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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

Germany has unveiled not one but two Hydrogen fuel trains. It is being celebrated as a world-first. The train can traverse 600 miles (1,000km) of railway on a single tank of hydrogen. What is significant about this number is that it matches what diesel trains can do. The new-fangled trains...Read More

In a digital world, higher education becomes a shapeshifter. Even after graduation, continuous and life-long re-skilling and up-skilling is becoming a necessity. The difficulty for universities is to keep up with the demand for new forms of education and training as a result of the internet age. Brick-and-mortar institutions are...Read More

How do you make a nanodevice move? Add some light. No, really. A nanomotor is a molecular or nanoscale device capable of converting energy into movement. The motors are so small they can fit inside human cells. The benefits of engineering these kinds of motors in the future of biomedicine...Read More

Could solar and wind farms create gardens of Eden in the desert? According to a newly published study in the popular journal, Science, bringing rain to the desert with solar arrays and wind turbines is not far-fetched. The study is entitled: ‘Climate model shows large-scale wind and solar farms in...Read More