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On the fast track
More than 200 engineers at Downer’s rail and transit systems are part of a credentialing push to ensure they can...
Techwatch: The latest developments from around the world
Energy storage, drone tech and artificial vision. The pace of innovation never slows.
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...
