The
department offers to suitably qualified candidates the opportunity to undertake
postgraduate study for the degrees Master of Engineering Science (Research) and
Doctor of Philosophy.
The department at Clayton has graduate teaching and research capabilities in
engineering dynamics, hydraulic and pneumatic systems for powered control and
logic, kinematics and mechanisms, robotics, manufacturing management and
technology, experimental and computational structural (solids) mechanics,
composite structures, bonded structures, repair technology and ageing
structures, vibration analysis and control, acoustics and noise control,
environmental fluid mechanics, transition and turbulence, computational fluid
mechanics, aeroacoustics, flow stability, fluid-structure interactions,free
surface flows, computer modelling of complex industrial flows, direct
simulation of turbulence, physics of swirling flows, development of numerical
methods for flow modelling, wind effects on buildings and structures,
hydrodynamics and water quality of bays and estuaries, mixing in swirling
flows, scalar mixing, energy conversion, heat transfer and gas flow in
non-circular ducts, boiling heat transfer, technology policy, automation,
control and systems and machine condition monitoring.
There are well-equipped laboratories and supporting workshops catering for
teaching, research and projects in these areas, including several world-class
research facilities. The department has very substantial computing and data
processing facilities. The department offers MEngSc(Research) candidature by
full-time, major research in accordance with Section 3 of the MEngSc(Research)
regulations. Candidates are also required to complete two compulsory coursework
subjects: MEC5410 (Research practices) and MEC5415 (Professional disputation).
Further details of these subjects are to be found in the ´Subjects - all
faculties' section of this publication.
Candidates for the PhD degree in the department are also required to complete
these coursework subjects.
Documents providing further details on graduate study are available from the
department.
Caulfield
campus
The department offers to engineering, science and management graduates the
opportunity to work towards the degrees of Master of Engineering Science
(Research) and Doctor of Philosophy.
Research activities are aimed at developing engineering analysis and management
techniques, the application of new technologies in operational and strategic
management and their impact on the evolution of productive systems.
The Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management group has graduate
teaching and research capabilities in concurrent engineering, agile
manufacturing, artificial intelligence in manufacturing, real-time computing
and simulation, materials selection and processes, plant maintenance and
physical risk schema, quality systems design (TQM, ergonomics and human
factors), business planning and project management, repair and maintenance
technologies.
The group has a special interest in the development of theoretical and dynamic
models of physical resource utilisation and their impact on the economic
productivity of systems.
Caulfield has special facilities for computer simulation, materials testing,
computer-integrated manufacturing, flexible manufacturing, real-time control
and systems monitoring.
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