Faculty and research projects

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The Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering has a number of research projects in the areas of design, infrastructure, medical engineering and smart systems. The multidisciplinary courses run in the faculty also provide opportunities for successful student projects

Airborne Avionics Research Group
The AARG is a collection of students and staff from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) focusing on the development of advanced avionics systems

Airport Metropolis Research Project

The Faculties of Built Environment & Engineering and Faculty of Business, at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), are undertaking an international collaborative research project linking University, Government and Industry Partners. This project will investigate the changing role of city airports to that of airport cities: The Airport Metropolis.

Dual Fuel

This project addresses Australia’s research priority #1: An environmentally Sustainable Australia, through the priority goals of reducing emissions in transport as well as transforming existing industries.

Liquid Dessicant Solar Air-Conditioner
The objective of this project is to investigate an energy efficient air conditioner to be able to compete with conventional vapour compression systems

Medical Engineering Research Facility
The Queensland Government Smart State Facilities Fund awarded $5,000,000 to Queensland University of Technology in June 2004 to establish the Medical Engineering Research Facility (MERF) at The Prince Charles Hospital, Chermside.

Nanango TIE QUT Observatory
This project is to deliver the opportunity for school students and community groups from around the world to remotely control research-quality telescopes and CCD cameras via the Internet from their local computer

Organic Photovoltaics: an alternative to silicon solar cells

Microscopic studies of polymer-nanotube blends for the construction of a new type of solar cell.

Phenomena in Microgravity Laboratory

This group investigates various phenomena in microgravity, and provides access to a microgravity environment for external users

QUT Motorsport

QUT Motorsport is a student project in the School of Engineering Systems where undergraduate students in studying mechanical engineering build a Formula SAE racecar and compete in a annual competition

Signal Processing Research
The mission of the SPR is to undertake fundamental research in Time-Frequency Signal Processing and Multi scale Signal Processing with applications to selected real world problems

Speech, Audio, Image & Video Technology
The Speech, Audio, Image and Video Technologies (SAIVT) Group within the Information Security Institute (ISI) and the Smart Systems Theme of the Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering (BEE) of the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) conducts world class research, postgraduate training, consultancy and product development in the areas of Speech, Audio, Image and Video Technologies

Transport System
QUT is a leading transportation research university in Australia, focusing on applied research into the efficient, safe and environmentally sound movement of people and freight

Tribology
The Tribology and Materials Technology group at QUT covers the full spectrum of research, teaching, consulting, continuing education and technology
transfer within the fields of tribology and materials technology.

UAV Team

A group of QUT Aerospace Avionics undertaking a project to build a unmanned aerial vehicle