School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering

The following postgraduate courses are available:

Doctor of Philosophy

Honours Master of Engineering by Research

Honours Master of Engineering in Telecommunications Engineering by Coursework/Research - not on offer in 2000.

Master of Engineering Studies

Master of Engineering Practice (Mechatronics)

CURRENT RESEARCH AREAS

There are two major research centres within the School. The Switched Networks 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 magentic energy storage

Industrial Automation: Power Engineering

Electric motors

Linear motors

Power electronics and applications (eg welding, servo-systems)

Power quality

Superconductors

Variable speed drives