The Australia/New Zealand region is a hub for engineers based across Australia and New Zealand. The region enables members across all sectors of the engineering community to connect with one another and to keep in-tune with Irish engineering developments from across the world. The region's activities are facilitated through Corporate Membership of the Irish Australian Chamber of Commerce.
Some of the events previously held by the Australia/New Zealand region include:
The World Solar Challenge – from October 20-27, 2023 – is the world’s most prestigious and challenging race of electric vehicles, powered only by the energy of the sun. Traversing 3,000km from Darwin to Adelaide, teams comprise of tertiary and secondary students from more than 30 countries, who together with their support team, achieve greatness by engineering and building a vehicle with their own hands and powering it across some of the world's most challenging landscape.
Long-term study of Melbourne, Australia, shows how urban development and change affects pedestrians, not just automobiles.
Could the 30-year failure cycle evident in specific bridge failures be coincidence or something more? Sean Brady looks at the technical and human aspects of this unfortunate trend.
As part of the Brady Review into fatalities in the mining and quarrying industry of Queensland, Sean Brady examines the causes of serious accidents.
Australian engineers have invented a soft wearable device that simulates the sense of touch and has wide potential for medical, industrial and entertainment applications.
Sean Brady highlights some of the responses that there have been into his review of all fatalities in Queensland mines and quarries from 2000 to 2019, which he carried out for Australia's Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy (Queensland). He discusses how the review’s findings have been received and the challenge that lies ahead.
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Our committees arrange and host technical presentations, discussions, debate and social events in our regions and represent the group at liaison committee. If you are interested in being a part of this committee, please contact our Sector Support team at sectorsupport@engineersireland.ie. You must be logged into the website to display the current committee members below.