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 “The future wars will be fought over water.”   Are we heading for a future where those who have the cleanest and most abundant water will be the most prosperous? As it stands, to discern which countries are first world and which are third the cleanliness of drinking water is...Read More

The breakthroughs in the biomedical engineering industry were staggering in 2016. The world moved closer toward wearable systems that could continually monitor human health, and even produced studies for ingestible robots, designed to be powered by human stomach acid.     With biomedical engineering technologies becoming more apt at generating...Read More

What are they and can they provide the solution to the ‘skill gap’ conundrum? One can earn a micro-credential in a specific, targeted skill or acquire a number of them – part of a broader, inclusive skill set. Udacity, one of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) providers refer to...Read More

      The Engineering Institute of Technology (EIT) is very proud to present a glimpse into the quite remarkable work being undertaken by our students completing the Master of Engineering in Industrial Automation.   These students, who are studying alongside their work in industry, are deep into the research...Read More

Is the world finally ready to embrace the significance of technical and vocational skills and in doing so bump higher education qualifications off their pedestals and out of their ivory towers?   The government of the United Kingdom is certainly addressing this traditional imbalance.   They are introducing a new...Read More

In 2013, Nicolene Murdoch, the executive director for teaching and quality at Monash South Africa - a higher education institution - said that historically only 15 to 20% of South African students at universities end up graduating.   More recently, in 2015, the Council of Higher Education calculated the dropout...Read More

Calling all Mechanical Engineers! We need tougher robots.   A clean-up and decommissioning of three of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors, that fell victim to meltdowns after a powerful earthquake and subsequent tsunami in 2011, is underway. The clean-up will cost the equivalent of USD$190 billion.   The first step...Read More

The prosperity of many industries hinges on the sucess of engineering innovation and endeavor.   Unfortunately engineers are often only remembered once their well oiled machines, that thrust society forward, stop working. And sometimes they don’t get the recognition they deserve. The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering has tried to...Read More

Chances are, if you work in an office environment, you’re faced with the temperature dilemma: you are either too hot or too cold. This is exacerbated in an open plan office space; an environment where the aircon’s remote becomes a highly disputed weapon. And it’s all thanks to engineers!  ...Read More

Strides are continually being made in road safety engineering. Making roads safer and more efficient is the work of civil engineers across the globe. The safest option would be automating all cars around the world. Ford, Google, Mercedes-Benz, Tesla and Uber are looking at their implementation in the United States...Read More