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Swinburne University of Technology has launched a new 2025 Strategic Plan that sets a bold path for the university to build on its legacy as a leader in.
May 3 2021, 11:37 am | BY Ricki Green | 10 Comments
Swinburne University of Technology has partnered with Deloitte Digital to launch a new brand positioning next gen now.
Leveraging Swinburne’s credentials in technology, creativity and innovation the next gen now platform positions the university as the prototype of a new and different university at the cutting edge of what’s next.
Says Carolyn Bendall, chief marketing officer at Swinburne: “At Swinburne we believe in bringing people and technology together for a better world. As a proudly creative and constantly innovating 21st century university, we saw an opportunity to convey this proposition more distinctively in the market.
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Sixteen-year-old Gus was shocked when one of his female school friends told him she feared for her safety while sitting next to a man on a train.
It was something he had not had to face, due to his gender. But learning that many girls and women did not share his sense of security was a life-changing experience for the Melbourne schoolboy.
âI think about it all the time now. I sit there and think about how hard it would be to not feel safe in doing most things,â he says. âIt would just make it so complicated and stressful all the time. I just want women to feel safe.â
SINCE THE Romans began doing it with great panache more than 2,000 years ago, road-building has been something of a sweaty and grubby business, involving heaving great quantities of rocks and stones into place and, in more recent times, covering the surface with asphalt or concrete. Now a group of Swiss researchers think they have come up with a more elegant solution. Strange as it may seem, this involves knitting.
Martin Arraigada and Saeed Abbasion of the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology use a robotic arm to lay out string in a series of elaborate patterns. As the knitting takes shape, layers of stones are added and tamped down. The string entangles the stones, keeping them in place. The result is a structure that is surprisingly stable and strong. In one experiment a section of pavement put together in this way withstood a load of half a tonne. The encapsulated stones hardly moved at all.