World Engineering Day: Looking after good health and wellbeing
Ensuring healthy lives and promoting the well-being at all ages is essential to sustainable development.
Tag: sustainability
Sustainability is a practice that presumes that resources are limited, and should be used conservatively and wisely with a view to long-term priorities and consequences.
Sustainable engineering is the process of designing or operating systems such that they use energy and resources at a rate that does not compromise the natural environment or the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
World Engineering Day: Promoting gender equality
Chandra Ximenez, a petroleum engineer, has been working in Timor-Leste as a Technical Project Officer to encourage more women into ...
World Engineering Day: Closing the gap on inequalities
The international community has made significant strides towards lifting people out of poverty. However, inequality persists and large disparities remain ...
World Engineering Day: Building resilience
When we discuss climate change in engineering, and its relation to natural disasters, there are two major themes: transition risk ...
World Engineering Day: Creating sustainable cities and communities
Cities are hubs for ideas, commerce, culture, science, productivity, social development and much more. There are challenges ahead to keep ...
How one engineer kept this new University of Melbourne building carbon neutral
When the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music needed a new home, designing a space that sounded great — and was zero-carbon ...
World Engineering Day: Rethinking how we grow, share and consume food to reach zero hunger
Dr Pablo Juliano has spent his professional life thinking about how food engineering can improve the world.
World Engineering Day: Working together to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
A successful sustainable development agenda requires partnerships between governments, the private sector and communities.
Cheaper, greener energy storage the focus of new $12 million research hub
A $12 million facility, the Australian Research Council Research Hub for Integrated Energy Storage Solutions was launched yesterday at UNSW ...
World Engineering Day: Taking action on climate change
As greenhouse gas levels continue to climb, climate change is occurring at much higher rates than anticipated, and its effects ...
