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How and Why Become an Electrical Engineer?
14 June 2022
The textbook definition says that electrical engineering is “the branch of engineering that deals with the practical application of the theory of electricity to the construction of machinery, power supplies, and so on”.
What Do Electrical Engineers Do?
Because electricity is all around us, electrical engineers are employed across a broad range of industries including aerospace, defense, marine, manufacturing, power generation, transmission and distribution, resources, telecommunications, transportation, and utilities.
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Can Engineers Go Plastic-Free?
13 June 2022
This Plastic Free July serves as a reminder that engineers use different polymers than those that pollute the oceans – but have a role to play in environmental management.
The Australian civil action movement Plastic Free July started in 2011. Initially, the campaign included the movement’s founder and a small group from the local government in Western Australia.
Now it aims to share Plastic Free solutions to help reduce plastic waste globally.
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Plant Residue That Generates Electricity: EIT Academics Contribute To Sustainability Education In India
13 June 2022
Biomass power production will play an important part in the sustainable energy future. So when the call came to academically contribute to sustainability, three EIT academics jumped at the opportunity.
Dr Harisinh Parmar our Lab coordinator, Dr Milind Siddhpura, Course coordinator for Mechanical Engineering and Dr Arti Siddhpura a Lecturer for Mechanical Engineering penned a book chapter A sustainability case study of a biomass power plant using Empty Fruit Bunch in Malaysia.
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World Ocean Day: Dropping the ‘s’ but not sustainability
07 June 2022
World Ocean Day is here for us all, including engineers, to think about what we can do to protect our precious oceans.
In 2022 World Ocean Day is changing. If you’re a supporter of the annual event that focuses on the ocean you would have noticed the logo changed this year, dropping the “s” from World Ocean(s) Day.
Source: United Nations World Oceans Day/ YouTube
The reason might seem like simple wordplay, but it digs deeper.
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Coffee, College and Creativity
20 May 2022
Grace Traeger is our intrepid Graphic Designer based in our Perth office. A few weeks ago she gave us chapter and verse on branding at the Engineering Institute of Technology.
Despite my initial lack of enthusiasm, I thoroughly enjoyed the session. It also reminded me of a most unexpected, but rather wonderful discovery in the middle of the Western Cape last month.
Photo: Edwina Ross
After a frustrating hiatus of two years, Steve Mackay and I were back in South Africa.
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EIT Events
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Industrial Automation, Industry 4.0 and Smart Factories
Industrial Automation is a widely used discipline in the industry that could be defined as the cross-sectional area of various engineering branches including electrical, electronics, mechanics, material science, chemical, communication, computer science, software, and information technology. Industrial Automation, makes a path for these disciplines to be able to communicate with each other using transmission protocols and implements the required commands automatically in a robustly controlled environment.
Industrial Automation has been created based on innovation and innovation never stops.
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Using Gaming Technology to Improve Industrial Digital Twins
This webinar will discuss the various industry interpretations of what constitutes a Digital Twin. Integration is the future to sustainable software solutions, and the gaming industry provides a natural fit for visualization challenges that industry faces. We will show how leveraging the gaming ecosystem and emerging standards results in a more sustainable Digital Twin environment that can keep pace with advancements in the technology sector without excessive operating expense.
We will discuss the interface between legacy and emerging industry systems and the gaming world by sharing specific case studies.