2016 Student Excellence Award Winners

2016 Student Excellence Award Winners

The judging for the 2016 Student Excellence Awards was completed late in December following ratification of student results across 11 eligible units throughout Semesters 1 and 2 in 2016.
With many high performing students this posed a somewhat welcomed but difficult task in the judges reaching their final determination, however all eleven recipients deserved due acknowledgement.

The winners being:

UNIT	SPONSOR	STUDENT	EMPLOYER
Introduction to Pavements	Austroads	Scott Smith	Road & Maritime Services
Pavement Design	MinCad	Cammeron Harris	Road & Maritime Services
Flexible Pavement Construction	AAPA	Davin Slade	Cardno Lane Piper PL
Pavement Wearing Surfaces	AAPA	Freddy Salvador Gamarra	SMEC International
Asphalt Mix Design	AAPA	David Barker	EIC Activities
Pavement Management	Roads Australia	Jay Spare	Central Coast Council
Insitu Stabilisation	AustStab	Christopher O'Dea	Newlands Civil Construction
Road Asset Management	Roads Australia	Anthony Kyrkou	City of Whittlesea
Fundamentals of Road Construction	Austroads	Benjamin Du Bois	Dept. of Infrastructure and Regional Devt.
Pavement Evaluation & Rehabilitation	Austroads	James Loney	Durkin Construction PL
Road Maintenance	Roads Australia	Glen Spooner	4D Geotechnics PL

 A special mention to Davin Slade and James Loney for their second successive year as an Excellence Award winners, a terrific feat in high achievement.

Each Student Excellence Award winner receives a $500 cash prize (courtesy the sponsors) together with a Certificate of Recognition. Congratulations to all the winners!! The Awards are again on offer in 2017 (please refer to our website for further details).

 

(Left) Davin Slade receiving his 2015 award from Peter Todd (Deputy Chief Executive, Vicroads).