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Raising The Bar: Celebrating International Women In Engineering Day

INWED18 highlights some of the amazing work by women in engineering and technical roles. It also allows everyone to join in and celebrate the achievements of our outstanding women engineers.

Between a rock and a hard place: the Kingsford Smith Drive upgrade

Brisbane City Council is committed to taking real action on traffic congestion and is upgrading Kingsford Smith Drive with more lanes, better intersections and dedicated bikeways. The Kingsford Smith Drive upgrade will involve widening the road from four to six lanes between Theodore Street at Eagle Farm and Cooksley Street at Hamilton. It will also include improvement works between Cooksley Street and Breakfast Creek Road at Albion. The upgrade will also deliver significantly improved pedestrian and cycle facilities in the form of a new cantilevered RiverWalk.

Diversity and engineering: Leidos Australia CEO on how to spark innovation

Christine Zeitz, Chief Executive of Leidos Australia, on using data and your current business practices to boost diversity.

What a waste – 3D printing recycling

DCycle is a closed loop recycling program to collect 3D printed plastic waste, and convert it back into usable spooled filament. The recycled filament is then sold back to customers at a discounted rate.

Victoria ideal home for new space agency

The Victorian Government has launched a new campaign at Swinburne University of Technology to make Victoria the home of the new Australian Space Agency.

Award-winning engineers extend infrastructure life

Innovative research on strengthening bridges with reinforced carbon fibre polymers has resulted in two engineers at Swinburne University receiving a prestigious award. Prof. Rhiad Al-Mahaidi and Dr Robin Kalfat developed fibre reinforced polymers to extend the life of existing concrete infrastructure, which has earned them an Australian Road Research Board 2018 Research Impact Award.

WA warns mining skills shortage imminent

Western Australia is becoming concerned about a skills shortage for mining engineers, engineering associates and technicians in the near future, as it’s unable to attract young people from metro areas despite high paying entry level jobs of around $100k.

A Quick Chat with Kimbra Bridges

Kimbra Bridges is currently a Project Engineer at Engenium, we took some time to catch up with her about her role and career in Engineering.

Sustainable light rail consistency, interoperability and standardisation

Conventionally, light rail networks have been designed and constructed on an individual project basis, each with a unique design solution based around the type, model and platform of the Light Rail vehicle (LRV) proposed or delivered for the network.

The buzz about drones: how it could benefit transport in the future

The content of this article represents early thinking and research developed and articulated by the ASA for the purpose of informing future policy design and deployment in relation to the potential for drone technologies. The views and matters expressed in this article do not represent Transport for NSW or NSW Government policy or position on the subject of drones.

Leading in a technologically disruptive age – the WA Leaders Conference 2018

How can we better lead in today’s technologically disruptive age? That’s the question that was posed at the WA Leaders Conference on 30 May at Beaumonde on the Point in Perth.