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There’s no reason for sparks to fly in engineering – sound lighting protection, and keen earthing keeps everyone and their electronics safe. To start, it’s important to note the damage lightning can cause, not just as a natural phenomenon, but as one observed in the human world. Photo by richard...Read More

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia (CSIRO) identified key megatrends shaping our lives for decades to come. A megatrend is seen as a long-term trend that affects societies, governments, and economies permanently, and these trends happen when multiple smaller trends merge to create a megatrend. The following...Read More

As food fungi are renowned for their meaty, Unami flavor. In engineering, it’s equally beefy as part of sustainability. These fungi can do a lot more than we thought. For the future Nearly all industrially fabricated materials produced today, like construction and packaging materials, cannot be recycled and aren’t environmentally...Read More

Out of all the components and areas of study, few are as unique and ultimately vital within a subsect of Mechanical Engineering as Vibration Engineering and Analysis. Photo by Thomas Galler on Unsplash It is the make or break within mechanical engineering that either optimizes if moving components will last...Read More

Sustainable technologies in civil engineering, including green or sustainable concrete, become even more important now when population growth, continuous industrial development, and construction of infrastructure create huge amounts of construction and demolition (C&D) waste. Additionally, fossil fuels are no longer the cornerstone of the built environment, as bio-based composite building...Read More

This year on 23 November the world is celebrating Fibonacci Day to acknowledge a famous Fibonacci Sequence. It makes sense, the Fibonacci Sequence is a sequence of numbers that changed math and our understanding of the natural environment forever. If you’re not an Engineering student or missed the day in...Read More

In our July EIT Newsletter, we ran a competition, inviting newsletter subscribers to tell us about their lives, careers and what engineering means to them. We are glad to announce the first winners of the competition, and we approached them to share their unique stories with us. The entries in...Read More

If you completed a degree, or you are working as an engineer at the level of Engineering Technologist after you graduated you may have pondered how, when and why to start a Master's degree to further accelerate your career and additionally gain specialized knowledge. Photo by Himal Rana on Unsplash...Read More

Cities, roads, and life would be near impossible to imagine without the work of Civil Engineers. The discipline is one of many hats – and also a fascinating field to look into. Because to build a career as a Civil Engineer you need more than mere knowledge of structures. You...Read More

To become an Engineers Australia Fellow you need to live and breathe engineering. In fact, according to Engineers Australia (EA) membership as a Fellow at the organization is regarded as the highest level of membership. Newly elected WA President Jodey Brockhurst and Indumathi V, EIT's Deputy Dean. Picture: EA In fact,...Read More