A team of students from UNSW has recently set a mark recognised by the Guinness World Records after a six-day solar-powered car expedition across the country.…
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Sydney motorsport team gears up for annual Formula SAE-A competition
Student teams from more than 30 universities around the world have arrived at the Winton Motor Raceway in country Victoria to race self-designed and self-built automobiles.…
Australian engineering schools drop in world rankings
Many of the world’s top engineering institutions lost ground in this year’s rankings, and Australian universities were no exception.…
New UTS technology lab disrupts traditional research approaches
A new University of Technology Sydney (UTS) technology lab in Botany, NSW, is trying to disrupt traditional approaches to research by bringing together several different engineering disciplines under …
Unique robot design helps students save a world in danger at yearly competition
Second-year engineering students gathered at the yearly Warman Design and Build Competition to help save a world on the verge of a food and water crisis.…
Australia’s automotive engineering graduates get a $5 million boost
Car manufacturing has moved overseas, but Australia’s automotive industry is looking to secure a talent pipeline to work on the future of transport.…
Engineering competition asks students how to save a world in peril
The annual Warman Design and Build Competition is just around the corner, with a new cohort of students preparing to save Gondwana once again.…
Top Australian universities slide in world rankings and student satisfaction
Australia’s prestigious Group of Eight (Go8) universities have remained in the top 200 in the 2019 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, but most have a lower position than last year.…
University experiments with women-only job ads to close its gender gap
The University of Adelaide’s search for engineering academics to fill vacant positions is also being viewed as an opportunity to address its gender gap.…
Australian universities top new world rankings in mining engineering
University of Queensland took the top spot for mining and mineral engineering in a global ranking of more than 4000 universities, with three other Australian institutions in the top 10.…