IMPACT #218
In this first issue of IMPACT magazine for 2025, we look forward to a big year for our Academy with a global focus and an international agenda.
Activating global innovation
A sustainable world for future generations
WELCOME FROM CEO KYLIE WALKER
The Australian Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering held its first meeting on 21 November 1975. Problem-solvers and renegades, the 65 Foundation Fellows launched from the Australian Academy of Science to pursue their vision of an Academy of hands-on innovators; an industry-facing Academy with a clear remit to build a better future. Sadly, only one remains — David Solomon. I wonder if those Founding Fellows could have imagined what ATSE would be today?
In our 50th year, we remain firmly grounded in history — but not just of this Academy: Ours is a history that extends back to the mid-17th century, to our ‘mother’, the Australian Academy of Science, and to our ‘grandmother’, the Royal Society of London. And, just as those earliest Founders then envisaged, we continue today, to maintain a steady gaze toward the future.
Exceptional achievement and leadership, innovation in technological sciences and engineering, and outstanding contributions at the interface between technology and society are still defining qualities for selection of Fellows, and intrinsic features of the work we do.
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Cover image: Maldives coral restoration coral propagation steel frame to attach broken coral fragments for re-planting on the reef to avoid coral bleaching. Source: iStock.
Articles
Articles
Global impact through Australian fruit fly innovation
Withdrawal of permits for fruit fly pesticides resulted in the need for alternatives that were safe to humans and the environment. Professor Richard Drew built upon comprehensive research in species identification, ecology and species biology to develop a world-first technology, designed to attract and kill mature egg-laying female fruit flies.
Making communities safer through water knowledge and collaboration
In Dr Maryam Farzadkhoo's work as a floodplain scientist, she engages with a diverse range of experts from engineers, hydrologists and policy makers to local communities. Solving these complex challenges wouldn’t happen without these collaborations.
Contents
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President's introduction
Welcome from the CEO – Problem-solvers and renegades
Boosting Australia’s innovation
Distinguished Professor Saeid Nahavandi FTSE and Dr Dimity Dornan AO FTSE
CAETS: Welcome back to the southern hemisphere
International science comes to Australia
Making communities safer through water knowledge and collaboration
Maryam Farzadkhoo
We are the changemakers
Dr Marlene Kanga AO FTSE FREng
ATSE New Fellows 2024
Celebrating Australian technology and engineering trailblazers at the ATSE Awards 2024
Global Science and Diplomacy Fund — Strategic Element: Stories of international discovery
— Advancing sunlight-to-hydrogen conversion for a sustainable future
— Building a sustainable future towards net zero
— Bridging innovation: Australia-Thailand collaboration in electrolyser component manufacturing
Global impact through Australian fruit fly innovation
Professor Richard Drew FTSE
Academic volunteering across the Indo-Pacific
Emeritus Professor Graham Schaffer FTSE
Vale
What we’re reading & watching
Publications by ATSE Fellows
ATSE supports the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
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