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Issue 58,
June 2009
In this issue:
Headlines
Events
The Last Word
After encouraging you to attend the Innovation Lecture, this edition of our newsletter focuses on engineering
education, at school, at university and around the world. The
shortage of engineers is recognized everywhere, but are we doing
enough about that to deliver the future we would all want?
Google Wave and Google Maps – from Australia to the
World
This year’s Warren Centre Innovation lecture will
surprise you. Key parts
of Google Maps and Google Wave were created in Oz? The Five Google Key
Innovation Culture Factors? What are they? Find out here! <more>
Ways We Ignite Engineering Passion In High School
Kindergarten to year 12 initiatives in science and technology education are
surprisingly rich and diverse, however more participants are needed.
<more>
Teachers go back to school with STELR
The pilot Science Technology Education
Leveraging Relevance program seeks to increase participation
in physics, chemistry, biology and maths at upper
secondary school.<more>
New thinking for new challenges and new times in Australian Schools
How best to use technology to educate? It is imperative that we design a
smarter way to incorporate IT into learning environments and schools
and into the way we think about learning and teaching. <more>
The Engineering shortage is global; what are the Brits doing?
The quality and future of engineering technology education is of
concern not only in Australia but around the world – a recent
English report entitled “Engineering: turning ideas into reality”
covered the area at length. <more>
Innovative engineering education initiatives at Sydney University
Innovative technology education initiatives (in engineering and
beyond), are boosting technology capabilities across a diversity of
professional disciplines. <more>
A final word on anthropogenic Climate Change
This will be our last article on anthropogenic (and quite likely
our last letter to the editor); try the Climate Debate Daily website
which endeavours to present both sides of that discussion! See
www.climatedebatedaily.com. <more>
What our readers told us about this newsletter, and who won the
prize draw?
A summary of your survey answers! Briefer yet, you seemed to
tell us we were doing OK! … And the winner of the survey prize is …<more>
Engineering Sydney™ Summer Vacation Work Website.
All Engineering students must have approximately 12 weeks’
industrial experience before they graduate. The University of
Sydney’s Faculty of Engineering & IT has approximately 800 students
who need vacation work this summer. If your company might consider
employing a student this summer and/or you would like a free listing on
Engineering Sydney’s Summer Vacation website please email Keiran
Passmore at
kpassmore@eng.usyd.edu.au or telephone 02 93515768.
.A call for stories
We love a good Australian (or other) engineering,
technology innovation stories.
Got any? Let us know & we’ll help spread the word!
Send to
editor@eng.usyd.edu.au
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Warren Centre Events
2009 Innovation Lecture
Dr Lars Rasmussen, Google
30 June – Brisbane, Custom House
2 July – Sydney, Powerhouse Museum
8 July – Melbourne, Ernst & Young
9 July – Adelaide, Ernst & Young
Click
here for more information
Click
here for registration
Fiona Hearne, (02) 9351 7205,
fionah@eng.usyd.edu.au
Others Events
AusMedtech 2009 Medical Technology Conference
15 June – 16 June 2009 – Sydney
http://tinyurl.com/o5u2zt
Achieving the Green Dream Conference
15 July – 16 July 2009 – Brisbane
http://tinyurl.com/o4jwr2
IPWEA International Public Works Conference
6 September – 10 September 2009 – Melbourne
http://tinyurl.com/q6uuc4
Energy 21C 2009
6 to 9 September 2009 – Melbourne
http://tinyurl.com/ph39wm
Chemeca 2009
27 to 30 September 2009 – Perth
http://tinyurl.com/pf8z82
Future Proofing Australia - Rising to the Challenge of Climate
Change
16 - 17 November 2009 – Sofitel Brisbane
http://tinyurl.com/qj233n
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