Vacation Research Experience Scheme student topics

Cane sugar factories, while producing sugar and molasses, provide their own energy and power from the sugar cane biomass residue, are green house gas neutral and can export renewable electricity to the grid. The performance of the milling train in extracting juice and dewatering the biomass bagasse residue are key components of the operation. Understanding and modelling the mechanical and permeability flow processes are seen as a way forward to improve the performance, for example by reducing the final bagasse …

Faculty

Faculty of Engineering

School

School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering

Research centre(s)

Centre for Agriculture and the Bioeconomy

Background: Since the release of ChatGTP 3 there has been a significant interest in the output of General Artificial Intelligence (GenAI systems), which can be confused with the language of a real human. While the veracity of GenAI systems is due to their training data (and pseudo-randomness), people are using it for many things, such as relationships, health advice sometimes even cheating on university assignments.This project would like to test how a GenAI system will work in the area of …

Faculty

Faculty of Science

School

School of Computer Science

Research centre(s)

Centre for Data Science

Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) offer designers of electronic systems the flexibility of reprogrammability with the speed advantages of dedicated hardware. Each new generation of FPGAs become faster, more powerful and integrates new features. Of particular interest in this project is AMD's Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC. An FPGA at its core, it is also a system-on-chip (SoC), meaning that it incorporates a microprocessor and its typical interfaces, along with a wide-bandwidth radio-frequency (RF) subsystem. An RFSoC opens up exciting possibilities for …

Faculty

Faculty of Engineering

School

School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics

We have a current PhD research focused on an investigation into the use of sugar cane bagasse ash in geopolymer concrete. The subject of this VRES is notably out of her research scope as it has a lot to do with chemistry (rather than structural engineering). While I have discussed with the PhD student that chemistry part is outside her scope (due to time constraints), having a VRES to assist would be tremendously good for the overall project. The topic …

Faculty

Faculty of Engineering

School

School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research centre(s)

Centre for Materials Science
Centre for a Waste-Free World

This research topic is an area of structural engineering within the general theme of "resilient built environment".  While there has been related funded projects in the past, there is none currently. The project is to be done within the School of CEE.

Faculty

Faculty of Engineering

School

School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Several open-source projects drive modern-day IT applications. However, some open-source projects are compromised by malicious attackers, who add malware to the code to compromise the security of the application users. This project will investigate approaches for securing open-source software.We have an in-house tool to analyse GitHub open-source software. You are expected to focus on the following issues:investigate the literature on open-source software and its securitywork with the project supervisor to develop a design for securing the open-source software.

Faculty

Faculty of Science

School

School of Information Systems

Existing machine learning-based intelligent systems are autonomous and opaque (often considered “black-box” systems), which has led to the lack of trust in AI adoption and, consequently, the gap between machine and human being.In 2018, the European Parliament adopted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which introduces a right of explanation for all human individuals to obtain “meaningful explanations of the logic involved” when a decision is made by automated systems. To this end, it is a compliance that an intelligent …

Faculty

Faculty of Science

School

School of Information Systems

Research centre(s)

Centre for Data Science

Have you ever wondered how scientists can monitor the health of cells in a human organ model without causing any harm to them? This project explores the fascinating field of biomedical engineering, where the goal is to enhance an existing "organ-on-a-chip" model by incorporating a smart biosensor. This innovative model functions as a tiny laboratory that simulates the environment of a real organ through a combination of microfluidics and tissue engineering. Conventionally, cell health monitoring relies on techniques like microscopy …

Faculty

Faculty of Engineering

School

School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering

Research centre(s)

Centre for Biomedical Technologies
Centre for Biomedical Technologies

Smart use of rich data sets and state-of-the-art models in a central framework provides opportunities to address problems that were previously out of reach. This is particularly true in managing and responding to flood scenarios where an integrated platform can gather forecasted and measured weather and streamflow data and use those data in foresting systems, enabling an integrated visualisation platform for data sharing and real-time decision making.Water engineering research team is developing analytical and visualisation frameworks that can support an …

Faculty

Faculty of Engineering

School

School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research centre(s)

Centre for the Environment

3D concrete printing is an advanced technology that offers flexibility in design with reduced resources for more economical and sustainable concrete construction. Complex structures can be built with greater precision without using formwork. For successful 3D printing, a concrete mixture requires efficient printability characteristics. This research is attached to an existing funded project titled "Sustainable 3D printed concrete for bespoke infrastructure", funded by industry partner, Everhard Industries and Building 4.0 CRC.

Faculty

Faculty of Engineering

School

School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

The Biofabrication and Tissue Morphology (BTM) research group, within QUT's Centre for Biomedical Technologies, is developing new technologies to detect and monitor foot disease. Advanced manufacturing, coupled with 3D scanning, 3D printing, and pressure sensing technologies, is enabling the development of new approaches to managing foot disease, offering better outcomes for patients, while reducing costs.In a collaboration with industry partners iOrthotics and Healthia we have developed a custom 3D scanner for podiatry. In this project, you will work with our …

Faculty

Faculty of Engineering

School

School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering

Research centre(s)

Centre for Biomedical Technologies

Process mining is a field that researches the development of data science methods to address key challenges in organizational management. Recent literature demonstrates the enormous potential of process mining to support workforce analytics (aka HR analytics) in a business process context. A key enabler is the systematic use of interactive data visualization, which offers a guided way to navigate and extract workforce-related insights from event data --- a form of multidimensional, timeseries data recording the reality of business process execution.

Faculty

Faculty of Science

School

School of Information Systems

Research centre(s)

Centre for Data Science