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30 Jan 2019
Queensland engineers beware changes in legal responsibilities
Recent changes to the Queensland Building and Construction Commission Act mean that engineers can now be held liable for non-conforming building products, legal experts say.
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11 Dec 2018
Engineers helping medieval tower to stand tall
Over the last 30 years, Italy's iconic leaning Tower of Pisa has been helped back onto its feet by civil and structural engineers who have recently reduced its tilt by a further 4cm.
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7 Dec 2018
How you can help define the next 100 years of engineering
Here’s your chance to showcase your work at the World Engineers Convention 2019.
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3 Dec 2018
Better carbon fibre for Australia's industrial diet
Researchers at CSIRO are working on a carbon fibre recipe that is 20% stronger than what is currently available worldwide, and hailing it as a game changer for Australia.
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21 Nov 2018
Engineer designs and produces prosthetics for free
A big hearted engineer in Victoria is making prosthetic hands at no cost to their recipients, by investing his redundancy payout and crowd-funding for equipment and software.
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16 Oct 2018
Major breakthrough with organic semiconductor
Engineers at ANU have invented a semiconductor with organic and inorganic materials that converts electricity into light, is thin and flexible enough to make mobiles bendable, and opens the door to a new generation of devices that will be biodegradable or easily recycled.
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4 Oct 2018
Chemical engineers develop 'outstanding alternative' to clean water
As water contamination remains a significant problem world-wide, Australian engineers have designed a nanofilter that can clean dirty water more than 1000 times faster than current technology.
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1 Oct 2018
Tunnelling excellence Down Under
In an Australian-first, a tunnelling training centre will open in 2019 in Victoria, which will skill workers in delivering tunnelling projects much like the academy established for the UK's Crossrail project.
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15 Aug 2018
Engineers recycle jeans into artificial cartilage
Who would have thought that denim jeans could be transformed into artificial cartilage for joint reconstruction? Well they can, thanks to advanced textile recycling methods pioneered by engineers at Deakin University in Victoria.
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27 Jul 2018
Australian universities rank high for engineering
Australian universities teaching mining and mineral engineering have ranked highly in the latest ShanghaiRanking results (along with other engineering subjects), with The University of Queensland first in the world, followed by University of Western Australia 5th, University of NSW 7th and Monash...
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