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At this year's Dutch Design Week, the world's first 3D printed stainless steel bridge was unveiled. The bridge was produced by a Dutch robotics company named MX3D. It will serve as a crossing over one of Amsterdam's oldest and most famous canals, the Oudezijds Achterburgwal. Its construction utilized optimization software...Read More

Rolls-Royce and Intel have joined forces to develop an Intelligent Awareness System for future autonomous shipping projects. The first entirely unmanned, crewless ships, with the self-sailing tech, are set to hit the oceans in 2025. Inevitably, they will see crewed vessels working alongside them. Don’t assume that this technology has...Read More

Innovation is sometimes all talk and no action. What actually gets engineers inventing and creating novel solutions to everyday problems? Handsome rewards, of course. The James Dyson Award is an international design competition that ‘celebrates, encourages and inspires the designers of new problem-solving ideas.' A curious advent of engineering design...Read More

Both men recently visited a number of countries, taking with them the passion for education and engineering that marks the Engineering Institute of Technology (EIT). They have travelled to share the opportunities EIT offers students who want to further their engineering studies, or who dream of becoming engineers - online...Read More

This week the Engineering Institute of Technology (EIT) received some important visitors. A delegation of three (the CEO and two supporting managers) from the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) spent two days at our head office and on our campus in Perth, Western Australia. ECSA is the equivalent of...Read More

The fourth industrial revolution is disrupting so many engineering industries, the civil engineers are beginning to call it ‘Civils 4.0.' Mark Hansford, writing for New Civil Engineer, says the industry is on "the cusp of a technological revolution." In a year of high-profile bridge collapses, the civil engineering industry has...Read More

September has come and gone, and it has given us something to contemplate as we venture towards the final three months of the year. Investigative journalism show, Vice aired an episode in September entitled: Engineering Earth. The episode alluded to the fact that engineers and scientists are looking to a...Read More

As we rapidly move through our first year of hosting on-campus students, we are consistently experiencing lots of ‘firsts’. In their first year of study, our students take part in a site-visit to gain a little insight into the engineering industry they have chosen.   CELEBRATION OF SUCCESS Recently, one...Read More

A new report from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) shows female engineering graduates earned slightly more than their male counterparts for the first time in 2017. These figures account for males and females who have completed an undergraduate engineering degree and have started in their first full-time role.  According...Read More

India celebrates Engineering Day on the 15th of September every year. Google, this year, decided to honor one of India’s most celebrated engineers -Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya. He was the Google Doodle for the day. Behind him on the Doodle, is the work he is most famous for; the Krishna Raja...Read More