The Melbourne Engineering Research Institute (MERIT) – is a dedicated institute for engineering research at the University of Melbourne, Australia. It was launched in November 2007.
MERIT sits within the Melbourne School of Engineering and supports the School's goal to advance its status as one of the top-ranking engineering schools in the world. MERIT consolidates the School's research into four independent but closely aligned research themes, unified by the common goal of 'engineering research for the benefit of society'.
Watch the Introduction to MERIT video shown at the MERIT launch in November 2007
CUBIN Seminar: Cross-Layer Design of ASE-Noise-Limited Island-Based Translucent Optical Networks - Gangxiang Shen
Wed 23 July | 2 - 3.00pm | Brown Theatre, level 1, Building 193
Modelling Spatial Proximity - Jane Brennan, University of Technology, Sydney
Thur 24 July | 1.15 - 2.15pm | Theatre C1, Engineering Block C, Geomatics Dept.
Tewkesbury Lecture: Small Drops on Surfaces - Prof Dr Hans-Jurgen Butt, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Wed 30 July | 12 - 1.00pm | Brown Theatre, level 1, Building 193
CUBIN Seminar: Providing Broadband to Rural Communities: An Economic Perspective - Jennifer Thompson
Wed 30 July | 2 - 3.00pm | Brown Theatre, level 1, Building 193
MIEGUNYAH LECTURE: Turbulent Flow: From Forest Fires to Submarines - Prof Alexander Smits, Princeton University
Thur 7 August | 6.30 - 7.30pm | Harold Woodruff Theatre
MERIT Biomedical Seminar: Bio-fluid Aspects in Human Reproduction - Prof David Elad, Tel-Aviv University
Tues 12 Aug | 11 - 12.00pm | Brown Theatre, level 1, Building 193
Evaluation of the Landscape around Rural Roads - Alvaro Ramirez, Polytechnic University of Madrid
Thur 14 Aug | 1.15 - 2.15pm | Theatre A1, Old Engineering
CUBIN Seminar: Weighted Gradient-Constrained Minimum-Cost Networks for Underground Mine Design - Marcus Volz
Wed 20 Aug | 2 - 3.00pm | Brown Theatre, level 1, Building 193
Linkage Project Information Session for MSE staff
Fri 22 Aug | 2 - 5.00pm | Brown theatre, level 1, Building 193
Innaugural Medical Bionics Conference
16 - 19 November | Mantra Erskine Beach Resort, Lorne, Victoria
Fourth International Conference on Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing
15 - 16 December | Sydney | Deadline for papers August 31, 2008
Newsmakers: Workable Ideas for the Real World
Professor Frank Caruso’s work in nanotechnology is celebrated in a new book Outcomes: Results of Research in the Real World 2008.
Newsmakers: Geomatics Researcher finds Burke and Wills equipment
Frank Leahy, principal fellow in the Department of Geomatics at the University of Melbourne, featured on the front page of The Age newspaper, 12 June 2008
World-leading C02 research centre launches new purpose-built facilities
New purpose-built research facilities for the Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies
(CO2CRC) were launched at the University on 1 July by Victorian Energy & Resources Minister Peter Batchelor.
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