Postgraduate course information
UTS: Engineering offers postgraduate coursework and research programs, providing a wide range of professional development opportunities to engineers and other graduates. In fulfilling these responsibilities, UTS: Engineering draws on its close links with industry to offer distinctive programs that are highly regarded by engineering-dependent enterprises.
In 2012, over 900 students were enrolled in postgraduate coursework programs and over 200 in research degree programs.
Postgraduate award courses may be taken by coursework or research. UTS: Engineering supports research through its management of postgraduate research, development of research strengths and centres, encouragement of individual researchers and research teams, facilitation of interdisciplinary research, and sponsorship of visits to UTS: Engineering by internationally renowned experts.
In addition to award courses, UTS: Engineering provides opportunities for continuing professional development through studies undertaken on a non-award basis.
The following information is intended to assist postgraduates to plan and complete their studies within UTS: Engineering. Additional information can be obtained online and from other publications or by direct inquiry.
Postgraduate coursework
Specialist courses
UTS: Engineering offers specialist courses by coursework in several fields. Each of these courses includes core subjects which must be satisfactorily completed during studies for the award.
Students in any specialist course receive preference in the allocation of class places in core subjects. Students taking popular subjects through elective studies are allowed to enrol when places are available.
- Master of Engineering Management (C04094)
- Master of Engineering Management Master of Business Administration (C04102)
- Master of Engineering Studies Master of Engineering Management (C04207)
- Master of Environmental Engineering Management (C04098)
- Graduate Certificate in Engineering Management (C11054)
- Graduate Certificate in Environmental Engineering Management (C11051)
General courses
A range of coursework programs is available through UTS: Engineering, leading to the general awards of Master of Engineering (by coursework), Master of Engineering Studies and Graduate Certificate in Engineering.
For each of these general awards, postgraduate majors are available. The majors offered reflect current research strengths and interests in UTS: Engineering.
- Master of Engineering (C04090)
- Master of Engineering Studies (C04097)
- Graduate Certificate in Engineering (C11048)
Distance education
Flexibility is a major feature of UTS: Engineering's postgraduate engineering management and environmental engineering management programs.
The distance education program is designed to meet the professional needs of busy engineers. Core subjects and a selection of electives can be taken in distance mode as well as standard attendance mode.
Students who want to undertake a course in distance mode may have to follow a restricted course structure as not all subjects are offered in distance mode.
The following are examples of subjects that may be offered in distance mode:
- 49122 Ecology and Sustainability
- 49003 Economic Evaluation
- 49121 Environmental Assessment and Planning
- 49001 Judgment and Decision Making
- 49069 Leadership and Responsibility
- 49013 Managing Information Technology in Engineering
- 49002 Managing Projects
- 49309 Quality Planning and Analysis
- 49123 Waste and Pollution Management
Progression
Postgraduate engineering students may be excluded from further study at the University if they fail more than 50 per cent of the total number of enrolled credit points from the commencement of the course.
Postgraduate engineering students may also be excluded from a course if they exceed the maximum time allowed for completion of that course (see rule 10.5).
Timetables
UTS timetable information is available from:
Majors
Postgraduate majors are available in the Master of Engineering (ME), Master of Engineering Studies (MEStud) and Graduate Certificate in Engineering (GradCertE).
UTS: Engineering offers an extensive range of programs by research and/or coursework through its award and non-award courses. A selection of these program majors are described below. Information on other specialist research areas can be obtained from individual members of academic staff.
Program majors have been developed to match the needs of engineers and other professionals. They provide opportunities for advanced studies and professional development in engineering and cross-disciplinary areas between engineering and other disciplines. All postgraduate program majors are differentiated by their focus, structure, presentation, attendance flexibility, assessment practices and multiple entry/completion options.
Students are entitled to have the name of the major listed in their degree transcript (not the testamur) if they have completed the following.
- ME (by coursework): a minimum of four subjects (24 credit points) must be completed within the particular postgraduate program major as described below, together with an approved graduate project in the major of between 18 and 30 credit points. Indicated major compulsory subjects must be completed.
- MEStud: a minimum of four subjects (24 credit points) must be completed within the particular postgraduate program major. Indicated compulsory major subjects must be completed. Any special topics listed in the program major are not available in the MEStud. To obtain the energy planning and policy major, students must complete eight subjects (48 credit points) from the respective program major list. MEStud management subjects do not apply to these majors. To obtain the software engineering major, students must complete all five subjects from the major as well as the management subjects.
- GradCertE: a minimum of three subjects (18 credit points) must be completed within the particular postgraduate program major as described below. Indicated compulsory major subjects must be completed.
Postgraduate program majors reflect current research strengths and interests in UTS: Engineering and change with time. The availability of individual subjects in any year is influenced by student demand, arrangements with visiting lecturers, scheduling within the University and policies on class sizes.
If, in the opinion of the Director of Postgraduate Coursework Programs, a student does not have the required prerequisite knowledge to successfully undertake and complete a major, the student may be required to undertake one or two preparatory undergraduate subjects.
Biomedical Engineering
This major is available in the ME, MEStud and graduate certificate.
Academic inquiries
Dr Steven Su
CB01.24.10B
telephone +61 2 9514 7603
fax +61 2 9514 2435
email Steven.Su@uts.edu.au
Civil Engineering
This major is available in the ME, MEStud and graduate certificate.
Academic inquiries
Dr Shami Nejadi
CB02.5.12
telephone +61 2 9514 2617
fax +61 2 9514 2633
email Shami.Nejadi@uts.edu.au
Civil Engineering and Structural Engineering
This major is available in the MEStud only.
Academic inquiries
Dr Shami Nejadi
CB02.5.12
telephone +61 2 9514 2617
fax +61 2 9514 2633
email Shami.Nejadi@uts.edu.au
Computer Control Engineering
This major is available in the ME, MEStud and graduate certificate.
Academic inquiries
Dr Steven Su
CB01.24.10B
telephone +61 2 9514 7603
fax +61 2 9514 2435
email Steven.Su@uts.edu.au
Energy Planning and Policy
This major is available in the ME, MEStud and graduate certificate.
Academic inquiries
Professor Deepak Sharma
CB02.7.078
telephone +61 2 9514 2422
fax +61 2 9514 2633
email Deepak.Sharma@uts.edu.au
Engineering Management
This major is available in the ME only.
Specialist programs in engineering management are available as a Master of Engineering Management (C04094) and as a Graduate Certificate in Engineering Management (C11054).
Academic inquiries
Ravindra Bagia
CB02.7.084A
telephone +61 2 9514 2432
fax +61 2 9514 2435
email Ravindra.Bagia@uts.edu.au
Environmental Engineering
This major is available in the ME only.
Specialist programs in environmental engineering management are available as a Master of Environmental Engineering Management (C04098) and as a Graduate Certificate in Environmental Engineering Management (C11051).
Academic inquiries
Dr Pam Hazelton
CB02.5.25
telephone +61 2 9514 2661
fax +61 2 9514 2633
email Pam.Hazelton@uts.edu.au
Local Government Engineering
This major is available in the ME, MEStud and graduate certificate.
Academic inquiries
Ken Halstead
CB02.5.25
telephone +61 2 9514 2640
fax +61 2 9514 2633
email Ken.Halstead@uts.edu.au
Manufacturing Engineering and Management
This major is available in the ME, MEStud and graduate certificate.
Academic inquiries
Dr Jinchen (JC) Ji
CB01.20.30
telephone +61 2 9514 2677
fax +61 2 9514 2435
email Jin.Ji@uts.edu.au
Operations
This major is available in the ME, MEStud and graduate certificate.
Academic inquiries
Dr Hasan Akpolat
CB02.07.71A
telephone +61 2 9514 2628
fax +61 2 9514 2549
email Hasan.Akpolat@uts.edu.au
Software Engineering
This major is available in the ME, MEStud and graduate certificate.
Academic inquiries
Dr Zenon Chaczko
CB01.22.10
telephone +61 2 9514 2528
fax +61 2 9514 2435
email Zenon.Chaczko@uts.edu.au
Structural Engineering
This major is available in the ME, MEStud and graduate certificate.
Academic inquiries
Dr Shami Nejadi
CB02.5.12
telephone +61 2 9514 2617
fax +61 2 9514 2633
email Shami.Nejadi@uts.edu.au
Systems Engineering
This major is available in the ME, MEStud and graduate certificate.
Academic inquiries
Ravindra Bagia
CB02.7.084A
telephone +61 2 9514 2432
fax +61 2 9514 2435
email Ravindra.Bagia@uts.edu.au
Telecommunication Networks
This major is available in the ME, MEStud and graduate certificate.
Academic inquiries
Anthony Kadi
CB01.24.30
telephone +61 2 9514 2459
fax +61 2 9514 2435
email Anthony.Kadi@uts.edu.au
Telecommunications Engineering
This major is available in the ME, MEStud and graduate certificate.
Academic inquiries
Anthony Kadi
CB01.24.30
telephone +61 2 9514 2459
fax +61 2 9514 2435
email Anthony.Kadi@uts.edu.au
Telecommunications Engineering and Telecommunication Networks
This major is available in the MEStud only.
Academic inquiries
Anthony Kadi
CB01.24.30
telephone +61 2 9514 2459
fax +61 2 9514 2435
email Anthony.Kadi@uts.edu.au
Water Engineering
This major is available in the ME, MEStud and graduate certificate.
Academic inquiries
Dr Pam Hazelton
CB02.5.25
telephone +61 2 9514 2661
fax +61 2 9514 2633
email Pam.Hazelton@uts.edu.au
Postgraduate research
UTS: Engineering has a lively and cutting-edge research culture driving advances in engineering and IT technology, practice and education. UTS: Engineering's research is needs-driven and collaborative and works with many enterprises in business partnerships. Researchers are world-class and recognised leaders in their fields, responsible for delivering new, better and more cost-effective solutions to complex engineering challenges.
Research is varied and utilises modern laboratories and research facilities on the City campus, Broadway. These are supported by extensive computing facilities and library services. The laboratories have excellent back-up workshops and expert support staff. Many opportunities exist for professional development through challenging, well-resourced research programs.
Contacts and inquiries
The management and administration of all research matters of the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology is managed through the faculty's Research Office, headed by the Associate Dean (Research). The office is responsible for a broad range of matters including, but not limited to, research-strategic priorities, policy and planning, and advice and support to faculty staff in preparing grant applications, research publications, research conferences and research degree student supervision. The associate dean is supported by the Director of Research Programs, the Research Manager and the research administration officers, who are responsible for the academic management and support of research degree students and general research matters respectively.
Research matters are governed via the Research Management Committee and Research Degrees Committee that report to the Faculty Board in Engineering and Information Technology. The Research Management Committee has overarching responsibility for determining the faculty's research strategies and policies, and for making recommendations in relation to building research culture and profile, and for budgetary and resourcing matters relating to research. The Research Degrees Committee makes recommendations and sets policies relating to candidature management of higher degree by research students, from admission through to graduation.
Specific inquiries should be directed to the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology Research Office. Key staff are:
Associate Professor Jaya Kandasamy
Director of Research
telephone +61 2 9514 2558
email Jaya.Kandasamy@uts.edu.au
Dan Gollan
Research Manager
telephone +61 2 9514 7863
email Daniel.Gollan@uts.edu.au
Phyllis Agius
Research Administration Officer
telephone +61 2 9514 2686
email Phyllis.Agius@uts.edu.au
Gunasmin Lye
Research Administration Officer
telephone +61 2 9514 2663
email Gunasmin.Lye@uts.edu.au
Craig Shuard
Research Administration Officer
telephone +61 2 9514 2591
email Craig.Shuard@uts.edu.au
General inquiries from domestic students should be directed to:
UTS Graduate Research School
telephone +61 2 9514 1336
General inquiries from international students should be directed to:
UTS International
telephone 1800 774 816 (free call within Australia)
Research profile and strengths
The Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology has a number of key research centres and institutes. These centres are hives of research activity that have international standing within their respective discipline areas. The centres and institutes include:
- Advanced Analytics Institute
- Centre for Built Infrastructure Research
- Centre for Energy Policy
- Centre for Electrical Machines and Power Electronics
- Centre for Health Technologies
- Centre for Human-Centred Technology Design
- Centre for Innovation in IT Services and Applications
- Centre for Quantum Computation and Intelligent Systems
- Centre for Intelligent Mechatronic Systems
- Centre for Real-Time Information Networks
- Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater.
Collaborative research
UTS: Engineering's researchers work with private and public companies to achieve their strategic objectives in engineering research and development. These collaborative programs tend to be long-term and offer mutually beneficial outcomes, with the economic, business, social and environmental dimensions of engineering being addressed explicitly. Most collaborative research is supported by sponsorships or grants.
Research opportunities and major research areas
Research opportunities are available in the following areas of specialisation.
School of Computing and Communications: wireless relay/mesh and cooperative networking, body area networking, micro- and nano-scale networks, 4G (WiMAX, LTE), short-range RF and inductive near field communication systems and sensing, antennas and propagation, microwave engineering, national broadband network, multi-antenna systems, wireless sensor networks, bio-mimetic paradigms for network management and configuration, autonomic communications, anticipatory systems, radio resource management (RRM) mechanisms, Satellite communications and broadcasting, LAN/WAN enterprise networking, network embedded applications, m-health monitoring, mobile networks, personal area networks, multilayer switching, mobile and distributed multimedia applications and services, network security, internet service architecture, programmable networks, internet quality of service, web technologies, web architecture framework, mobile commerce and internet business, location-based services, network grid services, peer to peer networks, digital signal processing, pattern recognition, computer vision, multimedia, image processing, image and video analysis, machine learning, cognitive and affective multimedia content analysis and multimedia systems.
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering: built infrastructure, structural engineering, geotechnical engineering, construction materials, local government, road engineering, water and environmental resource management, water modelling, membrane technology in water and wastewater treatment, soil contamination and remedial techniques, and solid waste management.
School of Electrical, Mechanical and Mechatronic Systems: advanced control, artificial intelligence, autonomous robotics, automotive engineering, biomedical engineering, energy, embedded systems, health technologies, mechatronics, power systems, and renewable energy.
School of Software: art and technology, artificial intelligence, computer animation, computer games, computer graphics, computer usability, data mining, e-finance, e-government, e-health, e-marketing, e-safeguard, e-security and e-service, emergency management, expert systems, human-computer interaction, information systems, innovation and creativity, innovation and technology, intelligent agents, intelligent problem solving and smart business decision-making in engineering, interaction design, interactive entertainment, interactive storytelling, learning environments, multi-agent systems, multimedia, next-generation automated enterprise cooperative infrastructure, object-oriented computing, object-oriented processes and methodologies, ontologies, optimisation activities, quantum computing, ray tracing, rendering techniques, requirements engineering, resource planning, robotics, semantic web, smart trading systems, software development, and technology design and use.
School of Systems, Management and Leadership: energy policy and planning, engineering practice, environmental risk, information systems, IT education, IT governance, IT strategy and management, knowledge management, operations and risk management, strategic IT leadership, systems analysis and design, systems development, and systems theory and socio-technical systems.
Further information is available from:
Research centres and institutes
The Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology supports several institutes and centres, each capturing established research strengths in engineering, information technology and related fields. These include the following.
Advanced Analytics Institute (AAI)
AAI provides interdisciplinary expertise and leadership in areas including data mining, machine learning, applied statistics, behaviour analytics, data science and engineering, marketing, finance, economics, decision-making, optimisation and risk management. AAI offers cross-disciplinary and cross-domain research capabilities and hands-on experience in advanced analytics across historical data, real-time information and future trends. Analytics is a fast-growing global industry with an ever-increasing demand for qualified graduates. At UTS, a cross-disciplinary approach to analytics research brings together experts from across UTS's faculties and research centres to form a specialist analytics group. AAI brings together leading researchers from the Faculty of Engineering and IT, the Faculty of Business, the Centre for Quantum Computation and Intelligent Systems (QCIS) and the Centre for the Study of Choice (CenSoC). The Institute also fosters dedicated research and development resources for advanced analytics and receives resource support from the UTS External Engagement department and the UTS Research Innovation Office.
AAI offers unique training programs in broad-based analytics. AAI is working towards fostering world-class specialists and analytical project managers for specific domains through a supervisor-driven and practice/project-oriented approach, interdisciplinary workshops, short courses (including executive training), and day-to-day engagement in tier-one organisations.
Director
Associate Professor Longbing Cao
telephone +61 2 9514 4411
email advancedanalytics@uts.edu.au
Centre for Built Infrastructure Research
The Centre for Built Infrastructure Research (CBIR) comprises a multidisciplinary team of researchers from the faculties of Engineering and Information Technology; Science; and Design, Architecture and Building. CBIR's nationally and internationally renowned work focuses on finding solutions to important global problems in control, rehabilitation and health monitoring of building structures and bridges, green and smart materials, sustainable design, management, improvement, safety, and conservation.
Director
Professor Bijan Samali
telephone +61 2 9514 2023
email Bijan.Samali@uts.edu.au
www.research.uts.edu.au/strengths/bi
Centre for Electrical Machines and Power Electronics
The Centre for Electrical Machines and Power Electronics (CEMPE) is principally concerned with electrical variable speed drives and generation of electricity using rotating electrical machines and renewable sources (such as wind and hydro). The technical research disciplines necessary for these two areas are very similar, covering electrical machines design, power electronics and mechanical design. The interest in renewable energy generation is primarily for remote areas and developing countries, so the incorporation of expertise in design for such areas is valuable, with the inclusion of energy requirements analysis, energy economics, technology transfer and human management issues.
Director
Professor Joe Zhu
telephone +61 2 9514 2318
email Jianguo.Zhu@uts.edu.au
http://services.eng.uts.edu.au/cempe
Centre for Energy Policy
The Centre for Energy Policy (CEP) addresses contemporary energy and environmental policy issues in national and international contexts. Energy market reforms, environmental policy options and energy–economy interactions are key areas of focus. Research undertaken in the centre is policy-oriented, applied and cross-disciplinary, emphasising the weaving together of technical, business, economic, legal, social, political and philosophical dimensions of energy, environmental and economic policies.
Director
Professor Deepak Sharma
telephone +61 2 9514 2422
email Deepak.Sharma@uts.edu.au
Centre for Health Technologies
The interdisciplinary research skill-base brought together in the Centre for Health Technologies (CHT) is unique in Australia in the development of medical devices and systems. The CHT has four research programs: non-invasive instrumentation, bio-therapeutics, bio-electromagnetics and nano-biotechnology. Its focus is on health and disease processes, and the development of new devices and advanced methods for the early detection, diagnosis and rehabilitation of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, neurological disorders and cancer. Its research has already produced several new-device technologies which are at the cutting edge of biomedical engineering and science.
Director
Professor Hung Nguyen
telephone +61 2 9514 4441
email Hung.Nguyen@uts.edu.au
Co-director
Professor Ann Simpson
telephone +61 2 9514 4097
email Ann.Simpson@uts.edu.au
http://services.eng.uts.edu.au/~htn/health.html
Centre for Human Centred Technology Design
The Centre for Human Centred Technology Design (HCTD) is committed to information and communications technology (ICT) design research, methods and approaches, as defined by its commitment to the human, that is, to those who will use the technology.
HCTD's approach furthers the development of a much needed socio-technical perspective on technology design that can both balance and extend the more common technology driven or management driven perspectives. HCTD's focus is on understanding the complex interplay between the drivers of social, organisational and technical change and how these shape, and are shaped by, the design, implementation and use of information and communication systems. The centre's research outcomes contribute to the design and development of ICT that fit easily and appropriately into the social, cultural and organisational contexts within which they will be used.
Directors
Professor Toni Robertson
email Toni.Robertson@uts.edu.au
Professor Didar Zowghi
email Didar.Zowghi@uts.edu.au
Laboratories and contacts
Interaction Design and Human Practice Laboratory (IDHuP)
Lab Director: Professor Toni Robertson
email Toni.Robertson@uts.edu.au
Requirements Engineering Research Laboratory (RE)
Lab Director: Professor Didar Zowghi
email Didar.Zowghi@uts.edu.au
Creativity and Cognition Studio (CCS)
Lab Director: Professor Ernest Edmonds
email Ernest.Edmonds@uts.edu.au
Games Studio
Lab Director: Associate Professor Yusuf Pisan
email Yusuf.Pisan@uts.edu.au
Leadership for Innovation in the Digital Age Research Community (LiDA)
Lab Director: Associate Professor Ken Dovey
email Ken.Dovey@uts.edu.au
Centre for Object Technology Applications and Research (COTAR)
Lab Director: Professor Brian Henderson-Sellers
email Brian.Henderson-Sellers@uts.edu.au
Technology, Education, Development and Design Research Laboratory (TEDD)
Lab Director: Andrew Litchfield
email Andrew.Litchfield@uts.edu.au
Centre for Innovation in IT Services and Applications
The Centre for Innovation in IT Services and Applications (iNEXT) is a world-class research environment for developing and nurturing innovation for the next generation IT services and applications, including internet-enabled business applications, mobile health services, high-end visualisation technologies, novel image processing architectures and advanced video surveillance systems.
- Future internet: iNEXT aims to develop those enabling mechanisms that will allow the transformation of the current connectivity infrastructure into the service infrastructure of tomorrow's internet.
- Applications and services: iNEXT aims to develop innovative applications with special focus on assistive mobile health and internet-enabled business applications.
- Visual information processing: iNEXT aims to define novel visualisation techniques and intelligent recognition algorithms for extracting important information from video streams and wireless sensor networks for surveillance and environmental monitoring purposes.
Commercialisation of such applications and services is particularly emphasised. iNEXT includes a significant research training component, graduating many research students in the past years.
Directors
Professor Doan Hoang
email Doan.Hoang@uts.edu.au
Professor Massimo Piccardi
email Massimo.Piccardi@uts.edu.au
Laboratories and contacts
Advanced Research in Networking
Lab Director: Professor Doan Hoang
email Doan.Hoang@uts.edu.au
Computer Vision and Image Processing Lab
Lab Director: Professor Xiangjian He
email Xiangjian.He@uts.edu.au
Surveillance Lab
Lab Director: Professor Massimo Piccardi
email Massimo.Piccardi@uts.edu.au
Visualisation Laboratory
Lab Director: Associate Professor Mao-Lin Huang
email Mao.Huang@uts.edu.au
Centre for Intelligent Mechatronic Systems
Building on 15 years of strong cross-disciplinary research in electrical machines and power electronics at UTS, the Centre for Intelligent Mechatronic Systems (CIMS) integrates the disciplines of mechanical, electrical and electronics engineering and computer systems. Its four main research directions are: autonomous robots (operating in unstructured environments and for infrastructure maintenance, search and rescue, health care and road vehicles); electrical machines (new materials and topologies, system optimisation, variable speed control and compact, low-temperature fuel cells); automotive systems (performance, comfort, fuel efficiency, road safety and emission control); and human factors (physiological and psychological aspects of human–machine and human–environment interaction).
Director
Professor Gamini Dissanayake
telephone +61 2 9514 2683
email Gamini.Dissanayake@uts.edu.au
www.research.uts.edu.au/strengths/imes
Centre for Quantum Computation and Intelligent Systems
The Centre for Quantum Computation and Intelligent Systems (QCIS) is a research centre within the University's Priority Investment Research Program. The centre's mission is to be acknowledged by research centres throughout the world as a pre-eminent research centre in quantum computation and intelligent systems, and to be acknowledged by Australian industry and government as a leading source of knowledge and expertise in quantum computation and intelligent systems.
The centre was established in April 2008 with a vision to develop:
- theoretical foundations for quantum computation
- theoretical foundations for intelligent systems, and
- innovative technologies for intelligent systems.
This technology will result in next-generation enterprise intelligent information systems.
The centre's five major research programs cover quantum computation, knowledge discovery, decision support, innovation and infrastructure enhancement. Together, these programs develop a set of innovative and practical methodologies and techniques for intelligent information processing and system building for a broad range of businesses in the finance, marketing, security, health, government and engineering sectors.
Director
Professor Chengqi Zhang
email Chengqi.Zhang@uts.edu.au
Co-director
Professor John Debenham
email John.Debenham@uts.edu.au
Laboratories and contacts
Quantum Computation Laboratory
Lab Director: Associate Professor Runyao Duan
email Runyao.Duan@uts.edu.au
Data Sciences and Knowledge Discovery Laboratory
Lab Director: Professor Xingquan Zhu
email Xingquan.Zhu@uts.edu.au
Decision Systems and e-Service Intelligence Laboratory
Lab Director: Professor Jie Lu
email Jie.Lu@uts.edu.au
Knowledge Infrastructure Enhancement Laboratory
Lab Director: Dr Paul Kennedy
email Paul.Kennedy@uts.edu.au
Innovation and Enterprise Research Laboratory
Lab Director: Professor Mary-Anne Williams
email Mary-anne.Williams@uts.edu.au
Centre for Real-Time Information Networks
The Centre for Real-Time Information Networks (CRIN) aims to support research and development activities related to the efficient creation, collection, transmission, analysis and use of information in real-time, engineering-embedded applications. The centre supports the improvement of Australian society through a focus on applied research achieved through close links with both industry and research bodies working in appropriate application domains.
Examples of priority areas of interest for the centre are national security for safeguarding Australia, healthcare diagnosis and monitoring for the cost-effective improvement of the health of Australians, environmental and resource monitoring for a sustainable Australia, and the smart use of the web in supporting Australian industry.
The centre aims to design, fabricate and test proof of concept systems, in which the performance and operational suitability of the developed systems shall be demonstrated. The proof of concept systems may be electronic hardware, software, or a combination of hardware and software, and will include the latest prototyping technologies, such as embedded processors, high-performance networks and sophisticated distributed software applications.
Director (acting)
Associate Professor Kumbesan Sandrasegaran
telephone +61 2 9514 2428
email Kumbesan.Sandrasegaran@uts.edu.au
Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater
The Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater (CTWW) undertakes research to ensure the sustainable management of water resources in both urban and rural environments, in Australia and internationally. This collaborative research centre links researchers, government, industry and community partners through its research programs, which include solid liquid separation and filtration technologies in water treatment; innovative biological treatment systems for wastewater treatment; membrane hybrid and nanotechnology systems in water, wastewater and stormwater treatment; water reuse; desalination; in situ barrier and other systems for treatment of groundwater, surface and groundwater hydrology; bio-solid and waste management; urban water cycles and soil/aquifer management and modification; and flood management and catchment modelling for flood prediction.
Director
Professor Saravanamuth Vigneswaran
telephone +61 2 9514 2641
email Saravanamuth.Vigneswaran@uts.edu.au
