News Archive • 2008
New Associate Degree in Engineering
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Not sure if you want to study a 4-year Bachelor of Engineering degree? Looking for other options? Swinburne has introduced the Associate Degree of Engineering to allow you to enter the workforce after only 2 years of study!
Defects detected in the blink of a mechanical eye
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Sunday, December 21, 2008
By running rabbits through its automotive production line, Ford
Australia has been testing the performance of the next generation of
inspection systems in a bid to improve quality and, through that, global
competitiveness.Of winds and waves
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Sunday, December 21, 2008
As Category 4 Tropical Cyclone Olivia tracked across Australia's North
West Shelf in April 1996, a wave-measuring buoy recorded a 22-metre
monster passing Woodside Energy's North Rankin A gas platform.Researchers engineer Australia for earthquakes
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Sunday, December 21, 2008
For two of Australia's leading seismic engineers, the demolition of part
of an inner-Melbourne housing estate provided a rare chance to do what
engineers dream about: push a building sideways until it collapses.Extracts From Swinburne Magazine - Issue #4
Monday, December 8, 2008
Issue #4 of Swinburne Magazine is now out! Click through to see the latest extracts.
Medical diagnosis at a pinch
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Monday, December 1, 2008
Suspended in mid-air, a solitary red blood cell is rotated, stretched and folded in half. Then the light goes out. In darkness, the cell resumes its disc-like shape. With the light back, the cell is again subjected to forces that change its shape.The sandwich factor for safer cars
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Monday, September 1, 2008
The dawn of unprecedented high petrol costs, plus the ongoing need to
make cars safer, is adding extra relevance and urgency to research into
light, but strong, automotive materials.
Two developments - aluminium \'foam\' and aluminium ho
Research helps old bodies work smarter
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Monday, September 1, 2008
Professor Ajay Kapoor springs from his seat, then sits down again. He stands up once more, this time moving slowly, pushing himself up with his hands on the sides of the chair as if his legs no longer have the strength to take his weight.
Blast furnace holds key to earth's birth
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Monday, September 1, 2008
The birth pangs of the Earth, how it drew its substance from the disc of gas that formed the early solar system, are still not well understood. In search of the solution to this celestial enigma, a team from SUT are seeking answers.
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Product Design Engineering student wins prestigious design award
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
For the second time in three years, a Product Design Engineering student has won the student category of the Reece Bathroom Innovation Award.
The Dyson Student Design Award: Product Design Engineering finalists
Monday, August 18, 2008
The Product Design Engineering course at Swinburne has four recent graduates short listed for the Dyson student Design Awards from a national shortlist total of 21.
Team Swinburne
By Tom Nisbet
Saturday, August 16, 2008
On Friday the 15th of August, team Swinburne had the pleasure of entertaining sponsors and Swinburne staff at the Crown ...Swinburne Workshop aims to impart learning strategy in science, engineering
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Thursday, July 10, 2008
Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak campus is working to engage its students to form their own conceptual understanding of physics and engineering by holding an active learning workshop in science and engineering.
Active Learning project promotes science education around the world
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Workshops for educators promoting an innovative method of teaching physics that uses optics and photonics as an experimental topic will be held in Zambia in September and Cameroon in December, organizers have announced.
Human waste offers boon for farmers
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Friday, June 13, 2008
Bio-solids is the euphemism the industry uses and Australian farmers are being urged to consider using them instead of expensive synthetic fertilisers.
All aboard the time giant
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Monday, June 2, 2008
Swinburne University of Technology astrophysicists have just booked themselves a ticket on the world's biggest 'time machine', capable of reaching back 12 billion years to the earliest phases of the universe when galaxies were first formedSmall-scale technology with large-scale benefits
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Sunday, June 1, 2008
The team is working to refine the early detection technology, a massive microscope, and turn it into a
portable unit, converting it from biological research laboratories to turning it into a powerful diagnostic tool compatible with day surgery.Mending broken hearts - naturally
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Sunday, June 1, 2008
Like an intricate pink flower, a three-leaved valve is gradually forming from human body cells.
This small, biological construction is part of Swinburne University of Technology\'s pioneering research into a new way to mend broken hearts
Disease arms-race looks to powerful new X-ray tools
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Sunday, June 1, 2008
If you slice a second into a million billion femtoseconds, then 20 femtoseconds would be proportionate to the duration of a single eye
blink within the 300,000 years since humans diverged from Neanderthals.
It is an unimaginably brief timespan.No waste spared for travel in the fast lane
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Sunday, June 1, 2008
Whenever he drives on a freeway, Dr Atputharajah Arulrajah eyes the roadside embankments and pictures a not-too-distant future when such earthworks are all created from recycled waste, including sewage.
Sustainable Metals
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Swinburne Engineer highlights the importance of developing Sustainable Metals Geoff Brooks recently addressed a joint meeting of Australian/European government officials and ...European Consortium Down Under
Monday, April 21, 2008
From 13-19th April 2008, Swinburne hosted a high level visit from the members of the European Consortium of Innovative Universities both ...Aerodrome India 2008
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Stephen Fankhauser recently attended Aerodrome India 2008 as part of the Victorian Governments Aviation Trade Mission to India. Held at ...Local team pushes nanotech frontier
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Tuesday, April 1, 2008
AS devices such as mobile phones, computers and portable music players become smaller, a team of Australian researchers is developing tools to predict how materials and fluids will behave at nanometre size.
Chips to mimic body environment for stem cell growth
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Thursday, March 6, 2008
Stem cells are transforming medical research, promising a clinical revolution in which doctors will employ embryonic and adult stem cells to repair failing hearts, create new organs and tissues, restore brains and treat hereditary defects.
Giant energy burst reveals new cosmic horizons
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Saturday, March 1, 2008
A cryptic blast of radio energy from deep space lasting just thousandths of a second has astonished astronomers - and, tantalisingly, may offer a new way to observe how the universe unfolded.
Future CD's to be a digital Aladdin's cave
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Saturday, March 1, 2008
Imagine being able to put your entire DVD collection on a single disc. And not just your collection, but also that of your family, friends and neighbours ... the contents, in fact, of as many as 200,000 DVDs.
Atom chip to open frontiers unknown
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Saturday, March 1, 2008
In an ultrahigh-vacuum chamber at Swinburne University of Technology, a
million ultracold rubidium-87 atoms hover just beneath the surface of a
silicon chip coated with a thin magneto-optical film.
Tool kit challenge for tomorrow's nano-factories
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Saturday, March 1, 2008
In a world where everything from mobile phones to computers, portable
music players and all manner of instruments is getting smaller,
engineers need new tools to predict how materials will behave when they
are being processed or shaped at scalesAviation Study Tour 2007
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
The 2nd Aviation Study Tour was conducted in December 2007. The highly successful 25-day tour comprised a group of 9 ...570,460 Auslink Low Volume Roads Initiative Research Grant for Civil Engineering
By Professor John Wilson
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Through AusLink, the Australian Government is undertaking the Low Volume Roads Technology Initiative. The initiative will promote the investigation and development of new technology or existing technology to enhance the efficiency of low volume roa
Students Awarded their PhDs at the March Graduation Ceremony
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Aaron JamesPhD thesis was on 'The Development of Composite Materials from Waste Paper and Plastic'. The thesis focused on the ...Master of Technology (Civil) / Master of Technology Management (Construction Management)
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
The Master of Technology (Civil) / Master of Technology Management (Construction Management) will be offered from Semester 2, 2008 onwards.
New ...Staff Appointments
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Dr Rayya Hassan rejoined Swinburne in June 2008 as a Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering. She holds a PhD in ...Visit by the Indian Minister of Civil Aviation
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Swinburne and General Flying Services had the pleasure of hosting a visit by The Honourable Praful Patel, the Minister for ...Taming the Spontaneous
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Nanocrystals made from semiconductor materials - quantum dots - are of interest for optoelectronic applications such as light emitters and ...