Mastermind ingenious solutions to everyday problems
Undertake an Engineering research-based higher degree at Flinders, and you’ll have the opportunity to work with engineers and clinicians, health researchers and web developers, designers and users, industry and government to collaborate on creative solutions to address global challenges in health, transport, defence and industry 4.0 manufacturing.
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Why undertake a PhD in Engineering at Flinders
With the guidance of an expert supervisor, take the opportunity to leverage Flinders’ extensive industry connections and plug into our $120 million hub of innovation and entrepreneurship at Tonsley.
Your chosen research area is flexible, and ultimately agreed between you and your supervisor. Areas of focus could include:
You will drive a project that creates valuable new scientific knowledge; with the ultimate goal of finding economic and environmental solutions to real world problems.
You’re not here to reinvent the wheel – you’re here to reimagine the wheel, to progress the wheel, to dynamize the wheel, and to take it to places it’s never been before.
A PhD in Engineering will position you as an expert in your area of specialisation. A PhD is a stepping stone to professional research or as a highly sought-after expert in the private or public sector in Australia or internationally. This prestigious degree will equip you with valuable skills in communications, time management and organisation transferrable to any role.
The Medical Device Research Institute (MDRI) aims to develop innovative solutions to a range of healthcare problems including: new assistive technologies to make rehabilitation more engaging and build independence for people living with impairments; developing personalised models and new medical devices to improve surgery successes and big data to better understand Australian health.
To achieve this, we are bringing great minds together; engineers and clinicians, health researchers and web developers, designers and users, industry and government to collaborate on creative solutions to address global healthcare challenges.
Flinders academic staff are recognised experts in their specialised Engineering fields. They are embedded in real-world applications of research, with extensive knowledge, networks and industry partners to support PhD students and deliver exciting and valuable research outcomes. Get in touch with a supervisor of your choice today, to discuss your area of interest, and start on your path to thought leadership.
Dr Amin Mahmoudi | Energy storage and renewable energy eystems, electrical machines and drives |
Dr David Hobbs |
Rehabilitation engineering and assistive technology, technology and disability |
Associate Professor Egon Perilli | Bone biomechanics, bone imaging, modelling and instrumentation, fracture assessment, metabolic bone disease, modelling the structure of bone, Osteo-arthritis |
Professor John Arkwright | Biomedical engineering, optical fibre sensing, photonics |
Associate Professor John Costi | Biomechanics, biomechanics, bones, soft tissues and joints, biomedical engineering, bone biomechanics, multiscale testing, orthopaedics, robotic and biomedical engineering |
Professor Karen Reynolds | Biomedical engineering, bone biomechanics, bone imaging, modelling and instrumentation, medical devices, non-invasive monitoring, virtual reality medical simulation |
Professor Karl Sammut |
Active vibration control, autonomous vehicles, computer vision, embedded systems, robotics, smart materials |
Professor Mark Taylor | Arthroplasty, biomechanics, bones, soft tissues and joints, bone biomechanics, finite element analysis, orthopaedics |
Dr Reza Hashemi Oskouei | Hip joint replacement, hip joint implants, hydroxyapatite (HA) coatings for implant materials |
Dr Stuart Wildy | Composite structures and materials, engineering, experimental techniques, fracture detection, fracture toughness and mechanics of materials, interdisciplinary engineering and technology, marine composites and structures, materials engineering/science, mechanical properties of materials, stress analysis |
Dr Youhong Tang | Polymer nanocomposites, Fibre reinforced composites, Chemo/bio fluorescent sensors, Hydrogels, Triboelectric nanogenerator |
Dr Russell Brinkworth | Autonomous vehicles, robotics, infrared sensing |
Dr Aliakbar Gholampour | Civil engineering, environmentally sustainable construction, materials engineering, construction materials performance and processes |
Dr Kristy Hansen | Environmental noise, flow control, sleep, wind farm noise |
Dr Tom Vincent | Concrete, concrete composites, FRP-confinement, high-performance concrete columns |
Dr Hongyu Qin | Computational geomechanics, constitutive modelling of geomaterials, foundation and soil structure interaction, numerical methods in geomechanics, pile foundations, transportation geotechnics, underground excavation and tunnelling |
Dr Nicholas Holyoak | Transport studies, civil engineering |
Associate Professor Kenneth Pope | Biomedical analysis, EEG, CT, MRI, ICA, biomedical and electronic engineering, biomedical signal processing, signal and image processing |
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For all other course enquiries phone, email or complete the enquiry form.
Office of Graduate Research
Phone: (08) 8201 5893
Email: hdr.admissions@flinders.edu.au.
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