School of Engineering Design and Teaching Innovation

The ethical engineering and social impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics.

Researchers

• Jason Millar

Technologies transforming our society and our future.

Researchers

• Daniel Amyot
• Jason Millar
• Liam Peyton

Stress analysis and modelling of material responses are the foundation of mechanical design. Well-established techniques such as analytical methods and finite element analysis are being applied to increasingly more complex materials and structures. Computational methods are also being applied more intensively to the design and optimization process itself. Our department offers a broad range of expertise in these areas.

Researchers

• Claude Laguë

The Internet can be a dangerous place where malicious software, denial of service, phishing, credit card theft, identity theft and other attacks threaten the wellbeing and productivity of many in society. Other electronic networks — including voice/data networks (such as cellphone and wireless ad hoc nets), text networks, and cloud environments — are not much better. The goal of privacy and security research is to create environments in which it is safe for people to work and play. Specific applications include e-commerce, e-business, online gaming, healthcare, and corporate and government networks.

This research area involves a number of different sub-disciplines, including mathematics, communications protocols, distributed systems, software development, specification and formal design, model checking and theorem proving, verification, validation and testing, and hardware/firmware design. It seeks to combine some of these sub-disciplines in ways that allow secure and private interaction over electronic and wireless networks.

Researchers

• Tet Hin Yeap