March 2025
MIT lecturer helps NZ understand green energy potential
New Zealand has set itself the goal of being carbon zero by 2050. Currently, around eighty percent of our electricity is generated through renewable sources, mostly hydropower and geothermal schemes. However, achieving one hundred percent renewable generation will rely on us finding a solution to maintain supply even when lake levels in the South Island [...]
The Effective Incorporation of Digital Resources in Tertiary Teaching-Learning Environments
In looking for ways to use digital online resources, educational developers are investigating how to weave these effectively into course design and development with a view to enhancing student engagement and ultimately student success (Crawford & Jenkins, 2017). In collaboration AUT and Australia's Flinders University, Susie Kung at MIT's school of education, is heading a [...]
Supporting families through the Breaking Ground Programme
The Anglican Trust for Women and Children (ATWC) is an Auckland social work agency that provides social services and programmes for South Auckland families and the community. Breaking Ground is a pilot project run by ATWC in conjunction with Oranga Tamariki. It is an 18-month intensive intervention programme that supports up to 16 families who [...]
Thriving ?tara
Since 1998, the ?tara Health Charitable Trust has tackled ?tara community's health and social issues and has a vision of breaking intergenerational effects of poverty. Funded jointly by the Trust and MIT, the Thriving ?tara project was created in 2016 to ascertain the key issues that are preventing ?tara from thriving and to consider what [...]
Designing and Developing a Technology-Assisted System to Support the Elderly during a Medical Emergency
Globally, an increasing number of elderly people living alone in the community have existing medical conditions and are in need of immediate support during medical emergencies. The most critical parameter of any medical emergency is response time. However, the arrival of ambulance often is delayed and may result in rapid deterioration of the patient's condition. [...]
Best paper award
Firas Al-Ali of the school of digital technologies has been working on an artificial intelligence (AI-on-Chip) project with a Swedish university. As part of his 2019 MIT Strategic Research Funded project work, Firas recently presented a paper, titled 'Benchmarking a Machine Vision Image Classifier Implementation on FPGA Using Binarized Neural Networks' at the 10th?CITRENZ 2019 [...]
Highly commended paper award
Saad Aslam of the school of professional engineering recently presented at the 29th International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC 2019) and was awarded Highly Commended Paper Award for his paper titled 'Performance Analysis of Clustering Algorithms for Content-Sharing Based D2D Enabled 5G Networks'. ITNAC is an IEEE co-sponsored conference of repute. This year it [...]
Reducing the toll of asthma in the developing world
Asthma-related fatalities are a global health problem, particularly in developing nations where an ambulance and emergency medical services are under-resourced. According to the World Health Organisation, there were 417,918 deaths in 2016, most of which occurred in low and lower-middle-income countries. MIT's school of digital technologies' Dr Sayan Kumar Ray and his research colleagues from [...]
Exploring the voice of social workers
Dr Melanie Wong of the social work team has been approached by Anglican Trust for Women and Children (ATWC) to conduct a research project to explore the voice of social workers who are working with families in an intensive intervention pilot programme run jointly by Oranga Tamariki and ATWC. The programme supports families who are [...]
MIT upskilling New Zealand for a greener future
Manukau Institute of Technology's School of Professional Engineering, along with their NZIST counterparts at Ara Institute of Canterbury, have an essential part to play in preparing transport for a new era of sustainability. Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment has announced the Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington will receive $15 million over seven [...]
