The International Air Transport Association (IATA) in its latest estimates reckons India to be a driving force behind the world’s civil aviation business that is globally expected to grow from US$ 5.1 billion to US$ 5.6 billion this year.
Modern and progressive, the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) has established a strong reputation for nurturing innovation and academic excellence. As a key member of the Australian Technology Network, UTS is committed to the education of industry-ready and highly employable graduates.
As the technological wave keeps advancing, shortage of Electrical and Electronic engineers is becoming a significant problem in Australia and around the world. A degree in Electrical and Electronics engineering provides routes into many different careers. People who can create the next generation computers, build efficient cars and planes, send messages over optical fibres, create robots to enhance manufacturing capacity, and develop new technologies to make manufacturing cheaper and cleaner are in high demand.
The word ‘nano’ originated from Greek, meaning dwarf. It indicates a scaling factor of 10-9 (billionth). A nanometre is one-billionth of a metre: ten times the diameter of a hydrogen atom. The diameter of a human hair is, on average, 80,000 nanometres. At such scales, the ordinary rules of physics and chemistry no longer apply. For instance, materials’ characteristics, such as their colour, strength, conductivity and reactivity, can differ substantially between the nanoscale and the macro. For example, Carbon ‘nanotubes’ are 100 times stronger than steel but six times lighter.
