Postgraduate Research Prize

Each year, our postgraduate research students are invited to enter the annual Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment Postgraduate Research Prize.

Competition entrants are required to submit a poster based on their research and answer questions from judges, the winners in each of the eight, discipline-based categories are awarded with a $1000 cash prize and certificate.

Each category is judged by two Faculty academics and make a decision on the basis of originality and innovation, technical and intellectual difficulty, scope, depth, degree of contribution and overall presentation.

The event is designed to help students prepare to present their research at conferences here and overseas.

Check out the gallery below to see examples of past student work.

2011 Postgraduate Research Prize Winners:

• Rongrong Yu (Architecture and Industrial Design) for her work entitled “Evaluating creativity in parametric design environment.”
• Sharifah Syed Zakaria (Building) for her work entitled “Behavioural Dimensions of Technology Adoption Decision Making: The Case of Industrialised Building Systems (Ibs) in the Malaysian Construction Industry.”
• James Edward Dickinson (Chemical Engineering) for his work entitled “Enhancing Foam-Liquid Segregation in Continuous Foam Fractionation using Multiple Parallel Inclined Channels.”
• Yousef Ansari (Civil Engineering) for his work entitled “A Study on the Piezocone Interpretation Methods for Hydraulic Conductivity of Clays.”
• Ahmed Shamsul Arefin (Computer Science & Software Engineering) for his work entitled “GPU-FS-kNN: A Fast and Scalable kNN Computation Technique using GPU.”
• Rodrigo Carvajal (Electrical, Computer & Telecommunications Engineering) for his work entitled “EM-based channel estimation in OFDM systems with phase noise.”
• Seyed Mohammad Mortazavi Naeini (Environmental Engineering and Surveying) for his work entitled “Efficient Multi-Objective Ant Colony Optimization for Computationally-Intensive Water Resources Systems Planning.”
• Christoph Veyhl (Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering) for his work entitled “Novel Numerical Analysis of Advanced Porous Composites.”