19 events Coming up
15 May 2012
The Accelerating Universe and The Hunt for Dark Energy
In 1998, two international teams raced to determine the fate of the Universe. Was it expanding or contracting? They found that it wasn't just expanding but that the expansion was accelerating. It was a startling discovery suggesting that an unknow...
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Seminar/Forum12 Jun 2012
Graduate Engineering and IT Expo
The Melbourne School of Engineering is Australia's top engineering school, and a world leader in engineering and IT. We are ranked number 1 in Australia and 25 globally for Engineering and Technology according to the Times Higher Education World ...
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Fair/Expo24 Jul 2012
24 – 25 Jul 1:00PM–3:00PM
The Amazing Spaghetti Machine Contest
Be amazed as teams of year 10 students from around Victoria present their "spaghetti machines" the term for an overly complicated chainreaction machine used to perform a simple task. This year's task is to take a portrait photo! Vote for your fa...
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Exhibition07 Nov 2012
MSE and MMI Visiting Scholar Seminar: Nanoscale Characterization by Analytical TEM and Atom Probe Tomography.
The optimization of material properties often requires the control of the microstructure down to the atomic scale. During the past ten years, the resolution and performances of analytical microscopes have dramatically improved. The implementation ...
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Seminar/Forum25 Feb 2013
Biomedical Engineering Seminar: Anterior cruciate ligament injury mechanism during impact load
Hossein Mokhtarzadeh (PhD student in Biomechanics) will be presenting the first seminar in our new Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series. Landing is an inevitable physical activity in many sports such as basketball, soccer, and gymnastics. Upon l...
11 Mar 2013
Biomedical Engineering Seminar: Realistic spiking models of octopus cell circuits of the mammalian auditory brainstem
Octopus cells are named after their unique shape, with dendrites oriented in one direction. They receive input from a large number of Auditory Nerve Fibers (>60) representing a broad frequency band. The talk covers three topics relating to the com...
12 Mar 2013
Turbulent Boundary Layers, Coherent Motions and Reducing the Cost of Your Next Trip
In an age where lighter, faster, further, is desirable in terms of travel and efficiency, understanding the dynamics of 'turbulent boundary layers' is of great importance in the engineering design process. Turbulent boundary layers are created whe...
18 Mar 2013
Biomedical Engineering Seminar: Requirements for the Robust Operant Conditioning of Neural Firing Rates
Operant conditioning experiments have shown that changes in the firing rates of individual neurons in the motor cortex of monkeys can be elicited. In these experiments, the firing rates of the neurons were measured using an implanted electrode, an...
25 Mar 2013
Biomedical Engineering Seminar: Validating MEG/EEG finite element head models using a controlled rabbit experiment
In focal epilepsy, it is essential to accurately determine the location of the seizure focus for each patient. Electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) based source localisation is a promising noninvasive method to determine t...
26 Mar 2013
Invitation to a discussion – can we increase our external funding without sacrificing quality?
The University of Melbourne sits at the top of the research tree in this country and has an enviable worldwide position. The Dean of Engineering and our DVC Research, however, have suggested that it is going to be really tough (perhaps impossible...
08 Apr 2013
Biomedical Engineering Seminar: Extreme exercise and the right ventricle of the heart
Exercise renders a disproportionate load on the cardiac ventricles. Animal and human studies are concordant in demonstrating that right ventricle load (wall stress, work and oxygen demand), which is considerably less than for the left ventricle a...
Department of Mechanical Engineering Seminar: Design, Modelling and Control of Autonomous Underwater Robots
In this talk, the speaker will be focusing on the design and control aspects of autonomous underwater robots. Underwater robots are a class of robots which are propelled through water to carry out underwater missions autonomously. The modeling of ...
15 Apr 2013
Biomedical Engineering Seminar: Biomaterials with Therapeutic Effects in Anti-cancer and Anti-bacterial Biomedical Applications
This talk will highlight two applications of nondrug, nanostructured biomaterials in two different therapeutic arenas – cancer and infection. The first example will discuss the use of nanometer structured selenium as a promising material for impla...
29 Apr 2013
Biomedical Engineering Seminar: The stellate microcircuit of the cochlear nucleus - design and optimisation of a biophysically-realistic neural network model
Biophysicallyrealistic neural network (BNN) models require quality design and optimisation methods in order to best advance understanding of complex neural processing. This talk presents a novel BNN model of the cochlear nucleus stellate microcir...
21 May 2013
Aspen Technology presentation
AspenTech is a leading supplier of software for process optimisation across key industries, such as energy, chemicals, engineering and construction, oil and gas, and refining. With integrated aspenONE solutions, process manufacturers can implement...
28 May 2013
From Technology to Sight - looking into the future of the bionic eye
The story of the bionic eye has captured the imagination of people all over the world. Following the announcement of Australia’s first successful bionic eye implants last year, testing of an early prototype device continues with three patients in ...
6:30–8:00PM
Focus on Engineering
Do you love creating solutions to problems and want to make a difference to the world? Come along to find out how to study Engineering at Melbourne. Hear from current students, academic staff and recent graduates about what it is like to study eng...
03 Jun 2013
On Wind Energy: It is About Turbulence. A Melbourne Engineering Research Institute (MERIT) Seminar
In order to improve the understanding of the vertical transport of momentum and kinetic energy across a boundary layer flow with wind turbines, windtunnel experiments were performed to include a scaled down wind farm of 3x5. Particleimagevelocity ...
18 Jun 2013
Robots, gals, and engineering the future
Is there a place for females in engineering? How many people does it take to break the world record for the largest group robot dance? 2012 Young Australian of the Year, Marita Cheng will share experiences from her journey so far, including start...