Postgraduate Research Opportunities

Acoustics and Vibrations

• Nonlinear Dynamics and Stability of Piezoelectric Micro Beam Arrays with Applications to Scanning Force Microscopy (Gutschmidt)
• Global collective seismic dynamics of high-density buildings (Gutschmidt)
• Structure-ground interactions of a small-size cluster of civil structures (Gutschmidt)
• Wing Flutter Dynamics of WW1 Bi-Planes (Gutschmidt)
• Various acoustics research themes (Pearse)

Applied Mechanics

• Reliability of Microelectronics Packaging (Wong)
• Damage Mechanism of Fibre Reinforced Plastic (Wong)
• Wind and Marine Renewable Energy (Wong)
• Computational mechanics and topology optimisation of porous scaffolds for bone-interfacing implants (Woodfield)

Biomedical

• Active Insulin Control and Monitoring (Chase)
• Mechanical Ventilation Modelling and Optimisation (Chase)
• Sedation-Agitation Sensor for Intubated Patients in the ICU (Chase)
• Modelling and Control of the Sedation-Agitation Curve in ICU Patients (Chase)
• Physiological Systems Modelling (Chase)
• Characterizing Human Strength for the Purpose of Supporting the Design of Assistive Devices (Gooch)
• Airflow During Breathing Therapy for Adults and Babies (Jermy)
• Micro-Nano-Robotic Biomanipulation and BioMEMS/NEMS (Wang)
• Multi-therapeutic Strategies for Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Repair (Woodfield)
• Development of Tissue Engineered Cartilage Constructs with Zonal Structure and Function (Woodfield)
• Smart scaffold design for the development of zonal Tissue Engineered Cartilage Constructs (Woodfield)
• Computational mechanics and topology optimisation of porous scaffolds for bone-interfacing implants (Woodfield)

Design

• Watercraft Project (Alexander)
• Renewable Energy: Wave Energy Research (Alexander)
• Characterizing Human Strength for the Purpose of Supporting the Design of Assistive Devices (Gooch)

Energy and Thermodynamics

• Wind and Marine Renewable Energy (Wong)
  
• Low carbon power generation from waste heat and geothermal sources: heat exchangers for Organic Rankine Cycle powerplant (Jermy)

Fluid Dynamics

• Watercraft Project (Alexander)
• Renewable Energy: Wave Energy Research (Alexander)
• Self-propelling, Coalescing Droplets (Sellier)
• Control of Bitumen Spraying (Sellier)
• What Interfaces Hide? (Sellier)
• Numerical Techniques in Optimal Shape Design (Sellier)
• Bedrock Reconstruction in Glacier Flows (Sellier)
• Understanding Blood Droplet Formation (Sellier)
• Contact Line Dynamics in the Presence of Solid Occlusions (Sellier)
• Modelling Silica Scale Deposition in Geothermal Systems (Sellier)
• Low carbon power generation from waste heat and geothermal sources: heat exchangers for Organic Rankine Cycle powerplant (Jermy)
  

Instrumentation, Dynamics and Control

• Active Insulin Control and Monitoring (Chase)
• Mechanical Ventilation Modelling and Optimisation (Chase)
• Sedation-Agitation Sensor for Intubated Patients in the ICU (Chase)
• Modelling and Control of the Sedation-Agitation Curve in ICU Patients (Chase)
• Physiological Systems Modelling (Chase)
• Structural Health Monitoring and Adaptive Digital Filtering (Chase)
• Physiological Systems Modelling (Chase)
• Structural Dynamics and Control for Seismic and Other Cases (Chase)
• Self-powered broadband monitoring sensors (Gutschmidt)
• Piezo Technology (sensors and actuators, ultrasonic motors) (Gutschmidt)
• Control of Bitumen Spraying (Sellier)

Manufacturing

• Various manufacturing projects listed in UC Spark (Pons)

Materials Science and Engineering

• Modelling Grain Boundaries in Strontium Titanate (Bishop)
• The Role of Complexions in Abnormal Grain Growth (Bishop)
• Reliability of Microelectronics Packaging (Wong)
• Damage Mechanism of Fibre Reinforced Plastic (Wong)
• Modelling the Piezoelectric Response near the Morphotropic Phase Boundary in Pb-free Electroceramics (Bishop)