Acoustics Group

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Acoustics Group

• Automotive Acoustics
• Motor vehicle exhaust systems
• Motor vehicle aeronautics
• Building Acoustics
• Duct noise
• Sound behaviour in rooms
• Sound Absorption Sound Transmission
• Sound absorption
• Sound transmission

Several funding opportunities available
John Pearse
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Research in Applied Mechanics

• Computational Mechanics and Finite Elements
  applications in
• Static and dynamic structural analysis
• Heat transfer
• Vibration and Stability
• Structural Analysis
• Geophysical Ice-Flow Modelling
• Biological Tissue Modelling
• Passive vibration control (theoretical and
  experimental)
• Intelligent Mechanisms (design, build, analysis
  and experiments)

Ilanko, Naguleswaran, Van Houten Pearse
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Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics Group
Funded PhD with Christchurch Engine Centre-
travel to US and Europe Mark Jermy
Swirl spray nozzle studies- Funded ME with
Fonterra Mark Jermy
Jermy, David, Krumdieck Tucker
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Post graduate opportunities

• Current Funded Projects
• Blasting Helmet design and manufacturing
  development 1.3M
• Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing System
  Development 48k
• Internet based design and innovation tools
  development 100k

• Manufacturing Group
• Dept of Mechanical Engineering
• University of Canterbury

Team Dr David Aitchison Dr Malcolm Taylor
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Bio-Engineering Engineering Medicine

• Circulation and haemodynamics
• Drug kinetics and dosing
• DIET and bio-mechanics
• Lung and muscle mechanics
• Artificial liver
• Stroke and heart valves
• Breast cancer screening
• Artery disease and platelets
• Diabetes
• Paralysis rehabilitation
• Critical Care
• NeurologyOphthalmology
• Surgery

David, Van Houten, Gooch Chase
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Robotics and Control

• Structural vibration control
• Novel robotics
• Motors and actuators
• Smart products
• Image processing
• Novel sensors
• Motorised wheelchairs
• Structural damage detection
• Hybrid device testing
• Control systems and software
• New sensors (e.g. agitation)
• Biomed and medicine
• Novel civil structures and infrastructure
• Consumer products

Dunlop Chase
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Design Group
Patient transfer device

• Patient Lifting devices
• Wool Measurement

• Unicycle
• Trampoline Dynamics
• Kite Turning
• Microhydro system refinement
• Snow Probe development
• Design studies

Trampoline mat deformation
Snow Probe Avalanche Prediction
Gooch, Aitchison, Alexander Pearse