EPECentre News
24 May 2023
The grants will fund research into crisis health messaging, wearable ultrasonic devices, Parkinson’s disease biomarkers, and mutations in myeloid leukaemia.
15 May 2023
Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury PhD student Sarah Sale gave an award-winning presentation on myrtle rust at the recent International Conference on Biological Invasions (ICBI).
27 April 2023
Earlier this month EPECentre and Aruhiko – PEET hosted 27 engineering students on the four-day South Island Power Systems Field Trip.
26 April 2023
On The Conversation Research Engineer Patricio Gallardo writes how a shift to coastal shipping and rail could cut New Zealand’s freight transport emissions and asks why we are not doing it.
10 March 2023
University of Canterbury Professor Neville Watson is two years into leading a seven-year project to integrate renewable energy into Aotearoa New Zealand’s century-old electrical grid.
13 October 2022
Students, staff and industry came together for the annual awards and the APEX Summit on 6 October 2022.
01 September 2022
A group of 28 Electrical and Electronic Engineering students, along with three EPECentre and ECE staff, visited Manawa Energy’s Lake Coleridge hydroelectricity generation site on Monday 29 August.
19 August 2022
MBIE has granted $1.1 million in funding to University of Canterbury researchers to develop a hyper-realistic virtual therapy avatar to help high-functioning people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to better recognise emotions and reduce ‘social blindness’.
16 August 2022
A University of Canterbury-led project has won Government funding to explore how green hydrogen could provide sustainable transport, heating and electricity for New Zealanders.
04 August 2022
Engineering students take charge of their futures in the electricity industry.
27 June 2022
The University of Canterbury is leading a research collaboration to track Moon-orbiting spacecraft, with assistance from NASA’s CAPSTONE mission.
03 June 2022
Emboldening engineers and others to think differently to solve wicked ‘unsolvable’ problems is the focus of the University of Canterbury’s two Transition Engineering micro-credentials supported by the EPECentre and Transition HQ.
30 May 2022
This year’s Aruhiko | Power Engineering Excellent Trust Scholarship winners were welcomed during our annual PEET Scholars Welcome event earlier this month.
26 May 2022
The Electric Power Engineering Centre is pleased to welcome Dr Hamish Avery as their new director.
29 April 2022
An industry-academia research partnership could help offer solutions to reduce the carbon footprint of the freight transport industry.
01 March 2022
A University of Canterbury PhD candidate is fast tracking the commercialisation of a wine testing device with help from the KiwiNet Emerging Innovator Programme.
28 February 2022
Satellites are increasingly being released beyond our atmosphere, but what happens if we lose communication with a satellite and can’t see it to understand why? University of Canterbury (UC) researcher Associate Professor Stephen Weddell says this poses a threat to the very communication technologies we use every day.
23 December 2021
Electrification of Aircraft Systems for the Nacelle cowl NExt generation Opening System (NNEOS) project
14 December 2021
Swire Shipping has commissioned the EPECentre to research the carbon footprint of freight transport in New Zealand.
03 November 2021
Seaweed-based plasterboard, an app to help young people navigate sex and relationships, and a system to make houses safer in an earthquake are some of the innovative University of Canterbury projects to win a funding boost this week.
28 September 2021
Christchurch Mayor Lianne Dalziel learned about aerial firefighting and toured a virtual reality hospital during a hands-on visit to the University of Canterbury.
07 September 2021
Ten University of Canterbury research projects tackling the big issues have been green-lit with funding worth $23 million.
16 July 2021
Housed in a custom-made box under protective yellow light at the University of Canterbury’s Nanolab is a new world-leading Nanoscribe 3D printer.
24 June 2021
New Zealand’s dairy factories could be the big winners from a proposed new electromagnetic detection and imaging method aimed at boosting food safety systems. Working to develop the super-sensing method is a multidisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Canterbury, Lincoln Agritech, University of Auckland and FoodSouth, along with international collaborators in Australia and the UK.
09 June 2021
Research into the electrodes used in flow batteries at the University of Canterbury (UC) has the potential to help create cheaper, longer-life batteries for more renewable energy storage.