Engineering and Built Environment
Summer Scholarships
What are you planning on doing over the summer? Would you like to work on a project with one of our internationally recognised research groups and get paid $3000 tax-free over 8 weeks?
Each year we offer Summer Research Scholarships to talented students who want to gain insight into research and higher study.
These are open to students within the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment who are at Bachelor degree level or studying the Master of Architecture.
The scholarship provides a tax-free stipend of $3000 over an 8 week period between November and February.
The topics that are available are listed below by discipline for reference.
Applications will open in late October/early November for the 2020-2021 Summer Scholarship Round.
| Topic | Academic/s |
|---|---|
| Critical drawing | Michael Chapman |
| Addressing the lack of equality and diversity within the Australian construction industry | Helen Giggins |
Digital transformation competencies in the construction industry | Sittimont Kanjanabootra |
Developing a digitally based framework for upgrading social housing towards best practice | Chris Tucker, Thayaparan Gajendran, Kim Maund, Jamie Mackee, SueAnne Ware |
Models of social housing catering to the occupant needs: Review of current literature | Thayaparan Gajendran, Kim Maund, Chris Tucker, Jamie Mackee, SueAnne Ware |
Architecture + Geology: Investigating a coal vernacular | Sarah Jozefiak and Michael Chapman |
| Topic | Academic/s |
|---|---|
Accelerated hydrogen embrittlement and countermeasures | Igor Chaves and Thomas Fiedler |
Demonstration of low-cost GPS sensors for soil moisture and sea level measurements | Shin-Chan Han |
Physical modelling of soil-pipe interaction | George Kouretzis |
Experimental study of rock fragmentation | Olivier Buzzi |
| Evaluation of the relationship between direct and flexural tensile strength of mortar joints in masonry construction | Mark Masia, Mark Stewart and Lewis Gooch |
| From smart sensing systems to smart farm decision making | In-Young Yeo, Shin-Chan Han and Greg Hancock |
| Soil moisture sensing in built environment and irrigation sites to inform the conditional assessment of underground water pipes and water allocation decision making | In-Young Yeo, Rob Melchers, Shin-Chan Han and Stephen Fityus |
| Mapping inland water bodies using satellite remote sensing data | Xiaoli Deng |
| Regenerative agriculture and agricultural cropping practices for rural water management in drought-affected areas | Jose Rodriguez |
| Development of a UAV camera calibration methodology for surveyors | Lloyd Pilgrim |
| Plastic and water quality | Thava Palanisami |
| Magnetic halloysite for microplastic adsorption and decomposition | Jiabao Yi and Ajayan Vinu |
| Magnetic halloysite for water treatment | Jiabao Yi and Ajayan Vinu |
| Degradation of pollutants using carbon based hybrid materials | Ajay Karakoti |
| Development of coatings for self-sterilizing surfaces | Ajay Karakoti |
| Topic | Academic/s |
|---|---|
| Cross-linking structure transformation in the plastic layer during coking of Australian coking coals | Jianglong Yu, Soonho Lee |
| Catalytic conversion of methane to hydrogen in a “cold” plasma | Eric Kennedy, Michael Stockenhuber |
| Modelling rotary kiln | Eric Kennedy, John Lucas, Michael Stockenhuber |
| Direct mineralisation of atmospheric CO2 | Eric Kennedy, Ammar Abu Fara, Tim Oliver, Michael Stockenhuber |
| Measurement and modelling of semi-coke shrinkage | David Jenkins, Arash Tahmasebi |
| Coal to carbon supercapacitors | Rohan Stanger |
| Experiments and simulations of electrostatic particle extraction | Peter Ireland, Grant Webber |
| Specific-ion effects on the stability of mineral suspensions | Grant Webber, Erica Wanless |
| How does salt change the dynamic interfacial properties of polymer solutions? | Grant Webber, Erica Wanless |
| Extreme cleaning of fine minerals at high throughput using the RFC system | Simon Iveson, Kevin Galvin |
| Application of agglomeration in solid-liquid separation | Daniel Borrow, Kevin Galvin |
| Plastic pipes in the network – generator of microplastics? | Thava Palanisami, Kala Senathirajah |
| Total oxidation of methane at low concentrations | Michael Stockenhuber, Eric Kennedy, Matthew Drewery |
| Selective oxidation of methane to value added products | Michael Stockenhuber, Eric Kennedy, Guangyu Zhao |
| Understanding the selective hydrodeoxygenation process to produce biofuels | Michael Stockenhuber, Eric Kennedy, Penghui Yan |
| Natural zeolites as catalyst supports | Michael Stockenhuber, Eric Kennedy, Luke Harvey |
| Catalyst design for VAM mitigation | Michael Stockenhuber, Eric Kennedy, Matthew Drewery |
| Catalytic butadiene synthesis from C3 and C2 oxygenates | Michael Stockenhuber, Eric Kennedy, Luke Harvey |
| Development of two dimensional ternary electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction | Jangmee Lee and Ajayan Vinu |
| Translation of naturally available clays into advanced hybrid nanomaterials for selective CO2 capture | Kavitha Ramadass and Ajayan Vinu |
| Functionalised biocarbon as NanoBinder for the stabilization of organic and inorganic contaminants from gas work contaminated sites | Ajayan Vinu and Kavitha Ramadass |
| Design of novel nanoporous functionalized electrodes for supercapacitors | Ajayan Vinu and Stalin Joseph |
| Fabrication of nanoporous carbon nitrides with tunable pore diameters and nitrogen contents for hydrogen storage application | Kavitha Ramadass and Ajayan Vinu |
| Synthesis of biodiesel using nanoporous highly acidic catalytic materials | Yoshihiro Sugi, Stalin Joseph and Ajayan Vinu |
| Design of highly ordered metal/metal oxide decorated Carbon – Carbon Nitride hybrid nanostructures for applications in gas adsorption, Supercapacitor and Li-Ion Battery | Jangmee Lee and Ajayan Vinu |
| Design of novel porous graphitic carbon nitride based photocatalyst for hydrogen evolution | Jae-Hun Yang and Ajayan Vinu |
| Design of functionalized activated porous biocarbons derived from biomass for CO2 adsorption | Gurwinder Singh and Ajayan Vinu |
| Advanced nanomaterials for photoelectrochemical reduction of CO2 into clean fuels | Ajayan Vinu and Jae-Hun Yang |
| Single atom doping for water splitting | Jiabao Yi and Ajayan Vinu |
| Ferromagnetism of two dimensional (2D) materials | Jiabao Yi and Ajayan Vinu |
| Synthesis of new two dimensional materials by intercalation for energy applications | Jiabao Yi and Ajayan Vinu |
| Hybrid nanomaterials depicting multiple enzyme like activities | Ajay Karakoti |
| Nanomaterials for mimicking biocatalysis | Ajay Karatoki |
| Development of nanomaterials based filters for managing plasma component filtration | Ajay Karatoki |
| Topic | Academic/s |
|---|---|
| Computer vision for soccer-playing robots | Stephan Chalup, Alex Biddulph, Trent Houliston |
| Proactively predicting psychological distress from ecological factors: A machine learning approach | Raymond Chiong |
| Facilitating learning for visually-impaired students using a haptic screen | Alex Mendes, Shamus Smith |
| An onboard walk optimiser for the NUgus platform using genetic algorithms | Alex Mendes |
| Evolutionary algorithms to uncover new primes’ regularities conjectures | Pablo Moscato, Nasimul Noman |
| VR debugger for robotic systems | Stephan Chalup, NUbot Team |
| Processing of micro-computer tomography images of metallurgical coke coupled with 3D visualisation to enhance understanding of coke breakage | Keith Nesbitt, Hannah Lomas |
| Trustworthy switching in software defined networks | Kallol Karmakar, Uday Tupakula, Vijay Varadharajan |
| Topic | Academic/s |
|---|---|
| Understanding feedback in the vestibular system | James Welsh |
| Calcium release imaging in a network of cells | James Welsh |
| Modelling the de-polarisation of a cell in the vestibular system | James Welsh |
| Design and testing of a mouse spinal cord stimulator | James Welsh |
| Preliminary research on intelligent control of networked dynamic systems | Zhiyong Chen |
| Real-time autonomous indoor exploration and mapping | Duy Ngo |
| "Seeing" surroundings by fusing data from radar sensors and cameras | Lawrence Ong, Duy Ngo |
| Avoiding collisions using movement prediction | Lawrence Ong, Jamil Khan |
| Improving radar sensing accuracy using multiple sensors | Lawrence Ong, Duy Ngo |
| Developing a software game for high-school students on data compression | Lawrence Ong |
| Designing secure and efficient communication protocols for the internet of things | Lawrence Ong, Chandra Thapa (Data 61) |
| Evaluating how much information is leaked in privacy protection methods | Lawrence Ong, Chandra Thapa (Data 61) |
| Designing compression protocols for artificial intelligence devices to communicate efficiently | Lawrence Ong, Chandra Thapa (Data 61) |
| Using artificial intelligence to design communication codes | Lawrence Ong, Chandra Thapa (Data 61) |
| Designing algorithms for machine learning to collaborate securely | Lawrence Ong, Chandra Thapa (Data 61) |
| Making artificial intelligence less forgetful when it learns new things | Lawrence Ong, Chandra Thapa (Data 61) |
| Modelling and simulation of conveyor control systems (Preliminary study) | Rick Middleton, Craig Wheeler |
| Sensor network based grassfire detection and early warning system | Jamil Khan, Duy Ngo |
| Underwater optical data modem and network | Jamil Khan |
| Roadside IoT infrastructure for V2X communication | Jamil Khan |
| Implementation of autonomous guidance, navigation and control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) | Jose De Dona, Maria Seron |
| Determining factors which lead to dementia following stroke | Sarah Johnson, Adrian Wills |
| Farm automation and animal tracking | Andrew Fleming |
| Trustworthy switching in software defined networks | Kallol Karmakar, Uday Tupakula, Vijay Varadharajan |
| Topics | Academic/s |
|---|---|
| Investigation and modelling of impact wear within the mining and mineral processing sectors | Kenneth Williams |
| Performance verification of a diffuser augmented wind turbine | Samuel Evans, Joss Kesby |
| Innovative steep incline conveying system scale model development | Craig Wheeler |
| Development of a vibration analysis tester for cohesive bulk materials | Michael Carr |
| Screw conveying of fuzzy cotton seed: Experiments and discrete element modelling (DEM) | Dusan Ilic |
| Visualising and evaluating dust emissions using light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and aerosol monitors | Dusan Ilic |
| Devices for improving male fertility | Andrew Fleming, Mark Baker |
| Design a testbed for venous pressure sensor | Yuen Yong, Sarah Johnson |
| Real time eye tracking algorithms for portable devices | Rick Middleton, James Thomas (External Medical) |
| Development of a DC motor system identification apparatus | Joel Ferguson |
| Topic | Academic/s |
|---|---|
| Provide international standard advice and develop key enhancements to diffusion type gas detectors | Lyazid Djenidi |
Novel battery system technology for operating electric vehicles in hazardous areas | Galina Mirzaeva |
| Develop the MIMO technology into a remote power management application | Adrian Wills |
| Validation of proposed cooling transfer development strategy | Behdad Moghtaderi |
| Development of a “smart” monitoring safety system for a conveyor belt lifting technology | Craig Wheeler |
| Evaluation of aerosol monitor performance for dust emissions | Dusan Ilic |
| Investigate and validate the properties and performance of ATH | Behdad Moghtaderi |
Software and computer vision data processing in industrial context | Stephan Chalup |
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