Engineering

An inexpensive system for customised prosthetic sockets is producing much-needed assistive devices for people around the world

Indigenous ingenuity has all the hallmarks that modern engineers strive for – and Australia universities must shift their higher education paradigm

Working with an eight-year-old boy with cerebral palsy, researchers have co-designed a video game controller to provide more opportunities for fun and social connection

A new simplified hydrodynamic model provides a practical and effective solution to predict flooding quickly – reducing forecasting time from days to seconds

Engineering needs more diversity, but there are almost no role models for women engineers in popular culture

Tully Mahr is one of five Australians heading to an internship with NASA, where the 21-year-old will spend three months researching life’s origins and planet habitability

Measuring and removing unexpected ‘phantom’ levels of electricity from energy harvesting devices has been challenging – until now

To solve the skills shortage for good, we need to inspire a stronger connection with engineering

A new material designed to harvest up to 400 times more energy from movement than currently possible has potential applications in biomedicine and geospatial monitoring

Australia has earthquake safety regulations for buildings, but Wednesday’s earthquake reminds us to be informed about the safety of our structures