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Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering
(SECTE)
COURSES OFFERED
Doctor of Philosophy
Master of Engineering -
Research
Master of Engineering Practice
(Mechatronics)
Master of Engineering Studies
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 segmentation, compression and retrieval
- Internet access technologies (xDSL)
- Low-rate speech coding
- Multirate signal processing
- Wideband speech/audio coding
- 3D Audio objects and environments
Industrial Automation: Automation
- Advanced control systems
- Computer integrated manufacturing systems
- Embedded internet systems
- Machine tool design
- Machine vision
- Mechatronics
- Precision position and speed control
- Robotics and sensors
- Telerobotics
- Virtual surgery
Industrial Automation: Applications
- Arc welding control
- Renewable energy sources
- Superconducting magnetic energy storage
Power Quality
- Monitoring and analysis
- Planning
- Equipment susceptibility
- Power electronics
- Variable speed drives
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