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20 August 2010

Ali makes his mark in three minutes

Professor Daine Alcorn with winner Ali Daliri

Professor Daine Alcorn congratulates Ali Daliri. Photos by Margund Sallowsky.

The clock’s ticking: Mr Daliri makes his pitch.

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PhD student Ali Daliri has talked his way into a trip to Brisbane for the national finals of the Three Minute Thesis competition next month.

Mr Daliri will represent RMIT University at the event, hosted by the University of Queensland. First prize will be $5,000.

He impressed the judges at the RMIT finals with an exposition on his research into wireless structural health monitoring in the School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering.

This is the first year that all Australian universities which award research degrees in Australia are taking part in the competition.

"The aim of the Three Minute Thesis competition is to sharpen our candidates’ communication skills and help the community engage with the wonderful research which is being done at RMIT," Professor Daine Alcorn, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research and Innovation and Vice-President, said.

"Candidates are asked to explain what they are researching, why it is important to do this work and what the relevance of it is in the real world – using a single PowerPoint slide as support."

The judging panel - Catriona Fay from the Ian Potter Foundation, Nigel Dick AM from Nigel Dick and Associates, and Professor Alcorn - selected the winner from the three College finalists.

Three College runner-ups were also in contention alongside the finalists for the People’s Choice Award - which the audience also gave to Mr Daliri.

The other participants in the RMIT finals were:

College winners

Mayra Walsh, School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning
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Jeff Fang, School of Economics, Finance and Marketing
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College runners-up

Iryna Khodasevych, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Pia Interlandi, School of Architecture and Design
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Claire Davidson, School of Business IT and Logistics
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