The Vacation Research Experience Scheme (VRES) provides eligible students with the opportunity to participate in a research project. If you're interested in research and thinking of pursuing a research degree the scheme is an opportunity to see if research is right for you. Further information about the scheme is available on HiQ.
QUT offers a diverse range of student topics for VRES. Search to find a topic that interests you.
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Optimising Landfill Leachate Treatment with Granular Sludge-Based Reactors
The high ammonia content in wastewater poses environmental toxicity and continues to challenge contemporary wastewater treatment systems. A pioneering granular sludge-based reactor has been innovated, demonstrating high-efficiency ammonia removal. However, further optimization is crucial to enhance the performance of the Granular Sludge Reactor (GSR) system, particularly concerning operational factors.This project is geared towards testing various operational factors in lab-scale bioreactors. The student involved in this project will play a pivotal role in reactor design, commissioning, and operation, gaining hands-on experience …
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Agriculture and the Bioeconomy
Optimization of aiming strategy and defocusing for central receiver systems
Concentrated Solar Power technologies are gaining popularity and relevance in the sustainably energy sources exploitation. The efficient harvesting of sun power may guarantee a safe transition from polluting fossil-fuel systems to renewable energy. However, the central receiver is affected by very high thermal fluxes that need to be properly managed to avoid excessive heating and catastrophic failures. Aiming strategies control the power density on the surface of the receiver and need to be optimized to provide the maximum achievable energy …
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering
Empirical analysis of open-source Java packages
Industry applications are widely built using open-source Java libraries. The security of such libraries is still an open issue. This project focuses on empirical analysis of open-source Java projects using an in-house analysis method.
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Information Systems
Sign Language Technologies
The Australian Deaf community is a vibrant minority-language community who use Auslan (Australian Sign Language). Students joining this project will work on an aspect of sign language technologies, with potential directions including:Working with Motion Capture recordings of native signers to control the movements of an avatarWorking with a sign language encoding system, such as SiGML, to automate avatar movements for translationsExploring how we can use AI technologies, such as ML/Deep learning models to recognise, translate, or generate (elements of) signsDeveloping …
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Computer Science
Making the housing crisis better or worse? What will be the housing legacy of the Brisbane 2032 Olympic games?
The Queensland housing market is already in crisis and the Olympic construction program is a vortex that is sucking in all available trades. With less than eight (8) years before the Olympic games, what can be done to raise the urgency and focus on housing affordability in the Brisbane 2032 games legacy plans.
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- Faculty of Business and Law
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- School of Economics and Finance
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Justice
Landlord is not a dirty word: Investigating how to attract more private investors into the residential market.
The Australian housing market is in crisis and at the same time, residential investors are exiting the market. This project will investigate international models for incentivising private investment into public housing.
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- Faculty of Business and Law
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- School of Economics and Finance
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Justice
Developing a bimanual teleoperation device to control to robot manipulator arms for robot learning.
This project will require someone with a strong mechatronics background with the ability to quickly prototype mechanical designs, electrical designs as well as software to control the two. You will get the chance to work with two Franka Panda robot arms and develop a novel teleoperation frame work that will enbable data collection for training complex imitation learning behaviours. You will be exposed to a cutting edge line if research at the intersection of AI and Robotics.
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Robotics
Climate change and trustees: Powers, duties, responsibilities and liabilities
Trustees have a duty to act in the best interests of beneficiaries. In particular, it has been held that “(w)hen the purpose of the trust is to provide financial benefits for the beneficiaries, as is usually the case, the best interests of the beneficiaries are normally their best financial interests.” Cowan v Scargill [1985] 1 Ch 270 at 286 per Megarry VC. This may require consideration of not only the economic well-being of the trust fund more generally, but also …
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- Faculty of Business and Law
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- School of Law
- Research centre(s)
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Australian Centre for Health Law Research
Spatial-temporal Electric Vehicle Charging Demand Forecast using Traffic Flow Data
Electric vehicles (EV) have played a major role in the sustainable energy transition through transport electrification. The increasingly higher EV penetration may substantially increase the electricity usage and peak demand in power distribution systems. The EV travelling and charging behaviours also bring uncertainties to the distribution network operation. Meeting these challenges, accurate EV charging demand forecast is imperatively needed to help capture and understand the future load demand variations in power systems. Based on their travel and charging needs, EV …
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
Using Aerial and Ground Robots (UAV + UGV) for real-time monitoring of vegetation in Antarctica
This project focuses on using drones and rovers equipped with computer vision to monitor vegetation in Antarctica. The drone surveys an area and detects vegetation like moss. The rover then plans an optimal path to the detected location, avoiding stepping on lichen or moss, and takes photographs or samples. The project is conducted through simulation using ROS2, Gazebo, and PX4 Autopilot.
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Robotics
Assessing the impact of a shipstrike on the south atoll of Tubbataha Reef in the Philippines
The south atoll of Tubbataha reef was struck by a US naval ship in January of 2013. This project will analyse the coral reef composition at the ship strike site one and four years after the event.
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Data Science
Assessment of optimal cleaning strategies for Fresnel solar collectors
Solar collectors are gaining popularity and relevance in the sustainably energy sources exploitation. The efficient harvesting of sun power may guarantee a safe transition from polluting fossil-fuel systems to renewable energy. However, these collectors may be affected by soiling, i.e. deposition of airborne pollutants and dust on their surfaces. Soiling hinders the optical efficiency of the reflectors thus limiting the achievable power generation of the plant. The identification of optimal cleaning strategy would then greatly help in ensuring high rates …
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering
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