The Anatomy of a Humanitarian Engineer
What’s inside the innovators who deliver compassion & champion social change? Here are the components that make up the special anatomy of a successful humanitarian engineer....
14 August, 2019
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Human Genome Editing: A Chain of Events
CRISPR is a biomolecular editing tool that allows researchers to “engineer” genes in plants, animals, and humans. Here’s how gene editing has evolved over time....
09 August, 2019
How to End Australia’s Building Infrastructure Crisis
In June, the City of Sydney council staff discovered that a third apartment building, in the suburb of Zetland, had been sufficiently damaged to trigger resident evacuation due to fears of fire danger or risk of collapse of the property....
02 August, 2019
Kookaberry: Shaping the Future of STEM
The AustSTEM Foundation created the Kookaberry to tackle some of the challenges primary teachers face and to help them teach the new Technologies curriculum with confidence. ...
25 July, 2019
Victoria: A historical case study of regulatory failure in the building control industry
Author Stephen Kip, a Fire Safety Engineer and Building Regulation Consultant, takes us on a chronological journey of regulatory failure in the building control industry in Victoria....
14 July, 2019
Two years After Grenfell, it’s Time for Action
“Grenfell was not only predictable, it was predicted. It did not take that tragedy to teach us what happens when negligent landlords and shoddy builders come together in the age of cost cutting and regulatory ambivalence. We already knew. ...
28 June, 2019
The Changes Needed to Australia’s Fire Safety Engineering Methods & Guidelines
The incident the Neo200 fire in Melbourne in February 2019 demonstrate serious failures of Fire Safety Engineering in Australia that must be addressed....
20 June, 2019
Women Making Waves: Meet the female leaders driving Humanitarian Innovation
Here are the stories of five women who are putting their personal energies forward towards solving some of the world’s biggest challenges and supporting the world’s most vulnerable people....
05 June, 2019
Design Matters: Engineering Design is Facing an Unconscious Bias Problem
When unconscious bias seeps into product design, it can lead to serious consequences. Every day, women feel the impact of unconscious bias. Some of these situations are so familiar, you might not even realise they are a result of unconscious bias....
17 May, 2019
6 Answers to the Most Asked Questions About Humanitarian Engineering and Innovation
Since the early 1980s, many organisations have arisen that seek to utilise engineering and innovation to address humanitarian and development challenges....
26 April, 2019
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