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Engineering Postgraduate
Research Guide 2007

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At UNSW the range of research interests in engineering is extremely diverse as a result of the number and quality of the research supervisors in the various academic units (Schools and Centres) which include:

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Chemical Engineering & Industrial Chemistry
  • Civil & Environmental Engineering
  • Computer Science & Engineering
  • Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications
  • Materials Science and Engineering
  • Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering
  • Mining Engineering
  • Petroleum Engineering
  • Photovoltaics & Solar Energy
  • Surveying & Spatial Information Systems

In the ten Schools/Centres of the Faculty, the major research areas are:

The Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering

  • Cardiovascular and Respiratory Dynamics
  • Kidney Function Replacement
  • Biomaterials for Implantable Devices
  • Medical Iinformatics

School of Chemical Engineering & Industrial Chemistry

  • Environmental Technology
  • Electrochemical Engineering
  • Heat and Mass Transfer
  • High Temperature Chemistry
  • Membrane Science and Technology
  • Minerals and Energy
  • Particle Technology and Catalysis
  • Polymer Science and Technology
  • Supercritical Fluids
  • Process Modelling

School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

  • Engineering Construction
  • Geotechnical Engineering
  • Structural Engineering
  • Transport Engineering
  • Water Engineering

School of Computer Science & Engineering

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Bioinformatics
  • Computer Architecture
  • Computer Systems Engineering
  • Database
  • Networks
  • Software Engineering

School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications

  • Photonic Technologies and Optical Communications
  • Photovoltaic Devices
  • Signal Processing
  • Mobile Communications
  • Quantum Computing
  • Microelectronics
  • Power Systems
  • Electrical Power Equipment
  • Power Electronics and Drives
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Control Systems

School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Applied Mechanics
  • Design
  • Fluid and Thermal Engineering
  • Mechatronics
  • Industrial Technology and Management
  • Naval Architecture

School of Mining Engineering

  • Mine Environmental Management And Sustainable Development
  • Mine Geophysics
  • Mine Ventilation
  • Mining Systems And Methods
  • Seabed Mining
  • Underground Mine Geomechanics
  • Virtual Reality Systems for Training and Simulation

School of Petroleum Engineering

  • Drilling and Completion
  • Petroleum Economics
  • Production Engineering
  • Reservoir Characterisation
  • Reservoir Engineering

School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems (formerly Geomatic Engineering)

  • Geodesy
  • Image Analysis And Remote Sensing
  • Multi-Sensor Navigation Systems
  • New Positioning Technologies
  • Optimal Estimation Theory
  • Precise GPS Navigation
  • Small-Scale Deformation Monitoring
  • Telegeoinformatics Applications
  • Terrestrial Laser Scanning

Centre for Photovoltaic Engineering

  • Photovoltaic Devices

 

Related Information

Research Areas
List of current research areas sorted by engineering school.

Research Staff
Browse or search for Research Staff in the Faculty of Engineering.

Research Centres
The Faculty of Engineering is associated with 10 Research Centres.

Cooperative Research Centres
The Faculty of Engineering is a partner in 11 major Cooperative Research Centres.

 



 

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