The Australian innovation that changed air travel safety forever
Following a series of high-profile air disasters, an Australian aeronautical researcher decided data would make flying less risky.
Tag: engineering innovation
Awards recognise “tremendous contributions” to national technology and engineering challenges
Breakthroughs ranging from streamlined solar cell production to synthetic skin were among those recognised in the 2019 Australian Academy of ...
Two engineering brothers are heating things up in the waste-to-energy market
Two Australian brothers saw an opportunity to transform waste into something useful, and their ambitions are global in scale.
New book tells the stories behind 100 Australian engineering innovations
Budj Bim, the Snowy Mountains Hydro Scheme, satellite tracking stations — these are just a few of Australia’s many engineering ...
Australia’s first electric motorcycle company is ready to hit the road
At the age of six, Dennis Savic was drawing motor engines while his friends were drawing their pet cats. Now ...
Engineer Sebastien Eckersley-Maslin has unlocked the secret behind a winning idea
The founder and CEO of BlueChilli, Australia’s largest startup accelerator, has landed on the perfect recipe for entrepreneurial success.
Could cars and air conditioners harvest fuel from thin air?
Researchers and startups are working out how petrol-fuelled vehicles and air conditioners can suck carbon dioxide out of the air ...
Novel bridge construction technique helps engineers “colour outside the lines”
A new truss bridge over the Nepean River let BG&E push the limits of an unconventional construction technique.
Thought control technology is coming out of science fiction and into real life
A world in which an amputee controls their prosthesis with their mind might have once seemed like a far-off science ...
What do people and solar cells have in common? They both like a little caffeine boost
A coffee break inspired engineers in the US to try out a novel way of increasing the commercial viability of ...
