School of Materials Science & Engineering

Honours projects are undertaken by final year students. This project allows students to develop research skills, problem solving, time management, project management and investigation skills. This project also involves students directly in the research activities of the School potentially allowing students to use advanced equipment, write and publish scientific papers, conduct research for a sponsoring company or participate in an active research project in the School with academics and postgraduate researchers. The honours project is a vital part of the Engineering program.

Proposed topics and allocation process information are available in MATS 3524 3624 3724 Honours Projects 2008.

Below is the list of honours projects undertaken in the School in 2008. For further details of a project please contact the supervisor or the school office. Some supervisors are academic staff of other Schools: Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, Physics and Chemistry. These staff should be contacted through the appropriate School Office.

NOTE: Here you can find the past honours projects

2008 Honours Projects

Materials Engineering Projects

Student	Project Title	Supervisor
C. Bem	Carbon Anodes in the Hall-Heroult Process for Producing Aluminium	Veena Sahajwalla
M. Beveridge	Design of Polymeric Equestrian Saddlery	Alan Crosky
A. Blagus	Carbon Reactions in New Direct Smelting Process	Veena Sahajwalla
Y. Cao	Failure of Composites	Alan Crosky
A. Clare	Precipitation of Nano-Titania for Photoelectrochemical Applications	Chris Sorrell
C. Dean	Textured Piezoceramic Materials	Nagarajan Valanoor
L. Estabillo	Solid-Solution Doping of Hydroxyapatite with Biologically-Significant Cations	Owen Standard
R. Fang	Self-Healing of Composites	Alan Crosky
J. Goding	Pressure Casting of Whitewares	Owen Standard
A. Jiang	Dynamics of Cohesive Particle Flow in a Rotating Drum	Runyu Yang
D. Lui	Influence of Microstructure on the Fatigue Properties of Knee Prostheses	Owen Standard
S. Patel	Synthesis of Silicon Nitride	Guangqing Zhang
A. Prasad	Tyre Wastes for Slag Foaming in Electric Arc Furnace Steelmaking	Veena Sahajwalla
P. Pulic	Strengthening of I.F. Steel	Michael Ferry
B. Ratter	Domain Structure of Multilayered Thin Films	Nagarajan Valanoor
K. Shamlaye	Synthesis and Superplastic Deformation of Bulk Metallic Glasses (BMGs)	Michael Ferry
H. Simons	Composites Project (with the CRC for Advanced Composite Structures)	Alan Crosky
C. Tam	Low Friction Coatings	Mark Hoffman
G. Tang	Effects of Microgravity on Microstructures of Materials	Sean Li
J. Walker	Assessment of Glass Mosaic Swimming Pool Tiles	Chris Sorrell
A. Waters	Atomistic Simulations on Nanostructured Carbon Materials	Veena Sahajwalla
Y. Yao	Identification of Fatigue Initiation Processes in Light-Metal Alloys using EBSD	Mark Hoffman

Nanotechnology Projects

Student	Project Title	Supervisor
S. Alford	Pi-Interactions as Templating Mechanisms in Materials	John Stride (Chem)
B. Butler	'Click' Chemistry - An organic chemistry solution to switchable surfaces	Jason Harper (Chem)
A. Cameron	Nanotechnology: A new tool-set for nano-device construction	Stephen Colbran (Chem)
T. Cheung	3-D Imaging of Deformation of Thin films	Paul Munroe (Mats)
C.H. Chio	Characterisation of Biochars	Paul Munroe (Mats)
H. Hassanein	A protein-appended synthetic molecular shuttle	Pall Thordarson (Chem)
K. Ho	Novel anti-microbial biomaterials	Naresh Kumar (Chem)
D. Hvasanov	Self-assembled gels for cancer therapy	Pall Thordarson (Chem)
S.P.S. Koo	Sol-Gel synthesis of nanotubes using crystalline templates	Grainne Moran (Chem)
C. Lancaster	High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy Study of Dislocations in Ferroics	Nagarajan Valanoor (Mats)
K.L. Lee	Model Hybrid Nanocomposite : Functionalised Cross-linked Poly (Vinyl Alcohol) - CNT - Nano Alumina Hybrid Nanocomposite	Sri Bandyopadhyay (Mats)
S. Lee	Synthesis and Characterization of Nickel Hydroxide/Porous Carbon Nanocomposites for High-Energy Rechargeable Nickel Batteries	Sammy L Chan (Mats)
S. Manoharan	Nano-Structure of Bone	Mark Hoffman (Mats)
M. Matsumoto	Ultra-thin film oxide epitaxy	Nagarajan Valanoor (Mats)
W. Muskovic	Development of Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors for Spin Transistors	Sean Li (Mats)
J. Provan	Carbon constructs for the controlled alignment of carbon nanotubes	Jason Harper (Chem)
D. Ong	Design, Fabrication and Characterisation of high quality Silicon MOSFETs with sub-10nm oxide thickness	Alex Hamilton (Phys)
J. Shein	Modified nanoparticles for biological capture and separation	Justin Gooding (Chem)
N. Tse	Solvothermal techniques to nanomaterials	John Stride (Chem)
S. Yang	Development of Nano-layered Metallic Structures from Light Metals	Mark Hoffman (Mats)
S. Yannoulatos	Biosensors: An immuno-biosensor for pesticides and drugs	Justin Gooding (Chem)
S. Yick	Development of high-mobility n-type and p-type organic FETs using the PDMS elastomer stamp technique	Adam Micolich (Phys)
M. Yong	Synthesis of Inorganic Materials for Random Laser	Sean Li (Mats)

2007 Honours Projects

Materials Engineering Projects

Student	Project Title	Supervisor
Andrew Hurst	Natural fibre reinforced plastic composites	Alan Crosky
Ben Giles	Effect of Electrical Fatigue upon Mechanical Properties of Lead Zirconate, Titanate (PZT)	Mark Hoffman
Blane McGuiness	Texture Analysis by EBSD in Annealed Steel	Michael Ferry
Chris Waltos	Development of Nano-layered Metallic Structures from Light Metals	Mark Hoffman
Conrad Ian Bem	Rubber tyres in EAF Steelamking as a substitute for carbon	Veena Sahajwalla
Deon Moore	Finite Element Model of Dynamically Loaded Metal Foam Sandwiches	Mark Hoffman
Diana Wangsaputri	Near-Net Shape Colloidal Forming of PZT Piezoelectric Ceramics	Owen Standard
Ellanor Drummond	Environmental Performance of Materials	Veena Sahajwalla
Firsia Arya	Oxygen Dependence of Emission Behavior in ZnO Material	Sean Li
Han Yeoh	Influence of Microstructure on the Fatigue Properties of Knee Prostheses	Owen Standard
James Oakely	Investigation of particle flow in IsaMill	Runyu Yang
Matthew Cole	High temperature transformations of waste plastics in steelmaking	Veena Sahajwalla
Niranda Wright	Sunswift project - solar cars	Alan Crosky
Tim Burgess	Synthesis and Superplastic Deformation of Bulk Metallic Glasses (BMGs)	Michael Ferry
ZhouZhu Ye	Sol-Gel Deposition of a-Al2O3 Coatings on CrCoMo Biomedical Alloys	Owen Standard

Nanotechnology Projects

Student	Project Title	Supervisor
Alex Dalgliesh	Molecular Electronics: Electron Transfer Properties of Stable "Molecular Wires"	Justin Gooding
Arie Pariwono	Titanium matrix composites reinforced with nanometric particulates	Sammy Chan
Christian Paras	Novel routes to new materials	John Stride
Eugene White	Superhydrophobic thin films	Rob Lamb
Greig Kurniawan	Synthesis and Superplastic Deformation of Bulk Metallic Glasses (BMGs)	Michael Ferry
Jacky Cho	Photocatalytic effect of TiO2 nanocrystalline particles and thin films	Rob Lamb
Jacob Coffey	Sol-Gel Synthesis of Nanotubes using Crystalline Templates	Grainne Moran
Kai Dick Lau	Development of Nanocrystalline Alloys for Advanced Structural Applications	Michael Ferry
Nalissa Man	Nano-Structure of Bone	Mark Hoffman
Renxun Chen	Novel anti-microbial biomaterials	Naresh Kumar
Susan Ireland	"Click" Chemistry â€“ An organic chemistry solution to switchable surfaces	Jason Harper
Trung Tuong	Solvothermal techniques to nanomaterials	John Stride
Will Rouesnel (CSIRO),	Nano SQUID	Justin Gooding
Zheng Li	Transition metal catalysed processes on surfaces	Barbara Messerle
Zhi-Jun Lim	Biosensors: An Immuno-biosensor for pesticides and drugs	Justin Gooding