FACULTY OF ENGINEERING AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT
SUMMER RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP 2015/2016
What are you doing this 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?
We are currently offering Summer Research Scholarships to talented students who want to gain insight into
research and higher study.
Applications are open to students within the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment who are at Bachelor
degree level or studying the Masters of Architecture
The scholarship provides a tax-free stipend of $3000 over an 8 week period between November 2014 and
February 2015.
Applicants are encouraged to contact project supervisors to express their interest. They should complete the
Scholarship Application by 22 November 2015.
Architecture, Construction & Built Environment
Collecting contextual and sensory data: activity, architecture, and augmentation
JuHyun Lee and Prof Ning Gu
A comparative study of socio-spatial configurations in indigenous traditional and modern community.
JuHyun Lee
Apprenticeship programs in the construction industry: Models, practice and performance
Thayaparan Gajendran and Trevor Hilaire
The nature of complexity, risk and ambiguity in construction.
Peter Davis and Thayaparan Gajendran
Mapping social networks in construction delivery teams to determine its affect on project delivery
performance.
Peter Davis and Yongjian Ke
Construction discipline research: key themes and future trends.
Peter Davis and Marcus Jefferies
Waste management toolkit.
Peter Davis and Jamie MacKee
The use of social media by construction firms.
Peter Davis and Yongjian Ke
2015, A Milestone Year: Mapping resilience in International Frameworks (SFDRR/SDGs/COP21)
Jason von Meding and Graham Brewer
Disaster preparedness of aged care facility employees: BIM based environments using gaming
technology.
Kim Maund
Making Place in Honeysuckle: redefining Newcastle's Public Realm
Proposed Students: Students will need a high degree of drawing (sketching) and digital communication skills.
SueAnne Ware and Derren Lowe
Charles François Marie Fourier: Utopian solutions to the urban problems caused by the French Industrial
Revolution
Tessa Morrison
Social housing and workhouses of the Industrial Revolution
Tessa Morrison
Civil, Surveying and Environmental Engineering
What causes the uplift in the Australian Casey station, East Antarctica? - Quantification of the ice mass
change – open to students in Surveying, Civil/Environmental Engineering, Environmental Science, Earth Science
Shin-Chan Han
Quantitative study for rockfall hazard assessment in open cut coal mines
Anna Giacomini and Klaus Thoeni
3D photography for geotechnical applications using new technologies (e.g., smartphones, drones)
Klaus Thoeni and Anna Giacomini
Accuracy assessment of small and large scale photogrammetric surveys using structure from motion
Klaus Thoeni and Anna Giacomini
Modelling the dynamic impact of a haul truck running into a berm
Klaus Thoeni and Anna Giacomini
DEM modelling of roof collapse in longwall mining
Anna Giacomini, Olivier Buzzi and Stephen Fityus
Significance of fines in packed granular assemblages
Stephen Fityus
Numerical modelling of roof stability for long wall mining
Olivier Buzzi
Spatial variation of soil moisture content
Rob Melchers, Tony Wells and Robert Petersen
Mechanical Engineering
Discrete Element Modelling of granular compaction
Chris Wensrich
Chemical Engineering
Volatile release from coal maceral concentrates at high heating rates for pulverised coal injection.
Liza Elliott
Volatile release from density modified coal pellets
Wei Xie
Mechanistic study of complex interactions of brown coal in iron ore pellets
Rohan Stanger
Electrostatic formation of liquid marbles.
Grant Webber and Peter Ireland
Thermoresponsive polymer hybrid particle for rheology control.
Grant Webber and Erica Wanless
Controlling clay contaminants in mining working fluids.
Grant Webber and Erica Wanless
Catalytic combustion of Ventilation air methane
Michael Stockenhuber and Eric Kennedy
Selective oxidation of methane to oxygenates
Michael Stockenhuber and Eric Kennedy
Deoxygenation and decarboxylation of bio-oils
Michael Stockenhuber and Eric Kennedy
Methane conversion to liquids using a cold plasma
Eric Kennedy and Michael Stockenhuber
An Ancient Chinese game-based approach for calculating the surface area of aggregates
Elham Doroodchi and Zhengbiao Peng
Magnets and their invisible force keeping particles suspended
Elham Doroodchi and Zhengbiao Peng
Electrical, Computer, Software Telecommunications Engineering & Computer Science
FPGA Implementation of AFM detector strategies
Andrew Fleming
Optimization of Scanning Probe Lithography
Andrew Fleming
Piezoresistive Sensor Interface
Andrew Fleming
Driver for Ultrasonic Surgical Tools
Andrew Fleming
Design and Construction of an Arbitrary Analog Transfer Function
Andrew Fleming
Implementation of high speed control laws on a dSpace FPGA system
Andrew Fleming
Visual Odometry implementation – NUbots
Alexandre Mendes and Stephan Chalup
Foot Path Planning with state feedback control – NUbots
Alexandre Mendes and Stephan Chalup
Walk Optimisation with machine learning techniques – NUbots
Alexandre Mendes and Stephan Chalup
Head movement behaviour system – NUbots
Alexandre Mendes and Stephan Chalup
Inverse kinematics ball-kick – NUbots
Alexandre Mendes and Stephan Chalup
Balance engine for push recovery – NUbots
Alexandre Mendes and Stephan Chalup
Robot simulation for testing and debugging – NUbots
Alexandre Mendes and Stephan Chalup
Hardware design for high speed signal processing applications
Kaushik Mahata
Actuation and sensing system for electrical impedance tomography
Kaushik Mahata
The Impact of Agile Methods on Software Project Management and Quality Assurance
Yuqing Lin
Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithms for optimizing cancer chemotherapy
Note: student must have good programming capability with basic understanding of evolutionary algorithm
Pablo Moscato and Nasimul Noman
Developing Data Mining algorithm applications for construction project data - applying and evaluating a
variety of DM algorithms to pre-existing Australian construction project data.
Preferred student: Computer science
Sittimont Kanjanabootra
Modelling of Calcium Release in Mammalian Heart Cells.
James Welsh
Using Indirect Inference in System Identification.
James Welsh
Simultaneous multimedia streaming through network coding
Lawrence Ong
Brain wave-based navigation in virtual environments
Note: Knowledge of C/C++ would be useful.
Shamus Smith
Haptic food for health-care training
Note: Knowledge of C/C++ would be useful.
Shamus Smith
Reconstructing gappy geophysical datasets using matrix completion
Steve Weller