News Archive • 2010
Formula SAE team chases first place
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Designing, building and racing a Formula-style race car has challenged a team of Swinburne University students to take on a practical project as part of their studies.
Prof Masood gives Keynote Address on Direct Metal deposition
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Prof Syed Masood gave an invited keynote speech at the International Conference on Materials and Manufacturing Technology (ICMMT2010) held at Chongqing in China from 18-19 September 2010.
Cuie Wen invited to International Workshop on Nanocrystalline Materials
Monday, December 20, 2010
Professor Cuie Wen, from IRIS, Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences was invited to present at the International Workshop on Nanocrystalline Materials, held from Dec. 20-25, 2010 in Kunming, China.
Future engineers put through their paces
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Students from across Australia and around the world gathered
at Victoria University in Werribee last week to fine tune their
mechanical skills.
The 2010 Formula Society of Automotive Engineers Australasia competition included 27 teams.
Swinburne awarded $1.48M for research
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Swinburne University has been awarded $1.48 million by the federal government to fund three research infrastructure projects.
Gaining skills to solve real world problems
Monday, November 22, 2010
Imagine passing a huge glass wall as you walk down Burwood Road
every day.
Behind it is a spectacular "Smart Structures" laboratory, unique in Australia, which tests the strength of steel and concrete in civil engineering.Weight Loss for Healthier Cars
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Researchers are overcoming obstacles to the wider use of the ultra-lightweight metal magnesium in the automotive industry
Simulator to help airlines stay aloft
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Friday, November 12, 2010
A new simulator being developed at Swinburne University will help
airline operations controllers make better decisions under pressure and
get more planes and passengers to their destinations.AusIMM - Award to Civil Engineering Students
Monday, November 8, 2010
The 2010 International Collegiate Mining Games and New Leaders Conference were held in Kalgoorlie in April, where the swinburne team came third in the survey and air leg drilling competitions.How a trail of darkness leads to a planet born
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Monday, November 1, 2010
An team of astronomers has laid the groundwork for watching a far distant planet in the act of being born. Their work is refining the study of the disks of dust that enfold newborn planets, creating a clearer view of cosmic birth.
Game on: pixel power adds muscle to galactic science
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Monday, November 1, 2010
Australia’s lead in global astronomy will be boosted through a multi-million-dollar upgrade to Swinburne’s supercomputer research facility, gSTAR.
The power balance shifts quickly among supercomputers. Continually jostling for position
Collaboration drives electric car research
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Wednesday, October 13, 2010
A delegation from Hefei University of Technology (HFUT), China visited Swinburne Unviersity of Technology in Australia today to sign a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on the research and development of electric vehicles.
Plug In For Power Seminar & Showcase
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Plug in for Power was organised to showcase and engage stake holders for Electric Vehicle technologies. All major OEM’s were displayed such as GM, Toyota, BEV, TAFE, student cars and charging stations.
Captain Cameron Tribe elected Chair of the Swinburne Aviation Industry Advisory Committee
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Captain Cameron Tribe, Senior Training Captain (B737 Fleet) with The Virgin Blue Group of Airlines, has been announced as the new Chair of the Swinburne Aviation Industry Advisory Committee.SUT Fermion research in the Spotlight
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Thursday, September 23, 2010
Exact solutions to the three-body quantum challenge, given recently by Swinburne ACQAO theorists Xia-Ji Liu, Hui Hu and Peter Drummond, attracted a Viewpoint commentary in the prestigious online journal Physics
Professor Cuie Wen appointed as FEIS Research Advisor
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Professor Cuie Wen is the new Faculty Research Advisor for FEIS. She will assist my role of Associate Dean Research in all aspects of research (grants, publications, standing in profession etc).
Victoria Fellowship for Swinburne Engineer
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
The Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Micro-Photonics at Swinburne has developed a completely new thin film photovoltaic technology (PV), NanoPlas, which when placed over solar cells enables them to efficiently convert solar energy
Swinburne Professor elected as honorary ASMu FELLOW
Friday, September 3, 2010
The Alpha SigmaMu board of Trustees has unanimously elected Swinburne Professor Christopher C. Berndt to the honorary membership status as ASMu FELLOW for services for services to the board and the ASMu society.
Swinburne Project Teams win commercialization awards at 2010 CAST CRC annual conference
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Two core CAST research projects led by Swinburne researchers each won a CAST commercialization
award, these awards were presented during CAST CRC’s annual conference
held on 20-22 September 2010 in Creswick, Victoria
Swinburne PhD Student wins Royal Society of Victoria Postgraduate award
Monday, August 30, 2010
Mahdi Miri Disfani a student from CSI as won the prestigious Royal Society of Victoria Postgraduate award ( Physical Sciences ) for his research in \"Sustainable applications of Recycled Glass-Biosolids mixtures in roadwork applications\".Victorian Funding Establishes Direct Manufacturing Centre
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Swinburne University will be part of an innovative new consortium established by CSIRO and supported by the Victorian government, which is set to make Victorian manufacturing more globally competitive, productive and green - it is the Victorian Direct ManSwinburne Researchers Connect with China
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Study Melbourne recently hosted the \"Study Melbourne@Shanghai World Expo 2010\" to promote Victoria's world-class education and training system which boasts world-leading research universities.
Sir Reginald Ansett Aviation Scholarship
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Friday, August 13, 2010
Swinburne today signed an agreement with the Sir Reginald Ansett Trust to offer a new aviation scholarship in 2011Potential of Magnesium Alloys for Use in Structural and Medical Applications
By Prof. Karl U. Kainer
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Professor Karl Ulrich Kainer from the Magnesium Innovation Centre in Germany will be speaking about the past, current and future use of magnesium and the trend in the development of alloys.
Collaboration fuels electric car research
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
A new research collaboration between SUT and HFUT, China will pave the way for the next generation of electric cars.
Funded by a research grant from AutoCRC, will focus on developing lightweight battery-charged electric vehicles.
Car makers hear an electric buzz
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
As the world battles to keep a lid on carbon emissions and slow the tempo of climate change, electric cars are once more looking like the alternative to the petrol vehicles the world has come to rely on.
Powder metallurgy goes live at IRIS
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Swinburne University welcomes Cuie Wen to the position of Professor of Surface Engineering in the Industrial Research Institute Swinburne (IRIS).
Web tool to get us tanked up
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Dr Monzur Imteaz is a glass-half-empty kind of chap. He's not being
unduly negative, he just sees wasted opportunity in not being able to
fill to the top.
In particular he recoils at the thought of half-empty rainwater tanksFuture travels down a glass highway
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Australians have become great recyclers of glass, although not all
glass is actually reusable. Research at Swinburne's Centre for Sustainable Infrastructure is looking at ways to make this glass suitable for use in road constructionCUDOS Centre of Excellence bid successful
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
The Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems
(CUDOS) has been successful in retaining its Australian Research Council
(ARC) Centre of Excellence (CoE) status.Switched-on scholar masters the power game
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
PhD student Mohammad Hesamzadeh is already highly regarded as an electrical engineer and is building a reputation as an astute energy market economist with a genius for complex mathematical algorithms and may soon be helping to keep electricity affordableOur cannibal galaxy
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Sunday, July 18, 2010
To see its starfields hung in radiant splendour across the night sky, you would scarcely suspect the Milky Way of being a cannibal, a gigantic buzz-saw of a galaxy that has chopped its neighbours into bits
and ingested their fragments into its ownOutstanding professor awarded fellowship
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Swinburne Universitys world-class photonics researcher Professor Min Gu will be awarded an Australian Laureate Fellowship from the federal government.
New research reduces footpath footprint
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Monday, July 5, 2010
Melbourneâ\'s newly laid footpaths will leave much smaller carbon footprints than their predecessors, thanks to new research from Swinburne University\'s Centre for Sustainable Infrastructure.
Photonics to boost telecoms networks
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Monday, July 5, 2010
Ultra fast telecommunications networks that transfer information at the speed of light are a step closer to becoming a reality thanks to new research from Swinburne University of Technology.
Sustainability tick for Swinburne's ATC
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Monday, July 5, 2010
Swinburne has become the first university in Australia to achieve a 5 Star Green Star rating for an education building.
Team Swinburne in Australian Motorsport News
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Swinburne’s Formula SAE team is featured in the July edition of ‘The Australian Motorsport News’
Swinburne advances
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Thursday, July 1, 2010
Swinburne\'s Advanced Manufacturing Centre will create hundreds of jobs and provide cutting-edge training for thousands of students. The centre, which will be used for world-leading research, education and training, will cost about $100M to build.
Swinburne awarded $40M for manufacturing
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
The university has been awarded $40 million from the Federal Government to go towards a state-of-the-art Advanced Manufacturing Centre
Top Engineering Students Win Prizes
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Swinburne's best engineering students were recognised at the annual Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences Prize Giving Ceremony on June 4, 2010.International role for Swinburne Professor
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Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Swinburne\'s Professor Chris Berndt has been nominated Vice President of the prestigious international professional body, ASM International, a US-based society representing 36,000 members worldwide in the materials science field .
New airline cadet programs remove barriers to pilot careers
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Channel Seven News report (http://search.informit.com.au/media;dn=TEV20102204576;res=TVNEWS;type=wmv\)
Advanced solar facility opens in Melbourne
By Swinburne Media Centre
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
The Victoria-Suntech Advanced Solar Facility (VSASF) which was officially launched today in Melbourne, is a collaborative venture between Swinburne University of Technology and Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd
Bangladesh National Day
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Bangladeshi students in Swinburne Celebrated Bangladesh Day on 22nd January 2010 in a colourful festive mood for the first time in Swinburne University.
Frances tastes fruits of sprayer success
Monday, April 26, 2010
Starting from a clean sheet of paper has seen young engineer and designer Frances Cook a Swinburne University graduate deliver Australia's latest orchard sprayer on time and on budget.Engineering Careers Expo
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Engineers Australia, Victoria Division invites you to attend the free Engineering Careers Expo to be held on Thursday 25 March ...Free ASI Student Membership Now Available
Thursday, March 25, 2010
The Australian Steel Institute (ASI) is pleased to offer free student membership to eligible students enrolled in Bachelor degrees in engineering, building or architecture at an Australian University.
AusIMM Student Meets Industry Night
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
The AusIMM Melbourne Student Chapter in conjunction with the AusIMM Melbourne Branch is holding its annual Students Meet Industry (SMI) night on Wednesday 24 March 2010, at the Sofitel on Collins in the Melbourne CBD.
Team Swinburne Participates in World's Greatest Shave
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Team Swinburne (Formula SAE) shaved their heads in the name of The Leukaemia Foundation.
Infrastructure Report Card
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
The release of the Engineers Australia 2010 Victorian Infrastructure Report Card, indicates progress in some areas of Victoria\'s infrastructure over the past 5 years, but the overall picture clearly shows that the majority of infrastructure cate
Immune system fails on video
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Monday, March 1, 2010
As we live and breathe, millions of T-cells that are part of a human body's molecular defence force patrol the blood and lymphatic systems, seeking out and destroying cells harbouring viruses, bacteria or mutant cells that could turn cancerous.Parent Information Evening
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Information evening for parents wanting to find out more about Swinburne.
First company signs up for AusAMRC
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Monday, February 8, 2010
Lovitt Technologies Australia has become the first industry member of the Australian Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AusAMRC), an initiative led by SUT and Boeing to research and develop new manufacturing technologies for aerospace.
Swinburne robotics team visits India
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
A team of Swinburne students took on the world and came third place with robots they built and designed themselves at the International Techfest iNexus Robotics Competition.
SEMINAR: Anisotropic mechanical behaviour in some titanium and magnesium alloys
Friday, January 15, 2010
Friday 15 January 2010 – 3pm to 4pm
Prof. Bevis Hutchinson