We are committed to the scholarship of discovery as it contributes to the institution’s academic advancement.
EIT focuses on the delivery of programs relevant to today’s industry needs. Consequently, we seek that our scholar research:
- includes original research that advances knowledge;
- synthesizes information across topics, disciplines and/or time; and,
- is presented in a format that will allow evaluation by others through public sharing.
Furthermore, EIT’s scholar research activities expand to ensure the inclusion of the reality of contemporary life, such as sponsoring technical conferences and events that bring together relevant industry experts and professionals to share their knowledge and industry experience in an effort to advance their particular fields.
Improving Teaching and Learning Outcomes – A Novel Cognitive Science Approach
Paul Maj8 October, 2016
Three principle approaches to education are behaviorism, constructivism and cognitive science. However beyond that there are a wide and diverse range of methods such as outcomes based education, problem based learning etc. All these approaches and methods have their associated advantages and disadvantages. The effectiveness of the educational process is...Read More
Australian National Training Packages – A Critical Analysis
Paul Maj26 September, 2016
In the Australian Further Education sector all education is based on national training packages which are designed and managed to meet the needs of different industries. They provide specifications of training elements; the associate performance criteria; expected required knowledge and skills all benchmarked against defined evidence guides. Significantly the do...Read More
State Model Diagrams for Teaching Networking – a SOLO Based Evaluation
Paul Maj and Steve Mackay27 July, 2016
The Cisco Network Academy Program is the world’s largest network technology curriculum with over 500,000 students’ worldwide. An analysis of this curriculum found that it did not provide students with a diagrammatic model that is consistent throughout the curriculum. Without such a model students develop their own which is likely...Read More
Resistance of high-performance fiber-reinforced cement composites against high-velocity projectile impact
Dr Shasha Wang11 May, 2016
This paper presents experimental and numerical studies on the performance of seven high-performance fiber-reinforced cement-based composites against high velocity projectile impact (HVPI). The materials investigated involved four fiber-reinforced high-strength concretes (FRHSCs) with 28-day compressive strengths ranging from about 60 to 140 MPa, two strain hardening cement-based composites (SHCCs), and a fiber-reinforced high-strength mortar...Read More
Effect of force profiles of different electrode actuation systems to weld strength
Dr Aravinthan Arumugam1 January, 2016
Studies were carried out on the force profiles of the pneumatic electrode actuation system and servo electrode actuation system to analyse their effects on weld strength. The studies were carried out at three different locations of the weld lobe; below the lower limit, between the lower limit and upper limit...Read More
The role of communications and standardization in wind power applications – A review
Dr Morteza Alizadeh11 November, 2015
Harvesting energy from the wind as an alternative to fossil fuels has many advantages in terms of protecting the environment and promoting sustainability. However, the increasing penetration of wind power in electrical networks presents many challenges such as the intermittency of wind power, its relative high cost as compared to conventional sources, and...Read More
Structure design and manufacturing of layered bioceramic scaffolds for load-bearing bone reconstruction
Dr Rumana Sultana8 July, 2015
Bioceramic scaffolds with desired bone regeneration functions have the potential to become real alternatives to autologous bone grafts for reconstruction of load-bearing and critical-sized segmental bone defects. The aim of this paper was to develop a layered scaffold structure that has the biodegradable function of common monolithic scaffolds and adequate...Read More
Spot Welding Parameter Optimization to Improve Weld Characteristics for Dissimilar Metals
Dr Aravinthan Arumugam25 January, 2015
Resistance spot welding is a process which is widely used in the automotive industry to join steel parts of various thicknesses and types. The current practice in the automotive industry in determining the welding schedule, which will be used in the welding process, is based on welding table or experiences....Read More
Influence of jet–jet interaction on droplet size and jet instability in immiscible liquid–liquid system
Harisinh Parmar13 November, 2014
This work investigates the effects of multiple jet interactions and single jet instability on jet breakup and droplet size using experimental and computational techniques. In particular, the jet separation distance, jet breakup length and droplet diameter were measured as a function of initial nozzle separation distance and jet volumetric flow...Read More
Influence of Microwaves on the Water Surface Tension
Harisinh Parmar7 August, 2014
In this study, microwave irradiation was applied to hanging droplets of both water and ethylene glycol. Once the irradiation had ceased and the droplet was allowed to return to its original temperature, it was found that the surface tension of ethylene glycol returned to its original value. In contrast, the...Read More
Effect of Force Control during Spot Welding on Weld Properties
Dr Aravinthan Arumugam1 August, 2014
Resistance Spot Welding (RSW) is a process that is widely used in the automotive industries. The parameters that are used to develop a spot weld are the welding current, weld time and electrode force. Electrode force was not used as a control parameter due to the use of pneumatic system...Read More
Melt Strength and Thermal Properties of Organic Peroxide Modified Virgin and Recycled HDPE
Harisinh Parmar6 April, 2013
Commercial blow moulding grade recycled high density polyethylene (r-HDPE) and blow moulding grade virgin HDPE were reactively extruded with various compositions (0.00 to 0.15 %) of different peroxides in a twin screw extruder. The aim was to improve the melt strength properties of a blow moulding grade HDPE homopolymer –...Read More
Micro-porous calcium phosphate coatings on load-bearing zirconia substrate: Processing, property and application
Dr Rumana Sultana25 January, 2013
This study presents the design, processing, properties and potential applications of a novel layered bio-ceramic composites consisting of three different micro-porous calcium phosphate coatings on strong zirconia cores manufactured using a recently developed slip coating-deposition and coating-substrate co-sintering technique. Detailed microstructures of the three graded micro-porous calcium phosphate coatings, and...Read More
Novel Layered Hydroxyapatite/Tri-Calcium Phosphate–Zirconia Scaffold Composite with High Bending Strength for Load-Bearing Bone Implant Application
Dr Rumana Sultana18 January, 2013
The integration of biological and mechanical requirements remains a challenge in developing porous hydroxyapatite (HA) and tri-calcium phosphate (TCP) scaffolds for load-bearing bone implant application. W ith the newly developed slip-deposition and coating-substrate co-sintering technique, a strong layered HA/TCP-zirconia scaffold composite structure was successfully fabricated. The bending strength (321 MPa)...Read More
Deposition of Micro-Porous Hydroxyapatite/Tri-Calcium Phosphate Coating on Zirconia-Based Substrate
Dr Rumana Sultana2 March, 2012
Scaffold-like hydroxyapatite/tri-calcium-phosphate (HA/TCP) coatings have been deposited on strong zirconia-substrates using a unique HA-slip coating-deposition and coating-substrate co-sintering process. Bending strength of such layered composites is over 300 MPa, higher than the upper strength limit of natural bones. Thick scaffold-like HA-coatings with open pores larger than 100 μm can be deposited onto...Read More
Mechanical behavior of fiber-reinforced high-strength concrete subjected to high strain-rate compressive loading
Dr Shasha Wang19 January, 2012
This paper presents an experimental study on effect of high strain rate on compressive behavior of plain and fiber-reinforced high-strength concrete (FRHSC) with strength between 80 and 90 MPa. A Split Hopkinson pressure bar equipment was used to determine the concrete behavior at strain rates from 40 to 300 s−1. Fracture patterns...Read More
Optimized proportional integral derivative (PID) controller for the exhaust temperature control of a gas turbine system using particle swarm optimization
Dr Ali Marzoughi16 January, 2012
In this paper, the particle swarm optimization (PSO) technique is used in optimising the proportional integral derivative (PID) controller parameters for the exhaust temperature control of a gas turbine system. The performance of the PID controller whose parameters are tuned based on the PSO method (PSO-PID) is compared with the...Read More
Hydrodynamics of a rectangular liquid JET in an immiscible liquid–liquid system
Harisinh Parmar14 December, 2011
Volume of fluid and continuum surface force methodologies were applied to two- and three-dimensionally model the motion of a liquid jet injected vertically downward from a rectangular nozzle into another immiscible liquid. Grid independent solutions were obtained for a 10 mm2 nozzle with aspect ratios in the range 1–10. It was found...Read More
Processing of Layered Hydroxyapatite Ceramic Composites
Dr Rumana Sultana4 July, 2011
Layered hydroxyapatite (HA) based ceramic composites consisting of a strong ceramic composite core, 3 mol% yttrium stabilized zirconia (3Y-TZP) with 30 or 40 vol% HA, and a HA-rich porous coating were fabricated using a coating deposition and co-sintering process in the present study. The aim is to develop HA-based bio-ceramic...Read More
Compressive Behavior of Plain and Fiber-Reinforced High-Strength Concrete Subjected to High Strain Rate Loading
Dr Shasha Wang1 July, 2011
This paper presents a laboratory experimental study on the effect of high strain rate on compressive behavior of plain and fiber-reinforce high-strength concrete (FRHSC) with similar strength of 80-90 MPa. Steel fibers, polyethylene fibers, and a combination of these were used in the FRHSC. A split Hopkinson pressure bar equipment...Read More
Tensile Strength versus Toughness of Cement-Based Materials against High-Velocity Projectile Impact
Dr Shasha Wang1 June, 2011
This paper presents a laboratory experimental study on the effect of tensile strength and toughness on the resistance of cement-based materials to high-velocity projectile impact. Three types of cement-based materials with similar compressive strength but different tensile strengths and toughnesses were examined in terms of the penetration depth, crater diameter,...Read More
Porous hydroxyapatite coating on strong ceramic substrate fabricated by low density slip coating-deposition and coating-substrate co-sintering
Dr Rumana Sultana17 May, 2011
This study aims at developing a process technique, which can deposit porous scaffold-like hydroxyapatite (HA) coatings on strong ceramic substrates. As a first trial, micro-porous HA coatings on strong zirconia-based substrates are fabricated by the following technique—consisting of low-density HA-slip coating-deposition on the micro-porous substrates pre-sintered at 900 °C, and coating-substrate co-sintering...Read More
Effect of Specimen Size on Static Strength and Dynamic Increase Factor of High-Strength Concrete from SHPB Test
Dr Shasha Wang2 May, 2011
This paper presents an experimental study on effect of specimen size on the static strength and dynamic increase factor (DIF) of plain and fiber reinforced high-strength concrete determined from Split Hopkinson pressure bar (SHPB) tests. Four types of specimens were used to determine the static strength of the concrete including...Read More
PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT OF A SINGLE SHAFT GAS TURBINE SYSTEM TEMPERATURE CONTROL USING PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION
Dr Ali Marzoughi27 March, 2011
Gas turbine has become increasingly popular in different areas of industry due to their lower greenhouse emission and higher efficiency compared to other types of engine such as diesel engines, especially when connected in a combined cycle setup. The control of gas turbine system, particularly its exhaust temperature control, is...Read More
A metallurgical study of spot weld growth on mild steel 1mm and 2mm thicknesses
Dr Aravinthan Arumugam1 January, 2011
Resistance spot welding (RSW) is an essential welding technology today for joining two or more metals in various manufacturing industries. A statistic shows that one metal assembly out of five is joined using resistance spot welding mechanism, commercially. It uses traditionally two electrodes to hold the metal sheets and forces...Read More
A Decision Model for Estimating the Effort of Software Projects using Bayesian Theory
Dr Ali Marzoughi25 October, 2010
Usability of the e-government portal is a crucial factor that Function Point Analysis (FPA) is most used technique for estimating the size of a computerized business information system which was developed by Allan Albrecht. Various studies proposed new methods to extent FPA algorithm; mainly they tried to make it more...Read More
Rheological and molecular properties of organic peroxide induced long chain branching of recycled and virgin high density polyethylene resin
Harisinh Parmar21 May, 2009
Commercial blow molding grade recycled high density polyethylene (R-HDPE) and blow molding grade virgin high density polyethylene (V-HDPE) were reactively extruded with various compositions (0.00–0.15% wt/wt) of different peroxides in a twin screw extruder. The aim was to produce the extended chain mechanism of a blow molding grade HDPE photopolymer—a...Read More