Research

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Research Portfolio Office

BEE Research Portfolio Office exists to support research staff and postgraduate students within the Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering. Postgradutate students are not attached to Schools, they are attached the Portfolio office. They are allocated to a broad theme of research, depending on their principal supervisor's research area - these are outlined below.

Design

The design theme includes research into architecture, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture and urban design.

Infrastructure

The infrastructure research theme's vision is to establish a national and international reputation for infrastructure related research in key selected areas by creating and disseminating fundamental and applied knowledge.

Medical Engineering

Information incorporating research related to medical engineering under this theme including paediatrics, spine research, orthopaedic research and traumatology research

Smart Systems

Smart Systems refers to a user-oriented approach that links design and new technologies to boost industry productivity and improve the way we live.

Other Faculty Research

Project Management research
The Project Management Academy (PMA) is dedicated to research and development in project management across all industries and sectors.

Collaborative centres
The Faculty is a major contributor to external research organisations, including:

• Cooperative Research Centres
• Centre for Subtropical Design
• CRC for Railway Technologies
• CRC for Integrated Engineering Asset Management (CIEAM)
• CRC for Construction Innovation
• Queensland Sustainable Energy Industry Development Group
• Australasian Centre for Interactive Design (ACID)
• Australian Research Centre for Aerospace Automation (ARCAA)

QUT Institutes such as:

• Institute for Health and Biomedical Innovation (IHBI)
• Institute for Security Information (ISI)
• Institute for Sustainable Resources (ISR)
• Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation (iCi)

Research contacts

Contact information for general research, research theme leaders and the collaborative centres