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Lecturer - Aviation

Current Teaching

• Waves and Electricity
• Modern Physics
• Intermediate Physics
• Advanced Physics
• Physics Project
• Differential Equations

Background

• 2010: Postdoctoral Research Associate
• 2004-2009: Casual Academic, School of Engineering, ECU
• 2006-2009: PhD Candidate, School of Engineering, ECU
• 2004-2005: Summer Vacation Scholar, Industrial Physics, CSIRO
• 2003-2004: Summer Vacation Scholar, Telecommunications and Industrial Physics, CSIRO

Professional Memberships

• Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
• Society for Photo Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
• Australian Institute of Physics
• Australian Optics Society
• Australian Acoustic Society
• Acoustical Society of America

Awards and Recognition

Other

• 2009 - Australian Synchrotron Winter School Scholarship
• 2008 - Wanda-Henry Prize – ACOFT
  
• 2008 - Commercialisation Training Scheme Scholarship
  
• 2007 - Best Student Paper – SAS
  
• 2006 - ECU Postgraduate Research Scholarship
  
• 2005 - Top Physics Honours Student
  
• 2004-2005 - CSIRO Summer Vacation Scholarship
  
• 2004 - Top Physics Undergraduate
  
• 2003-2004 - CSIRO Summer Vacation Scholarship
  
• Member of Golden Key International Honour Society
• 2003 - Australian Institute Of Nuclear Science And Engineering Winter School Scholarship

Research Areas and Interests

• Structural Health Monitoring
• Optical Fibre Sensing
• Piezoelectric Transducer Modelling
• Acoustic Signals
• Technology for Education
• Teaching in Laboratories
• Physics and Engineering Education
• Distributed Optical Fibre Smart Sensors
• Acoustic Communications and Power Harvesting in Biomedical Devices
• Power Over Fibre

Staff Qualifications

• PhD (Doctoral Degree), Edith Cowan University, 2010 .
• BSc (Bachelor of Science), Edith Cowan University, 2004 .

Recent Publications (within the last five years)

Book Chapters

• Wild, G., Hinckley, S., (2011), Distributed optical fibre smart sensors for structural health monitoring. Structural Health Monitoring 2011: Condition Based Maintenance and Intelligent Structures, 2(156), 86, Lancaster, England.
• Wild, G., Hinckley, S., (2011), Wireless communications and power supply for in-vivo biomedical devices using acoustic transmissions. Biomedical Engineering: Trends in Electronics, Communications and Software, 111-130, Croatia.
• Wild, G., Hinckley, S., (2008), A Transmit Reflect Detection System for Fibre Bragg Grating Acoustic Emission and Transmission Sensors. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering: Smart Sensors and Sensing Technology, 20(25), 183-197, Berlin Heidelberg.

Journal Articles

• Wild, G., Swan, G., (2011), The development of acoustic experiments for off-campus teaching and learning. Physics Education, 46(3), 281-289, DOI: 10.1088/0031-9120/46/3/004.
• Wild, G., Hinckley, S., (2011), A Fibre Bragg Grating sensor as a receiver for acoustic communications signals. Sensors, 11(1), 455-471, DOI: 10.3390/s110100455.
• Wild, G., Hinckley, S., (2010), Pspice simulation of an electro-acoustic communications channel. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control, 57(4), 981 - 985, United States, DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2010.1503.
• Wild, G., Hinckley, S., (2010), Spatial Performance of Acousto-Ultrasonic Fiber Bragg Grating Sensor. IEEE Sensors Journal, 10(4), 805 - 806, DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2009.2038232.
• Wild, G., Hinckley, S., (2008), Acousto-Ultrasonic Optical Fiber Sensors: Overview and State-of-the-Art. IEEE Sensors Journal, 8(7), 1184-1193.

Conference Publications

• Jansz, P., Hinckley, S., Wild, G., (2011), A stationary optical delay line for low coherence interferometry. Proceedings - 2011 6th IEEE International Symposium on Electronic Design, Test and Application, DELTA 2011, 162-167, DOI: 10.1109/DELTA.2011.37.
• Allwood, G., Wild, G., Hinckley, S., (2011), Power over fibre: Material properties of homojunction photovoltaic micro-cells. Proceedings - 2011 6th IEEE International Symposium on Electronic Design, Test and Application, DELTA 2011, 78-82, DOI: 10.1109/DELTA.2011.66.
• Jansz, P., Wild, G., Richardson, S., Hinckley, S., (2011), Simulation of an optical delay lines for optical coherence tomography. Proceedings of the IQEC/CLEO Pacific Rim incorporating ACOLS & ACOFT, 1400-1402, Sydney, Australia.
• Wild, G., Swan, G., Hinckley, S., (2011), A Fibre Bragg Grating Based Reed Switch for Optical Fibre Intrusion Detection Systems. Proceedings of the IQEC/CLEO Pacific Rim incorporating ACOLS & ACOFT, 136-138, Sydney, Australia.
• Allwood, G., Wild, G., Hinckley, S., (2011), Programmable logic controller optical fibre sensor interface module. Proceedings of SPIE: Smart Nano-Micro Materials and Devices, 8204(4-7 December 2011), 82040P, Bellingham, Washington, USA, DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.903235.
• Hinckley, S., Wild, G., (2011), Secondary students research projects in Engineering: Optical fibre Bragg grating sensor applications. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education., 612-618, Australia.
• Allwood, G., Wild, G., Hinckley, S., (2011), A comparison of silicon and germanium photovoltaic power conversion for power-over-fibre. Proceedings of SPIE: Smart Nano-Micro Materials and Devices, 8204(4-7 December 2011), 820410, Bellingham, Washington, USA.
• Wild, G., Swan, G., Hinckley, S., (2011), Computer based experiments for off-campus teaching and learning of AC electricity. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education., 357-363.
• Allwood, G., Wild, G., Hinckley, S., (2011), Programmable Logic Controller Based Fibre Bragg Grating In-ground Intrusion Detection System. Proceedings of The 4th Australian Security and Intelligence Conference, 1-8, Perth, Australia.
• Jansz, P., Richardson, S., Wild, G., Hinckley, S., (2011), An extended analytical model to simulate optical coherence tomography systems with a quasi-stationary optical delay line. Proceedings of SPIE Smart Nano+Micro Materials and Devices, 8204(December 2011), 82043G, Bellingham, Washington, USA.
• Allwood, G., Wild, G., Hinckley, S., (2011), Fibre Optic Acoustic Sensing for Intrusion Detection Systems. Proceedings of Acoustics 2011 Breaking New Ground, 89.
• Oswald, D., Richardson, S., Wild, G., (2011), Numerical Modelling of Interrogation Systems for Optical Fibre Bragg Grating Sensors. Proceedings of the SPIE: Smart Nano-Micro Materials and Devices, 8204(5-7 December 2011), art. no. 82040Q , Bellingham, Washington, USA.
• Wild, G., Swan, G., (2011), Optical Fibre Communications and Sensing System Experiments for Undergraduate Photonics Laboratories. Proceedings of the SPIE: Smart Nano-Micro Materials and Devices, 8204(5-7 December 2011), 82042Q, Bellingham, Washington, USA, DOI: 10.1117/12.903224.
• Wild, G., Hinckley, S., (2010), Wireless Acoustic Communications and Power Supply for In-vivo Biomedical Devices. 2010 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), 4p., United States of America.
• Allwood, G., Wild, G., Hinckley, S., (2010), Photovoltaic Micro-Cell Design for Distributed Power-over-Fibre Optimized for 850nm & 980nm. Proceedings of the 19th Australian Institute of Physics Congress, incorporating the 35th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology, 2010, 4p., Online.
• Wild, G., Richardson, S., (2010), Analytical Modelling of Interrogation Systems for Fibre Bragg Grating Sensors. Proceedings of the 35th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology, 4p., Melbourne, Australia.
• Jansz, P., Hinckley, S., Wild, G., (2010), Effect of a Polywell geometry on a CMOS Photodiode Array. Proceedings IEEE International SOC Conference, 355-358, United States of America.
• Wild, G., Hinckley, S., (2010), Optical fibre Bragg gratings for acoustic sensors. Proceedings of 20th International Congress on Acoustics, ICA 2010, 20(23-27 August 2010), 7p., Sydney.
• Wild, G., Swan, G., (2010), Acoustic education: Experiments for off-campus teaching and learning. Proceedings of 20th International Congress on Acoustics, ICA 2010, 20(23-27 August 2010), 6p., Sydney.
• Jansz, P., Wild, G., Hinckley, S., Yang, Y., Duncan, P., (2010), A Comparison of Grinding and Electric Discharge Machining to Fabricate a Stepped Mirror Structure for a Stationary Optical Delay Line. 19th Australian Institute of Physics Congress incorporating the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technologies., 4p., Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
• Allwood, G., Wild, G., Hinckley, S., (2010), Power-over-Fibre for Distributed Optical Fibre Smart Sensor Networks. Proceedings of the 35th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology, 3p., Melbourne, Australia.
• Wild, G., Allwood, G., Hinckley, S., (2010), Distributed sensing, communications, and power in optical Fibre Smart Sensor networks for structural health monitoring. Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP), 2010 Sixth International Conference on, 6(7-10 December 2010), 139-144, Piscataway, N.J., DOI: 10.1109/ISSNIP.2010.5706785.
• Allwood, G., Wild, G., Hinckley, S., (2010), Photovoltaic micro-cell design for distrubuted power in sensor networks. Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD), 2010 Conference on, 129-130, Piscataway, N.J., DOI: 10.1109/COMMAD.2010.5699696.
• Wild, G., Swan, G., Hinckley, S., (2010), AC Electricity Experiments for Off-Campus Teaching and Learning. Proceedings of the 19th Australian Institute of Physics Congress, 1p., Online.
• Swan, G., Wild, G., (2010), Evolution of an Experiment: Introduction to the Oscilloscope and Resonance in Pipes. Proceedings of the 19th Australian Institute of Physics Congress, incorporating the 35th Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology, 2010, 1p., Online.
• Wild, G., Hinckley, S., (2010), Acoustic transmissions for wireless communications and power supply in biomedical devices. Proceedings of 20th International Congress on Acoustics, ICA 2010, 20(23-27 August, 2010), 740, Sydney.
• Wild, G., Hinckley, S., (2009), Distributed Optical Fibre Smart Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring: A Smart Transducer Interface Module. Proceedings of the 2009 Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks Search, 373-378, Piscataway, NJ., DOI: 10.1109/ISSNIP.2009.5416754.
• Wild, G., Hinckley, S., (2009), A Smart Transducer Interface Module for Fibre Bragg Grating Sensors. Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Optics, Lasers and Spectroscopy and Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology in association with the International Workshop on Dissipative Solitons 2009, 521-522, Australia.
• Wild, G., Hinckley, S., (2009), Acoustic Communications: A Link Between SHM and Robotic NDE. Structural Health Monitoring 2009: From System Integration to Autonomous Systems, 1(9-11 September 2009), 870-877, United States.
• Wild, G., Hinckley, S., (2008), An Intensiometric Detection System for Fibre Bragg Grating Sensors. Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference, 2008 and the 2008 Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology. OECC/ACOFT 2008. Joint conference of the, CFP0897E(07 July), 2, Piscataway, N.J..
• Jansz, P., Wild, G., Hinckley, S., (2008), A Micro-Photonic Stationary Optical Delay Line for Fibre Optic Time Domain OCT. Proceedings of IEEE Explore 2008, 2p, NJ, USA, DOI: 10.1109/OECCACOFT.2008.4610362.
• Wild, G., Hinckley, S., (2008), Wireless Acoustic Communications For In-Vivo Biomedical Device Monitoring. Proceedings of SPIE 2008 - Biomedical Applications of Micro- and Nanoengineering IV and Complex Systems, 7270 (10 December), 72700T-1 to 72700T-10, Bellingham, USA.
• Wild, G., Hinckley, S., (2008), Fibre Bragg Grating Acoustic Emissions and Transmission Sensor in Carbon Fibre Composites. Proceedings of SPIE 2008: Smart Structures, Devices, and Systems IV, 7268(10 December), 12p, Bellingham, USA.
• Jansz, P., Wild, G., Hinckley, S., (2008), Optical Switching of a Proposed Stationary Optical Delay Line for Oct. Proceedings of SPIE 2008: Smart Structures, Devices, and Systems IV., 7268(10 December), 10p, Bellingham, Washington, USA, DOI: 10.1117/12.814425.
• Jansz, P., Wild, G., Hinckley, S., (2008), A Comparison Of Wet And Dry Etching To Fabricate A Micro-Photonic Structure For Use In OCT. Proceedings of SPIE 7270 (2008). Biomedical Applications of Micro- and Nanoengineering IV and Complex Systems., 7270A-34 V6(30 December), 11p, Bellingham, Washington, USA, DOI: 10.1117/12.810973.
• Wild, G., Hinckley, S., Jansz, P., (2008), A Transmit Reflect Detection System For Fiber Bragg Grating Photonic Sensors. Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 6801. Photonics: Design, Technology, and Packaging III, 6801(05 December), 9p, Bellingham, USA.
• Jansz, P., Wild, G., Hinckley, S., (2008), A Proposed Fibre Optic Time Domain Optical Coherence Tomography System Using a Micro-Photonic Stationary Optical Delay Line. Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 7004. 19th International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors, 7004, 70045Y(14 - 18 April), 4p, Bellingham, Washington, USA., DOI: 10.1117/12.786904.
• Jansz, P., Wild, G., Hinckley, S., (2008), Stepped Mirrored Structures For Generating True Time Delays In Stationary Optical Delay Line Proof-Of-Principle Experiments For Application To Optical Coherence Tomography. Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 6801. Photonics: Design, Technology, and Packaging III, 6801(5 December), 11p, Bellingham, Washington, USA, DOI: 10.1117/12.759012.
• Wild, G., Hinckley, S., (2007), Fibre Bragg Grating Sensors for Acoustic Emission and Transmission Detection Applied to Robotic NDE in Structural Health Monitoring. Proceedings of IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS) 2007, 1-6, New Jersey, USA.
• Wild, G., Hinckley, S., (2007), Electro-acoustic and acousto-optic communications for robotic agents in smart structures. Proceedings of SPIE 2008: Smart Structures, Devices, and Systems III, 6414(10-13 December), 64140Q-1 to 64140Q-11, Adelaide.
• Wild, G., Hinckley, S., (2007), A Fibre Bragg Grating Acoustic Emission and Transmission Sensor Utilizing a Transmit Reflect Detection System. Proceedings of The Second International Conference on Sensing Technology, 546-551, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
• Wild, G., Hinckley, S., (2007), A General Purpose Internet Accesible and Controllable Smart Transducer Interface Module. Proceedings of the Conference on Information Management and Internet Research (CIMIR), 457-466, Perth.
• Wild, G., Hinckley, S., (2007), Wireless acoustic communications for autonomous agents in structural health monitoring sensor networks. Proceedings of the SPIE Microelectronics Design, Technology, and Packaging 111, 6798(5 - 7 of December 2007), 67980Z-1 to 67980Z-12, Canberra.