Equipped with a three-year, $322,800 Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery grant beginning in 2015, UNSW engineers hope to make wearable devices secure enough to feed the information they collect into the mainstream health system. [ + ]

Engineers Australia has welcomed 'A strategy for inclusiveness, well-being and diversity in engineering workplaces'. The strategy provides a comprehensive roadmap to improve diversity and inclusiveness in Australia's engineering workplaces. [ + ]

Anritsu has received the 2014 Price-to-Performance Leadership award in the Vector Network Analyser (VNA) market from Frost & Sullivan. [ + ]

AusBiotech is seeking expressions of interest to join the Australian delegation to the 73rd China International Medical Equipment Fair (CMEF) in May 2015, the Asia-Pacific's largest exhibition with around 2700 exhibitors and 80,000 visitors. [ + ]

ETSI's Industry Specification Group for Surface Mount Technique has released its Group Specification for Embedded Communication Modules for Machine to Machine Communications. [ + ]

Mouser Electronics has teamed up with Grant Imahara, a celebrity engineer, best known for his role on the American television show Mythbusters, on a new Empowering Innovation Together campaign. [ + ]

Researchers at The University of East Anglia are a step closer to enhancing the generation of clean energy from bacteria. [ + ]

element14 has signed a deal with 4D Systems to distribute the 4D Systems range of products exclusively in Australia. [ + ]

FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition will host its first Australian regional competition at the Sydney Olympic Park Sports Centre from 11-14 March 2015. [ + ]

element14 was named a silver winner in Best Community Development at the 2014 Digital Impact Awards in London. [ + ]

ABB has donated more than $150,000 in drives, motors and PLC equipment to the Electrical Power Engineering (EPE) Laboratory, located at the Clayton campus of Monash University. [ + ]

Dr Edward Sazonov, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at The University of Alabama, is developing a sensor that can be worn around the ear that would automatically track diet, giving medical professionals and consumers accurate information that can be missed with self-reporting. [ + ]

Toshiba's Dr Shuji Hirakawa has received the IEC Lord Kelvin Award, the highest global prize in electrotechnology, for his long-term contribution to increasing the technical harmonisation that enables global trade and his commitment to the mission of the IEC. [ + ]

Dyesol has signed an agreement with SPECIFIC, an open innovation centre managed by Swansea University in the UK. [ + ]

RS Components has boosted its battery portfolio by adding Lead Crystal batteries from new supplier partner Betta Batteries. [ + ]