| Introduction
The Faculty of Engineering and Computing aims to do its part in
moving UTech towards a culture which includes conducting applied
research and supervising undergraduate and postgraduate
students’ projects in its two schools: the School of Engineering
(SoE) and the School of Computing and Information Technology (SCIT).
The Faculty is now organising its research activities into five
sections headed by Research Coordinators as follows:
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Information Technology in Tourism and Travel
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Electronic Business Models
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Software Development
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Information Security, Cyber Crime and Infrastructure Protection
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Strategic Management of Information Systems and Information
Technology
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Mobile Communication and Ambient Intelligence
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Materials
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Heat Transfer and Energy
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Chemical &
Biological Engineering
The Faculty has expanded its capability to carry out research by
means of three laboratories in SoE:
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Virtual Reality & Communications Research Laboratory, which has
state-of-the-art 3D tracking technology, graphical modelling &
web-development software, and is the home of our cardiac
simulator research collaboration.
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Tribology Lab, which has equipment for investigating wear of
sugar cane rollers.
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Environmental & Bioprocess Lab, still under construction, which
is capable of waste water characterisation and has an anaerobic
reactor.
The Faculty has taken an important step in formalising its
collaboration with industry and commerce through the launch of the
Computing and Engineering Extension Centre, which brings
together previous initiatives such as the Industrial Cell and
Engineering Training Centre. You will be hearing much more from
the Extension Centre in the future.
The Industrial Cell is directly linked to HEART/NTA and
collaborates with them on various research efforts. There are also
industrial researches in progress through this medium. Many of the
projects handled by the Cell are novel ideas seeking engineering
specifications for patent registration. The projects offer good
opportunities to exercise engineering theory into a practical
environment. Each final year student in SoE is required to
undertake an Industrial project that may incorporate Industrial
Cell projects and/or lecturers’ research. These projects offer the
student the opportunity to apply engineering theory as well as
proper project management principles. |
