Contact Harry - Suehrcke (suehrcke@bigpond.com) Employer James Cook University State/Province Queensland (Australia) Title Sessional Lecturer (Part-time) Employment Dates Jul. 1998 — Nov. 1998 Duration 25% (1 month) Tasks and Duties I delivered Construction Management and Mechanical Engineering subjects. These were sessional contracts after my postgraduate scholarship concluded and immediately prior to my full time employment at James Cook University. I was responsible to applying my expertise as a Professional Engineer (Mechanical) to develop and deliver final year design subjects for students in Mechanical Engineering and Construction Management. This was 100% Engineering, absolutely applied in practice and from which I was able to write letters of recommendation for my best students to successfully gain employment designing or supervising HVAC installations. Representative Projects [ME4515] Advanced Mechanical Engineering Design, 1998 - I redesigned and delivered the whole of the subject. I obtained copyright to reproduce the Australian government’s adaptation of the Carrier Air-conditioning Method to Estimate Loads (CAMEL) and taught my students how to design HVAC in compliance with government procurement guidelines and to estimate costs in alignment with accepted quality surveying methods. Then I tasked the students to assess their Student Union Refectory to be air-conditioned, and submitted for funding. It was accepted by student council and their documents which I quality assured were used to tender an installation, which student have enjoyed ever since.
[CM4002] Construction Technology,1998 heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, plumbing. I focused on teaching basic room load estimation for simple installations that can be specified by non-engineer technicians such as my construction management students would be recruited to fulfil such roles. I stressed that more complex systems require consultation with qualified Mechanical Engineers.