CADET is launched

The brand new Centre for Advanced Design in Engineering Training (CADET) at Deakin’s Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus was officially opened on 16 November, 2015. CADET features cutting-edge technologies, specialist aids and advanced high-end equipment enabling creativity, imagination, research and a new way to train future engineers.

Deakin’s Vice-Chancellor, Professor Jane den Hollander, welcomed the Federal Education Minister, the Hon. Senator Simon Birmingham, Federal Member for Corangamite Sarah Henderson MP, and many industry representatives to the CADET launch.

CADET facilitates a range of opportunities for its users with digital manufacturing, rapid prototyping, 3D modelling and visualisation technologies. Students, researchers and industry are able to experience and master the tools and techniques that will propel Australian manufacturing beyond the 21st century.

“Unless we are bold, and unless we have vision beyond today, we cannot hope to prosper into the future when it comes to manufacturing. We are grateful for the Federal Government’s recognition of our vision and positive direction through its $22 million contribution to CADET”, Professor den Hollander said.

“Because of our new approach, and the world-leading technology inside CADET, our students will be solving real-world problems in partnership with industry from the very beginning of their degrees,” he added. 

CADET is bursting with cutting-edge facilities including the southern hemisphere’s first fully-immersive virtual reality lab that lets users walk through virtual reality representations of products which have yet to be realised, for example, a prototype compressed air powered car or ball robot.

The high voltage lab is another key facility housed within CADET, which dazzles visitors with tangible lightening bolts. It enables students and industry to utilise the number of Tesla transformers within the lab to test electrical-related experiments.

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