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The National Engineering Oral History Program aims to record for posterity in their own voice, the experiences, achievements and observations of significant engineers, provide resources to Division heritage units that may not otherwise be able to afford to undertake oral history, and establish an engineering oral history data base for researchers, biographers, historians, journalists and social scientists.

This edition includes the regeneration of Woolloomooloo Finger Wharf, a wartime journey — Stuart Highway Heritage Guide, the Point Nepean Quarantine Station, and mining for oil at Lakes Entrance.

This guide details the Engineering Heritage Australia's Engineering Heritage Recognition Program. 

The purpose of the program is to encourage conservation of Australian engineering heritage and to raise community awareness of engineering and the benefits it provides.

This edition takes a look at the Murtoa Stick Shed, an American’s View of Australian engineering heritage, the case of two missing engineers, and the Woolloomooloo Finger Wharf.

This edition explores the story of Barque “James Craig”, the Bairnsdale to Orbost Railway, trams in Australia, and Ferguson Tractors.

This edition looks at making connections in Western Australia, Jindalee Over-the-horizon Radar, Cremorne Railway Bridge, and provides and update from Engineering Heritage Queensland.

This edition looks at the Mount Lyell Abt Rack Railway, Thompsons of Castlemaine, Newcastle’s Carrington Pumping Station, and the bushfire at Yarloop in Western Australia.

This edition covers the paddle steamer “Mary Ann”, the Humphrey Pumps at Cobdogla, Chefchaouen and the Wadi Laou in Morocco, and the bushfire at the historic Yarloop Railway Workshops.

This edition looks at 150 years of mechanised transport in Tasmania, Hobart’s floating bridge, the “Sons of Gwalia” goldmine, and the trams of Hong Kong.

This edition explores the Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence, the Great Melbourne Telescope, Stawell Water Supply, and John Monash’s earliest pier and girder concrete bridge.

This edition covers Lake Burley Griffin on the Molonglo River, the Mullumbimby NSW Hydro–Electricity Scheme, the construction of Melbourne’s sewerage system, and Hong Kong's Tai Tam Waterworks Heritage Trail. 

This edition includes 100 years of the HS Taylor Header Harvester, the construction of the Bairnsdale to Orbost Railway, and John Monash's innovative bridge designs. 

This edition looks at an unusual concrete bridge in Queensland, a great Australian invention, the B–24 Liberator Bomber and the Werribee Hangar, and the Sydney Harbour control tower.

This edition covers the dawn of early railways in Australia, a report on the EHA Heritage Recognition Program, and Roman concrete. 

This edition includes the Great Ocean Road - the world's largest war memorial, 2000 years of stone bridges in Provence, the The Electrolytic Zinc Co. of Australasia Ltd., and the Port of Clarence. 

The purpose of this practice note is to provide engineers and others with essential background information on the assessment of the engineering heritage significance of an item or work.

This edition includes Edward Barton and the Barton White & Company Power Station and Factory, the National Steam Centre, Scoresby, Ord River Diversion Dam, Overland Telegraph and the Phoenix Foundry in Ballarat. 

The purpose of this practice note is to provide engineers and others with a process for assessing engineering heritage significance.