The School of Engineering brings together a diverse and welcoming community who are motivated to seek “wicked problems”. We connect divergent thinkers, to explore and pose solutions that cross the traditional interdisciplinary and global boundaries. We have evolved from our foundational strength in systems thinking, reaching beyond traditional engineering fields.
This systems approach embraces our core strengths and has been reshaped around the focus areas listed below. Our research groups are often interdisciplinary and span these focus areas.
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Research clusters
Managing our natural and urban environments in the face of growing population pressures and climate change –including increasingly severe droughts, storms, and bushfires –is one of the great challenges of our time....
Information and signal processing underpins many of the emerging and promising solutions to the challenges faced by our ever-changing digitised world. We undertake fundamental research inspired by future applications spanning social media,...
Industry 4.0+ will rely heavily on advanced, flexible, and configurable manufacturing. Environmental monitoring will require autonomous mobile air, land, and sea systems. We are building on ANU historical expertise in computer vision,...
Research groups
The world needs to reach zero greenhouse gas emissions well before 2050 to mitigate the most serious effects of climate change. Our research groups work to improve renewable energy technology, further reduce costs, and substitute clean energy for fossil fuels in every market niche.
The ANU Centre for Energy Systems (ACES) brings together pioneering experts in clean energy research, with a mission to accelerate economy-wide decarbonisation and limit the effects of human-induced climate change. The Centre takes a holistic systems-based approach for working with uncertainty, dynamism and complexity.
Our research focuses on spatial audio and acoustics for real-world applications in telecommunications, telepresence, entertainment, hearing aids, assisted hearing, noise cancellation over large areas, ultrasound imaging and localisation of acoustic sources. Our work ranges from theoretical research, to implementation challenges and experimental investigations.
CIICADA (Control, Information, Intelligence, Communications, Automation, Decision, and Autonomy) Lab is an inter-cluster research lab committed to advancing research and education in control, information, decision, and autonomy sciences.
The Electrochemical Systems Research Group (ESRG) investigates innovative electrolysis materials, reactor designs and systems to cover a wide range of applications linked to energy and industry decarbonisation.
The NEMS Lab is working on nanoscale science and technology, with various applications in areas ranging from nano-manufacturing, nano-electro-mechanical system (NEMS), energy harvesting to biomedical sensing.
The School of Engineering’s Aerospace Cluster has established a national community of practice for uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) and advanced air mobility (AAM) research.
Perovskite photovoltaics is an exciting new technology that promises to be a game-changer for the solar industry. Our research covers many aspects of perovskite technology including materials development, cell fabrication, advanced characterisation and modelling.
We conduct state-of-the-art research in the field of laser processing for photovoltaics (PV).
The Renewable Fuels research group develops technologies for zero-carbon hydrogen generation and carbon dioxide reduction. Hydrogen has the potential to provide the missing link between renewable energy - such as wind and solar power - and energy end-users that are yet to find a viable alternative to fossil fuels.
We explore new processes and solar cell technologies from basic research to industrial applications, device and module characterisation and simulation, and materials research.
The Thermal Energy group is focused on industrial decarbonisation, thermal energy storage and solar-thermal energy collection.