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2005 Civil Engineering Alumnus Award

2005 Civil Engineering Alumnus of the Year, Scott Sloan

Professor Scott Sloan is the Civil Engineering Alumnus of the Year for 2005. Scott obtained his BE (Hons 1) and MEngSc from the Department of Civil Engineering at Monash University in 1976 and 1978 respectively.

He won an External Research Scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge and obtained his MPhil and PhD in Soil Mechanics in 1982. In 1981, he was awarded a Senior Rouse Ball Scholarship at Trinity College and then moved to Oxford in 1982 as the W W Spooner Research Fellow in Engineering at New College. In 1984, Professor Sloan returned to Australia to take up a Lectureship in Geomechanics at the University of Newcastle. There he founded the Geotechnical Research Group and conducted research in the field of computational geomechanics for 20 years. He was elected a Fellow of IEAust in 1994 and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE) in 2000. He was awarded the Telford Medal by the Institution of Civil Engineers London (their highest award for a paper in any area) in 2000 for the solution of a classical bearing capacity problem in soil mechanics. He was also awarded a Centenary Medal in 2002 for his services to Civil and Geotechnical Engineering. In recognition of his research achievements, he was invited to serve on the Engineering and Environmental Panel of the Australian Research Council (ARC) from 1998 to 2001. He is also the recipient of an ARC Federation Fellowship and was awarded the Desai Medal in 2005 by the International Association for Computational Methods and Advances in Geomechanics.

Scott is an excellent researcher having been awarded over $8.0 million in competitive research funds. He has numerous refereed journal publications and refereed conference publications to his credit. He has given frequent keynote and invited lectures at national and international conferences and is a board member of the International Association for Computational Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG) and Vice-President of the Australian Association for Computational Mechanics.

Scott’s contribution to the Engineering profession has been outstanding and he is a worthy recipient of the Civil Engineering Alumnus of the Year Award.