1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook
1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook
1997 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook
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Centre for Biomedical Instrumentation<br />
Director<br />
Dr. A. Wood (Acting)<br />
School of Biophysical Sciences and Electrical Engineering<br />
Telephone: 9214 8867 Fax: 9214 8867<br />
Email: andrewwood@swin.edu.au<br />
The Centre was established to provide a focus for research<br />
and consulting activities related to instrumentation for<br />
medical and physiological use. The Centre draws on the<br />
strengths in instrumentation and biophysics within the<br />
School of Biophysical Sciences and Electrical Engineering.<br />
At present, research activities include electrical impedance<br />
tomography, instrumentation for ambulatory monitoring,<br />
instrumentation for isometric muscle-strength assessment,<br />
instrumentation for electroencephalography, biological<br />
applications of laser scanning confocal microscopy, Raman<br />
and Mossbauer spectroscopy, effects of electromagnetic<br />
fields on tissue and a fibre-optic based respiratory monitor.<br />
A number of additional projects are being undertaken in<br />
conjunction with local hospitals.<br />
Other aims of the Centre include:<br />
to offer a facility enabling individuals to pursue<br />
postgraduate studies in biomedical instrumentation<br />
to offer short courses serving the needs of medical and<br />
health personnel and the biomedical instrumentation<br />
industry<br />
to assist in the teaching of biomedical instrumentation in<br />
undergraduate and postgraduate <strong>Swinburne</strong> programs<br />
to provide a contact point for visitors from other<br />
institutions or companies to undertake collaborative<br />
projects<br />
to promote the availability and commercial development<br />
of intellectual property originating within the centre.<br />
Brain Sciences Institute<br />
(formerly the Centre for Applied Neurosciences<br />
est. 1985)<br />
Director<br />
Professor R.B. Silberstein<br />
School of Biophysical Sciences and Electrical Engineering<br />
Telephone: 9214 8822 Fax: 9214 5525<br />
Email: bsi@mind.scan. swin.edu.au<br />
The Centre's primary purpose is to facilitate research into<br />
the relationship between human behavioural states and<br />
measured brain activity. The Centre also undertakes contract<br />
research in areas consistent with its primary purpose. The<br />
Centre has extensive collaborative research links with<br />
Australian and international research centres.<br />
At this stage, the Centre is engaged in research into:<br />
(a) mechanisms underlying brain rhythmic activity<br />
(b) modelling of brain electrical activity<br />
(c) relationship between cognitive processes and brain<br />
electrical activity<br />
(d) brain electrical activity and the learning process<br />
(e) brain electrical activity and schizophrenia<br />
(f) ageing and brain electrical activity<br />
(g) brain electrical activity and disorders of mood<br />
(h) monitoring of awareness and anaesthetic depth using<br />
brain electrical activity.<br />
Other aims of the Centre include:<br />
to assist in the teaching of the neurosciences in<br />
undergraduate and postgraduate <strong>Swinburne</strong> programs<br />
to offer a facility enabling individuals to pursue<br />
- postgraduate - studies in the neurosciences<br />
to promote the availability and commercial development<br />
of intellectual property originating within the Centre.<br />
COTAR (Victoria) Centre for Obiect<br />
Technology Applications and Research<br />
Director<br />
Professor Brian Henderson-Sellers<br />
School of Computer Science and Software Engineering<br />
Telephone: 9214 8524 Fax: 9819 0823<br />
The Centre for Object Technology Applications and<br />
Research, known as COTAR (Victoria), is an industry<br />
funded, university located centre of excellence focusing on<br />
object technology. Industry partners offer support in either<br />
cash or kind to create an active research and teaching<br />
environment into object technology (03 - the leading edge<br />
of computer science and information systems thinking.<br />
Sponsored research produces results which can then flow<br />
back directly to industry for rapid utilization.<br />
Object technology is the newest approach to building<br />
software which offers substantial business benefits (e.g.<br />
flexibility, maintainability and higher quality of software)<br />
whilst incurring costs for retraining and restructuring<br />
current software practices. COTAR has the advancement of<br />
OT in an industry context as its focus. COTAR aims to:<br />
foster collaboration and communication between<br />
universities and industry in order to accelerate the<br />
practical development of object technologies<br />
provide an Australian research centre in object<br />
technology<br />
provide quality professional development courses in<br />
object-oriented software engineering<br />
provide an Australian focus for the dissemination to<br />
industry of leading-edge knowledge on object<br />
technology. -.<br />
Ongoing research projects include:<br />
development of the OPEN methodology - in<br />
collaboration with over 20 key researchers worldwide<br />
product and process metrics, funded by government and<br />
industry<br />
usability, particularly of software CASE tolls<br />
the use of formal methods -the FOOM project<br />
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technical and organizational issues of reuse<br />
object-orientated project management<br />
metamodelling - the COMMA project
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