Engineering News

Internationally renowned engineer calls for end to plastics pollution on World Earth Day
20-Apr-2018Professor Kim Pickering is backing her work making materials which can reduce waste plastics, with…

A life less ordinary
16-Apr-2018Terry Halford, once a sweeper of floors, now an environmental engineer.

A revolutionary new process for self-healing concrete
09-Apr-2018Using concrete as a medium, scientists at the University of Waikato have developed a new…

Long and successful careers acknowledged
21-Mar-2018An engineer and two education experts are now Emeritus Professors.

Waikato University professors go ‘viral’
16-Mar-2018An overseas research group of scientists is paying tribute to two University of Waikato Emeritus…

Investigating sustainable energy systems
22-Jan-2018The University is hosting the world's first conference on industrial electronics for sustainable energy systems.

Researching portable stroke detectors
11-Dec-2017Professor Yifan Chen is part of an international team developing a portable stroke detection and…

Is there a future for plastics?
21-Nov-2017Plastics have got themselves a bad name, but can we reuse the bad, and encourage…

STEAM without the hot air
27-Oct-2017Professor Mark Dyer is advocating a new approach to engineering in his Inaugural Professorial Lecture.

ICT inspiring new strategies for diagnosis and treatment of cancer
10-Oct-2017Can information and communications technology be used to better diagnose and treat cancer? Professor Yifan…

Three very Smart Ideas
22-Sep-2017University of Waikato researchers have won three lots of funding from the government worth nearly…

An alternative to plastic, a winning idea
15-Sep-2017He had to have his arm twisted to enter an international competition, but chemical engineer…

Waikato robocars competing across the ditch
31-Aug-2017Engineering students off to Sydney for autonomous robot competition.

The science of light: University of Waikato 3MT 2017
17-Aug-2017The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) challenges doctoral students to present their research in no more…

A sound argument
10-Aug-2017Professor Jonathan Scott has received seed funding from the SfTI National Science Challenge to investigate…

Northland Future Leaders Scholarship the perfect surprise
28-Jul-2017University of Waikato student and Northland Future Leaders Scholarship recipient Tennille Nisbet loves a good…

Learning more about explosion science
26-Jul-2017Waikato alumnus Dr Aaron Low has been awarded a travel fellowship to go offshore to…

US Air Force funds Waikato tech project
20-Jul-2017US Air Force awards nearly $250,000 to Waikato's Dr Fei Yang for hi-tech research.

Sweet success at the University of Waikato’s first ever Science and Engineering Open Week
05-Jul-2017Sorting different sized lollies without touching them was just one of the tasks encountered by…
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