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Data doctors: saving money and the planet

June 01, 2017
Specialist anaesthesiologist Dr Richard French turns to milk to help him explain a critical and costly part of the anaesthesia process, when a patient has been put under by intravenous drugs and are being kept sedated by anaesthetic inhalants. The anaesthetist is closely monitoring both the patient’s vital signs and the flow of the anaesthetic vapours.
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Super scanner accelerates research in Geelong

June 01, 2017
To better understand the heads, shoulders, knees and musculoskeletal woes of patients in the Geelong and greater referring region, Epworth Medical Imaging early this year took part in a pilot program that would clinically validate a breakthrough magnetic-resonance (MR) imaging scanner.
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GE locomotive engines teaming with the sun for mine power

May 25, 2017
In a clearing deep in the Fraser Range of Western Australia, five diesel engines are doing the locomotion standing still. The ultra-reliable GE 12-cylinder V-model 250SDA engines are used to travelling long distances as the heart of GE’s heavy-haul Evolution locomotives.
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Vaguely yours, Beth Comstock

May 24, 2017
In a business world that’s used to implementing successful formulas, how do we make room for discovery? Beth Comstock, Vice Chair of GE has called on her initial training as a biologist, to explain how company cultures can use the idea of emergent properties to allow new and adaptive patterns of operation to form.
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Powering the Pilbara—a new market for LNG

April 19, 2017
Three billion litres of diesel fuel imported into the Pilbara each year, primarily to power the mining industry; 5 billion litres of heavy fuel oil annually consumed by ships carrying iron ore from the Pilbara to North Asia. Match these figures with a technological leap in dual-fuel engines, and pressure on carbon and pollutant emissions, and the climate looks right for a revolution in powering Western Australia’s resourceful north.
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Australia's change-makers Decoding Industry

April 13, 2017
A king tide of data, workplace change and how to leverage technology for future prosperity were the themes of GE’s Decoding Industry event held at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art this week. Ten thought-provoking speakers engaged with 200 leaders from aviation, healthcare, resources, energy, and tech, to negotiate the gap between right now and accelerated innovation.
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Backtracking to GE’s first-ever Australian project

April 13, 2017
In 1896, just four years after GE was incorporated as The General Electric Company, it sent one of its most experienced electrical engineers, 45-year-old Joseph Stillman Badger, from its Schenectady rail facility in the US, to oversee the electrification of the Australian city of Brisbane’s horse-drawn tram network.
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Industrial intelligence—the biggest break a uni student ever had

April 07, 2017
This summer, in the space between one university year and the next, GE set up a real-world opportunity for students to get their hands dirty on actual, gritty industrial challenges. GE called it The Generator. And from Engineering, Mechatronics, IT and Data Science courses they came. What else would a student do with a three-month break?
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To build a wind farm, it takes a village...

April 05, 2017
Wind-farm prospector Frank Boland first met with farmers at the Lion of Waterloo in 2009, to discuss them hosting turbines on their land. Late the previous year, Boland, who leads the development team for renewable-energy company Infigen Energy, had used meta-scale wind modelling to identify Bodangora, near Wellington in central NSW, as a prime area to farm wind.
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Indigenous students striding for success

March 31, 2017
“I could never believe that a little girl from Coober Pedy could go all the way to Melbourne University, and be trained with Olympians who competed at Rio!” says Year 12 student Evanna Williams. “It was mind-blowing.”
Evanna, 17, is that “little girl from Coober Pedy”, the opal-mining town in South Australia’s central north with a desert climate and a dearth of opportunities for the young people among its 3,500 inhabitants.
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