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Postgraduate research conference in August

Postgraduate students could soon have access to a supportive network to help them develop research skills with the launching of the Borneo Research Education Conference (BREC 2013) next month.


Usefulness of impurities in electronics and communication engineering

“Impurities?” one might turn up one’s nose, “who wants them?”


Concrete waste: discard or recycle?

Concrete, a construction material made from a mixture of cement, aggregate (sand or stone) and water, had been and still is the most widely used building material worldwide.


Swinburne moves up in world ranking

Swinburne University of Technology has been promoted into the world’s top 400 universities in the prestigious Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) released recently. Its Vice-Chancellor Professor Linda Kristjanson said Swinburne was entering the top 400 university rankings for the …


Assessing research proposals

Government ministries, research councils, universities and other agencies connected with research assess research proposals frequently.


Simple school math and its importance to engineering

Everyone knows what a whole number (or integer) is.


Australian innovators in solar world first

In a boon for the local solar industry, a team of researchers from Swinburne University of Technology and Suntech Power Holdings have developed the world’s most efficient broadband nanoplasmonic solar cells.In a paper published in Nano Letters, the researchers describe how they …


Swinburne consolidates world class ranking

Swinburne University of Technology has again been recognised for its research excellence, having been named as one of the world’s top 500 research universities for the third year in a row.


Scientific ideas sometimes come full circle

In mathematics, we prove or falsify ideas and that is the end of it.


Build it … and make them come?

In the iconic Kevin Costner movie Field of Dreams from 1989, a voice compels an Iowa farmer to turn his corn field into a baseball diamond.