Staff top teaching award nominations for 2010
Fifteen Mechanical and Chemical Engineering School staff were nominated for teaching awards in 2010. They include:
View ArticleDongke Zhang honoured in the Top 100 Australia's Most Influential Engineers list
Dongke Zhang has been awarded the Top 100 Most Influential Engineers of Australia title by Engineers Australia.Each year, Engineers Australia honours the top 100 engineers from the industry, public...
View ArticleBrain biomechanics book outlines new lifesaving techniques
The first comprehensive reference book about the biomechanics of the brain has been edited by The University of Western Australia's Winthrop Professor Karol Miller, head of the University's Intelligent...
View ArticleDiscover your postgrad study options in engineering, computing or mathematics
Are you considering working towards a postgraduate qualification in engineering, computing or mathematics? UWA’s Postgraduate & Honours Expo takes place on Wednesday October 5 and representatives...
View ArticleUWA biomedical engineer dances his way to Belgium
Joel Miller, a biomedical engineer at The University of Western Australia has won top prize in the Science’s 4th annual “Dance Your PhD” contest with his footloose video rendition of his thesis topic:...
View ArticleEECE dominates hike4hunger fundraising effort
The Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics would like to congratulate the team of eight staff members from the School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering (Team EECE), who...
View ArticleGoogle hires UWA Software Engineering students
Landing a dream job with Google is just sinking in for software engineering students Ragil Prasetya and Travis Kirke, from The University of Western Australia, who will work as Software Engineer...
View ArticleBe alert, not alarmed – engineering students dispose of ‘hazardous' materials
If you were on campus last Friday 30 March, you may have been surprised to see large groups of students with wheel barrows, conspicuously dressed in white protective clothing, working eagerly along the...
View ArticleAward recognises engineers' pioneering surgery
Two of The University of Western Australia's top mechanical engineers have been recognised by Engineers Australia with the Sir George Julius medal for their ground-breaking research into the use of...
View ArticleNew polymer research aims to boost dryland crop productivity
The fact that 30 per cent of Australia's cropping land does not retain water and produces only 10 per cent of the nation's broad-acre crops could be about to change.
View Article$775,000 boost for joint research efforts
Research into honeybees, a clock for the Square Kilometre Array and the next generation ‘microscope in a needle' to find cancer will be among dozens of projects to receive a slice of almost $775,000...
View ArticleBrainy biomechanics for safer brain surgery
Patients undergoing brain surgery are likely to benefit from a new technique that can help neurosurgeons predict how the brain will move during operations.
View ArticleRio Tinto chief awarded honorary doctorate
Rio Tinto chief executive Sam Walsh is one of several distinguished Western Australians whose contributions to the community has been recognised at The University of Western Australia during its autumn...
View ArticleNew book lifts the lid on engineers and their work
Transforming engineering practice in Australia could result in a prosperous future based on clean energy, while in developing countries it could unleash a new wave of economic growth, according to a...
View ArticleStudy to aid rapid clean-ups after disastrous offshore oil and gas leaks
One of the first experimental investigations to simulate the high-pressure formation of oil droplets during deepwater blowouts has attracted the attention of the prestigious journal Chemical...
View ArticleRedefining temperature with precision lasers
A team of Australian scientists has produced a precision laser device that creates an accurate international standard for temperature.
View ArticleUWA expert says more 'green' needed to cool Perth's suburban hotspots
An environmental engineering expert at The University of Western Australia said ‘greening’ the suburbs of Perth will help reduce the emerging urban health crisis of heatwaves.
View ArticleGoogle hires UWA Software Engineering students
Landing a dream job with Google is just sinking in for software engineering students Ragil Prasetya and Travis Kirke, from The University of Western Australia, who will work as Software Engineer...
View ArticleUWA expert says more 'green' needed to cool Perth's suburban hotspots
An environmental engineering expert at The University of Western Australia said ‘greening’ the suburbs of Perth will help reduce the emerging urban health crisis of heatwaves.
View ArticleCrop productivity and WA heritage winners in latest ARC funding
A project led by Dr Mark Waters from UWA to find new ways to improve crop productivity and one by UWA’s Professor Alistair Paterson to help preserve the heritage of the state’s north-west are winners...
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