2009 Brisbane conference, which started in earnest by collaboration with Ms Catriona McAuliffe (Director - Conferences) for Engineers Australia.  Engineers Australia agreed to support the 2009 SEAg conference and this arrangement has significantly improved our ability to upscale and provide a very professional event.  As a result of this new arrangement, SEAg was able to hire the services of a Professional Conference Organising company, ICMS Australasia.  We are also in the fortunate position that Ms Suellen Holland, one of the Executive Managers of ICMS will personally look after the 2009 conference. We are hoping that these new arrangements and thus the increased professionalism of the event will attract significant numbers of Australian and Overseas delegates. We also hope that the 2009 conference will be remembered as a professionally rewarding and socially exciting event!   Finally, as you can see we are also working on a ‘new look’ E-newsletter that will be used to keep our membership informed more regularly and distributed to a broader audience in the future.  If you have any comments on the new format or additional information that you would like to see added, please contact a member of the committee or myself directly.   Best regards Dr Thomas Banhazi – Chair, SEAg National Committee

Text Box: Each year SEAg sponsors the Society for Engineering in Agriculture Prize rewarding the Agricultural Engineering student achieving the highest academic standard in the Faculty of Engineering and Surveying at the University of Southern Queensland.   Miss Pippa Morrison is this year’s recipient. The prize was awarded at the annual USQ award presentation ceremony on 2 May, 2008.

Text Box: SEAg prize for Agricultural Engineering student

Text Box: SEAg Members and Friends Networking Evening at USQ

Text Box: The Society for Engineering in Agriculture (Australia) is organising a Networking Evening on 7 October, 2008 at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba campus. Details can be found in the attached flyer. For further information or to RSVP, please email Loretta McKeering at seagfunction@hotmail.com.

Text Box: It will be a great opportunity to catch up with old friends and meet new people there, so come along!  Everyone is welcome - please also forward this invitation onto anyone you know who may be interested in attending.   There will be two speakers that evening:   Dr Graeme Quick on the topic of “An old hand with some new tricks!” Graeme is a well-known farm machinery engineer, technical writer and part-time farmer. He has worked in over thirty countries in farm machinery engineering and was previously the editor of the SEAg Journal for 12 years.   Nathan Heinrich on the topic of “A typical day in the life of… an ag engineer”. Nathan is an agricultural engineer working for FSA Consulting in irrigation and farm water resources engineering in Toowoomba. He graduated from USQ in 2004.

 

 

Storage Tanks and Dangerous Goods Seminar

 

Time

Speaker No

Topic

Duration

8:00 AM

 

Arrival & Registration

30:00

8:30 AM

 

Start of Seminar, Introduction & Welcome

10:00

8:40 AM

1

Tank Standards: API 650/653 & AS 1940

30:00

9:10 AM

2

Dangerous Goods Safety Regulations 2007

30:00

9:40 AM

3

Tank Compliance & Safety

30:00

10:10 AM

 

Morning Tea

25:00

10:35 AM

4

Tank Design

25:00

11:00 AM

5

Tank Fabrication & Construction

25:00

11:25 AM

6

Tank Installation & Commissioning

25:00

11:50 AM

7

Major Projects Case Studies

25:00

12:15 PM

 

Lunch

50:00

1:05 PM

8

Primary Containment

25:00

1:30 PM

9

Tank Maintenance & Repair

25:00

1:55: PM

10

Tank Inspection

25:00

2:20 PM

11

Tank NDE/NDT

25:00

2:45 PM

 

Afternoon Tea

25:00

3:10 PM

12

Acoustic Emissions

25:00

3:35 PM

13

Tank Coatings

25:00

4:00 PM

14

Tank Cathodic Protection Systems

25:00

4:25 PM

 

Close of Seminar

10:00