Magazine from the Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering

IMPACT #212

STEM and society

Magazine

IMPACT #212

Published December 2021

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The human side of applied science, technology and engineering

Social issues matter for STEM. This issue of IMPACT challenges all of us to look up from the lab, screen, sandpit, paddock and workshop, and connect with colleagues to address some of the deepest challenges and inequities persist across our society.

How can we can we close the science education gap in remote Indigenous communities? What will Australia’s transition to a net-zero society look like? And why do we need to think about diversity and ethics in aritifical intelligence?

These are just a few of the questions Australia’s leading technologists tackle in this issue of ATSE’s official magazine.