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UNSW Sydney engineers have developed a new, more effective way of recycling solar panels, which can recover silver at high efficiency. The process, which has been patented, has been specially created for photovoltaic panels in order to quickly and efficiently sort the component materials, as a key step of highly efficient PV recycling. Recycling solar panels … Continued
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Two research and innovation projects led by researchers from the Faculty of Engineering at Monash University have been selected as finalists in Australia’s premier national science awards, the Eureka Prizes. Both projects involve significant practical advances in renewable and sustainable energy for a low-carbon future. Windows that generate electricity Monash University has partnered with Australia’s … Continued
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Leading Caterpillar® dealer WesTrac has marked the third annual Artificial Intelligence Appreciation Day, a celebration of artificial intelligence, or AI, and what it can offer the business and customers in the future. WesTrac jumped on the AI tidal wave by incorporating it into day-to-day operations at its Tomago parts distribution warehouse, in New South … Continued
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The Northern Territory Government will fund an innovative Engineers Australia program to help skilled migrant engineers crack the Australian jobs market. The Global Engineering Talent (GET) program is an outcome of Engineers Australia’s Barriers to Employment for Skilled Migrant Engineers research, which found 47 per cent of migrant engineers actively seeking an engineering job are … Continued
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Friday 23 June 2023 is International Day of Women in Engineering. Diversity makes engineering stronger, more creative and more responsive to a rapidly changing world. These Monash University experts are available for comment on the status of women in Engineering. Professor Yiannis Ventikos, Dean, Faculty of Engineering. Monash University The following can be attributed to … Continued
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Engineers in Melbourne have developed a cost-effective and environmentally friendly way to remove heavy metals, including copper and zinc, from biosolids. The team’s work, led by RMIT University in collaboration with South East Water and Manipal University in India, advances other methods for heavy-metal removal by recycling the acidic liquid waste that is produced during … Continued
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Gamuda’s continued expansion in Australia reached another important milestone today with the completed purchase of Downer EDI’s Australian transport projects business. DT Infrastructure Pty Ltd (DTI) will operate standalone within the Gamuda group of companies, alongside Gamuda Engineering (GEA) in the Australian market. Over 1,100 staff and a forecast work in hand of approximately $2 … Continued
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Monash University startup ElectraLith is building an extraction system to filter Lithium from brine using a polymer-ceramic composite membrane, allowing the critical mineral to be extracted from salt lakes, mine tailings and other brine solutions using small amounts of solar generated electricity and without added chemicals or water. Harnessing the power of cutting-edge electro-filtration membrane … Continued
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Cubesats – lunchbox-sized satellites that can undertake space-based experiments, make observations or relay communication signals – are currently being used by NASA to help try to find water on the Moon and aid their astronauts on future missions there. Those missions could well include the first woman and the first Black man to undertake a lunar mission after Christina Koch and … Continued
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Researchers have created a small device that ‘sees’ and creates memories in a similar way to humans, in a promising step towards one day having applications that can make rapid, complex decisions such as in self-driving cars. The neuromorphic invention is a single chip enabled by a sensing element, doped indium oxide, that is thousands … Continued
