Swinburne magazine out now

The latest edition of the Swinburne magazine is now available. You can pick up a copy in The Australian newspaper today, 21 July.

This national magazine provides a glimpse of the exciting, high quality research being undertaken at Swinburne. It also shows how a modern university like Swinburne can build excellence through partnerships with industry, community, research organisations and government.

The feature article for this edition, Switched-on scholar masters the power game, describes how a Swinburne engineering researcher has developed a computer model that could keep electricity prices down, vital energy-generation investment up and the expansion of criticial infrastructure attuned to actual, not estimated, need.  

Other articles in this edition include:

• Web tool to get us tanked up
• Car makers hear an electric buzz
• Future travels down a glass highway
• Slow lifts a lesson in step-change
• Surprise findings in business carbon chase
• Humble shellfish may give us 'vanishing plastic'
• Internet power may need computers to sleep
• How gran's gift turned sunlight into people power
• Our cannibal galaxy
• Queen to viral pawn
• Aussie ambitions for gourmet treasure

You can also view, or subscribe to, the magazine online at www.swinburne.edu.au/magazine  

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