Features
Weir safety: Strategies to reduce risk in Australia’s waterways
Water engineer Tony Ladson explains why weirs can prove so dangerous and shares some possible solutions.
Keep watching the skies: Australia’s premier scientific instrument is no museum piece
When the CSIRO’s 64-metre Parkes Radio Telescope was commissioned in 1961, it was only expected to operate for 20 years....
From a Canberra carpark to Cape Canaveral … and beyond!
Four days into the new year, Canberra-based space services company Skykraft launched a 300-kilogram satellite stack into space. The company’s...
Satellites in development to help homes cut off by natural disasters
This award-winning engineer is developing a high-speed satellite communication terminal to help emergency services reach bushfire and flood-affected regions.
Could self-healing concrete be the solution to wastewater pipeline corrosion?
A UniSA professor is researching the use of water treatment sludge and ‘self-healing’ concrete to counteract corrosion of concrete in...
Most read articles of 2022 – Part 2
Our top articles of 2022 spanned topics such as medical marvels, scramjets and women in engineering. But who will take...
How can we future-proof the Australian engineering sector?
The COVID-19 pandemic as well as rapid advances in business digitisation and transformation have revealed the extent of the skills...
Freezing temperatures, zero-gravity and intense isolation: this engineer is ready to become the first Australian woman in space
Australian engineer Meganne Christian has worked in some of the most extreme environments on Earth. As a new member of...
Semi-retired engineers: Consulting on your terms
Global asset management consultancy AMCL is leading the way in bringing retired engineers back into the fold, on their terms...
Top quirky engineering feats of 2022
From drawing attention to a troubling music industry juggernaut, using cold-war technology to fight 21st-century propaganda to revitalising a centuries-old...
