News Archive
New engineers solve 21st century problems
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Monday, December 12, 2011
Increasing competition for consumer markets and society´s need for sustainable, socially responsible products require a new breed of engineer an innovative course at Swinburne is producing product design engineers to answer these needs for Industry
Virtual predictions beat destruction
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Monday, December 12, 2011
New computer modelling capabilities at Swinburne will help Australian manufacturers design and test new materials and components. The virtual method saves time and money in the later physical testing process.
Electric buzz hits the road
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Monday, December 12, 2011
Hard on the heels of beating Asia´s best in the enduro section of the 2011 Japanese Formula SAE competition, a Swinburne team of engineering students has turned its focus to designing, building and trialling an all-electric racing car.
Making future buildings safer
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Monday, December 12, 2011
The capacity to more realistically test the integrity of new materials and structures such as buildings, bridges and even airframes has been boosted with the recently commissioned Smart Structures Laboratory at Swinburne University of Technology.
New Professional Certificate in Operational Safety Systems
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
The Swinburne Professional Certificate of Aviation has been designed
specifically to help meet the needs of individuals and organisations to more comprehensively account for the human and organisational elements of safety within their operations.Creative engineers find market niche
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Monday, December 12, 2011
Stella Knörr was at a crossroads when she found the product design engineering (PDE) course.
“I
loved physics and maths, but also had a passion for art and graphics.
Seeing these as two traditionally separate fields, I thought I would
hav
IT tools give maths pizzazz
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Monday, December 12, 2011
When seeking evidence of how new technologies enrich the learning experience, look no further than the gratitude of Richard Grzebieta, a first-year mechatronics and robotics student at Swinburne University of Technology
Understanding motion sickness
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Monday, December 12, 2011
If you are one of the many people who suffer from motion sickness, take heart. Swinburne aviation medicine specialist Dr David Newman says understanding the cause can help people manage and even avoid attacks of nausea during travel.
New light shines on dark mystery
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Monday, December 19, 2011
The science world’s highest international honour was awarded in October to the leaders of two research teams that identified a mysterious and potentially profound phenomenon known as dark energy, an unseen force driving the universe apart
Swinburne's gSTAR heralds 'mega science'
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Thursday, December 1, 2011
The search that culminated in the discovery of a diamond planet in our Milky Way galaxy earlier this year came after researchers sifted through more than a thousand billion bytes of coded data.
Port engineering gets tertiary pathway
By ALISTAIR JONES, Weekend Australian
Saturday, December 3, 2011
'Port engineering is the oldest engineering application in the world," Swinburne course convenor
Alex Babanin says. Yet until now, port engineering has had no specialist, tertiary qualification in Australia.
Plasmonics lab opens up nano-toolbox
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Swinburne University of Technology is set to open its new $8 million plasmonics laboratory, consolidating the university’s position as one of Australia’s leading nanophotonics research hubs.
Let there be light
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
\"Let there be light!\" This could be the motto for a nationwide collaborative project called CUDOS, the multi-university Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems.
BOEING Dreamliner – Lighter, Stronger & Environmentally Friendly
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Friday, November 18, 2011
Boeing’s latest long range twin engine aircraft, the Dreamliner, may be on its first visit to Australia this week, but not all of the aircraft’s parts are in the country for the first time.
Developing a low-carbon metal industry
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Leading metallurgists will gather this week to discuss the latest work
aimed at dramatically lowering the greenhouse emissions of aluminium
production and improving the industry\'s competitiveness following the
introduction of the carbon tax.