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(2005)Conference PaperIn this paper we describe an institutionally funded Fellowship running 2001– 2004, which seeded and cultivated new communities of practice in innovative teaching using educational technology. The literature identifies some inherent challenges in such schemes. The Fellowship was able to surface and deal with these through a team-based action research approach. Key features were the buying out of staff time for a semester and the development of discipline-based projects in a supported cross-disciplinary group. The Fellowship has been central to shifting systemic institutional blocks to educational innovation.
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(2007)Book ChapterThe possible variability of project delay is useful information to understand and mitigate the project delay risk. However, it is not sufficiently considered in the literature concerning effort estimation and simulation in software product line development. In this paper, we propose a project delay simulation model by introducing a random variable to represent the variability of adaptive rework. The model has been validated through stochastic simulations by comparing generated adaptive rework to an actual change effort distribution, and by sensitivity analysis. The result shows that the proposed model is capable of producing reasonable variability of adaptive rework, and consequently, variability of project delay. Analysis of our model indicates that the strength of dependency has a larger impact than the number of residual defects, for the studied simulation settings. However, high levels of adaptive rework variability did not have great impact on overall project delay.
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(2008)Conference PaperThe Membrane Research Environment (MemRE), is a research infrastructure project of the Advanced Membrane Technologies for Water Treatment Research Cluster, a research project funded by the CSIRO flagship Water for a Healthy Country. The research cluster, a nationally distributed and multidisciplinary group of researchers including computational and physical chemists, physicists, material scientists, and chemical and mechanical engineers, aims to develop novel membrane materials in order to reduce the energy associated with desalination by 40%.
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(2009)Conference PaperThe Membrane Research Environment (MemRE) is a component research infrastructure project of the Advanced Membrane Technologies for Water Treatment Research Cluster, a research project funded by the CSIRO flagship Water for a Healthy Country. The research cluster, a nationally distributed and multidisciplinary group of researchers including computational and physical chemists, physicists, material scientists, and chemical and mechanical engineers, aims to develop novel membrane materials in order to reduce the energy associated with desalination by 40%. Common hurdles in multidisciplinary research projects include: a lack of consolidation of existing information relevant to the research from all the participating fields; an absence of information infrastructure to promote comparison of results; and the need for a common language to better enable project participants to communicate. MemRE has been designed and implemented as a solution to these hurdles, to provide an integrated research development tool and learning environment.
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(2010)Conference PaperAn opportunity to explore the topic of data usages is presented by the collaborative research being undertaken by a federation of applied science research units affiliated with a number of different Australian research organizations (the Cluster). The research aims to investigate how members of the collaboration understand and work with data in their day-to-day practice.
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(2018)ThesisThe characteristic length of the thin film systems used nowadays in nanoscale thermoelectric and microelectric devices are comparable to the mean free path and wavelength of energy carriers. As a result, the application of classical theorise to characterise thermal transport at the nanoscale is questionable. However, it is essential to understand the underlying physics of heat propagation in thin film systems to control, manipulate, and manage thermal properties in micro and nanodevices. Understanding thermal properties by experiment are challenging, especially for materials with low thermal conductivity and small mean free path (MFP). On the other hand, molecular dynamics (MD) allows investigation of sophisticated crystalline, bulk, interface and surface effects of thermal conduction problem with accuracy, fidelity, and reliability. Nevertheless, the computational results of MD can suffer from the wrong choice of critical parameters, unfit empirical potentials for thermal application and provide unreliable thermal conductivity. Moreover, the dependence of the thermal boundary resistance (TBR) on temperature, thin film's dimension, and defects are not systematically assessed for the important thin films in the thermal application. To solve this problem, a systematic equilibrium molecular dynamics (EMD), addressing the critical issues in thermal conduction characterisation is proposed at the classical temperature range, where thermal conduction is dominated by phonons. The model has been validated by investigating the thermal conduction of Si and dielectrics used in thin film systems. The issue with empirical potential is addressed by critically assessing the performance of a potential on the basis of thermal conductivity, atomic energy and phonon density of state prediction. Later, thin film systems are studied to understand relative phonon propagation at the interface and quantify TBR's dependence on interface area, interfacial distance as well as temperature. Finally, the thermal resistance of thin film systems with defects is characterised to understand realistic phonon propagation scenario in the thermal application of thin film systems.