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Dr Joseph Foley

Name :	Dr Joseph Foley
Position :	Deputy Head of Discipline & Senior Lecturer (Agricultural, Civil & Environmental Engineering)
Section :	Faculty of Engineering and Surveying Agricultural, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Office :	Z426
Location :	Toowoomba Campus
Phone :	+61 7 4631 1559
Extension :	1559
E-mail :
Qualifications :	BEng USQ MEng UniSA PhD USQ

Professional Memberships

Member of Institution of Engineers, Australia - MIEAust
Member of Society for Engineering in Agriculture

Professional Affiliations

Irrigation Australia

Research Interests

Optimising irrigation system design and management
Minimising pressurised irrigation energy use
Computer simulation models of irrigation hydraulics
Sprinkler fluid mechanics/ballistics
Irrigation Engineering

Recent Research Outcomes

Three most recent :

Foley, JP & Eberhard, J 2007. Final Project Report for Cotton Research and Development Corporation Project NEC10C - Improving infiltration of irrigation water under centre pivots and lateral moves, National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia.

Newell, G, Smith, RJ, Foley, JP, & Gillies, MH 2006. "A decision support model for travelling gun irrigation machines", in XVI CIGR World Congress - Agricultural Engineering for a better world, CIGR, Bonn, Germany.

Foley, JP, Wigginton, D, & Eberhard, J 2006. Optimizing overhead irrigation systems, in Proceedings of the 13th Australian Cotton Conference, Australian Cotton Growers Research Association, Gold Coast, Australia. (Invited Plenary Session Paper).

Most notable :

Foley, JP, & Wigginton, D 2005. Centre Pivot and Lateral Move Training manual, Cotton Research and Development Corporation, Narrabri, and National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture, Toowoomba, Australia.

Foley, JP 2004. Centre pivot and lateral move machines, in H Dugdale, G Harris, J Neilsen, D Richards, G Roth & D Williams (eds), WaterPAK, Cotton Research and Development Corporation, Narrabri, NSW, pp. 195-220.

Foley, JP, Wigginton, D, White, S, McCarthy, C & Raine, SR 2006, OverSCHED - a centre pivot and lateral move irrigation management tool, in Proceedings of the 13th Australian Cotton Conference, Australian Cotton Growers Research Association, Gold Coast, Australia.

Foley, JP 2003. System capacity the key for overhead irrigators, The Australian Cottongrower 24(7):24-7.

Raine, SR, Smith, RJ, and Foley, JP, 2003. Increasing benchmarking and optimisation of surface irrigation performance in the Australian Cotton Industry. Discussion Paper, National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture, USQ, Toowoomba, Australia.

Currently Teaching Courses/Programs

AGRICULTURAL, CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
ENV4106 - Irrigation Science
ENV3104 - Hydraulics II
ENG1101 - Engineering Problem Solving 1
ENV2901 - Soil & Water Engineering Practice 1
AGR3303 - Agricultural Materials and Crop Storage
AGR3905 - Agricultural Engineering Practice
ENV2103 - Hydraulics 1
ENV1101 - Hydraulics for Technologists
AGR3903 - Soil & Water Engineering Practice 2
AGR2902 - Agrciultural Field Practice

Teaching Experience

Tertiary : 4 years
Other : 12 years