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UQ Engineering and Technology

Locality: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Phone: +61 7 3365 4666

Address: The University of Queensland 4072 Brisbane, QLD, Australia

Website: https://www.eait.uq.edu.au

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25.01.2022 Graduating engineering classes have raised more than $35,000 since the Engineering Class Gift initiative was established in 2011. Thank you to our students and alumni for being #ChangeMakers and supporting those who follow in your footsteps! #UQGivingDay

25.01.2022 A dozy kind of afternoon in the GC #UQ #GreatCourt @matilda_meppem

25.01.2022 Saruultur Bayarsaikhan (Saka) is seeking clean energy for his home country of Mongolia through the Master of Sustainable Energy program at UQ. Check out his blog: https://stories.uq.edu.au//an-engineers-nomadic/index.html

24.01.2022 Our engineering researchers are working on how we can keep our marine resources healthy while best utilising them for renewable energy and aquaculture Read more about the Blue Economy CRC via @EngineersAustralia : https://www.createdigital.org.au/blue-economy-crc-engineer/

24.01.2022 We are so excited to have our 12-part podcast series But Seriously, What is Engineering? featured in the top 11 podcasts for engineers by Engineers Australia! See the list and listen to the podcast here: https://www.createdigital.org.au/podcasts-for-engineers/ Great job UQ Women in Engineering, Kartikee Gupta and all our wonderful guests

24.01.2022 Episode 1 of our new podcast But Seriously, What is Engineering? is here!

24.01.2022 SCHOLARSHIP SUNDAY Featuring: Chemical Engineering Student Society Bursary Undergraduate, domestic, engineering and computing... $2k Apply before 24 Aug 2020 More info: https://scholarships.uq.edu.au//chemical-engineering-stude

24.01.2022 Happy Diwali to all the members of our community who are celebrating!

24.01.2022 Keep an eye on https://about.uq.edu.au/coronavirus for the latest on #COVID19 measures. Theres no change for UQ, so we will see you on Monday!

24.01.2022 Graduations look a little different this year, but our academics are as excited as ever to don their robes and caps and celebrate our graduands #UQAlumni #uqgraduation

23.01.2022 Student-designed interactive technology is ready for visitors to UQ Bloom Festival! Stop by 4-8pm, from Thursday until Saturday (31st Oct) to play with the installations! https://www.eait.uq.edu.au//student-designed-interactive-t UQ Life UQ Alumni

23.01.2022 A message from our students to the generous donors who have supported scholarships in 2020. For more information about UQ Giving Day and to find out how you could support students in their studies, please visit https://alumni.uq.edu.au/uq-giving-day

23.01.2022 We’re educating school students on the importance of indoor air quality through our STUDY FRESH initiative! Learn more about what we're doing via STEM Punks Future Learning magazine which has just been released - https://issuu.com/stem//future_learning_magazine_may_2021 Or check us out at Sustainability and Science Showcase next week - https://www.citysmart.com.au/showcase/sri2021/

23.01.2022 Time to finish off 2020. Wishing you a restful break Our team will be back on deck from 4 January 2021. Take care and look after each other.

23.01.2022 Episode 2 of the our new podcast is here and it’s all about mining engineering and the resources industry.

23.01.2022 It warms our hearts to see students and our generous donors getting together Brooke Jones and Aaron Coox are this years recipients of the Colin Gordon Jones Electrical Engineering scholarship, and pictured with them is Julia Wagg. When Julias sister (Margaret) passed away, she chose to honour her late husband Colin with a bequest to provide scholarships for students in the field he had always loved - electrical engineering. ... A love story and a true demonstration of generosity. Thank you! UQ Alumni

22.01.2022 To cap off an epic year, some of our Eng and Techie staff were awarded UQ Awards for Excellence. High fives to our UQ Ventilator Design Hackathon team, UQ Innovate Makerspace team and the EAIT Global Engagement team (pictured)!

22.01.2022 Our Interaction Design students showed off their skills at the UQ Bloom festival a few weeks ago. Visitors of all ages loved this project, called 'Ting'. Find out more about UQ's Master of Interaction Design here: https://bit.ly/3eSLuX6

22.01.2022 Keep an eye on the sky - UQ Space aims to be the first university in the world to fly a student-built rocket and scientific payload into space next year. Our students are amazing! Thanks to 10 News First for visiting us on campus yesterday to hear more about Project Asteria! More: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHDa9-MgFGU... UQ Women in Engineering The University of Queensland UQ Life UQ Space

22.01.2022 How do we get people from Earth to Mars and safely back again? UQ Hypersonics researcher Dr Chris James has a few ideas on how this journey would need to play out...

22.01.2022 "...a design that does not meet the functionality of the purpose is as useless as an ashtray on a motorcycle." - UQ alumnus, Andrew Lane.

21.01.2022 Congratulations to our team of clever designers who created a timber pavilion out of waste materials and took out gold at the 2020 Good Design Awards! Even Planet Ark loves it - this is their story https://makeitwood.org//timber-hubs-pavilion-scores-gold-i... @GoodDesignAus

21.01.2022 These engineers have had exciting careers working with the community and empowering their sector to excel in every way, not just technically. Find out how Rebecca and Trang have walked their own paths in Ep 11 of our podcast But Seriously, What is Engineering? Listen here: https://www.buzzsprout.com//5849824-where-can-engineering-... UQ Women in Engineering UQ Alumni

21.01.2022 To celebrate the start of Sem 2, #UQLife is running Connect Week this week! Free coffee, live music in the Great Court, virtual fitness classes and heaps more. The full program: https://bit.ly/30RB5UN

21.01.2022 The Liveris Building has grown!

21.01.2022 High School students, parents and teachers interested in careers for women in computing- come along to our event next Wednesday 25 Nov at UQ. Register online now!

21.01.2022 Well done to our student startup team, who won the UQ Ventures Virtual Hackathon with their automated career advisory platform, Skills+ ! Aaron Coox, Anastasia Laczko, Dion Lao, Martin Le Rossignol and Tom Nugent from engineering, IT and computer science backgrounds combined their skills to win a cash prize of $7k! More info: https://bit.ly/2YDafPP

21.01.2022 Episode 2 of the our new podcast is here and its all about mining engineering and the resources industry.

20.01.2022 Well done to our final-year chemical engineering students who worked on a process to turn sugarcane into a clean energy source to create hydrogen this semester! Were you one of these 150 students? Here's the story... ChESS UQ

20.01.2022 It is time for our electrical engineers and cyber security teams to SHINE! Today we launched the UQ Industry 4.0 Energy TestLab- maybe you’ve spotted this new research and teaching space in Hawken Engineering Building! Here, researchers and students will be helping Australia to transition to renewable energy sources, by studying and testing new energy management methods, micro grids, power systems and the cyber security requirements that we will need to ensure modern, networked systems are safe and secure in the future.

19.01.2022 SCHOLARSHIP SUNDAY Featuring HDR Project: Precision-engineered hybrid core-shell materials for drug deliver PhD Scholarship with Associate Professor Chun-Xia Zhao... Apply now More info: https://graduate-school.uq.edu.au/phd-scholarships-eait

19.01.2022 Did you know the production designer and art director from Game of Thrones, Moulin Rouge! and The Matrix is a UQ grad? Deb Riley will be live on Zoom at 9am Thursday 13 August - join us! More info here: https://www.architecture.uq.edu.au/architecture-alumni-webi UQ Alumni UQ Architecture BRUCE Architecture Society

18.01.2022 The week 7 pick-me-up we all needed

18.01.2022 From (the Netherlands to) a cattle station to the Kármán line - hear about UQ Space Managing Director Myrthe Snoeks' work to lead a team to the boundary of space!

18.01.2022 Last year for UQ Giving Day, our community came together to raise more than $5,000 for the UQ Women in Action Fund. Because of you, we were able to award $1,000 each to five very talented female students. Thank you for being #ChangeMakers! #UQGivingDay UQ Alumni

18.01.2022 UQ students Thomas Bizzell and Jack Anderson have won the 2020 Ericsson Innovation Awards with a novel fuel-efficient shipping solution. They beat Stanford University students to bring home the 25,000 Euro prize fund! Congratulations team

18.01.2022 We certainly have some impressive academics amongst our ranks! Congrats to Associate Professor Kate O'Brien, who was named a finalist in the 2020 WiT: Women in Technology Awards! Kate is a leader in engineering education, and her practical tools for great teaching without the burnout have been widely applied. She's also a very important member of our chemical engineering team at UQ, and a wonderful person! Well done, Kate!!

18.01.2022 To the high-achieving year 11 students on campus this week for the 2020 Young Leaders Conference, welcome! We're so excited you're here! Enjoy all that UQ has to offer, including some quality time with awesome mechanical engineering academic Dr Carolyn Jacobs, who will be sharing all the fun of prosthetic limb design and engineering with you

17.01.2022 UQ has jumped eight places to equal 36th in the US News Best Global Universities rankings, with six subjects in the top 20! https://www.usnews.com//university-of-queensland-australia

16.01.2022 Ever wanted to work overseas? Hear about how two engineering researchers managed this on the latest episode of But Seriously, What is Engineering? Dr Carolyn Jacobs and PhD candidate Katarzyna Hourigan have managed to work and study in France, Poland, Denmark and Australia! https://www.eait.uq.edu.au///lets-talk-all-things-research

16.01.2022 Today is UQ Open Day Online! Join us to learn more about our programs and life at UQ Just register below and well send you out a link to join in: future-students.uq.edu.au/events/open-day-online #UQOpenDay #UQlife

16.01.2022 Aayush Sharma is the third-generation in his family to become a fire engineer, so when he was named Most Outstanding Student in Fire Safety Engineering at UQ, his family was thrilled. The support he received through the Brian McGrath Bursary in Civil Engineering, was instrumental to him achieving his goals. Thank you to the McGrath Family and to all #ChangeMakers who support students to succeed!... #UQGivingDay https://www.eait.uq.edu.au//family-legacies-heart-giving-a

16.01.2022 Congratulations to one of the absolute best in the business, Associate Professor Pauline Pounds! She was awarded the very prestigious Batterham Medal at this years Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering Awards! Her groundbreaking contributions to designing unmanned aerial vehicles for applications from package delivery to search-and-rescue ops blow our minds! ... Check out the vid at the link

15.01.2022 Graduating this year? Apply before 2 Nov to be part of the ‘Class of 2020’ UQ Future Leaders Program! You'll join a 5-year alumni program to support your personal and professional development. Leverage your UQ Alumni network and kick start your career: https://bit.ly/2HiAtBq

15.01.2022 The next episode of our podcast is now live!

15.01.2022 We're very proud today to announce that three outstanding UQ women in STEM have been elected as Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technology, Science and Engineering! EAIT Executive Dean, Professor Vicki Chen, Professor Shazia Sadiq and Sustainable Minerals Institute Deputy Director Professor Alice Clark share the honour with Australian Institute for Bioengineering & Nanotechnology - AIBN's Professor Darren Martin as Queensland's newest additions to the most elite group o...f STEM leaders in the country. Congratulations to everyone! Thanks to ABC News for this story: https://www.abc.net.au//stem-women-alice-clark-sh/12924610

15.01.2022 BACHELOR OF DESIGN: COMING SOON From 2021, youll be able to study a Bachelor of Design at UQ! This will be a hands-on program with a focus on creativity and four majors to choose from. Find out more here: https://future-students.uq.edu.au//pr/bachelor-design-2454

15.01.2022 Sound on! Epic finish to the Science and Engineering Challenge today! #sciengchallenge

14.01.2022 Tonight is iLab Accelerator Pitch Night, with three teams from Eng & Tech presenting their amazing ideas to the UQ Ventures expert panel. Jump online to support the RapidCheckin, Valiant Space and Open Induction teams as they pitch for a $5k prize! Good luck, everyone! ... https://ventures.uq.edu.au/pitch-night

14.01.2022 Were looking for the dreamers with drive. Weve launched the states first Masters degree in Urban Development and Design so we can find those special people who will design our cities of the future. www.eait.uq.edu.au//uq-launches-new-degree-develop-steward

14.01.2022 UQ Mechanical and Aerospace/Science grad Justin Clarke is heading to Oxford Uni as QLD's 2021 Rhodes Scholar!

13.01.2022 Thanks again to our amazing staff and student ambassadors who helped to make UQ Open Day Online 2020 such a huge success! If youre thinking of studying at UQ in 2021, visit the Future Students website for all the info you need: https://future-students.uq.edu.au ... UQ Women in Engineering

12.01.2022 Join the Women in Engineering team in 2021!

12.01.2022 Jump on Facebook Live at 2pm today to support EAITs 3MT 2020 Wildcard entrant, Syeda Umama Mehreen! Shell be talking about durable electronics Good luck, Syeda! #UQResearch

12.01.2022 R U OK? Today is the day to check in with those around you. 2020 has been a challenging year for everyone, highlighting now more than ever, how important it is to stay connected with each other. More info about UQs events and support services here: https://life.uq.edu.au/ruokday2020

12.01.2022 Alejandro and his team are building robots to help patients better help their recoveries from neurological injuries, by accurately analysing human movement Al...ejandro is a Senior Lecturer at the UQ Engineering and Technology School We’ve just opened the new Queensland AI Hub to support more QLD AI tech just like this

12.01.2022 SCHOLARSHIP SUNDAY Featuring HDR Project: Developing novel biopolymer composites that are fully biobased and biodegradable to transform the plastics industry PhD Scholarship with Dr Luigi Vandi... Apply now More info: https://graduate-school.uq.edu.au/phd-scholarships-eait

12.01.2022 Here's the latest update on the Andrew N. Liveris Building construction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRliyOD38BM

12.01.2022 Register to support UQ eng-techie Aaron Snoswell tomorrow as he competes for gold at the UQ 3MT Final 2020! Aaron is PhD candidate exploring the use of neural networks for robotic control Good luck Aaron! https://threeminutethesis.uq.edu.au/uq-2020

11.01.2022 SCHOLARSHIP SUNDAY Help us to build a more sustainable future with your strong skills in STEM and your passion for creating a better world! First-year STEM students at UQ and final-year high school students are invited to apply for the Liveris Academy scholarship, worth $10k. ... Apply now: https://bit.ly/339ICPU

11.01.2022 Our UQ Women in Engineering team is just about to launch a new podcast, But Seriously, What is Engineering?. Stay tuned next week for episode 1, but for now, heres a little sneaky preview: www.eait.uq.edu.au/what-is-engineering-podcast The University of Queensland UQ Alumni

10.01.2022 Join the UQ Liveris Academy for weekly screenings of presentations from Fortune 500 CEOs about leadership, innovation and our rapidly changing world. The first speaker on 6 October will be UQ Alumni's Andrew N. Liveris AO. Discussion with Liveris Scholars and leading academics to follow screenings, with optional gold-coin proceeds going to selected charities. See the speaker line-up and register now here: https://bit.ly/33ii2W1 ... #UQLiverisAcademy

10.01.2022 Our UQ Women in Engineering student leaders have been busy sharing the joy of engineering with schools across Brisbane the last few weeks for the WE Explore Engineering Show! 14 student leaders helped out. 243 high schoolers joined in. 15 teachers hosted us.... Thanks to everyone! See more

10.01.2022 The Advanced Engineering Building doing what it does best: glimmering with light and thought bubbles. #UQresearch #uqlife #engineering

09.01.2022 SCHOLARSHIP SUNDAY Featuring HDR project: Identification of internal erosion processes within embankments using geophysical methods. PhD project with Professor Alexander Scheuermann ... Apply now More info: https://graduate-school.uq.edu.au/phd-scholarships-eait

09.01.2022 A veteran vulnerability hunter, Huichen (Walt) Lin has already discovered two bugs for Microsoft, but now he is on the hunt for more. https://www.eait.uq.edu.au/news/article/vulnerability-hunter

09.01.2022 Time to start studying #UQBloom

09.01.2022 SCHOLARSHIP SUNDAY Featuring HDR project: Reducing concrete corrosion in sewers through humidity control. PhD project with Professor Zhiguo Yuan... Apply now More info: https://graduate-school.uq.edu.au/phd-scholarships-eait

09.01.2022 Big congrats to our two HP Women in Cyber Security scholarship recipients @giga.byte3 and @elsameliaa who celebrated with a little UQ Bloom festival goodness last week Our new Master of Cyber Security is a fantastic degree with heaps of industry engagement and hands-on learning. You also don’t need to have a tech background, Elsa has a business undergrad- the industry is interdisciplinary so our degree, lecturers and students are too!

09.01.2022 So proud of our team

09.01.2022 "Switching your petrol car to an electric scooter or e-bike can reduce your carbon footprint by up to 99%." Dr Jake Whitehead has run the numbers and chatted about it to Frank Kelly from ABC Radio National. #UQResearch

08.01.2022 Big fan of Game of Thrones?! Hear all the juicy behind-the-scenes details direct from the Production Designer, Deb Riley, who is a UQ design graduate! Does a cooler job exist? Probably not... https://youtu.be/g1FHpYJCrVM

08.01.2022 Today is UQ Giving Day! This year we’re celebrating our generous donors for the extraordinary impact their support is having on our students, research and society as a whole. #UQGivingDay #UQChangeMakers

06.01.2022 Your glass bottles could save our sandy beaches thanks to the ingenuity of UQ’s Civil Engineers. Find out more: https://rb.gy/ktkzq8

06.01.2022 Nick Galm, who graduated last week, found his tribe and his passion with the UQ Racing Formula SAE Team! If youre new to UQ this semester, make it your first task to find out more about our student clubs and societies!

06.01.2022 UQ STUDENTS Co-Founder and Chair of IMAGINE, Paul Polman will be the third Fortune 500 CEO to present in the #UQLiverisAcademy Distinguished Speaker Series. On Tues, 20 Oct 2020, he will discuss the impacts of climate change and how we can move to a more sustainable and just way of working within corporates and govts. Register now: https://bit.ly/33ii2W1

06.01.2022 We have a new Bachelor of Design, with 6 diverse majors to choose from - check them out! Anthropology Buildings and Environments Environment and Society... Information Environments Innovation and Entrepreneurship Media and Digital Cultures See more

05.01.2022 SCHOLARSHIP SUNDAY Featuring: Downer Engineering Scholarship Undergraduate, 2nd, 3rd or 4th year in Civil/Mining/Geotech engineering... $10k per student, up to 6 students. Apply before 14 Sep 2020 More info: https://bit.ly/3icpCXw

05.01.2022 It’s Grad Week! Keep an eye on our Insta stories this week to meet some of our awesome graduates

05.01.2022 UQ's Dr Jake Whitehead talked to Junkee about electric cars and when there will be more of them on Aussie roads.

05.01.2022 Two more sleeps until UQ OPEN DAY ONLINE Register online to attend UQ Open Day this Sunday 2 August. future-students.uq.edu.au/events/open-day-online

05.01.2022 Our UQ Women in Engineering team is just about to launch a new podcast, 'But Seriously, What is Engineering?'. Stay tuned next week for episode 1, but for now, here's a little sneaky preview: www.eait.uq.edu.au/what-is-engineering-podcast The University of Queensland UQ Alumni

05.01.2022 A big shout out to our awesome first-year students, tutors and staff pushing through Demo Days this week! Great work, everyone

05.01.2022 SCHOLARSHIP SUNDAY Featuring HDR Project: 'Developing novel biopolymer composites that are fully biobased and biodegradable to transform the plastics industry' PhD Scholarship with Dr Luigi Vandi... Apply now More info: https://graduate-school.uq.edu.au/phd-scholarships-eait

05.01.2022 RESEARCH VOLUNTEERS NEEDED How do we ensure that future public transport systems dont leave anyone behind? We need people living with dementia and their carers to help with a new study - more info at the link.

04.01.2022 Do hackers only wear black hoodies? ...and other important questions for cyber security expert, Prof Ryan Ko! Thanks to Queensland Science for this! https://www.facebook.com/205736396154976/videos/305646117336172/

04.01.2022 Don’t miss the last event in the #UQLiverisAcademy Distinguished Speaker Series! This Tuesday, 3 November 2020, Exec Chairman of IBM, Ginni Rometty will talk online about what she stands for as a leader, the impact of the digital era on society, AI and what it all might mean for leadership in the 21st Century, Sign up: https://bit.ly/33ii2W1

04.01.2022 SCHOLARSHIP SUNDAY- CLOSING SOON Help us to build a more sustainable future with your strong skills in STEM and your passion for creating a better world! First-year STEM students at UQ and final-year high school students are invited to apply for the Liveris Academy scholarship, worth $10k. Apply before 31 October, 2020: https://bit.ly/339ICPU

03.01.2022 Here are our best tips for finding and getting UQ scholarships, courtesy of our Faculty scholarships guru, Gail Smith! https://www.eait.uq.edu.au//7-tips-acing-your-scholarship-

03.01.2022 A cracking event coming up by ChESS UQ tomorrow, not to be missed! The Hydrogen Debate - an in-person event featuring, Greg Birkett, Jake Whitehead and Tony Heynen take on the "for" team, which will be announced on Friday. With limited spots available, make sure you get in quick via the link below.... Registration Link - https://forms.gle/wpA7qw69mazjgjb6A

03.01.2022 Sandstone vibes. #uq

03.01.2022 We have one more amazing $20k HP Women in Cyber Security Scholarship to award a lucky student. Get in quick, applications for this award will close on Monday 17 August! More info and applications: https://scholarships.uq.edu.au//hp-women-cyber-security-sc

03.01.2022 Congratulations to our UQ Cyber team, who were just recognised for their outstanding contribution to higher education programs for young women in security at the Australian Women in Security Network (AWSN) Awards 2020, with their high school program 'Girls Do Cyber'! More info: https://www.awsn.org.au//the-awsn-women-in-security-awards/

03.01.2022 Congratulations to Dr Stephen Snow! He has been awarded a Queensland Citizen Science Grant for his project measuring indoor air quality in classrooms, working with kids so they can learn to use micro-electronics kits to become citizen scientists and thrive at school with fresh air! More: https://bit.ly/3jU3iTd

03.01.2022 McKinsey’s Vik Malhotra, Fortune 500 CEO, will discuss leaders’ responses to the COVID-19 crisis at the #UQLiverisAcademy Distinguished Speaker Series event (now online) on Tuesday, 27 Oct 2020. UQ students, register online: https://liveris-academy.uq.edu.au/event/session/257

02.01.2022 It has been a huge few weeks, and we’d like to say a big THANK YOU to our wonderful teaching and support staff who have smiled through it all.

01.01.2022 The first group of Andrew N. Liveris Academy for Innovation and Leadership Scholars have taken their place as future leaders this year, and we would like to thank the Liveris family and all the ChangeMakers who have supported these remarkable students to succeed. #UQGivingDay https://www.eait.uq.edu.au//sustainable-future-hands-brigh

01.01.2022 Join the #UQLiverisAcademy to hear from Ajay Banga, CEO of Mastercard as he talks about the COVID-19 crisis and why he thinks leaders should use their voice wisely to influence society. Register online for this in-person event tomorrow - Tues, 13 Oct 2020: https://bit.ly/33ii2W1

01.01.2022 What’s a humanitarian engineer do? Well, they help humans. Find out more from our guests Aira and Vigya in Episode 10 of But Seriously, What is Engineering? Engineers Without Borders Australia

01.01.2022 SCHOLARSHIP SUNDAY Featuring: Kenneth A Thiess Prize Graduating undergraduate civil engineering students... $2k Apply before 23 Oct 2020 More info: https://scholarships.uq.edu.au/scholar/kenneth-thiess-prize