Stressed out: Mental health concerns for on-campus and online students


22 June, 2017
“Going to university coincides with a period of immense change and personal development. We know that one in four young people are going to have an issue with their mental health. I just felt it was important to break the stigma attached to things like anxiety and depression.” Those are...Read More

5G is the word


22 June, 2017
Telecommunication technologies have grown in leaps and bounds in the last few years. Gone are the days of outdated wired technologies that supply us with our link to the internet, it’s all about the wireless connection in the modern day telecommunications industry.   It was just the other day that...Read More

The future of energy ecosystem households


22 June, 2017
An engineering company, with an agenda to be part of our daily lives, is setting the bar higher and higher as the need for clean energy technologies sees global demand.  Rising CO2 levels has been the key motivator for Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, who has made it his...Read More

Gone With the Wind – The Past and Present of Wind Turbines


22 June, 2017
Harnessing the wind to the benefit of mankind has been the concern of the more technically minded for centuries. From the sailboat, to the windmill, humans have been making use of this abundant source of energy, and inventing unique ways of capturing its benefits for power generation.  But how did...Read More

West London Tower Fire sparks civil engineering questions


15 June, 2017
For the civil, and fire protection engineers, including the everyday people of West London, the 14th of June 2017 will be a stark reminder of the dangers of fire. At 1a.m. local time, a 24-storey apartment block caught fire, leading to at least twelve deaths, with 60 injured as a...Read More

Rural Wastewater Automation in Australia – Tom Davies


12 June, 2017
Tom Davies, is an asset and sewerage manager in Australia. He is working on the implementation of a lower budget online monitoring system for a rural wastewater/sewerage scheme in the Shire of Moora. He studied his Masters of Engineering at the Engineering Institute of Technology.       Content retrieved...Read More

The biggest plane in the world unveiled


12 June, 2017
Sending aviation and aerospace engineers’ pulses racing, the widest aircraft ever built has been unveiled in Mojave, California.   The Stratolaunch aircraft was funded by billionaire Paul G. Allen in 2011. Allen and Burt Rutan founded the company, Scaled Composites, which is behind the build. They are concerned with making...Read More

Promising advancements in pump health monitoring


24 May, 2017
When a pump stops operating, an entire industrial operation can be halted. When they do go down, a level of troubleshooting is necessary before the operation of a pump can be restored. In some cases, an entirely new pump is needed due to the several kinds of erosion that pumps...Read More

Electrical Engineer in Antarctica


21 May, 2017
Your engineering qualifications could take you anywhere around the globe. Even to the southernmost continent.  This week we talk to a South African electrical engineer who overwintered in Antarctica. From December 2015 to February 2017, Paddy Riley, a graduate of the University of Cape Town, tells us how he spent...Read More

Electrical Engineer in Antarctica


21 May, 2017
Your engineering qualifications could take you anywhere around the globe. Even to the southernmost continent.  This week we talk to a South African electrical engineer who overwintered in Antarctica. From December 2015 to February 2017, Paddy Riley, a graduate of the University of Cape Town, tells us how he spent...Read More