News Archive

The Faculty congratulates all those with recent successes in ARC Discovery and Linkage Project funding and recognises the huge amount of effort put in by all applicants, whether successful or not.  We do encourage those who were unsuccessful this time to apply again and to seek guidance from peers and mentors in refining your proposals.

For 2009, the Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics has had an excellent outcome with:

41* applications submitted with ECM involvement through UWA
15 successes
Success rate: 37%
National success rate: 22.7%
Total income: $5.819M (NB includes 2 projects shared between Faculties)
LP income: $229,000

*  There may be successful projects submitted through other Universities involving FECM staff; please notify Debbie Thackray of these.

DP1097108 Prof JM Dell; Dr A Keating; Dr M Martyniuk; Mr J Bowers

Approved          New multiplexed optical read out technologies for micromachined cantilever sensor arrays
Project Title
2010: $  80,000
2011: $  50,000
2012: $  50,000
Total:    $180,000
Primary RFCD 2917            COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES
Administering Organisation The University of Western Australia

DP1096846 Prof L Faraone; Dr J Antoszewski; A/Prof S Krishna

Approved          Investigation of vertical magneto transport in infrared detector structures based on InAs/GaSb type II superlattices

Project Title
2010: $ 165,000
2011: $ 140,000
2012: $ 180,000
Total:    $ 485,000
Primary RFCD 2917            COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES
Administering Organisation The University of Western Australia

DP1096528 Prof AB Fourie; Prof YK Leong; Prof M Fahey

Approved          The evolution of effective stress in sedimenting clayey slurries
Project Title
2010: $ 135,000
2011: $ 110,000
2012: $ 120,000
Total:    $ 365,000
Primary RFCD 2908            CIVIL ENGINEERING
Administering Organisation The University of Western Australia

DP1096439 Prof H Hao

Approved          Experimental and numerical study of dynamic properties of concrete and fibre reinforced concrete materials
Project Title
2010: $ 120,000
2011: $ 110,000
2012: $ 110,000
Total:     $ 340,000
Primary RFCD 2908            CIVIL ENGINEERING
Administering Organisation The University of Western Australia

DP1096764 Dr Y Hu; Prof MJ Cassidy; Prof DJ White

Approved          Design of Offshore Foundations with Large Penetration into Multilayered Soils
Project Title
2010: $ 140,000
2011: $ 130,000
2012: $ 140,000
Total:                $ 410,000
Primary RFCD 2908            CIVIL ENGINEERING
Administering Organisation The University of Western Australia

DP1093000 Dr DD Huang; Dr Q Guo

Approved          Designing Bandwidth Efficient High Speed Underwater Acoustic Communication Systems with Block by Block Turbo Processing

Project Title
2010: $  85,000
2011: $  85,000
2012: $  85,000
Total:    $  255,000
Primary RFCD 2917            COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES
Administering Organisation The University of Western Australia

DP1095294 Prof GN Ivey; Asst Prof NL Jones; Asst Prof RJ Lowe; Dr M Ghisalberti; Dr M Meuleners; Dr R Brinkman; Prof JR Koseff
Approved          Extreme tidal forcing of a topographically complex coastal region: the Kimberley, Western Australia

Project Title
2010: $ 170,000
2011: $ 150,000
2012: $ 110,000
Total:     $430,000
Primary RFCD 2604            OCEANOGRAPHY
Administering Organisation The University of Western Australia

DP1094500 A/Prof AN Luiten; Dr EF May; Dr M Moldover; Dr C Daussy

Approved          Redefining Temperature
Project Title
2010: $ 220,000
2011: $ 180,000
2012: $ 170,000
Total:     $ 570,000
Primary RFCD 2404            OPTICAL PHYSICS
Administering Organisation The University of Western Australia

DP1096801 Prof RA Owens; Dr AS Mian

Approved          Person identification from multiple non invasive iris and face biometrics in video
Project Title
2010: $ 125,000
2011: $ 130,000
2012: $ 135,000
Total:     $ 390,000
Primary RFCD 2802            ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND SIGNAL AND IMAGE PROCESSING
Administering Organisation The University of Western Australia

DP1096178 Prof DD Sampson; Prof MB Bush; Prof S Boppart

Approved          Optical coherence elastography   High resolution medical imaging of tissue mechanical properties
Project Title
2010: $ 140,000
2011: $ 150,000
2012: $ 100,000
Total:     $ 390,000
Primary RFCD 2915            BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Administering Organisation The University of Western Australia

DP1096525 Prof A Seress; A/Prof C Li

Approved          Efficient computation in finite groups with applications in algebra and graph theory
Project Title
2010: $ 170,000
2011: $ 170,000
2012: $ 165,000
2013: $ 160,364
2014: $ 160,364
Total:     $ 825,728
Primary RFCD 2301            MATHEMATICS
APF                    Prof A Seress
Administering Organisation The University of Western Australia

DP1096348 Dr R Togneri; Prof SE Nordholm; Prof M Cooke

Approved          Robust speech recognition in realistic hostile environments
Project Title
2010: $  75,000
2011: $  85,000
2012: $  70,000
Total:     $230,000
Primary RFCD 2802            ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND SIGNAL AND IMAGE PROCESSING
Administering Organisation The University of Western Australia

DP1093510 Prof AM Waite; Dr M Roughan; Prof CB Pattiaratchi; Dr J Kotta; Dr H Orav Kotta

Approved          Ocean reef interactions as drivers of continental shelf productivity in a changing climate
Project Title
2010: $ 189,000
2011: $ 189,000
2012: $ 125,000
Total:    $ 503,000
Primary RFCD 2604            OCEANOGRAPHY

Administering Organisation The University of Western Australia

DP1096514 Dr VP Wallace; Dr P Siegel

Approved          Terahertz and optical coherence tomography for improved cancer imaging
Project Title
2010: $  80,000
2011: $  55,000
2012: $  50,000
Total:     $ 185,000
Primary RFCD 2918            INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING
Administering Organisation The University of Western Australia

DP1092893 Dr A Wittek; Prof K Miller; Prof KH Yang

Approved          Towards Consistent Meshless Computational Framework for Soft Tissue Damage
Project Title      Modelling for Traumatic Injury Prevention and Surgery Simulation
2010: $  95,000
2011: $  85,000
2012: $  80,000
Total:     $ 260,000
Primary RFCD 2915            BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Administering Organisation The University of Western Australia

LINKAGE PROJECTS Round 2

1 submitted, 1 funded, 100% success

LP100100436
Prof Thomas Braunl, Prof John H Taplin, Prof David N Harries, Mr/s Karl D Mischewski, Mr Terrence J Mader, Mr Luke A O'Donoghue
Approved
Project Title
Analysis and modeling of driving patterns for limited-range electric vehicles
2010: $101,000.00
2011: $64,000.00
2012: $64,000.00
Total:  $229,000
Primary FoR  0902  AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING
APAI 2
Partner Organisations
AEVA - Perth Branch, CO2Smart, Gull Petroleum WA, WA Department for Planning and Infrastructure
Administering Organisation The University of Western Australia