Facilities enquiries
Civil and mechanical workshop facility
Enquiries and technical services requests:
- Andrew Bylett
- 0467 559 487 or +61 3 6226 2144
- Ask me for an engineering workshop request form
Electrical and renewable energy facility, solar research facility, CREPS lab
Electronics facility
Technical Services
The School of Engineering offers CNC machining, metal fabrication, concrete strength testing, welding and CAD design.
Laboratories
All of our laboratories are available for both research and undergraduate teaching, unless stated otherwise.
- Location: Room 350. Engineering Laboratories Building, Upper level, access via hydraulics Lab.
- Equipment: various-sized wind tunnels, turbine experiments.
- Outside testing is also performed.
- Location: Room 210. Ground floor Engineering Laboratories Building.
- Equipment mainly desktop teaching units.
- Location: Room 332 - Level 3 of Main Engineering Building (Eastern).
- High performance PC lab for simulation
- Location: Room 339 - Level 3 of Engineering Building.
- Equipment: 100kVA grid emulator, Network Control Panel, 30kW solar array, 3x ELV solar dc supplies. Programmable loads, 5 x PC with 60cm touchscreen and electronic workbenches. 5 x adjustable lumped transmission lines (20 Amp).
- Emperix converter hardware.
- Location: Room 205. Ground Floor of Engineering Laboratories Building.
- Equipment mainly desktop teaching units.
Many different pieces of equipment are designed to demonstrate the dynamics of structures. Also contains equipment for teaching and research of heat transfer.
- Location: Room 334 - Level 3 of Main Engineering Building.
- Equipment: 15 Electronic work benches. Each bench contains an oscilloscope, function generator, digital multimeters power supply, PC workstation.
- For design test and measurement of electronic circuits, both digital and analogue.
- Location: Room 331. Level 3 Main Engineering Building.
Equipment: 45 PC’s - General purpose teaching and project work that needs to be undertaken on PC.
- Location: Room 207 – Ground floor Engineering Laboratories Building.
- Equipment: Triaxial Testing Machines, 2000kN compression testing machines for concrete and rock specimens etc.
- Location: Room 200 – Ground floor of Engineering Laboratories Building.
- Equipment: Water flumes, wave tank, water tunnel, displacement experiments.
- Location: Room 333 - Level 3 of Engineering Building. Research only.
- Location: Room 121 - lower level of Engineering Laboratories building.
- Lower-level of Engineering Laboratories building
- Equipment: two only ABB Robot Arms plus various power control teaching units.
Location: Room 228 - Level 2 of Main Engineering Building.
The Power Lab is a large laboratory designed to demonstrate topics in power engineering such as electrical machines, power system, power electronics, electrical power design and renewable energy applications. It serves to train students on the operation of electrical machines and power electronics in the domain of electrical power systems and renewable energy.
Low-voltage electronic project work is also undertaken here. This includes design, soldering, debugging and repairing of surface mount and through-hole electronics.
Equipment: electrical machines, such as transformers, induction machines (WRIM and Cage), and synchronous machines. Students are also able to perform experiments with different types of power electronic converters (such as rectifiers, dc-dc converters and inverters) and renewable energy applications.
Other equipment includes three-phase power analysers, oscilloscopes, function generators, multimeters, power supplies, soldering stations and an industrial pick and place machine, digital microscope, reflow oven, hot air workstations.
- Location: Room 202 – Ground floor of Engineering Laboratories Building.
- Equipment: This is the main structural testing laboratory equipped with many testing machines designed to test specimens to Australian Standards. The equipment can carry out the following tests of torsion, compression, tension and bending moment.
- Location: Room 219 – Ground floor of Engineering Laboratories Building.
- Equipment: steam plant, engine stand dynamometers, air-conditioning apparatus, compressed air, fuel calorimetry, refrigeration, pressure, and temperature calibration.