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September 2009 - Issue #7

  • Manufacturing partnerships

    Swinburne has world-class expertise in advanced manufacturing and technology transfer, and continues to develop industry partnerships to foster innovations needed for future competitiveness.

  • Bush medicine for a germ-killing, heart-saving gargle

    The antibacterial properties of the Australian native plant emu bush (Eremophila longifolia) could one day help prevent tooth decay.

  • IT tool gives trauma teams extra eyes

    Keeping a severely injured person alive after an accident can be one of the most stressful circumstances in which complex decisions have to be made second-by-second. It makes sense to enlist the processing power of a computer.

  • Hip joints and jet blades cop a hot spray

    The uses for thermal spray coatings, which, at their thinnest, are the width of a human hair, are rapidly on the rise – everything from artificial bone coatings for replacement joints to offshore oil platforms and, potentially, water purification and solar energy collection applications

  • School’s in for smarter emotions

    Measures of emotional intelligence are being adapted for use in the classroom to help both students and teachers cope with modern stresses.

  • What lifted the universe’s veil of darkness?

    Carbon is not just a modern atmospheric dilemma; it is also a galactic waste that reveals how the cosmos was changed from utter darkness by a mysterious event that allowed the stars to shine through.

  • New common software for seamless commerce

    The growing ‘connectedness’ between businesses has led to a rising demand for new software systems that enable better integration of routine processes, such as inventory checks, orders and sales, between businesses without the need to operate different and unconnected computer programs.

  • Leadership a cultural cloth cut for the times

    Understanding the social and historical influences that shape leadership ideals could do much to help smooth country-to-country business relationships in our culturally diverse region

  • Mite versus mite in deadly numbers game

    Mathematicians are finding that equations for modelling interactions between predators and prey have a surprising array of applications in the human world, from biological control of crop pests to cancer research.

  • Computing sees the light

    In a bid to overcome the limitations of existing microchips, researchers are now working on developing the next generation of integrated circuits.

  • The business founder who built structure into collapse

    Like many Swinburne University of Technology accounting students, Mark Korda saw his studies as a first step into managing a business, but perhaps not the national accounting business that has made him a household name.

  • Finding lost voices is a story to be told

    By learning how to tell their story, at-risk young people are finding their voice and a path back to self-belief

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