Achievements and awards

The School of Business, Law and Entreprenurship celebrating the school's reaccreditation by the AACSB

The Swinburne School of Business, Law, and Entrepreneurship has been reaccredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International for another six years. Associate Dean of Education, Associate Professor Julian Vieceli, and Manager of Accreditation and Engagement, Shana Chong, attended AACSB’s International Conference and Annual Meeting in Vienna, Austria, to recognise this milestone.

This reaccreditation follows a comprehensive review of the School’s educational practices conducted by a panel of AACSB reviewers last year, demonstrating a commitment to excellence and continuous improvement.

"This prestigious recognition reflects our unwavering commitment to overall quality and improvement in business education,” says Interim Dean Professor Nicki Wragg.

Established in 1916, AACSB is the international membership and accreditation body for business schools. With a mission to elevate the quality and impact of business schools globally, only six percent of business schools worldwide have earned AACSB accreditation.

The accreditation assures students that they are receiving a high-quality education that meets rigorous standards. Graduates from AACSB-accredited schools are highly sought after by top employers globally, as the accreditation is a mark of excellence and reliability.

Professor Wragg also highlighted the collective effort of academic and professional staff behind this success. "This reaccreditation is an outstanding recognition of the excellent work done by the School over the past several years in providing outstanding business education that achieves impact, promotes research excellence, and nurtures future career-ready graduates."

Oscar Goode with his teacher and fellow competitor at the World Plumbing Day Apprentice Skills Contest

Swinburne student Oscar Goode placed first in the Plumbing Industry Climate Action Centre (PICAC) 2025 World Plumbing Day Apprentice Skills Contest this month. Studying a Certificate III in Plumbing, Oscar represented Swinburne in the annual contest. Oscar will now go through an interview process for the opportunity to represent PICAC and Australia as one of the 32 participants in the annual United Association's International Apprentice Skills contest at the Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Celebrated on March 11, World Plumbing Day is an internationally recognised event to spread awareness and recognition of the essential role plumbers play in protecting public health and advancing water solutions. More than pipes and fittings, plumbing is the pillar of safe communities and empowering economic prosperity.

“It was a great day,” Oscar reflected. “I really enjoyed getting to talk to other people from different areas in the industry. The task we had to do really came down to being very precise with your measurements and having a good understanding of how it’s all going to look before even picking up a tool. Swinburne’s helped me learn to read plans and do neat work, and that’s what helped me win the competition at the end of the day.”

Professor Tsong Yueh Chen named an IEEE Fellow for inventing metamorphic testing and adaptive random testing.

Swinburne’s Professor Tsong Yueh Chen has been named as a IEEE Fellow for contributions to software testing through the invention of metamorphic testing and adaptive random testing.

Metamorphic testing identifies program bugs by analysing the relationships between inputs and outputs of multiple executions of a program under test. Two decades after its introduction, metamorphic testing is now widely used in online search engines, autonomous machines, compilers, Web APIs and deep learning.

Professor Chen, a Professor of Software Engineering in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, was also the recipient of the 2024 ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award.

IEEE is the world’s largest technology professional organisation dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence. The IEEE Fellow is awarded to a select group of IEEE members whose exceptional achievements are celebrated and recognised by the community. 

Swinburne’s Dr Evie Kendal has been appointed as a non-resident Scowcroft National Security Fellow of the Eisenhower Center for Space and Defense, United States Air Force Academy (USAFA).

US Air Force Academy's Acting Director of the Eisenhower Center, Madison Walker J.D. (Air and Space Law), says the Fellowship is critical to advancing dialogue on space security.  

"The Eisenhower Center for Space and Defense's Scowcroft Fellowship is a program designed to gather all of the leading experts in space and national security policy together, to further the conversation of what is next for the space domain and the implications that has on our global security."

Dr Kendal is a bioethicist and public health scientist with expertise in the ethics of emerging technologies, including space ethics. She is a part of the planetary defence global consortium and has collaborated with the US Space Force and Harvard & Smithsonian. 

Dr Kendal has written papers on asteroid mining's practical, ethical and environmental issues and has contributed to collections in space ethics, law and aerospace medicine. Her interests include lunar miners' health, artificial gestation in space, genetic modification for astronauts and diversity in the space workforce. She also contributed to the Military Space Ethics text used at USAFA, and her work is featured in courses at the Australian Defence Force Academy.