The History and Impacts of Australian Transport Engineering

Engineering Studies – H2 Transport Engineering – The Engineering Profession

The key concepts of this topic are significant achievements of Australian engineering and the positive impacts of transport engineering.

Key Concepts

• Recognizing Australian Engineering achievement and innovation
• Recognize developments in material, communication and manufacturing technology.
• The effects of the transport industry on peoples lives and the environment.
• Examples of engineering innovation in the transport industry.

Discussion Questions

History

• Name and describe examples of Australian engineering achievement in the transport industry.
• Explain how the engineering of transport systems has developed from existing designs.
• Detail particular materials applied in a current product that would not have been available to the engineer 30 years ago.
• Nominate technologies present in modern transport industry products that were not present 30 years ago.

Impacts

• Discuss the impacts that the transport industry has had on people’s lives.
• Discuss examples of product recycling and sustainability in the transport industry.
• Discuss an innovation in material application in a transport product.
• Describe an example of an innovation in transport packaging.
• Nominate future trends in the transport industry.