The School of Electrical Engineering undertakes research in a wide area of applications relating to electrical and electronic engineering. The School's main research activities are housed within a centre comprising 5 major research areas. There are currently 3 masters, 25 PhD students and 5 research fellows supervised by 11 research-active academic staff. Major areas of research include -
Photonics and Optical Technology
Photonics is the discipline involved in the creation, transmission, control and detection of light. Sometimes called optoelectronics, it is an enabling technology that prevails in nearly all aspects of our lives from the plasma television, lighting of our homes to traffic lights, the internet, defense, infrastructure monitoring, space exploration, biology to surgery. The growth of the internet speed and bandwidth has been attributed to the development of photonics devices including lasers and optical fibres. The School undertakes photonics research in the areas of advance microscopy, optical characterization and spectroscopy of optical fibres and glass, optical and fibre optic sensing. Click on the title for more information.
Microelectronics
Microelectronics is the key technology driving next generation applications across industries as diverse as telecommunications, wireless systems, information technology, consumer electronics, home entertainment, automotive, defence, biotechnology and medical equipment. Microelectronic design is concerned with the creation of microchips, the keys to driving the information age. Microchips advanced design has lead to chips being a mass produced consumer items. This in turn is enabling the development of pervasive computing, ubiquitous telecommunications and devices that have saved much time and effort in our work practices. The growth of the Information Revolution can be attributed to microelectronic design. Click on the title for more information.
Telecommunications
Power systems
Robotics
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