student achievement

Stefan Warnaar, a University of Canterbury engineering graduate has recently reached his crowdfunding target for a new company manufacturing yak-wool clothing.Stefan recently graduated from the University of Canterbury with a degree in chemical engineering, but with the help of the UC Centre for...

A mechatronics student from Curtin University has recently returned to Perth after spending six months helping NASA to build disposable folding robots.Chris Norman, a fourth year student on the Bachelor of Engineering programme at Curtin University worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in...

Each year the Design Institute Australia runs the Australasian Graduate of the Year Awards (AGOTYA) – a programme of awards for emerging designers.  The AGOTYA’s cover both Australia and New Zealand and the winning designer is selected from across each state’s individual GOTYAs.There are six...

A final-year civil engineering student at RMIT University has designed a bridge that will help a remote community in Fiji.  Hamish Currie was nominated to re-design and rebuild the Waivaka pedestrian bridge, which collapsed during heavy flooding, over ten years ago.The project was able to take...

Sally Atherton has become the first UTas student to win a national civil engineering prize that is named after a fellow Tasmanian civil engineer.  The Rod McGee Medal has been awarded to promising final-year students of civil engineering for the past eight years.Sally, who is 22, hopes that...