Tagged with School of Engineering

A group of first-year Griffith University environmental engineering students enjoyed a successful debut in the Chem-E-Car competition at the recent Asia Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering in Melbourne. The competition challenges students’ ability to design and build a car that uses a chemical reaction, or reactions, to power it and control the distance it travels […]

Harnessing the energy created from salinity gradients — for example, when freshwater meets the sea — could provide a renewable source of power able to mitigate climate change impacts, reduce reliance on fossil fuels and improve processes within the desalination industry, according to new research from Griffith University. In a paper published in the journalRenewable […]

Griffith's SABEL Labs has developed SABEL Sense, an alternative to GPS for tracking running speeds and distances, which is set to be a game changer in the sports performance and wearable technology industries.

Professor Neal Ryan, a long-time leading figure in research, education, business and public policy in Australia, has been named Griffith Sciences’ 2015 Outstanding Alumnus of the Year. The announcement was made at a special reception at Brisbane’s City Hall this week. Design engineer Mr Justin Gavranich received the Young Alumnus of the Year Award. “This […]

Griffith University School of Engineering graduate Dinindu Yatawarage has grown accustomed to personal challenge and the unpredictable nature of change. In the past four years, Dinindu has gone from working as an air-conditioning technician with his father in Sri Lanka to relocating to South-East Queensland, supporting himself as a restaurant kitchenhand and line cook, and […]

It started 25 years ago as a single building among bushland on the edge of town. But today Griffith University has a thriving Gold Coast campus in possibly the most exciting university precinct in the world.

Five Griffith University academics have been recognised for their role in boosting the Gold Coast economy by attracting conferences to the city.