Faculty and staff

Polymer Matrix Composite Materials, Composites Design and Manufacturing, Optimization, In-Service Performance behaviour, Damage, Durability, Structural Reliability, Multi-Scale Modelling, Characterization Methods, Finite Element Analysis, Machine Learning, and Industry 4.0.

Heterogeneous Catalysis, Density Functional Theory, Material Poverty, Well-being, Environmental Impact, Absolute Sustainability

Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion, Redox Flow Batteries, Fuel Cells In Situ Characterization of Electrochemical Processes, Electrolyte Design and Battery Architecture, Multi-Physics Modeling of Electrochemical Systems

Hydrometallurgy, electrochemistry, corrosion

Materials characterisation & microstructure, metallurgy, electron diffraction & microscopy, deformation, microstructure/property models, manufacturing

Engineering leadership, enhancing student engagement and learning experience via generative AI, development of Open Educational Resources (OER), problem-based learning

Hydrometallurgy process analysis and design, mathematical modelling, heap leaching, fluid flow and mass transfer, leaching kinetics, fixed bed processing

Hydrometallurgy, solvent extraction, electrochemical kinetics, waste treatment, biohydro-metallurgy, ion exchange, process modelling

Additive Manufacturing, Advanced Casting processes, Advanced Simulation Techniques for Heat Transfer, Stress, and Fluid Flow, Numerical and Experimental Optimization of Metal Manufacturing Processes, Structure, Property, and Processing of Cast Aluminum and Titanium Alloys, Failure Analysis and Forensic Investigation.

Composite Materials and Manufacturing; Industry 4.0/5.0 and Smart Manufacturing; Sustainable and Human-Centric Manufacturing Systems; Engineering Education and the Impact of Industry 5.0 on Society.

Multi-Campus Instruction; Design Education; Continuing Professional Development; Knowledge Management and Transfer; Composite Materials

Polymers and polymer composites; Multi-functional composites; High-throughput manufacturing process modelling of composites; Multi-scale, multi-physics, probabilistic computational modelling of composites; Manufacturing-informed performance simulation of composites; Machine learning methods in composites manufacturing and performance analysis; Composite structures for renewable energy & unmanned vehicles; Additive manufacturing.

Use of sea water in heap leaching, release of selenium and associated toxic elements from mine waste materials, heap leach modelling

Heat transfer, fluid flow, stress

Multi-scale modelling of microstructure evolution, physical metallurgy of advanced high strength steels, Cu interconnects

High-performance Lightweight Metals, Material Characterization, Finite-element Analysis, Multi-scale Modeling, Bending Mechanics, Formability, Fracture Mechanics, Plasticity Modeling, Machine Learning, Smart Manufacturing

Advanced aluminum alloys, high strengths, high formable steels. metal matrix composites, microstructure/property models

Polymer matrix composite materials, damage growth in service, processing science for efficient manufacturing

Prediction of microstructure and properties of engineering alloys through the use of experiments and modelling, predicting the correlation between the structure of alloys, at the microstructural and atomic scale, and their mechanical behaviour

Biomaterials, biomechanics, biomimetics

Group IV semiconductors in microelectronics, Ge-on-Si lasers, 2D semiconductors, 3D integration of ICs, Raman spectroscopy