QLD Events

Personalised Rapid Transport - A New Sustainable Public Transport System

Fri, 2014-10-17 17:25 -- adminssee

Australia is facing many challenges at present - a significant debt, congested cities and their heat island affect, looming peak oil, daily road fatalities, financing much needed costly and community intrusive light rail systems and the loss of its skilled and  innovative manufacturing capability.

An intelligent Personalised Rapid Transport system (PRT) is slowly gaining traction globally and the presenter has the view Australia needs to embrace this system to assist in meeting the above challenges.

Engineering - Soft Skills are Not Hard

Fri, 2014-09-12 15:51 -- adminssee

Employers often lament that students and, more worryingly, recent graduates lack the "soft skills" needed to succeed during industrial placements – attributes such as effective communication, pro-active demeanour, orderly management of self and effective team membership and team leadership1. This deficiency undermines support for industry engagement programs despite their role as a key element in the formation of young engineers.

Community Impacts of Coal Seam Gas

Thu, 2014-05-15 14:10 -- adminssee

The development of coal seam gas (CSG) has proceeded very rapidly over the last few years, with four companies active in the Western Downs area of South West Queensland.

The Cumulative Socioeconomic Impacts research project, based in the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining in UQ’S Sustainable Minerals Institute, is examining the cumulative impacts – positive and negative - of the four CSG companies on communities, with Miles the pilot town.

Wind Power - Myths & Facts

Tue, 2014-04-29 16:36 -- adminssee

Wind generators have been producing utility-scale electricity around the world for decades and wind power has been the fastest growing source of renewable energy. There are currently over 318 GW of wind energy installed worldwide, enough to power hundreds of millions of homes, and this is expected to more than double by 2020.

Why Economists think engineers don’t understand efficiency

Tue, 2014-04-29 11:00 -- adminssee

QLD SENG Dinner and AGM

Dinner speaker - Dr Richard Denniss, Executive Director of The Australia Institute

Richard presented at the SENG 2013 conference dinner in Canberra and was a great hit with all attendees.  His presentation was both informative and entertaining with plenty of laughs had by all!  Richard will enlighten us on the misnomers relating to economics and how these can impact on sustainability.  This is a not to be missed event!

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