2021 Navsimran Singh and Elizabeth Kalou

Railway Engineering Student Thesis Award 2021

THERE ARE TWO WINNERS OF THE 2021 RAILWAY ENGINEERING STUDENT THESIS AWARD: ELIZABETH KALOU AND NAVSIMRAN SINGH 

2021 Railway Engineering Student Thesis Award

Joint winners

Elizabeth Kalour

Thesis: A comprehensive review of railway sleepers and comparative testing of pre-stressed concrete and fibre-reinforced sleepers

Place of Study: Western Sydney University

Elizabeth’s thesis included a comprehensive review of railway sleepers and comparative testing of pre-stressed concrete and fibre-reinforced sleepers She is an honours student in Civil Engineering at Western Sydney University and has had work experience on the Western Sydney airport project working for Bechtel.

 

Navsimran Singh

Thesis: How Australian-developed low-cost printable photo-voltaic panels could be integrated into the architecture of railway infrastructure

Place of Study: Monash University

Navsimran is completing an honours degree in Mechanical Engineering at Monash University.  His innovative thesis explored how Australian-developed low-cost printable photo-voltaic panels could be integrated into the architecture of railway infrastructure to provide quantifiable carbon-reduction benefits in an unobtrusive manner.