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“The career opportunities were second to none”: Engineers are finding big potential outside the big smoke
It was in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic that Angela Durston-Ryan decided to pack up and leave her lifelong...
Low cost, high capacity battery technology
If there’s one area of technology that could revolutionise future products, energy, decarbonisation and more, it’s batteries. Researchers at The...
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...
