Dr. Rudolph Frederick Stapelberg Recognized by Worldwide Who's Who for Professional Excellence in Engineering Consulting, Education, and Training
Dr. Rudolph Frederick Stapelberg, the Director of ICS Industrial Consulting Services Pty. Ltd., has been recognized by Worldwide Who's Who for showing dedication, leadership and excellence in providing quality civil and industrial engineering consulting services, education and training.

As a registered professional engineer and consultant with over 30 years of experience in his field, Dr. Stapelberg is an expert in ensuring the integrity and sustainability of plant in large 'super projects' in excess of $1 billion. Through ICS Industrial Consulting Services Pty. Ltd., Dr. Stapelberg has consulted for numerous global organizations such as Alcoa, Anglo American, BHP Billiton, BP, Caltex, CRA, Escom, Gencor, Iscor, Pasminco, Reynolds Gold, Rio Tinto, Sasol, Shell, WMC, and many more.

ICS Industrial Consulting Services Pty. Ltd. specializes in industrial asset management; plant and equipment life cycle costing and maintenance optimization, plant equipment integrity evaluation through reliability, availability, maintainability and safety engineering; industrial systems engineering evaluation; human resources productivity, and quality optimisation for continual improvement. The company also provides services in infrastructure assets management and systems integrity evaluation and risk management for constructed assets.

In addition to his responsibilities at ICS Industrial Consulting Services, Dr. Stapelberg serves as the director of the Academy for Professional Education and Training; a collaborative executive training organization for the Australian Federal Government funded Cooperative Research Centre for Integrated Engineering Asset Management.

He was also engaged in the academic environment as a senior lecturer and adjunct professor to the Centre for Infrastructure and Engineering Management at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia. Dr. Stapelberg has graduate qualifications in combined civil and industrial engineering including postgraduate study in mechanical systems engineering, a research doctorate in engineering from Griffith University, a master's degree in business administration from Bond University, and a professional doctorate in business administration from SCU, for which he was awarded the prestigious Meredith Prize for the best doctoral thesis. He has published several technical books through mainstream book publishers such as Springer UK.

Dr. Stapelberg attributes his success to a personal pride in search of excellence, which he strives to carry across to young engineering professionals. He became involved in his profession because, as his academic background indicates, this was a natural career path along which he could draw upon civil, industrial and mechanical systems engineering disciplines in an engineering consultant capacity. He has on many occasions commented that he plans to become semi-retired, but his ongoing commitment to the many clients he has repeatedly consulted for, and an ever-increasing demand from engineering students for him to impart his knowledge and experience in preparing them for their future careers, has kept him at the till of a very busy and fulfilling professional life.

For more information about ICS Industrial Consulting Services Pty. Ltd., visit
<http://www.proics.com>.
For information on the Academy for Professional Education and Training Pty. Ltd., visit <http://www.apetorg.com.au>.