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DES News

The DES Newsletter comes out quarterly, and was started in 2008. You can always find back issues on this page.

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The following issues of the DES newsletter, as listed, can be downloaded for your convenience.

Latest Issue

DES News - April 2012: The 'Andrew' issue (1.1 MB PDF)
Inside: Eulogies from Andrew Pullan's funeral, and shared memories.

DES News - April 2012: The 'Andrew' issue (2.2 MB PDF)
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DES News - December 2011 (571 KB PDF)
Inside: Pullan update; NZNTES 2011 & Pullan Prize; Part IV Project 2011; EngSci graduates of 2011; Mason's OpenSolver; Cheng wins Segedin Schol; New Petroleum course; Geothermal Workshop; Staff Awards; Featured Alumni: Collis, Buckland

DES News - October 2011 (751 KB PDF)
Inside: Pullan update; Faculty Bakeoff; Part IV Projects; Rowing update; Spring graduation; BME class of 2010; Ram Parameshwar; Gastro research; Biomimetics Lab; Featured student: Oldfield; Featured alumni: Paris; Featured postgrad: Du.

DES News - June 2011 (389 KB PDF)
Inside: Farewell to Ian Collins; Andrew Pullan; Autumn graduation 2011; Samuel Cheng wins SPE scholarship; Careers Evenings 2011; University rowing champs, Inaugural Coast 2 Coast, 2011 Bakeoff; Featured alumni: Downward, Kaya, Newson.

DES News - April 2011 (392 KB PDF)
Inside: Imee Tribo - WEN Adviser; Part II field trip; 2010 undergraduate prizewinners; Neild and Gerritsen appointed TiPM Associate Editors; Finch at Stanford & MIT; New staff Murthy & Lu; Optima & DES; Featured alumni: Tribo, Parks, Meyer.

DES News - December 2010 (457 KB PDF)
Inside: Change in Head of Department; Poul Nielsen, James Cook Research Fellow; NZs Next Top Engineering Scientists; ORSNZ 45th Annual Conference; Postgrads awarded; Part IV Projects; Teaching & Research updates; Featured alumni: Bulog, Vogel.

DES News - September 2010 (176 KB PDF)
Inside: Triple 70 celebrations; Looking into the lining of the aorta; Cyclebest's win in 2010 Spark Ideas; Newson elected to IGA Board; Changes to department IT; Biomimetics Lab; Nic Smith; Featured former staff: Billot.

DES News - July 2010 (219 KB PDF)
Inside: Autumn graduation; Keeping the family in DES; GI Joes win in Ideas Challenge; Willcox Sir Peter Blake 'Emerging Leader'; Newson receives police award; Archer in the news; Compusoft; Bakeoff; Featured alumni: G Meyer, both Davidsons.

DES News - March 2010 (541 KB PDF)
Inside: Ian McCrae 2010 World Class NZ Award for ICT; PGCertGeothermTech; Part II field trip; Research: Network Design & Simulation; Ehrgott's new book; New staff: Zarrouk Pearce; Summer studentship projects; Featured alumni:Donald Rajapakse.

DES News - December 2009 (247 KB PDF)
Inside: NZ's Next Top Engineering Scientist; NZ Programming comp.; IEEExtreme; Yu Sian Tan wins ACENZ and AUEA scholarship; ORSNZ YPP, New staff: Bier; Teaching: PG Geothermal; PIV Project winners;Featured alumni: Deaker Hannaford.

DES News - September 2009 (213 KB PDF)
Inside: New staff: Moyle; Research: OR work of Ehrgott; Willcox, Arnold's new babies; Featured alumni: Lee, McVitty, Li, Qu, Landels, Willcox, Arnold.

DES News - June 2009 (255 KB PDF)
Inside: New PhDs: Guan, Lusby, Weide; New staff: Long, Raith, Taberner; Teaching: Designing swim fins; Anderson Montana Book Award finalist; Research: Non linear Signal Processing; Featured alumni: Robb, Archer; Anderson.

DES News - March 2009 (1.5 MB PDF)
Inside: More photos from 40th Anniversary dinner; Vogel's design in SolidWorks Calendar; Nash awarded James Cook Fellowship; Philpott, Everett in Franz Edelman finalist team; Geothermal update; Featured student: Walbran; Featured alumni: Nash.