New Zealand-US Hydrogen Collaboration Day
“On April 10th and 11th, 2025, researchers from the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Auckland, and GNS Science in New Zealand joined collaborators from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL)...
Faculty of Engineering and Design’s Women in Engineering Holiday Camp Hosts High School Students
Excited Students paying keen attention, while also having fun On Tuesday, April 15, 2025, the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering’s Resource Recovery Lab’ had the pleasure of hosting around 50 Year-11 high school students from across New...
Uber Eats shares new framework to support Kiwi restaurants in the shift to more sustainable packaging choices
Written byUber Eats, Aotearoa Uber Eats is supporting restaurants across Aotearoa to shift towards more sustainable packaging, unveiling a practical, science-backed Green Packaging framework to help partners make informed decisions. To accelerate this transition, Uber...
Shaping Chemical and Materials Engineers That Shape the Future of Sustainable Energy
In The Future of Energy (CHEMMAT 304), a Part III elective, we were challenged to develop transferable skills and take on a multidisciplinary approach to solving technical problems related to climate change. As Team Confidence Connoisseurs, we wanted to tackle New...
A holistic approach to engineering
28 EG 30/2025 WRITER | KAITUHI ALEXANDRA JOHNSON Why water engineer L’Rey Renata is...
Emeritus Professor Barry Welch – Awarded the Brimacombe Prize 2025
Congratulations to Emeritus Professor Barry Welch on being awarded the Brimacombe Prize.For those who don’t know, Barry was a member of the department of chemical and materials engineering from 1980 to 1998 during which time he also served as Head of Department. Barry...
Dr. Kaveh Shahbaz’s “Smart Idea” Gets Funded by MBIE.
I am excited to announce that our Smart Idea proposal, “Extracting Value from an Invasive Seaweed Using Applied Ecophysiology and Green Solvents,” has been successfully funded by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE)!This project aims...
Gisborne community team up with experts to combat climate challenges
A unique collaboration between the University of Auckland and an isolated valley community in Tairāwhiti Gisborne aims to reshape how the region confronts climate-related challenges. Around 40 community members of a local iwi from Whareponga Valley, located in the...
Dr. Shan Yi Wins Marsden Grant
Researchers from the Faculty of Engineering are using artificial intelligence (AI) to study the dangers of ‘forever chemicals’ – persistent compounds found in everyday items like non-stick cookware, paint and dental floss.These chemicals, known as PFAS (per- and...
Dry Seeds, dried powders
If you search online, you’ll be able to find sellers for freeze dryer machines small enough to fit in a kitchen. If you’re willing to spend a few thousand on one, it’s fun to see what happens to common, everyday food when you leave it in a freeze...
Magnets on magnets
Have you heard the story of 42.zip? It’s supposedly a compressed zip file that is only around 42 kB, but when fully uncompressed yields around 4500 TB of data. It’s an old file and there are many newer files which exceed even this limit. Yet even this is...
Oxygen-Infused Sewage Stew: Fuelling Tomorrow’s Energy
Sludge in wastewater treatment is the thick, semi-solid byproduct that settles out from the treated wastewater. This sludge can be broken down by bacteria in a process called anaerobic digestion, producing biogas that can be used as fuel to power the wastewater...
COVERT Operations
Title T. Source: Sean McGrath, Wikimedia Commons CC-BY 2.0 Have you ever thought of how the VFX people make realistic looking cloth and skin from math? One algorithm is called ‘Perlin noise’, created sometime in the 90s, and was revolutionary in computer...
Exploring Innovation in Landmine Disarmament: Tania Simpson’s Internship Experience at Tecnologίas MARTE.
As a second year Chemical and Materials Engineering student, I was in the midst of applying for any internships I could find. In doing so, I discovered an email from the University about The Intern Group, acompany who connects you to an international internship...