Global e-commerce SaaS provider, BigCommerce, has a new chief engineer of its Australian operation who will oversee the design, development and testing strategy with a team of more than 25 engineers at the company’s Sydney headquarters.

Mathematical software specialist Wolfram Research has acquired MathCore Engineering.

Minnesota-based US software engineering firm, TEAM Informatics (TEAM) has just completed its purchase of Sydney-based TEAMFusion5, following its acquisition earlier this year of a controlling interest in the Australian company.

Microsoft has announced an ambitious project to help scientists, engineers and others create and run simulation models of real-world phenomena.

Launching an AU$2.5 million campaign, Engineers Australia is running a competition asking for public submissions of lofty ideas for an engineering team to ‘make so’.

According to a 2010 National Science Board report, the state of science and engineering in the U.S. is still good; however, the country’s lead in the number of researchers is being challenged by China. Other science and engineering indicators in the U.S. are also being challenged by Asian countries.

The U.S. space agency NASA is launching its 2010 Summer of Innovation to attract students into the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). If you want to go to space or to be part of space exploration, your best choices are in these areas of education.

The head of NICTA’s computer operating systems research group, Professor Gernot Heiser, is the winner of the award for New South Wales Scientist of the Year for engineering, mathematics and computer sciences.

The 1/X design concept car by the Toyota Motor Corporation may one day use high-technology materials such as environmentally sustainable seaweed for the main material of its body. In the future, Toyota may use ecologically-friendly plant-base materials for all of its cars and trucks.

Researchers at Australian National University are developing a solar-powered residential air conditioning and heating system that could help to cool us off in the summer and warm us in the winter, and also prevent power blackouts.