A 33-year-old Axedale man has become the first person outside a capital city and the first graduate from La Trobe Bendigo to win Australia’s peak award for young engineers.
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Tim Dunlop was named the 2015 Young Professional Engineer at the annual Engineers Australia award ceremony in Melbourne last night.
The managing director of Regional Management Group said the award was a highlight in a journey which had taken him far from his hometown on the Campaspe River.
“My journey as an engineer has opened up so many opportunities which I never could have imagined growing up in Axedale and given me the chance to work on some of the world’s most significant projects: exporting gas to China, helping develop PNG...” he said.
“It’s been a wonderful journey and I’m proud to now come back and live and work in Bendigo and bring some of that expertise home.”
Dunlop cites working on the Australia Pacific Liquid Natural Gas project in Gladstone and for the World Bank in Papua New Guinea as some of his biggest achievements.
But equally important is his work closer to home: the Calder Freeway duplication, the Bendigo Airport whole-of-water-cycle management, transitioning Radius Disability Services to the Morley Emporium.
Dunlop is also the Chair of the Engineers Australia Bendigo Regional Group and a member of La Trobe University Engineering Course Advisory Committee.