Articles related to 'Sustainability & The Environment'
Related topics: Industry Collaboration, Education, Engineering
Electric buzz hits the road
It looks like any other Formula SAE racing car, but in the name of advancing electric car development Swinburne engineering students have replaced the standard petrol motor with a 60kW three-phase electric motor.
Making future buildings safer
Inside a glass-walled laboratory, the effects of earthquakes and other forces of nature can be simulated on tomorrow’s structures.
Blind dates we need to take
At Swinburne we have long been committed to making a difference. We take very seriously our responsibility to ensure that our graduates have the awareness and insight, as well as the knowledge and skills, to address the challenges that confront us.
Energy thirst reveals awkward truths
New research shows voluntary behaviour change in energy consumption will be no easy task – even for committed environmentalists
Sustainability - Hybrid housing to ease the way forward
While changes in our energy consumption behaviour are one pathway to a sustainable future, advances in technology and housing design are also needed.
Sustainability and small business: Carrots and sticks in the mix for business change
Two Swinburne projects are showing how small and medium enterprises can lower their environmental impact, and gain
Industry PhDs to boost solar power
A major international solar panel manufacturer is pioneering a university partnership that provides staff with higher education training aligned to its research and development objectives
Research brings cloud computing costs back to earth
Swinburne researchers are developing tools to make cloud computing more affordable.
Weight loss for healthier cars
Researchers are overcoming obstacles to the wider use of the ultra-lightweight metal magnesium in the automotive industry.
Web tool to get us tanked up
Swinburne’s Dr Monzur Imteaz is developing simple tools to analyse and design stormwater systems.
Future travels down a glass highway
Mountains of waste glass that would otherwise go to landfill may soon find a home in Victoria’s roads and footpaths
Slow lifts a lesson in step-change
Sustainability has become a buzzword for the early 21st century, evoking worthy ideals … but how are these transformed into reality when much about the way the world functions seems to make people inherently wasteful or destructive?
Swinburne Sustainability Strategy: more than just another policy document
The Swinburne Sustainability Strategy – Swinburne’s commitment to sustainability – has a set of outcome measures that will ensure all Swinburne courses embed sustainability and that 50 per cent of staff are upskilled by 2015.
Tradies turn a greener shade
Through ‘green’ training on water-wise plumbing and irrigation systems, recycled greywater and solar insulation Swinburne University of Technology is helping to prepare Australia for a more sustainable, low-carbon future.
Surprise findings in business carbon chase
A groundbreaking study by a team at Swinburne University of Technology has found that smaller companies would have little to fear from a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) … if or when Australia gets one.
Humble shellfish may give us ‘vanishing plastic’
A truly biodegradable plastic made from a renewable resource, arguably one of the more practical waste-management goals being pursued around the world, is a step closer through the research of two Australian PhD students
How gran’s gift turned sunlight into people power
A Swinburne student has a lot to teach, after interrupting his studies to build an energy company
New course embeds sustainability in educational practice
Swinburne’s National Centre for Sustainability has developed and is now teaching Australia’s first accredited course in education and training for sustainability.
Education’s role in driving sustainability
Swinburne University of Technology’s sense of responsibility in preparing tomorrow’s leaders for the challenges of a rapidly changing, interconnected world means we are embracing a broad concept of sustainability, one that includes interrelated environmental, socio-cultural and financial dimensions.
Car makers hear an electric buzz
Universities and other research bodies in Victoria are teaming up to put Australia at the forefront of electric car technology
‘Clingy’ bacteria surprise comes to the surface
Swinburne research examining bacterial activity could improve the success rate of artificial implants, reduce the risk of Staphylococcus outbreaks in hospitals and reduce the fuel consumption of ships.
Profit forecast to fire up landfill gas
Accurately predicting how much gas a landfill site is likely to deliver over its lifespan is a challenge one civil engineer is working to address.
Entrepreneur looks for a different 'green back' economy
Swinburne sustainability graduate Gareth Johnston is general manager of the newly formed organisation, A&NZSustain, a network that helps members to deliver sustainability to their organisations while finding new opportunities for sustainable business.
Bid to keep aluminium shining
Working together, researchers from across Australia and New Zealand are hoping to cut the energy needs of an industry worth billions to the nation’s economy.
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.
Companies find a competitive green edge
A business environmental mentoring program is showing that ‘going green’ can win customers and profits.
Will the ferryman come for climate refugees?
Tufitu Lotee has experienced the terror of huge ocean waves flooding her home. Tufitu and her family live on the islet of Fongafale on Funafuti atoll, the capital of Tuvalu, midway between Hawaii and Australia. Their house is on a 100-metre-wide strip of land between the Pacific Ocean on one side and a lagoon on the other.
A modern-day oracle on the ocean waves
Like gypsies read tea leaves to foresee the future, researchers can read something of our future in the winds and waves. However, this modern soothsaying relies on masses of information, data that Swinburne is collating to build the world’s first complete picture of ocean wave activity.
All power to the sun and the light team
Affordable solar power may soon be just a flick of the switch away.
Of winds and waves
A shallow lake north of Canberra is the site of research investigating how extreme winds generate monster waves in the open ocean.
Researchers engineer Australia for earthquakes
Just how well a building type common in Australia and Asia performs in mild to moderate earthquakes is being investigated through a collaborative research project.
The sandwich factor for safer cars
Swinburne University of Technology research is opening the way for the design of environmentally friendly, lighter and safer cars.
No waste spared for travel in the fast lane
Dr Arulrajah, a senior lecturer in civil engineering at Swinburne University of Technology's Centre for Sustainable Infrastructure, believes biosolids would be an ideal material to recycle into such civil engineering applications.
Innovation pipeline the lifeblood of sustainable cities
Australia's population is growing rapidly and is being directed almost entirely into big, seaboard cities, straining infrastructure, housing availability and services such as transport, health and education. It is a circumstance that seems to have caught policy-makers off-guard and which now presents some very formidable challenges for governments, corporations and professionals whose job it is to bolster and sustain urban development.
