Future engineers in construction site classroom

From left, Mr Adrian Penny (Parsons Brinckerhoff), Mr Darren Beckman (Seymour Whyte) and Associate Professor Rodney Stewart
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Griffith University’s future engineers have taken advantage of being located next door to one of the Gold Coast’s current major road construction projects and are using it as a ‘real world’ classroom. In the latest in a series of engagements between Griffith students and industry, engineers from GC Connect Joint Venture — a joint venture […]

Renewable energies inspire Alice’s career goal

Engineering student Alice Fleetwood
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A high school visit to a wind farm was enough to convince Griffith University School of Engineeringstudent Alice Fleetwood about where her professional future lay. “I grew up in northern NSW and we were off the electricity grid. Renewable energy was a part of daily life,” she recalls. “I already knew how important renewable energy […]

Zachery hopes to engineer biomedical cures

Bachelor of Electronic and Biomedical Engineering student Zachery Quince working with circuit board
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Happiness for Zachery Quince is imagining a world where cellular degenerative diseases can be cured through biomedical engineering. And to keep him focused on making his “happy place” a reality, the Griffith University student only has to look at the symbol for serotonin — the neurotransmitter responsible for happiness — tattooed on his arm. Zachery, […]