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Students design device to filter mercury from water
A device designed by engineering and environmental science students to remove mercury from contaminated waterways has been successfully trialled and could be further developed for use in Indonesia. The project was inspired by...
New lab to help drive Australia's low carbon energy future
The ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science is proud to announce a new million-dollar laboratory to further research on Australia’s low carbon energy system. The Distributed Energy Resources (DER) Lab will be built on...
A birthday, a reflection and a mission
By Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell, Director, 3A Institute The 3A Institute at The Australian National University is two years this week. That means we are already two years into our mission to establish a new...
College researchers set solar record with next-gen cells
Researchers from the ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science have broken new ground in solar cell energy efficiency and in the process provided a glimpse of the technology's future. The researchers have a set a new record...
Dining for diversity: College representatives meet with Indigenous innovators
As part of the Reimagine Co-Design initiative, representatives of the College met with the Indigitek network for an evening of conversation and deep listening, at a community dinner hosted at...
Computer Science internships given the green light
It is a truth universally acknowledged that being stuck in traffic is the worst. We’ve all been there, stuck in a transport bottleneck, thinking ‘surely there must be a better way!’. Master of Computing student Mengqing Wang (Mai...
Hopper Down Under celebration - student lens
Over 29 – 31 July we sent a group of students to attend the Hopper Down Under conference in Brisbane. The conference is aimed at empowering women technologists of...
Lessons in leadership and humanitarian design
Engineering Student Laura Taylor travelled to Fiji and Timor Leste to take part in the Project Everest Ventures internships. When I first sat debating with myself...
3A Institute leaps light years ahead as new researchers join the team
The 3A institute at the ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science has welcomed two new eminent researchers to the team,...
College is an early adopter of cutting edge Cyber Security training tech
The ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science is striving to be at the forefront of education technology, while supporting the local innovation community. The College is utilising technology created by Canberra based tech...
What do science fiction and building a new applied science have in common?
Creating fictions of the technological future is not only an exercise in projecting forwards, it is also a way of critiquing the decisions we make in the present that will impact on the future.
Divergent thinking key to mastering AI
Students in the 3Ai Masters program are exploring how to take artificial intelligence (Ai) safely to scale. So where do you start to tackle a topic so large? Part of the approach is to make sure we are asking the right...
A hop, skip and a jump towards diversity in STEM
A group of students, professional and academic staff from the College will be travelling to the inaugural Hopper Down Under Celebration in Brisbane, Queensland on 29 – 31 July. An initiative which ANU is proud to be a platinum sponsor...
CECS International Winter Study Tour 2019
For the first two weeks of July 2019, The Australian National University (ANU) College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) hosted an International Winter Study Tour for 23 international undergraduate students from two of our...
Lego legend lands at ANU to help launch new space school
World-renowned space exploration expert Professor Junichiro Kawaguchi has joined The Australian National University (ANU). Professor Kawaguchi led the first successful mission to touchdown on an asteroid and bring samples...
Senior Shandong University, Weihai Delegation Visited ANU
A senior delegation led by Professor Lidong Xia, the Vice President of Shandong University, Weihai (SDUW), accompanied by the Australian Education Management Group (AEMG) visited ANU on 18-19 July 2019. ANU College of Engineering...
College hosts Code Like a Girl school holiday camp
This week the ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science hosted a school holiday Coding Camp for girls, run by social enterprise Code Like a Girl (CLG). The workshop was a three day...
LGBTSTEM Afternoon Tea
Friday 5 July marked the second International Day of LGBTIQ+ People in STEM. The College hosted an afternoon to celebrate inclusion in STEM and improve support and visibility for the...
Inventing IT: The life and times of Grace Hopper
It’s 1947 - Harry S. Truman is US president, Frank Sinatra is the nation’s heartthrob, the Chevrolet Fleetline is the coolest car around, and a loaf of bread costs 13 cents. Grace Hopper is a Research Fellow at Harvard University...
City University of Hong Kong visits ANU
The ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) welcomed a delegation led by Professor Robert Li from City...