COVID-19: Tracking the Pandemic

POOR VENTILATION HELPS THE VIRUS SPREADHKU’s Department of Mechanical Engineering has shown that COVID-19 can be transmitted several metres by air when there is poor ventilation – a timely warning as winter approaches and people spend more time indoors. The...

Turning STEM into STEAM through Music

The primary objective of the ‘STEAM’ competition, organised by the Faculty of Engineering and the Arts & Technology Education Centre (ATEC) and supported by the Knowledge Exchange Fund, was to enhance interest in and knowledge of how to engineer musical...

Softening the Blow

“We wanted to become the most respected orthopaedic implant company worldwide for the elderly, by offering the safest, most effective and most innovative treatment options for fracture repair in patients with soft, fragile bone tissue,” said co-founder Dr Sloan...

Going for Robotic Gold

Going by the unforgettable name of Duckietown, the project is an interdisciplinary learning exercise in robotics research, giving students experience prototyping self-driving robots and applying artificial intelligence (AI) to the physical education platform developed...