Three engineering institutions, three female presidents
4 May, 2021 03:00 AM
4 minutes to read We re there to hold the organisation accountable, says Rosalind Archer, president of Engineering New Zealand. Photo / Supplied We re there to hold the organisation accountable, says Rosalind Archer, president of Engineering New Zealand. Photo / Supplied
They were the old boys clubs of New Zealand engineering. Women run them now. I wish it weren t newsworthy, Rosalind Archer says in jest about her March appointment as president of Engineering New Zealand, the 22,000-member behemoth that registers the country s chartered professional engineers and holds them to account.
One month before Archer, Michelle Grant became the first woman president of the Structural Engineering Society. Last April, Helen Ferner made similar waves at the Society for Earthquake Engineering.
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By David Silverberg
image captionDrilling for hot rocks - a plentiful energy source
Drilling holes into an extinct volcano might sound like an unusual start to an energy project.
But that s what J Michael Palin, a senior lecturer at the University of Otago in New Zealand, is planning to do.
His project involves drilling two boreholes to a depth of 500m (1,600ft) and monitoring the rock to see if it is suitable to provide geothermal energy. It has been known for some time that the Dunedin region has surface heat flow about 30% higher than expected based on previous measurements, says Dr Palin.