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ENGINEERING YOUR FUTURE AT GRIFFITH
GRIFFITH SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING OVERVIEW
Griffith University Engineering programs were first offered in early 1990. The Griffith School of Engineering
(GSE) was established on 1 January 2006, spreading over two campuses, Nathan (Brisbane) and Gold Coast.
At Griffith University, GSE is one of the four Schools in the Griffith Sciences Group, a group enabling students
to become multi-skilled professionals and scientists, making headlines in the process.
With undergraduate degree programs accredited by Engineers Australia (formerly Institute of Engineers
Australia), Griffith Engineering programs are internationally recognised via Engineers Australia’s membership in
joint recognition programs, such as the ‘Washington Accord’ and the ‘Sydney Accord’#.
Griffith School of Engineering offers students and staff unique opportunities to participate in industry placements
with quality graduate outcomes, undertake research in industry leading facilities, participate in overseas work
experience programs, and choose from a range of undergraduate and postgraduate degree programs.
OUR PROGRAMS*
POSTGRADUATE*
UNDERGRADUATE*
Each undergraduate Engineering program is designed to meet the educational requirements for graduate
membership of Engineers Australia.
GOLD COAST CAMPUS
NATHAN CAMPUS
•Bachelor of Engineering with Honours in
Civil Engineering
•Bachelor of Engineering with Honours in Electrical &
Electronic Engineering
•Bachelor of Engineering with Honours in Electronic
and Biomedical Engineering
•Bachelor of Engineering with Honours in Mechanical
Engineering
•Bachelor of Engineering with Honours in Mechatronic
Engineering
•Bachelor of Industrial Design
•Bachelor of Engineering with Honours in Civil
Engineering/ Bachelor of Business or/ Bachelor of
Information Technology or/ Bachelor
of Science
•Bachelor of Engineering with Honours in Electronic
and Computer Engineering
•Bachelor of Engineering with Honours in Electronic &
Energy Engineering
•Bachelor of Engineering with Honours in
Environmental Engineering
•Bachelor of Engineering with Honours in
Microelectronic Engineering
•Bachelor of Engineering with Honours in
Software Engineering
•Bachelor of Engineering Technology
•Bachelor of Engineering with Honours in Electronic
and Computer Engineering/Bachelor of Information
Technology or/ Bachelor of Science
•Bachelor of Engineering with Honours in
Environmental Engineering/ Bachelor of Business
•Graduate Certificate in Research Studies in
Engineering
•Graduate Certificate in Engineering
Project Management
•Graduate Diploma of Research Studies in Engineering
•Master of Civil Engineering
•Master of Engineering Project Management
•Master of Civil Engineering/Master of Engineering
Project Management
•Graduate Certificate in Research Studies in
Engineering
•Graduate Diploma of Research Studies in Engineering
•Master of Electronic and Sport Engineering
•Master of Electronic and Energy Engineering
•Master of Environmental Engineering
•Master of Electronic and Computer Engineering
•Master of Environmental Engineering and
Pollution Control
•Master of Electronic & Computer Engineering/
Master of Electronic & Sport Engineering
•Master of Electronic and Computer Engineering/
Master of Electronic & Energy Engineering
In 2016, the Griffith School of Engineering has a total of 2,146 students enrolled, across all programs on
both campuses, including 532 who commenced study in Semester 1, 2016*
# for current accreditation status of programs - visit: engineersaustralia.org.au/about-us/program-accreditation
* Programs are subject to change – see the web for further details: griffith.edu.au/programs-courses
OUR STAFF
SCHOOL
EXECUTIVE STAFF
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Prof Geoff Tansley
Head of School
Engineering design, fluid mechanics and heat transfer
Prof David Thiel
Deputy Head of
School (Research)
Communications engineering, electronic magnetic
modelling, electronics packaging
Dr Wayne Hall
Deputy Head of School
(Learning & Teaching)
Design, manufacture and analysis of composite structures;
Problem Based Learning (PBL) in engineering education
Dr Erwin Oh
Deputy Head of
School/Associate Dean
(Internationalisation)
Road infrastructure, soft clay behaviour, ground
improvement techniques, dynamic behaviours of soil
Prof Charles
Lemckert
Head of Civil Engineering
Coastal systems, environmental monitoring, water
treatment design and whale migration
Dr Andrew Seagar
Head of Electrical &
Electronic Engineering
Gold Coast Campus
Compact and efficient antenna designs, wireless networks
and technologies
A/Prof Steven
O’Keefe
Head of Electrical &
Electronic Engineering
Nathan Campus
Compact and efficient antenna designs for personal
communication devices and wireless networks; multiband
antennas for 3G and future technology cellular handsets.
Prof Bofu Yu
Head of Environmental
Engineering
Hydrology including climate variability, storm runoff,
weather generators, erosion and sediment transport
Prof Andreas
Oechsner
Head of Mechanical
Engineering
Computational and experimental solid mechanics, finite
element method, plasticity, thin interphases,
structured materials
GOLD COAST CAMPUS
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Dr Mark Bolton
Behaviour of treated compressible clay soils, behaviour of flexible pavements on
sand subgrades, experimental geomechanics
Dr Nick Cartwright
Beach groundwater dynamics, salt-water intrusion, coastal water resources and
storm surges
Dr Sanaul Chowdhury
High strength concrete structures, structural dynamics, facilities management and
pavement management systems
Dr Dzung Dao
Micro/Nano Machining technology, Nanostructured materials, MEMS technology:
Sensors and Actuators, Polymer-MEMS, Optical-MEMS , Green-MEMS
Dr Jeung-Hwan Doh
Concrete structures, instability of wall panels, concrete strength and eccentricities
Dr Chandima Ekanayake
Condition monitoring of power apparatus, alternatives for insulating oil,
performance studies of HV insulators and energy related studies.
Dr Amir Etemad-Shahidi
Coastal and oceanographic engineering, environmental fluid dynamics and
hydroinformatics
Dr Benoit Gilbert
Cold-formed steel structures, storage racks, biomimicry principles and optimisation
of cold-formed steel profiles
Dr Ivan Gratchev
Soil mechanics & dynamics, slope failures, environmental geotechnics
Prof Hong Guan
Finite element analysis and modelling, failure analysis of planar continuum concrete
structures, topology optimisation of 2D and 3D structures
Dr Shanmuganathan
Gunalan
Steel and timber structures to develop innovative and sustainable disaster resilient
buildings
Mr Charles Hacker
Computer process automation, data acquisition and collection, human – computer
software interaction
Dr Jahangir Hossain
Bower system engineering, renewable energy and control
Dr Lei Hou
Construction management, construction IT
Prof Dong-Sheng Jeng
Offshore geotechnics, coastal/ocean engineering, groundwater hydraulics, artificial
neural networks, renewable marine energy and plant science
Dr Graham Jenkins
Hydraulic characteristics of wetland systems, water quality modelling, hydraulics
and hydrology, IAP
Dr Hassan Karampour
Applied mechanics with a focus on steel structures
Dr Huaizhong Li
Manufacturing and machining technologies, machining process monitoring
A/Prof Jenifer Loy
3D design, industrial design, sustainable design practice, digital fabrication
Prof Yew-Chaye Loo
Concrete structures, bridge engineering, computational mechanics, bridge and road
pavement asset management
Prof Jun Wei Lu
Mobile wireless communications systems, mobile computing, high performance
computation and visualisation, electromagnetic devices
Dr Ali Mirnajafizadeh
Expertise in biomaterials, tissue biomechanics, tissue engineering, development of
bioreactors, and finite element modeling.
Prof Sherif Mohamed
Project and construction management, risk analysis and safety management
Dr Kriengsak
Panuwatwanich
Innovation diffusion and management within the architecture, engineering and
construction (AEC) industry
Dr Xiaobo Qu
Traffic flow theory, risk analysis for transportation infrastructure, maritime
transportation and public transport
Dr Anisur Rahman
Reliability and engineering management, development of stochastic models of
product/asset reliability, maintenance policies
Dr Maksym Rybachuk
Functional materials: DLC, a-C:N, C-H polymers; surface physics: ion-surface
interactions and nano-mechanical studies; plasma physics
Dr Belinda Schwerin
Speech enhancement and the development of objective measures for evaluating
speech quality and intelligibility. Other research interests include automatic speech
recognition and speech processing for cochlear implants.
Dr Ben Simpson
Application of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) techniques to investigate
physical phenomena and undertake innovative design, aerodynamics, turbulent
flows and multi-physics analysis.
Dr Stephen So
Digital signal processing, image coding, efficient block and vector
quantisation schemes
Prof Rodney Stewart
Innovation in construction, modern procurement practices, water resource and
smart asset management, engineering education
Prof Ljubo Vlacic
Control systems, decision theory, mechatronics, intelligent robotics, autonomous
systems, knowledge management, intelligent vehicles
Dr Peter Woodfield
Experimental and computational heat transfer, computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
A/Prof Hong Zhang
Coastal/ ocean dynamics, water resource engineering
Dr Yong Zhu
Microsensors and microactuators, Mechatronics, Microelectromechanical
systems (MEMS)
NATHAN CAMPUS
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Prof Igor Agranovski
Aerosol mechanics and nanotechnology, fluid dynamics, air pollution control
and monitoring
Dr Andrew Busch
Signal and image processing, machine vision, pattern recognition, sports monitoring
Prof Sima Dimitrijev
Semiconductor devices and circuits, MOSFET design, non-volatile
random-access memories
Dr Hugo Espinosa
Computational electromagnetics, electromagnetic geophysics (subsurface
modelling and impedance data), human monitoring (sensor technology)
Prof Yongsheng Gao
Biometric technology, multimedia data, retrieval systems, pattern recognition,
computer vision, biomedical engineering
Prof Margaret Greenway
Stormwater, wastewater, wetland systems
Dr Ali El Hanandeh
Biomass and Bio-energy, stochastic multi-criteria evaluation, solid waste
management, climate change adaption
Dr Sunil Herat
Life cycle assessment, membranes for advanced wastewater treatment processes,
biomass, renewable energy systems
A/Prof Daniel James
Use of sensors and wireless technologies to enhance athlete assessment, wearable
and small technologies, sport applications, founding director of SABEL Labs
Dr Prasad Kaparaju
Renewable energy, Anaerobic digestion technology, Biofuels, Biorefinery and
Environmental bioprocesses & technology
A/Prof Qin Li
Nanotechnology, clean energy solutions, nanomaterials, colloids and interface
Dr Ruby Michael
Environmental Impact Assessment, Environmental Management Systems
Dr Faisal Mohd Yasin
Computer process automation, data acquisition and collection, human-computer
software interaction
Prof Kuldip Paliwal
Speech processing, coding, pattern and face recognition, artificial neural networks
Dr David Rowlands
Sports and biological monitoring, computer based simulation and visualisation,
semiconductors
Dr Sascha Stegen
Power electronics/electrics, project management, computer simulation techniques,
electrical machines and high frequency magnetic devices
Dr Jimmy Yu
Chemical and environment engineering processes ecotoxicity of
environmental chemicals
OUR RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Engineering staff are involved in a wide range of research activities, grouped into three overarching themes.
THEME 1: RESILIENCE IN THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
(ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS TO NATURAL SYSTEMS)
The theme brings together expertise in civil, mechanical, mechatronic, communications, electrical,
environmental and electronic engineering, and encourages major engagement in water and coastal
engineering across the university.
This theme is aligned with two of the research priorities of in the Queensland Science and Innovation Action
Plan as “Ensuring sustainable water use and delivering quality/water security in a variable climate and in a
resources-intensive economy.” The approach taken in this theme is to develop “Digitally-enabled technologies,
e.g. the development and application of advanced modelling, visualisation, sensing and simulation
technologies, tools and practices, including robotics.”
This research theme addresses the major global research question:
What are the best possible engineering solutions to the provision of clean air, water and food worldwide?
These questions are addressed through fundamental and applied research and two specific research and
development programs:
• Understanding and maintaining coastal systems
• Understanding and maintaining air quality
THEME 2: CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE, INTERDEPENDENCIES &
RESILIENCE (ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS TO ARTIFICIAL SYSTEMS)
The theme brings together expertise in civil, mechanical, mechatronic, communications, electrical,
environmental and electronic engineering, and will encourage major engagement in industrial design, urban
planning and environmental sciences across the University.
This theme is well aligned with the Queensland Science and Innovation Action Plan, which has “Building
resilience and managing climate risk, through the design and development of construction technologies for
extreme weather event resistance (floods, cyclones, droughts) particularly in tropical environments” as one of
its science and research priorities. The approach falls within the priority of “Natural advantage with
clean(er) – and renewable – energy technologies development (e.g. gas, solar and biofuels).”
This research theme addresses the major global research question:
What are the best possible engineering solutions to the provision of critical infrastructure for human
populations worldwide?
These questions are addressed through fundamental and applied research and three specific research and
development programs:
• Building and maintaining resilience buildings
• Power distribution and generation
• New technologies in transport systems
THEME 3: ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES IN SPORT AND HEALTH
(ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS TO HUMAN SYSTEMS)
The theme brings together expertise in civil, mechanical, mechatronic, communications, electrical,
environmental, sports, and electronic engineering, and will encourage major engagement in industrial design,
urban planning and environmental sciences across the University.
This theme is well aligned with the Queensland Science and Innovation Action Plan, which has “Early detection,
treatment and (ultimately) prevention of age‑related and Queensland dominant diseases (e.g. skin, tropical)”
and also “Improving health data management and services delivery (including telemedicine)” as science and
research priorities. With large, highly distributed populations, the use of cloud computing for data collection
and “big data” analysis is a particularly important part of this research theme.
This research theme addresses the major global research question:
What are the best possible engineering solutions to improve the health and quality of life of all members of
the population, and to support the elderly in independent living?
These questions are addressed through fundamental and applied research and two specific research and
development programs:
• Human movement monitoring
• In-vivo systems development
HIGHER DEGREES BY RESEARCH
The total number of enrolments in Higher Degrees by Research programs is 130 students, including 36
part-time students across a broad range of engineering disciplines.
SELECTED RESEARCH TOPICS
•Monitoring technologies for olympic winter sports
•Power Generation from Biomass Power
Plant in Thailand
•Development of hardware and software
algorithms for insitu limb segment analysis
of swimmers
•Embedding sustainability into
engineering education
•Integrating humans tracking and face recognition
in multiple video camera systems
•Shield tunnelling and subway underground station
excavation induced soft ground movements
•Behaviour Understanding in Intelligent
Surveillance Systems
•Flood risk assessment
•Climate change impact risk and assessment
•Residential Water End Use Consumption Analysis
•Smart Water Metering
•Failure Characteristics of Reinforced and
Prestressed Concrete Deep Beams with
Web Opening
•Advanced materials for antenna and
communications technologies
•Smart grid modelling with stattcom and
energy storage
•Peak demand forecasting for photovoltaic
power systems
•Energy harvesting power-supplies on
integrated circuits
•Radio frequency switching using
MEMS technology
•Robust speech recognition
•Noise removal and compression of digital speech
Griffith School of Engineering is involved with the Industry Affiliates Program (IAP), a Work Integrated
Learning initiative, designed to integrate students into the workplace through industry-based projects.
The Industry Affiliates Program has operated since 1993, with over 1000 industry placements in over
200 different industry organisations.
GRIFFITH SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
GOLD COAST & NATHAN CAMPUSES
Gold Coast general enquiries 07 5552 8572
Nathan general enquiries 07 3735 5004
General Email eng-GSE-secretary@griffith.edu.au
Websitegriffith.edu.au/school-engineering
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