This provides a visual map of the Australian International Design Awards and Engineering Excellence exhibitions. It helps teachers highlight major themes, AV, interactives and key objects to students before the visit. Most of the key objects are hyperlinked either to the Museum Online Collection Database or relevant online resources for easy reference. It also features relevant teaching and learning resources that are available online.

1. Australian International Design Awards &
Engineering Excellence
Pre-visit exhibition walkthrough

2. This exhibition walkthrough provides an overview of the:
• Physical layout and exhibition sections
• Key objects (click on the hyperlinks to go to the Museum’s online collection or other
online sites)
• Audiovisuals and interactives
• Relevant online teaching and learning resources

3. AV:
Judges
speak
5 min.
Australian International Design Awards exhibition
On display are eleven remarkable design solutions picked by the
Museum for their good design and innovation, sustainability and
industry or market significance from a field of 105 finalists of the
2012 Australian International Design Awards.

4. Lighting array
AV:
Deep sea
exploration
James 10 min.
Cameron’s
Battery beanie
Foam cup Isofloat®
Weights 30 cm think attached to syntactic
acrylic lens the outside foam
of the sub
Deepsea Challenger
This 12 ton sub was designed and manufactured by four
Australian companies, in partnership with Hollywood film director
James Cameron. It was able to safely take James Cameron 11
kilometres below the sea surface in March 2012, overcoming
challenges similar to those faced in space exploration.

5. AV:
Sea
Scoopa
2 min.
Chappelli NuVinci
This a new type of urban bicycle that simplifies gear changing to
enhance cycling. The bicycle's NuVinci® N360™ continuously
variable drivetrain makes riding quieter, smoother and more
enjoyable.

6. AV:
Sea
Scoopa
2 min.
Sea Scoopa
This is a a new ‘man overboard’ rescue device approved by the
Royal Australian Navy.

7. MineLab
F3 Compact Metal Detector
This is a compact, highly-
effective mine detector for
use by the military.

8. RØDE Stereo VideoMic Pro
This is a broadcast-quality
microphone for use with
digital cameras.
UltraStudio 3D
This is a professional video-
editing unit that can connect
cameras, mixers, monitors
and tape decks to operate at
high speed.

9. ResMed Pixi Pediatric Mask
This is a pediatric nasal mask
designed to treat young
children with obtrusive sleep
apnea.
SphygmoCor XCEL
This is a new cuff-based
device for measuring central
(aortic) blood pressure.

10. CoDé System®
A wireless tagging system that ensures incorrect chemicals are
not mixed together during transport and storage..

11. EchoPanel® Mura
It is a new designer wall lining made from recycled material.

12. Bung Plug
It significantly reduces the
amount of contamination
from organ discharge
during the processing of
meat, thereby reducing
waste and ensuring
Australia’s world-wide
reputation for its high meat
standards is upheld.

13. Engineering Excellence 2011
Award winning engineering projects selected by the Sydney
Division of Engineers Australia

14. The Articulated Head
2010 Finalist, Research and Development
This interactive and playful system disarms and delights the
audience and directs complex human-robot interactions in novel
ways.

15. FlexgridTM
Bradfield Award Winner - the most outstanding project
It is an Australian engineered product developed by Finisar. It
allows telecom carriers to easily route the huge daily volume of
virtual information along specially designed flexible channels.

16. The Inner West Busway along Victoria Road
Finalist - Infrastructure projects
This provided a new city bound bus lane, an additional three-lane
bridge with a shared use path for the popular ‘Bay Run’ recreational
route, and a traffic lane-change management system that would
allow for the fast and clear transition between lanes, and an
upgraded urban parkland.

17. National Gallery of Australia (Aboriginal Memorial Gallery)
Finalist – Building & Structures
The development and introduction of stable temperature and
relative humidity conditions in and around traditional Indigenous
log coffins and the engineered solutions to achieve these
conditions, forms the focus of this display.

18. Engineers Without Borders
Finalist – Education & Training
The display features the development and introduction of a human
waste bio-digester system for the floating river communities on the
Tonlé Sap Lake in Cambodia.

19. The Safety System Array China Fast Train Project
The Floating Solar for the
(President’s & ExcellenceRegional Workplace, Health and Safety)
Finalist – Engineering for Awards, Communities
This idea behind this project is to float solar arrays on water, to
The project uses specially designed cameras inserted into the
track to warn the driver reduce water evaporation on small and he
produce electricity and of a dangerous obstruction long before
wouldfarm dams.see it.
large otherwise

20. Online resources
1. Australian International Design Awards exhibition page
2. Good Design Australia
3. Engineering Excellence 2011 exhibition page
4. Australian Engineering Excellence Awards
5. Australian designers at work, meet & learn how designers
work
6. Australia Innovates, an online guide to innovation in
Australia’s industries
7. HSC technology syllabus support, case studies in design,
technology and cultural diversity
8. Sydney designers unplugged, showcases seven Sydney
product design studios
9. D*Hub, a gateway to the worlds best design collections and
online magazine with news, interviews, opinions and ideas

21. Relevant education programs
1. Exploring the design process workshop for yrs 7–12
2. Exploring chair design workshop for yrs 7–12
3. Exploring lighting design workshop for yrs 7–12
4. The magic of materials workshop for yrs 7-12
5. Design inspired by nature workshop for yrs 9-12
Image credit: All images used are from the Powerhouse Museum
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