Professor Jim Morgan moved to Bathurst to join the Charles Sturt Engineering team in April 2015 as the Inaugural Course Director. He moved from Texas A&M University, USA where in addition to his teaching in engineering, Jim served several years as the Director of Aggie STEM, and previously as Co-Director of the Eisenhower Leadership Development Program in the Centre for Public Leadership at the George Bush School of Government and Public Service.

His research includes highway safety, structural dynamics, earthquake engineering and engineering education. Jim has enjoyed putting 25 years of research in engineering education into practice as he helped to establish a truly unique civil engineering program, and looks forward to a bright future as our program evolves to meet the challenges faced by Australia and the world.