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. In addition to the usual Australian
Government and university scholarships, a number of departmental scholarships
are generally offered to qualified and enthusiastic candidates.
The department at Clayton possesses internationally-recognised research
expertise in a number of specialist areas, and many have ongoing active
collaborations with the leading institutions overseas. Among others, some of
the active areas of involvement include: robotics and mechatronics; kinematics
and mechanisms; manufacturing and technology management; fluid mechanics
(including direct simulation of turbulence, aeroacoustics, free surface flows,
advanced experimental methods, flow stability, fluid-structure interaction,
computer modelling of industrial flows, flow transition, swirling flows, flows
in bioreactors and physiological flows); heat transfer and energy (including
energy conversion, computer modelling of heat transfer processes, combustion
and fuel technologies); aerospace and aeronautical engineering; solid and
structural mechanics (including composite structures and smart materials,
computer modelling of structures, experimental structural mechanics, bonded
structures, repair technology and ageing structures); marine and estuary
engineering (including hydrodynamics and water quality in bays and estuaries,
environmental fluid dynamics, fluid-structural dynamics of marine structures,
and scalar mixing); wind engineering (including wind effects on building and
structures, and high Reynolds number flows around structures); control and
systems; machine maintenance; engineering management (including agile
manufacturing, real-time computing, quality systems design, business planning
and project maintenance); micromachines; and surface friction.
There are well-equipped laboratories and supporting workshops catering for
research projects, including several recognised world-class experimental
facilities. The department also has substantial private and university
computing and data processing facilities, as well as access to national
high-performance computing clusters. 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 units: MEC5410 (Research practices) and MEC5415
(Professional disputation). Further details of these units are to be found in
the `Units - all faculties' section of this publication.
Candidates for the PhD degree in the department are also required to complete
these coursework units.
Documents providing further details on graduate study are available from the
department. Further information is also available from the departmental web page.
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