1996 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

to provide a contact point for visitors from other
institutions or companies to undertake collaborative
projects
to promote the availability and commercialdevelopment
of intellectual property originating within the centre.
Centre for Computer
Integrated Manufacture
(CIM Centre)
Director
Professor W. Thompson
Secretary
MS P. Manor
Administrative Officer
Mr R. McMahon
Telephone: 9214 8280
Facsimile: 9819 4949
Established in 1985 under the Key Centres of Teaching and
Research Program funded by the Commonwealth Tertiary
Education Commission, the Centre aims to provide a focus
for teaching and research in computer integrated
manufacturing (CM).
Funding has been provided to establish an advanced
manufacturing facility to be used for high level teaching and
research at Swinburne, for industrial research and consulting
and training.
The Centre has a group of staff available to assist in
industrial development projects in CIM and advanced
manufacturing.
The Centre has over forty industrial research projects in
operation: over seventy-five percent of these are jointly
funded by industry and government.
Industrial prototyping can also be done.
See also Industrial Research Institute.
Design Centre
Contacts
Stephen Huxley/Graphic Design 9214 6909
Barry Quantrell/Industrial Design 9214 6973
The aim of the Swinburne Design Centre is to provide a
professional design consultancy within an educational
environment for postgraduate students completing a
Bachelor of Design (Honours) program.
The Centre's focus on design research and professional
design consultancy enables design projects for industry,
government instrumentalities and selected community-based
clients to be undertaken. The Centre also facilitates the
application of new technologies including Interactive
Multimedia and CAD to generate innovative visual
communication solutions in graphic, product and exhibition
design.
Energy Systems Engineering
Centre
Director
Associate Professor Yos Morsi
School of Mechanical and Manufacturing
Engineering, 921 4 8646 Fax: 921 4 8264
Established in 1989, the Centre aims to provide a focus for
research and teaching in every related matter for the power
generation, mineral and chemical process industries.
In meeting its obligations, the Centre is developing three major
thrusts:
development and application of numerical models such
as manufacturing process models, finite element and
finite difference models of thermo-fluid and material
deformation processes and analytical models:
development of 'leading edge' physical modelling
diagnostic tools. In this area the centre is committed to
thecontinuing development of its laser/Doppler
velocimeter as a non-intrusive technique for two-phase
flow measurement and flow borne particle sizing;
production and process modelling at micro and macro
levels of aggregation.
Centre for Industrial
Democracy
Chair
John Morieson
School of International and Political
Studies, 9214 8540
The Centre was established in 1982 to provide an advisory
and referral servioe to manufacturers, government
departments and unions who intend to incorporate aspects
of industrial democracy, employee participation and
cooperative management.
Consulting, the writing of occasional papers, organising
workshops and seminars, preparation of videotaped and
printed t;aining materialsgre'all part of the ~enire's work.
The Centre is also involved with ongoing contact with
current cooperative developments in Spain and Italy.
Industrial Research Institute (IRIS)
Director
Professor W. Thompson
Telephone: 9214 8600
Facsimile: 9819 5050
Swinburne's first research institute was formed in 1995. The
Institute focuses on applied research in collaboration with
industrv. It incomorates the CM Centre and other research
groups. Major research interests are advanced materials and
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materials processing; robotics and automation; management
and industrial engineering: CIM/CAD/CAM; simulation
v.
and modelling; numerical engineering; mechatronics;