Seminar - Greg Hancock - Future Directions of the Discipline of Engineering

Wednesday, June 2, 2004, 1.10 - 1.50 pm
Civil Engineering Lecture Room 3

Abstract

"Future directions for the discipline of Engineering and its relationship with allied disciplines in Australia and internationally, and possible implications of this for the University of Sydney."

Gregory J. Hancock
Bluescope Steel Professor of Steel Structures
Dean of Engineering
The University of Sydney

When I first received this presentation title, I was excited by the prospect of researching its background and clarifying my thinking as to where engineering is going? This is a very general question requiring considerable thought and reference to the past to see where engineering is now and how it got there. But before I start on this, I need to define what I believe is "the discipline of engineering".