School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering

The following postgraduate courses are available:

Doctor of Philosophy

Honours Master of Engineering by Research

Master of Engineering Studies

Master of Engineering Practice (Mechatronics)

Master of Internet Technology

CURRENT RESEARCH AREAS

There are two major research centres within the School. The Telecommunications Research Centre researching in the area of Telecommunications and the Industrial Automation Research Centre researching in the areas of Automation and Power Engineering. The School has significant industry linkages and scholarships are frequently available with industry partners. The following areas of research are available to candidates undertaking the degrees of Honours Master of Engineering by research and the Doctor of Philosophy:

Telecommunications: Switched Networks

• Active networks
• Ad hoc multi-hop networking
• Closed loop control in packet networks
• Location aware networking
• Network dimensioning
• Network management
• Network traffic modelling and control
• Wireless ATM
• Wireless internet protocols

Telecommunications: Network Services

• Internet and WWW services
• Internet telephony
• Multimedia databases
• Network games
• Video on demand
• Virtual reality

Telecommunications: Digital Signal Processing

• Adaptive filtering
• Blind signal processing
• Coding for error-prone channels
• Computational auditory scene analysis
• Filter banks and wavelets
• Image and video processing
• Internet access technologies (xDSL)
• Low-rate speech coding
• Multirate signal processing
• Wideband speech/audio coding

Industrial Automation: Automation

• Advanced control systems
• Computer integrated manufacturing systems
• Machine tool design
• Machine vision
• Mechatronics
• Precision position and speed control
• Robotics and sensors
• Telerobotics

Industrial Automation: Applications

• Arc welding control
• Renewable energy sources
• Superconducting magnetic energy storage

Industrial Automation: Power Engineering

• Electric motors
• Linear motors
• Power electronics and applications (eg welding, servo-systems)
• Power quality
• Superconductors
• Variable speed drives