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Research and Graduate Programs 1997
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Contents
Introduction
An Invitation to Postgraduate Study and Research 5
The University of Melbourne 6
Part 1
Research and Graduate Programs 7
The Faculty of Engineering
Chemical Engineering 8
Civil & Environmental Engineering 11
Computer Science 14
Electrical & Electronic Engineering 18
Geomatics 20
Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering 23
Other Specialist Areas
Development Technologies Program 26
Environmental Engineering Program 27
Hydrogeology 28
Higher Level Masters/Doctorate Programs 29
Research Centres 30
Part 2
Details of Subjects 33
Civil Engineering in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering 34 Environmental Engineering in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering 40
Computer Science 43
Cognitive Science 51
Electrical & Electronic Engineering 54
Geomatics Science 55
Centre for Geographic Information Systems and Modelling 60
Master of Applied Science - Geographic Information Systems 63
International Development Technologies Program 67
Environmental Engineering in the International Development Technologies Centre 77
Hydrogeology 82
Manufacturing Engineering 85
Part 3
General Information 91
Degrees/Diplomas Awarded 92
Course Objectives 92
Entry Requirements 94
Types of Candidature 94
International Students 96
Fees 97
Scholarships 98
Graduate Centre at the University of Melbourne 99
The School of Graduate Studies 100
The Postgraduate Association Inc. 100
Appendix A
Legislation and Prescriptions 101
Professor W W S Charters Dean ofEngineering
An Invitation to Postgraduate Study and Research in the Faculty of Engineering
The Faculty of Engineering at the University of Melbourne has been at the forefront of engineering research in Australia now for over fifty years and has paved the way in this country in the introduction of research qualifications in engineering both at the Masters and Doctoral studies levels.
More recently the Faculty has also established postgraduate courses at the graduate certificate, graduate diploma and masters levels, particularly in environmental engineering, manufacturing engineering and in development technologies.
These are in addition to existing courses in geographic information systems and in computing studies.
This has in no way diminished the emphasis on basic, strategic and applied research which continues to underpin the educational offering of the Faculty at the postgraduate level.
The symbiotic nature of research and teaching in the University environment allows us to provide our undergraduates with valuab І a insights into the nature of engineering invention and innovation.
With the changing emphasis on research priorities by Government and by industry, there is now considerable weight placed on applied and strategic research of direct and immediate benefit to engineering product and process development. There is also a continuing recognition, however, of the vital role of pure, basic, or curiosity-driven research in opening up new technological frontiers and in providing engineering innovations.
The Faculty has 13 special research and training centres, generates approximately $16 million annually in external research funds and attracts significant numbers of research staff and postgraduate students. It is a leading engineering research organisation of high international standing. The Faculty is involved in six collaborative research centres, one advanced engineering centre for manufacturing and one Australian Research Council special centre. The research expertise of the Faculty covers all the main areas of engineering, geomatics and computer science.
In any industrialized society, engineering research is no longer a luxury to be tolerated but is now seen as an essential and integral part of a continuous development process within all developed nations.
The Faculty of Engineering stands ready and well-equipped to meet the technological challenges and opportunities likely to arise in the closing years of this decade leading to the twепty- first century.
W W S Charters
Dean of Engineering
The University o Melbourne
The Campus
The University of Melbourne's physical development is reflected in a broad spectrum of architectural styles ranging from the very modern lines of its new Melbourne Business School to the classic majesty of its Law Cloisters, built in 1856.
The 20-hectare campus is landscaped with lawns, trees, gardens and interesting ornamental sculptures and murals enhancing the surroundings.
The Parkville campus contains all the amenities of a small town, including a shopping centre and post office along with banks, art galleries, medical centre, sporting facilities, museums and entertainment venues.
The Academic Year
Research higher degree students normally work on their theses throughout the year. Coursework masters and diploma and certificate students are required to attend courses during the normal teaching semesters, generally March to September.
Student Services
The University offers a range of student services, including advice on courses, careers, housing, employment, finances, learning and English language skills, health, legal matters and nearly every issue that might arise.
Student Clubs and Societies
The Student Union offers a diverse and interesting range of extra-curricular activities to cater for student participation in more than 160 clubs and societies reflecting interests such as sport, music, religion and literature. Clubs also exist for students with either international backgrounds or special international interests.
Sporting Facilities
Sporting facilities include a heated indoor swimming pool, gymnasiums, squash, tennis and basketball courts, cricket and athletics fields, and a synthetic running track. A $3.5 million sports centre stadium opened in 1992, providing facilities for the University's 45 sporting clubs. Off-campus facilities include the Boat Shed on the Yarra River and the Ski Lodge at Mt Buller.
Accommodation
The Student housing Advisory Service provides assistance with information regarding accommodation options. These options include privately rented houses and flats, renting in a shared house, private board, hostels, residential colleges and halls of residence, board in exchange and accommodation in Melbourne University-owned houses. It also assists with emergency accommodation, house hunting and renting. A resources library covering all aspects of housing is available for students to borrow from. A temporary accommodation program for international students, tenants' rights advice and women's housing accommodation listings are also provided by this service.
Eleven colleges and three halls of residence are affiliated with the University and situated close to the campus. Al provide full accommodation and academic support.
Colleges are open to both men and women. Although many of the colleges have religious affiliations they generally do not select students for admission on religious grounds.
Telephone: 613/03 9344 6550 Facsimile: 613/03 9344 5624
Location
As the University is located within a five-minute tram ride or a brisk ten-minute walk from the centre of the City of
Melbourne, students have easy access to the city and active
participation in the life of that city if they wish.
Chemical Engineering
Head of Department David Boger Tel +61 -3-9344-7440 Fax +61-3-9344-4153
Email:[email protected]
The Department of Chemical Engineering has a wide range of research activities, the vast majority being supported by non- University funds.
One of the first cooperative research centres to be awarded is located in the department - The G K Williams Cooperative Research Centre for Extractive Metallurgy. This centre, which involves a partnership between the Department of Chemical Engineering and the CSIRO Division of Minerals and Process Engineering, is the centre for extractive metallurgy research in Australia. It has very strong links with the Australian mineral and mining industry, as wei as other higher education institutions which are engaged in process metallurgy activities.
The Director of the centre is Dr David Nairn.
Another centre, the only Australian Research Council Centre of Excelence in the Faculty, is the Advanced Mineral Products Centre. This is a cooperative arrangement involving the Departments of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry and Mathematics. This centre provides leading edge research into non-Newtonian fluid mechanics and has very strong links with a broad cross-section of Australian industry. It has particular strengths in slurry transport. Professor David Boger is Deputy Director of this centre. Professor Boger is also involved as a major research partner in the CRC for Industrial Plant Biopolymers, which involves a significant facility for food testing and evaluation. This is in association with Professor Adrienne Clark of the School of Botany.
The department is the location for Australia's leading solvent extraction research group, led by Associate Professor Geoff Stevens. The work of this group ranges from minerals extraction to protein extraction and is involved in state-of-the- art separation processes.
The department has an active research interest in both environmental and biochemical engineering. This includes many research projects involving biological waste treatment, recycling strategies and cleaner production. There is a special focus on research in yeast and bacterial alcohol fermentations as well as other projects, including the scale-up of enzymatic processes for peptide production.
The fluoride process engineering group, led by Associate Professor David Wood, is undertaking research projects using fluoro-acids to process Australian minerals, partly for environmental purposes and partly to produce high value- added products. Three major projects are currently being undertaken, each of which has strong support from industry, including overseas companies, and the ARC. Patents are held on the fluoridation of Australian ilmenite to produce pigment- grade Tí02 and this is likely to lead to a new generation process. Patents are also held for processing spent potliner from aluminium smelters to produce environmentally-friendly waste and value-added products. A new project initiated by the Rolls Royce Company of the United Kingdom aims at producing an ultra-clean coal for firing in gas turbines. Postdoctoral fellows and postgraduate students are working on all of these projects, which are worth approximately $2 million per annum in research support.
There is a new and exciting research focus in the department, with the arrival of Jannie van Deventer as Foundation Professor of Mineral and Process Engineering. Professor van Deventer's research includes the modelling of competitive adsorption and elution processes, leaching of complex ores and wastes, the monitoring of flotation processes using computer vision of the froth phase, the immobilisation of toxic waste, and the simulation of ill-defined processes using neural networks.
This interdisciplinary research is being conducted in collaboration with the Schools of Physics and Chemistry, the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and the minerals industry.
Other research activities include some fundamental ion exchange studies as part of the separation processes research program and enhanced oil recovery programs.
The department has also patented a new process for the production of pigment from Australian beach sands. A major study supports this new process.
Academic Staff
Head of Department and Professor
D V Boger, BSc Bucknell MSc PhD
/UFAA 1SE FIChemE CEng - non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, rheology, particulate and polymer fluid processing
Professor
J S J van Deventer, 'ions-BEng PhD Stellenbosch
Hons-BComDCom South Africa PrEng МSАIММ МSAiChE
- mineral processing, hydrometallurgy, waste treatment, neural networks
Emeritus Professors
T A O'Donnell, PhD DSc Меlb FRACI - reactor engineering
S R Siemon, BSc MAppSc Qld
Professorial Associates
J M Floyd, PhD DIC Lind MSc AMAusIMM MIMM
H R C Pratt, BSc PhD DSc Lind CEng CChem FlChemE FRSC FRACI FIEAust - waste treatment
W J Rankin, BSc PhD FAuslmm MIMM
H Sinha, BSc (MetEng) Banaras MEngSc PhD Мelb Centre Director
D В Nairn, GradDipEng (Chem) BSc (Ions) PhD WA
RACIAIIM AICD, Director of The GK Williams Cooperative Research Centre for Extractive Metallurgy
Readers
M R Davidson, BSc PhD Qld - computational and mathematical modelling in fluid dynamics N В Gray, BE PhD Adel ‚Phil DIC Loпd МАusI ММ
- extractive metallurgy and mineral processing
G W Stevens, BE (ChemEng) Rt11T PhD Melb CEng MlChemE - transport and separation processes
D G Wood, BSc PhD Lind CEng CPEng FlChemE MIEAust - mineral processing
Senior Lecturers
M A Connor, ВSc PhD Cape T - environmental engineering - waste treatment, development technologies
G Il Covey, BSc Sur PhD Мelb - process engineering, pulp and paper
M Nilmani, BE Roor MSc Ban PhD Lind DIC МAгеrSM MAusIMi - extractive metallurgy, mineral processing N В Pamment, BSc Syd PhD NSW- biochemical engineering,
waste treatment
D C ShalIcгoss, BE PhD leib - separation processes, enhanced oil recovery, ion exchange
Y L Yeow, BE Cant MSc N'cle- (UK) PhD Camb MIChemE CEng - process simulation, non-Newtonian fluid mechanics Lecturer
D D Atapattu, BScE Mor'wa PhD Monash Principal Research Fellow D F Stewart, MSc PhD Мelb Senior Research Fellows D Dunstan, BSc lions PhD Melb
T K Pong, В S Hawaii ME Wash BE PhD Мelb - reactor engineering
M
Waladan, Dip-hg (MetEng) Dr-Ing (MetEng) T UAachen MAusIММ - extractive metallurgy
Research Fellows
R Ad
rien, BSc Ions DipEd PhD М elb
J Besida, МSc Мoпash BSclelb - reactor engineering J A Byars, BSc (ChemEng) L'SA PhD MIT
G J Dumsday, BSc (Ions)
A Kyllo, BAppSc Brit Colombia МАppSc Brit Colombia N J Lawson, BEng (lions) PhD UK
Y K Leong, BAppSc Sci Uni Malaysia PhD М elb J L low, PhD Garb BE - extractive metallurgy X Liu, MSc Northeast-Shenyang PhD Murdoch, WA J Perera, BAppSc CIT GradDip RM1T PhD Melb
- solvent extraction J Pitsillos, BE PhD Melb Senior Associates
W J Anderson, BE NSW MEngSc PhD Melb F R Jorgensen, BE PhD Adel
G M Ritcey, BSc Dal FCIM FChemIC
S M Underwood, BSc UniColl of Swansea MSc PhD Brist G M Willis, МSc Melb AlAuslil ARACI FIN"
Associates
R J Binnington, BS Chem Eng I?MlT N A Booker, BE Lind PhD Мelb E Chai, BAppSc Rendigo D E Creasy, BSc PhD Lind R J Dry, BSc Cape T МSc PhD Natal J S [fall, BSc
HonsAdel PhD QId
M Hickey, Dip Tec Algonquin GradDipMgt MAppSc kilT PhD М elb
D Budd, BEng Leeds MSc DIC PhD Lind
S Jahanshahi, BSc ARSМ PhD DIC Lind IMM
AIMER D La Nauze, ВSc PhD Мelb
D E Langberg, BE (ChemEng) Qld PhD N'de (N'SW) GradIEAust
D J McCarthy, BE MScApp Qld D E
McManus,BChemE N'SWPhD Qld
Y S Morsi, BSc Cairo DipEdTech Nudd BEngDes Hudd/Leeds MSc DIC PhD Lind
N Ng, BSc Dip Ed NSW МICCР M J Parkinson, BChemEng (lions) Syd
V Rajakumar, BTEch (IIons) ‚Tech India DIC PhD Lind M Rudman, ВScANU BSc lions PhD Monash
M P Schwarz, BSc (Physics/Maths) Qld PhD (Physics) ANU G Stanley, BE (Chem Eng) PhD Мelb
S Sun, BE Beijing PhD NSW
D R Swinhourne, BSc PhD NSW MIMМА T W Turney, ВSc lions Syd PhD
ANUJ K Wright, BSc PhD NSW
R S Yost, BAppSc Tas
Postgraduate Programs Offered
Masters Degree by Research (MEngSc/MAppSc) Normally examined by thesis alone (but if required by Faculty a minor examinable coursework component may be prescribed).
Research areas: rheology, slurry transport, reactor
engineering, heat transfer, solvent extraction,
environmental engineering and waste management,
biochemical engineering, extractive metallurgy, finite
element analysis, mineral processing, enhanced oil
recovery and ion exchange.
Masters Degree by Research and Coursework ( мEпgSpSc)
Normally comprising a major research component (at least CЭ
66%). A pass in both the coursework and the thesis is
required. co
Research areas: biochemical engineering - lectures and other coursework covering cell biology and biochemistry an д the biological implications of large scale biological and biochemical processes are organised in association with the Departments of Microbiology and Biochemistry, and a course on pubic health engineering offered within the Faculty is also taken.
Formal research projects are used to help candidates to relate their newly acquired biological knowledge to their engineering background in areas where the combination is necessary to a full understanding of the processes involved, e.g., food and pharmaceutical processing, public health engineering, waste treatment and utilisation. This course is available to any suitable chemical engineering graduate. Special bridging courses can be arranged for applicants holding other degrees.
Duration of Programs
Masters level:
Minimum I yearfull-time equivalent
Maximum 1.5 years full-time equivalent
Civil & Environmental Engineering
The Civil & Environmental Engineering Department has established an international reputation for excellence in teaching, research and consulting. Currently the department has approximately twenty academic staff, twenty full-time research fellows and twenty support staff. Undergraduates number some three hundred with a further sixty studying for higher degrees.
The department has excellent laboratories, libraries and access to the foremost engineering computer resources laboratory in the southern hemisphere. Over many years, the department has collaborated closely with industry and the profession, providing sophisticated testing facilities and specialist consulting expertise on numerous projects. In recent years the department has increasingly developed its industrial links and initiated many collaborative projects. The research conducted in the department has been recognised as being of international significance.
The current principle foci for the activities of the department are:
Structural Dynamics & Earthquake Engineering
This is an increasingly important area for the profession. For the last ten years the department has built up its internationally recognised expertise and resources in earthquake engineering and the dynamics of structures. The department now possesses an extensive range of relevant computer software, shaking tables and other specialist equipment for theoretical and experimental research in this area. Related geo-technical aspects of these problems are also considered.
Hydrology & Water Resources
The breadth and continuing excellent calibre of the basic and applied research in this area have recently resulted in the award of a cooperative research centre. Projects often involve specialist computer modelling and field observations of the natural environment and include catchment hydrology, ground water studies and land and water management. Specifically, projects relating aquatic ecology to hydrology are carried out within the department's Centre for Environmental Applied hydrology.
Production Agriculture
Research activities in the area concentrate on the engineering aspects of production agriculture, including machinery design and performance, post-harvest handling and storage, intensive animal housing and information technology applied to all aspects of management of the physical, biological, capital and labour resources of agriculture.
Head of Department Graham Hutchinson Tel +61 -3-9344-6792 Fax +61-3-9344-4616 Email: [email protected]
Engineering Project & Construction Management
This important multi-disciplinary activity deals with all phases of the management of a project life cycle. Emphasis is placed on project procurement techniques, risk analysis, contractual relationships, management techniques and other specialist activities undertaken with a view to meeting the needs of the profession.
Academic Staff Professors
G
LHutchinson, D Phil Oxford MEngSc lelb FIEAust, MICE CPEng CEng - earthquake engineering and structural dynamics, structural application of synthetic materials TA McMahon, BE leib DipEd Monash PhD NSA' DEng/el6
FTS FIEAust - hydrology, water resources, water management, environmental engineering Professorial Fellow
D Young, BE Ions Tas MSc Queens, FIEAust CPEng - engineering project and construction management Associate Professors
R Hughes, MEngSc lelb PhD Garb IlEAust - engineering mathematics, fluid dynamics, including physical oceanography and crowd motion
N ł laritos, BE MEngSc PhD lelb FIEAust MISOPE MIAHR - structural dynamics, hydrodynamics, wind effects, computer applications, experimental model analysis.
D S Mansell, BCE MEngSc М elb PhD Wales FIEAust МASCЕ Ion
FSPEP,NG - steel structures, technology transfer to
industrialising countries Adjunct Reader
Associate Professor B Finlayson, BA Qld PhD Bristol
- geomorphology, hydrology water resources, speleologis
Senior Lecturers
W E Bamford, BE NSW ME PhD Мelb CPEng FIEAust - rock mechanics, tunnelling, rock cutting and sawing, tunnel excavation machinery
C F Duffield, BE ions Deakin MEngScAfelb - structural dynamics, engineering project management, risk, contracts, infrastructure
H
R Graze, BCE Ions PhD Melb - water resources, pressure transients, coastal hydraulics
R H Macmillan, FRMTC Mech Eng BE Agr Afelb ME Agr Cant MIEAust - agricultural engineering, agricultural mechanism, agricultural materials and processes, development technologies, engineering education
P Мendis, BSc Eng PhD Monash MIEAust CPEng MACI - high-performance concrete, seismic design of concrete structures, tall buildings
G A Moore, BE PhD Afelb - agricultural engineering, mechanisation
I C O'Neil, Dip CE Swinburne Dip TRP BCE MEngSc PhD Меlb MIEAust - hydraulic engineering, hydrology, river
hydraulics, water resources
J R Styles, Dip CE Footscray BE MEngSc Afelb - geomechanics, cone penetration testing, soil vibration measurement, landfill
R G Thompson, BAppSc klIT MEngSc Monash PhD Мelb - behavioural modelling of transport systems, advanced transport informatics
J L van der Molen, MEngSc Melb MrEAust МASCЕ - technology of non-metallic construction materials, concrete theory and design
J L Wilson, BE Hons Aomash MSc Berkeley MIEAust CPEng - earthquake engineering, structural dynamics, structural systems
Q J Wang, BE Ions Being MSc PhD Galway - physical and engineering hydrology, land degradation and management, hydraulics, water quality
Lecturers
H M Goldsworthy, BEng Ions Adel MSc Illinois PhD Afelb - earthquake engineering, steel structures, reinforced concrete structures, low seismicity
S
TS Yuen, BE Ions Birm MEngSc М elb MIEAust MICE MIKIE CPEng - geotechnical engineering, hydrogeological
modelling, landfill management, landfill hydrology Principal Research Fellow
H Maiano, В ScArge п ti п a MSc PhD Utah - management and operation of water resource and irrigation systems Senior Research Fellows
• H Turral, BSc(Ag) Ions Reading MSc NCAE UK PhD leib - irrigation management, system operation and modelling, water policy
R B Grayson, BE Ions PhD Melb - hydrology, environmental management, water quality, environmental monitoring networks, scale issues
Research Fellows
G Al Soboh, BSc MSc PhD МichiAET - fruit and vegetable harvest and post-harvest, farm machinery management, operations research, computer system modelling, agricultural engineering technology
R M Argent, BE ions Melb MFSc Win' PhD М elb
- hydrology, environmental management, tree ring analysis R P Burrow, BE MEngSc Meib - furrow irrigation, automatic
control, computers and instrumentation in agriculture F H S Chiew, BE PhD leib - hydrology, water resources,
hydrologic modelling, environmental engineering S A Ewing, ВSC lions М elb М Sc james Cook PhD Melb
- integrated catchment planning, community participation in catchment and land management, landcare
E Gad, BE (Ions) lonash MIEAust - earthquake engineering, light gauge steel, domestic structures, structural engineering C.) Gippel, BSc Ions N'cle PhD NSW- fluvial geomorphology,
hydrology, hydraulics, turbidity, aquatic habitat, water quality
G C Lacey, BE (Civil) MEngSc Melb PhD Texas - scaling problems in hydrology
N T K Lam, BSc Leeds MSc Lind DIC 1CS Т Loп d PhD М elb - structural dynamics, earthquake engineering, bridges, prestressed concrete, unreinforced masonry
A W Western, BE Ions BEc lonash PhD lelb - surface hydrology, hydraulics, salinity, scale issues, spatial variability
S Zhou, BE lohai MSc PhD Galway - water demand modelling for Melbourne
Visiting Research Fellow
H P Duncan, BE Ions MEngSc Afonash - water resources, water demand management, urban runoff, water quality IT Resources Manager
A E Thompson
Postgraduate Programs Offered Civil Engineering
Masters Degree by Research (MEngSpSc) Normally examined by thesis alone (but if required by the Faculty a minor examinable coursework component may be prescribed).
Research areas: water resources engineering and hydrology, geotechnical engineering, structural
engineering, earthquake engineering, engineering systems
management, engineering project and construction
management.
Masters Degree by Research and Coursework (MEngSc/MAppSc)
) Normally
comprising a major research component (at least
= 66%). A pass in both the coursework and the thesis is required.
ao Environmental Engineering
ai Masters Degree by Research (MEngSc/MApßSc) Normally examined by thesis alone (but if required by the
• Faculty a minor examinable coursework component may be prescribed).
W Research areas: agricultural meteorology and energy, water and soil management, waste management and systems analysis, surface and groundwater hydrology, tillage and traction, crop harvesting processing and storage, wool harvesting and handing, the rural environment, energy studies, environmental control, machinery management, agricultural instrumentation, computer modelling.
° Masters Degree by Research and Coursework , ` (MEngSe/MAppSc)
, Normally comprising a major research component (at least 66%). A pass in both the coursework and the thesis is
w required.
Environmental
Engineering (comprising coursework and project) and Iydrogeology and Irrigation Engineering Management students wishing to study in these fields should look in the section of this book entitled 'International Development Technologies Program'.
Duration of Programs
Masters level.
Minimum 1 year full-time equivalent
Maximum 1.5 years full-time equivalent
Computer Science
Head of Department Leon Sterling Te' +61-3-9287-9157 Fax +61-3-9348-1184 Email: [email protected]
Computer science is the discipline concerned with the study of information, in particular how it can be represented and how it can be transformed from one form to an о th еr. Computer scientists study data structures, which are used to organise and represent information, and algorithms, which are the instructions that specify how the information is to be
transformed to solve a given problem. Computers play a major, and ever increasing, role in the practice of many disciplines and their use is now essential in areas such as engineering, medicine, banking and finance.
The Computer Science Department offers undergraduate courses in the Faculties of Engineering, Science and Arts, which are also available through joint degree programs. In these courses, the department's goal is not only to impart the knowledge of the discipline required by practitioners but also to prepare future professionals for the changes they can expect to face in this rapidly developing field.
The department has an excellent international reputation in research and offers strong masters and PhD level research degrees. The department also offers a Masters Degree in Cognitive Science for interdisciplinary studies in artificial intelligence, computer vision, linguistics, psychology and philosophy. To enable graduates in other fields to gain a qualification in computer science, the department offers a graduate diploma.
The department conducts research in several areas of computer science, the main ones being:
• algorithms
• computer perception
• databases
• constraint & logic programming
• software engineering
• artificial intelligence applications
• networks & security
Research Strengths and Centres
Though the department has research excellence in a wade range of areas, it is particularly strong in:
• deductive databases
• logic programming
• computer vision and pattern recognition The strengths of these research groups have been acknowledged through involvement in research centres such as:
• Cooperative Research Centre for Intelligent Decision Systems
• Key Centre for Knowledge-Based Systems
Research in the department and in these centres is supported by the Australian Research Council, the Australian Department of Industry, Technology and Commerce, the Victorian Department of Manufacturing and Industry Development, the Cooperative Research Centre program, other government agencies and private business.
Academic Staff
Professors
R Kotagiri, M Е IISC PhD Iilonash FIEAust CPEng - deductive databases, logic programming, information retrieval, operating systems, computer architecture, agent systems L Sterling, ВSc dlelb PhD ANU- logic programming, artificial
intelligence, software engineering Associate Professors
E Sonenherg, BSc PhD Afonash DipCompStud leib - knowledge based systems, formal logic systems, theory of computation
P Thorne, BSc PhD DipPubPol Alelb - electronic commerce, computer architecture, intellectual property
Senior Lecturers
T Y Chen, BSc MPhil 1/K MSc Lind DIC Imperial PhD leib - software engineering, program testing, fixpoint theory P Dart, BSc Qld PhD leib - software engineering, formal
methods, logic programming
G Dong, ВSc Shandong MSc PhD USC database systems, logic programming, database theory
R Harris, MSc NZ PhD lfelb FAGS - numerical analysis, computer music
L Kitchen, BSc Syd PhD м larf'land - computer vision, artificial intelligence, robotics
Z
-Q Liu, BSc APUChina МASc Tor PhD Alberta - computer vision, image processing, speech recognition, neural networks, machine intelligence, intelligent information process
A Moffat, BSc PhD Cant - data structures and algorithms, data compression, information retrieval
L Naish, BSc PhD Alelb - logic programming, functional
programming, parallelism, debugging
Z Somogyi, BSc PhD Melb - deductive databases, logic programming, computer architecture, operating systems, software engineering
H Sondergaard, MSc PhD Copenhagen - semantics of programming languages, logic programming, dataflow analysis, program transformation
P J Stuckey, BSc PhD Monash - constraint programming, deductive databases, logic programming analysis, linear programming
Lecturers
A Davison, BSc GUMISТ MSc Lehigh PhD Imperial - logic programming, object-oriented systems, parallelism, World Wide Web
L Johnston, BSc PhD Qld DipCompStud lelb - requirements engineering, human computer Interaction, software engineering education
E Kazmierczak, BSc PhD Tas - safety critical systems, formal methods, machine assisted mathematics
Research Fellows
V Chandrasekaran, BEAnnam ME 11Sc - ANNs, computer vision, pattern recognition
S Dance, MSc Monash DipCompStud PhD Melb - computer vision, artificial intelligence
P Davison, BSc Q!d - scheduling and constraint programming languages, operations research E Harris, BSc PhD Melb - database systems, indexing
algorithms
Postgraduate Programs Offered Computer Science
Graduate Diploma in Computing Studies
Coordinator: Dr G Dong
The Department of Computer Science offers a Graduate Diploma in Computing Studies to provide professional training in the computer systems field for graduates of other
disciplines. The course is organised around undergraduate subjects offered by the department. Students in many fields of science and engineering are finding that they have an inadequate background in computer techniques after completing their courses. This course is designed to remedy this deficiency and serves as a conversion course at graduate level.
The course may be completed part-time or a combination of part-time and full-time over three to five semesters. Unless otherwise approved, candidates are required to complete the course within three years. Candidates are advised that the course entails a substantial time commitment, and candidates are expected to attend lectures and tutorials during the day.
Postgraduate Diploma in Software Engineering
Coordinator: Dr P Dart
This is a one-year, full-time course which broadens and deepens students' knowledge of modern software engineering tools and methodologies. Students also participate in a large software development team, providing invaluable preparation for entering many sectors of the computer industry.
This course will be attractive to computer science graduates who are looking for an alternative to a BSc(Hons) program which has a more deliberate industry emphasis.
The content of the course is similar to the 'standard' fourth year course taken now by students in the fourth year of the software engineering stream of the Bachelor of Engineering degree.
On completion of the course students should have:
• consolidated their knowledge of the software development process
• understanding of the principles of managing human and physical resources in the context of software development
• gained further experience in team oriented software development
• a sound knowledge of tools and methodologies appropriate for modern software engineering practice.
Minimum entry requirements are a three-year degree in computer science, including some knowledge of software engineering practices, experience in team based software development, and a suitable background in mathematics.
The course is one year full-time. Part-time study will be approved only in exceptional circumstances.
Course details
Core (80 points):
433-440 Advanced Software Engineering Project 433-441 Formal Methods
433-442 Engineering for Specialised Requirements 433-443 Software Project Management
433-463 Thesis
plus at least 25 points selected from third and fourth year subjects offered by the Department of Computer Science.
Options (20 points):
Students are free to select subjects from computer science or
from other departments subject to timetab ing and prerequisite
constraints and with the approval of the course coordinator.
Subjects need to be complementary to the discipline of software engineering. Approved subjects could include, for example, subjects from mathematics, management, electrical engineering and psychology.
Masters Degree by Research (MEngSc/MAppSc) Two streams available: (1) examined by thesis only;
(2) 80% thesis, 20% coursework.
Coordinator: Dr A Moffat
Al candidates are required to have completed a four-year undergraduate degree.
Entry to 100% research degree: candidates are required to have studied the area of computer science in which they propose to carry out their research at the final year level of the four-year degree program.
Entry to 80% research; 20% coursework: candidates with clearly demonstrated ability and third-year computing skills but without fourth-year computing subjects will be required to take this option.
Research areas: computer architecture, computer music, computer networks, computer vision, constraint logic programming, data structures and algorithms, database systems, dataflow analysis, deductive databases, functional
programming, graph algorithms, image processing, information retrieval, knowledge based systems, logic programming, machine and biological vision, numerical analysis, optical computing, parallel processing, pattern and object recognition, semantics of programming languages, social implications of computing, software engineering, text compression, theory of computation, user interfaces.
Duration of Programs
Graduate Diploma in Computing Stroher Minimum of three semesters
Postgraduate Diploma in Software Engineering:
. Minimum of two semesters Masters level:
Minimum I year fill-time equivalent Maximum 1.5уеаrs frtll-time equivalent
Cognitive Science
Masters Degree by Research and Coursework (MEngScpSc)
Coordinators: Dr J Pressing, Professor R Wales (Psychology) An interdisciplinary program leading to a masters degree in engineering, science or arts. Details of the MEngSc and MAрр Sc programs, administered by the Faculty of Engineering, are given below. Enquiries regarding the science or arts programs should be directed to the General Manager of those Faculties.
Course Structure: Candidates are required to complete the equivalent of three semesters of full-time study. It may be takеп on a full-time or part-time basis and candidates are expected to devote the first two semesters to coursework (including the compulsory subjects) contributing 60% of total course weighting and the third semester on the research and design project (contributing 40% of total course weighting).
Coursework program 1997
Candidates must complete the following compulsory subjects:
Core Issues in Cognitive Science Speech Production and Recognition Brains and Machines
Natural Languages
Al Languages and Technologies Research Project
Optional subjects (of which you choose five):
Philosophical Issues in Cognitive Science Semantics
Computational Linguistics Perception and Performance Neural Nеtwоrks
Computer Vision
Learning and Pattern Recognition Discourse Analysis and Representation Specialisation Topic
Memory and Attention Intelligent Software Agents
Note: Not all subjects are available in any one year.
Each topic listed above corresponds to a one-semester course
equivalent to 26 hours of lectures: a total of 260 hours for the
coursework section. Examination of each topic will be by
combinations of exams, essay or projects, in all constituting
the equivalent of a 3 hour exam (or 3,000 word essay).
Research Project: this involves the implementation of a solution to a problem within the area of AI which may have
° relevance to industrial or business domains. Areas include speech understanding, computational vision, planning, expert
° systems in business, etc. The research project is envisaged to
° take the equivalent of four months of full-time work to complete and result in a report of up to 20,000 words
v involving a literature review, the implementation of an AI to system and an assessment of the implementation.
` Entry Requirements: eligibility for enrolment in the program
mathematics, neurosciences, philosophy, psychology or other related disciplines. Students must have some programming
° experience since the course requires the learning of specific C.) computational methods associated with the artificial
intelligence perspective to cognitive science. However, some remedial preliminary courses can be recommended for students before formally commencing the program.
For admission, a four-year undergraduate degree at a good honours level will normally be required, or an appropriate qualifying program of study may be undertaken. Special consideration will be given to professionals with appropriate and adequate industry business experience.
Duration of Program
Masters level:
1.5 years full-time equivalent
will normally be based on the candidate having completed an
° appropriate undergraduate degree in one of the following
o. areas: computer science, engineering, linguistics,
Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Head of Department
RadTucker
Te' +61 -3-93447688 Fax +61-3-9344-7412 Email: [email protected]
The Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering is a large and growing department within the Faculty of Engineering. It runs combined BЕ/ВSе courses with the Departments of Computer Science, Mathematics and Physics and combined BE/BA, BE/LLB and BE/BCom courses. About four hundred undergraduate students and one hundred PhD and masters students are in the department. These are supported by more than sixty academic, technical and support staff.
The department receives significant funding support for many of its research programs, including funding from Fujitsu and Teistra, as well as government and non-government sources.
Research in the department covers such areas as photonics, control and power systems, communications, computer engineering and biomedical engineering. The department receives substantial funding through the Commonwealth and commercial collaborators for two Cooperative Research Centres: the Australian Photonics Cooperative Research Centre and the Centre for Sensor Signal and Information Processing.
The department has excellent computing facilities in its laboratories and has access to powerful Faculty and University facilities. The department's computing facilities include more than sixty Sun and DEC workstations, an undergraduate X- terminal laboratory with a dual processor file server, sixty Macintoshes and seventy IBM compatible PCs. Al the workstations, Macintoshes and a large number of the PCs are networked together via local area network consisting of an ethernet, an Appletalk network and a FDDI link to the University's computing centre.
There are five established research groups in the department.
These are:
• Photonics
• Control and Power Systems
• Communications and Signal Processing
• Computer Engineering and Circuits
• Biomedical Engineering
Academic Staff Professors
R Evans, BE Melb ME PhD N'cle - communications and signal processing, control and power systems
P Gerrand, BE Afelb MEngSc Monash - telecommunications I Mareels, ir (Gent, Belgium) PhD
ANU- control and power
systems
R S Tucker, BE PhD Мelb - photonics Associate Professors
M Ideen, BAE Baghdad МES (Nuclear Engineering) Michigan PhD Brunel - control and power systems
D Everitt, BE PhD Qld - communication and signal processing K Forward, BE PhD WA DipEd (Tert) Monash - computer
engineering and circuits
Y Hua, BS (Control Engineering) Nanjing IT MS PhD Syr - communications and signal processing
A Lowery, BSc (Applied Physics) Durh PhD Nottingham - photonics
M Palaniswami, BE (Elec & Electronic) lady ME (Elec) //Sc MEngSc (Elec) М elb PhD (Elect & Computer Engineering) N'cle - control and power systems, communications and signal processing
Senior Lecturers
I Cochrane, BE ME Мelb - control and power systems V Krishnamurthy, BE (Elec & Electronic) Auck PhD
ANU- communication and signal processing, control and systems H - F Liu, BE Peking Polytechnic ME PhD Tokyo - photonics S Low, В SEE Cornell MSEE PhD Berkeley
- communications and signal processing
D Thomas, BSc (Mathematics) Cape T BSc Ions Witw MSc (Mathematics) PhD (Mathematics) Oxford
- communications and signal processing
C Zhang, BE (Computer Engineering) Tsinghua ME Delja PhD N'cle - control and power systems
Lecturers
R Barnett, BE MEngSc (Biomedical Engineering) le1b PhD (Bioengineering) Strath - biomedical engineering I Collings, BE Мelb P10 ANU - communications and signal
processing
D Grayden, BE Melb BSc М elb - communications and signal processing
J Hill, BE Melb - computer engineering and circuits D Novak, BE PhD QId - photonics
S Weller, BE (Computer Engineering) ME N'cle PhD - communications and signal processing, control and power systems
Academic Associates
D Hewitt, BSc (Physics and Electronics) MElelb - photonics
J Packer, BE ME Adel - biomedical engineering
Senior Research Fellow
G Pulford, BE BSc (Applied Mathematics) NSW PhD ANU - communications and signal processing
Research Fellows
Z Ahmed, BSc (Electńcal Engineering) Engineering and Q Technology, Pakistan - photonics
Q) K Abed-Meraiти BE Eco/e Polytechnique, France MSc Universite D'Orsay, Paris Sud PhD Telecom Paris - communications and array signal processing
е Monash
W M Brazil, BA Me1ti PhD LaTrebe - communications and signal
w processing
C K Chak, BSc (Ions) Electronic Engineering, City UNK ME PhD Systems and Control NSW
K Dogancay, BSc Bogazici MSc DIC Imperial College PhD ANU ь Ρ. - statistical signal processing
+y P Gurney, BSc (Communications and Electronic Engineering) ca PhD Bath - photonics
M Halpern, BE Tas MEngSc Monash PhD Melb - control systems theory
S laity, BSc (Ions) MSc WA PhD Garb - communications and signal processing
D Kim, BSc (Physics) Sogang MSc (Physics) Notre Dame PhD (Optics) Arizona - photonics
M Kuijper, BE MEAmst, PhD Tilburg - control and power systems
B La Scala, BSc lelb PhDANU - Cooperative Research Centre for Sensor Signal and Information Processing
J Lacey, BE leib PhD Camb - photonics
R Lauder, BSc PhD Southampton (UK) - photonics
G Pendock, BSc (Elec), Cape T MSc (Microwave Electronics) Cape T PhD (Engineering Optoelectronics) Cambr - photonics
M Summerfietd, BE PhD Melb - photonics
H M Trinh, BE MEngSc PhD le1b - control and power systems X Wang, В SEE Shandong МSEE Being UAeronautics and
Astronautics PhD Monash - photonics Senior Research Assistant
K Aamer Ahmed, MSc (Elec) Engineering and Technology, Pakistan MEngSc Melb - photonics
Research Assistant
M Newnham, BE BSc (Computer Science) Melb - control and power systems
Senior Tutor
J Rotenberg, MEng lelb - communications and signal processing
ra J Badcock, BE MEngSc GradDipCompStud lelb PhD DipEd
Geomatics
Head
ofDepartment Clive Fraser Te' +61-3-9344-6806 Fax + 61-3-9347-2916
Email: [email protected]
The Department of Geomatics has an established reputation for excellence in teaching and research in measurement science and land information studies. The department's goal for its undergraduate degrees is to prepare future professionals who are able to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing society.
To this end, the department offers a basic degree in geomatics that may be combined with either a degree in arts or science, with joint specialisations with geography, computer science and environmental science.
The department has developed a range of postgraduate study and research programs which include the degrees of Masters of Geomatics Science, Master of Applied Science, Doctor of Philosophy and two graduate diploma programs. These are the Graduate Diploma in Geographic Information Systems and the Graduate Diploma in Geomatics Science, which enable people of diverse academic backgrounds to gain a working knowledge of the theory, technology and applications of geomatics and spatial information management. The department has received international acknowledgment as a Centre of Excellence in Land Information Studies and this reputation has been enhanced by the creation of the Centre for Geographic Information Systems and Modelling.
Departmental Specialisations
The department's specialties can be divided into two broad areas: spatial information management and measurement sciences.
Spatial Information Management
The department specialises in all aspects of land, cadastral and geographic information systems. At the operational level, our educational programs and consulting activities include applications of spatial information systems for land administration planning, facilities and utilities management, emergency services delivery, land use suitability, mapping and land records management.
Examples of projects in this area are:
• Telecom Australia - data transmission & distributed databases with LIS/GIS
• SECV - environmental impact and computer visualisation of transmission line options
• Royal Thai Government, Australian International Development Assistance Bureau and the World Bank Titling Project, Thailand
Precise Measurement
In the area of measurement sciences, the department has long- standing expertise in geodetic measurement and adjustment of large control networks. This includes the development of least squares collocation techniques to allow the gravity geld to be taken into account as part of the high precision of height measurements using GPS. The department also specialises in high-precision industrial and engineering measurement using computerised optical 3-D measurement techniques, including videometrics (metric machine vision). Digital
photogrammetric mapping systems is a further specialist area attracting research attention.
Examples of projects in this area of specialisation are:
• Videometric inspection in the aerospace and manufacturing industries
• Rapid rail mapping using an integrated GPS solution
• Real time GPS for resources exploration
• Deformation monitoring by digital photogrammetry
Academic Staff Professor
I Williamson, BSury Ions MSurvSc PhD NSW LS FISAust CIEAust - cadastral systems, land administration, land records management, conceptual
LISmodelling, land policy, surveying education, national land information systems, organisational design for
LISAssociate Professors
I Bishop, BSc Ions MSc PhD Melb -
GISbased modelling, visualisation, environmental decision support
C Fraser, ВАppSc WAIT MSurvSc NSW PhD Wash MISAust - industrial photogrammetry, survey network adjustment and analysis, vision metrology
M Shortis, BSury MSuгvSc Me/b PhD City MISAust - digital photogrammetry, optical measurement systems, videometrics, engineering measurement Senior Lecturers
F Leahy, BSury Melb LS FISAust - geodetic surveys and networks, kinematic GPS positioning, geoid/spheroidal separation
C Ogleby, BSury MSurvSc Me1b LS MISAust - archaeological
information systems, cadastral surveying, professional
practice, remotely sensed imagery
lecturers
C Ezigbalike, BSc Lions Surv Nigeria МScAhmadu Bello PhD New Bruns MISAust - spatial data modelling, data structures, database management systems, spatial data analysis, digital mapping, GIS software construction, development issues
G Hunter, BSury (Ions) МSurvSc PhD lelb IS MISAust - accuracy of spatial databases, cadastral systems, land law and administration
J Leach, BSc MSc PhDielb - remote sensing, geological and environmental mapping, synthetic aperture radar systems, remote sensing for natural resource monitoring, geological interpretation and exploitation, radar remote sensing Post Doctoral Research Fellow
J Shao, BEng Ions MEng PhD W ТUSМ, China Senior Research Fellows
P Collier, BSury MSurvSc PhD lelb - structural deformation, adjustment of networks, kinematic GPS positioning, orthometric heighting from GPS
Senior Tutor
J
Cazanis,BSury Ions Melb
Postgraduate Programs Offered
Graduate Diploma in Geographic Information Systems
The Graduate Diploma in Geographic Information Systems is primarily designed to fill the needs of graduates presently active in the disciplines associated with land administration, natural resource management, facility information
management, environmental management, urban planning and conservation, who wish to gain a working knowledge of the theory, technology and applications of geographic information systems (GIS) as a subset of the broader discipline of the management of spatial data. These are likely to be graduates (both recent and of some years standing) in engineering, geomatics, geography, planning, environmental science, agriculture and forestry. Thus the course structure has been designed to accommodate people of diverse academic backgrounds who wish to gain both a broad working knowledge of GIS and some specialised skills in perhaps one of the many applications of both land and geographic Information systems technology.
The course will be administered through the Centre for Geographic Information Systems and Modelling, which is a joint initiative between the Department of Geomatics and the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning and which resides in the Department of Geomatics. The Faculty of Agriculture, Forestry and Horticulture and the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies also provide subjects which are directly relevant to the discipline of geographic information systens.
The course will normally take two semesters of full-time study over a period of approximately nine months. Students can undertake the course part-time over a two-year period by negotiation.
Graduate Diploma in Geomatics Science The Graduate Diploma in Geomatics Science has been designed with the following aims in view:
• to provide an intensive continuing education program for local surveyors of some years standing to be resided in aspects of modern geomatics science processes;
• to meet the demands of graduates in allied disciplines presently working in the surveying and mapping industry and who require specialist skills in specific areas of geomatic science;
• to provide the opportunity for graduates in surveying or geomatics in developing countries to become skilled in modern geomatic processes and to serve as a preliminary study to the masters program in geomatics science.
The course provides two streams of study to allow candidates to concentrate their studies in either geodesy or
photogrammetry. The course material is selected from advanced subjects in the Bachelor of Geomatics degree and includes the option of significant project work, On completion of the course, students should have acquired knowledge of the underlying theory and processes in measurement science which, in conjunction with their previous training and experience, will allow them to work at an advanced level in either geodesy or photogrammetry.
The course will normally takе two semesters of full-time study over a period of approximately nine months. Students can undertake the course on a part-time basis over a two-year period.
Entry is open to applicants with a first degree or equivalent qualifications in allied technical disciplines, with appropriate mathematical background, and would include graduates in surveying, geomatics, geography, pure and applied science, computer science, engineering, planning and building.
Students should have at least two years appropriate work experience. Overseas students who wish to enhance their skills in surveying science or geomatics will be expected to have a first degree in surveying or geomatics in their home country.
Masters Degree by Research (MGeomSc/MAppSc) Normally examined by thesis alone (but if required by Faculty a minor examinable coursework component may be prescribed).
Research areas: Land and geographic information
systems. Facility information systems. Design and
modelling of spatial information systems. Environmental
modelling. Visualisation. Spatial analysis. Cadastral
surveying, cadastral systems and land administration.
High precision measurement, precise surveillance and engineering deformation surveys, integrated geodesy and geodetic surveys. Analytical photogrammetry and digital mapping. Close range and videometric photogrammetry.
Image analysis and remote sensing. Heritage recording.
Hydrographic surveying. Adjustments and numerical processes.
Masters Degree by Research and Coursework Geographic Information Systems (MAppSc) A combination of research (66% total course) and coursework (34% total course).
The program is designed to fill the need for graduates presently active in the disciplines associated with land admin- istration, natural resource management, facility information management, environmental management, urban planning and conservation, who wish to gain a working knowledge of the theory, technology and application of geographic information systems as a subset of the broader discipline of the manage- ment of spatial data. These are likely to be graduates (both recent and of some years standing) in engineering, geomatics, geography, planning, environmental science, agriculture and forestry. Thus the coursework covers the theoretical underpinnings of spatial information technology, systems and analysis and provides specialized skills in some of the many applications of geographic information systems. No technical or computer knowledge is assumed although an interest in developing personal computing skills is important.
The subjects listed in this guide are offered by the Department of Geomatics (which administers the degree through the Faculty of Engineering) and the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning. Students who have already completed these or similar subjects in their undergraduate studies may choose replacements from within the University with the coordinator's approval. The Faculty of Agriculture, Forestry and Horticulture, the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies and the Department of Computer Science, for example, provide subjects which are directly relevant to the discipline of geographic information systems.
Course Details
The program is structured to include course material on theory and applications aspects of
GISand on research methods, while retaining a 66% component of research.
Courses from theory and applications areas will be selected in consultation with the student's supervisor.
Coursework Component
The coursework is based an a combination of existing graduate level subjects and senior undergraduate subjects which will be upgraded to masters level through additional research oriented work requirement and assessment.
The coursework subjects are:
Environmental Visualisation (Masters) Advanced Environmental Visualisation Automated Mapping (Masters)
Introduction to Geographic Information Systems Remote Sensing Principles (Masters)
Remote Sensing Applications (Masters) Spatial Analysis (Masters)
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