Ms Liz Smith

Welcome to Elizabeth (Liz) Smith's home page at the University of South Australia.

I am currently a lecturer in the School of Advanced Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering located at the Mawson Lakes Campus. Prior to commencing with UniSA in 2006, I was a research and consulting engineer with the Turbulence, Energy and Combustion Group based at the University of Adelaide, where I was working on my PhD

Before becoming a research engineer, I worked as a manufacturing engineer in the plastics industry.

Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Engineers Australia

Engineers Without Borders

• Sustainable Energy Management
• Engineering Design
• Professional Practice

Member, Engineers Australia

Committee Member & Australian Young Member Chairperson, Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE)

Member, Society of Automotive Engineers

Member, Australasian Association of Engineering Education (AAEE)

American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)

Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) (Hons), University of Adelaide, 2000

PhD (to be completed 2009), Adelaide University, Thesis: "Investigation of two-equation turbulence models to predict different types of turbulent jet flows"

• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
• Turbulent flows and flames & two equation turbulence models
• Engineering Education
• Women in Engineering

Smith E.J., Mills J.E. “E-portfolios and first year students – do we assume too much?", AAEE, Adelaide, Australia, 6-9 December 2009 (submitted)

Lee S.H., Smith E.J., Eley V. “Undergraduate and Beyond – Retaining Undergraduates for PhD study in the School of AME at UniSA", AAEE, Adelaide, Australia, 6-9 December 2009 (submitted)

Smith E.J., Mills J.E., Myers B. "Online Learning Techniques: Using Wikis and Blogs for Assessment in First Year Engineering" ATN Assessment Conference, Adelaide, Australia, 20-21 November 2008

Mills J.E., Mehrtens V., Smith E.J., and Adams V. “CREW revisited in 2007 the Year of Women in Engineering - An update on women’s progress in the Australian engineering workforce”, Engineers Australia, 2007

Mills J.E., Mehrtens V., Smith E.J., and Adams V. “Would you choose an engineering degree course if given the choice again?”, AAEE, Melbourne, Australia, 9-12 December 2007

Mills J.E., Mehrtens V., Smith E.J., and Adams V. “CREW revisited in 2007 - The Year of Women in Engineering”, CHEMECA, Victoria, Australia 23-26 September 2007

Smith, E.J., Nathan, G.J., Qamer, N. H., and Dally, B.B., “Comparison of Thermocouple Temperature Measurements of Simple and Precessing Jet Propane Flames ”, 5th Asian-Pacific Conference on Combustion , Adelaide, Australia, 2005

Smith, E.J., Mi, J.C., Nathan, G.J., and Dally, B.B. “Preliminary Examination of the Round Jet Initial Condition Anomaly”, 15th Australasian Fluids Mechanics Conference, Sydney, Australia, 2004

Smith, E.J., Nathan, G.J. and Dally, B.B, “Predicting Flame Characteristics of a Precessing Jet Nozzle”, 2003 Australian Symposium on Combustion & The 8th Australian Flame Days, Monash University, Australia, 8-9 December 2003

Smith, E.J., Nathan, G.J. and Dally, B.B, “Range of Validity of a Modified K-Epsilon Model of the Non-Reacting Flow from a Precessing Jet Nozzle”, 3rd Int. Conf. on CFD in the Minerals and Process industry, CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia, 2003

Smith, E.J., Nathan, G.J. and Dally, B.B., Assessment of the Robustness of the K-Epsilon Model to Variations in Turbulence Constants for Simulation of Increased Jet Spreading, EMAC 2003 Proceedings, editors R.L. May and W.F. Blyth, 2003.

Smith, E.J., Nathan, G.J. and Dally, B.B., Assessment of a Simple 2-D Steady State Model of the Flow Field Emerging from the Precessing Jet Nozzle, EMAC 2003 Proceedings, editors R.L. May and W.F. Blyth, 2003.

Smith, E.J., Dally B.B. and Nathan, G.J., Development of a Simple 2-D Steady State Model of the Flow from a Precessing Jet Nozzle, 2nd ICCFD, Sydney, Australia, editors S. Armfield, P. Morgan and K. Srinivas, 2002.

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline:

• Engineering Education
• Women in Engineering