Projects
Research at the School of Engineering encompasses a broad range of project areas across the core engineering discipline areas of electrical and electronic engineering; mechanical engineering; and civil engineering; as well as our cross-disciplinary areas of mathematics and physics covering natural resources modelling and structural health monitoring.
School based
Centre for Communications Engineering Research
- 2D barcode design for mobile phone applications
- A commercial energy framework for medium size enterprise microgrids
- A medium access control protocol to provide efficient mobility in wireless sensor networks
- Building integrated microwave shields for minimising near-field radiation from mobile towers
- Improving quality of service in an integrated 4G/passive optical network
- Improving throughput in LTE-A communications at vehicular speeds
- Integrated electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles along with renewable energy sources for improving reliability and sustainability of a Smart Grid
- Medium access control protocol for guaranteed quality of service of voice and video in wireless local area networks
- New strategies to improve throughput in mobile WiMAX communications
- Optimal control of power quality for microgrids using artificial intelligence
- Wireless sensor networks for environmental monitoring
- Wireless sensor networks for smart homes
Thermofluids Research Group
- An experimental and numerical study of surface interactions in swirling jets
- Biomass energy utilisation and combustion in a lab-scale burner
- Design and development of swirl nozzles
- Modelling a Reverse Osmotic desalination device
- Optimisation of renewable energy systems based on PV/wind/hydrogen using intelligent techniques
- Stand‐alone solar‐PV hydrogen energy systems incorporating Reverse Osmosis