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Biological Engineering
 

Research expertise

The Division is associated with a range of multidisciplinary research platforms, drawing on full time researchers seconded from the Faculty and collaborators worldwide.

Every Monash Engineering department is renowned for the depth and breadth of its research skills. Here are some examples of where their expertise in biological engineering is being developed toward innovative research outcomes:

Chemical Engineering

  • Biochemical engineering (eg nano-scale kinetics of drug-particle interactions)
  • Solid-liquid separation
  • Adsorption processes
  • Design and synthesis of adsorbent materials using nanotemplating techniques (eg microarrays and microsensors)
  • Surface modification of thin films with bioactive factors using print technology
  • Nano-structured materials and membranes
  • Food engineering processing, such as fermentation for improved in pharmaceutical manufacturing
  • Detailed mathematical modelling and optimization of products and processes (eg nutrient flux in biological reactions)

Civil Engineering

  • Water resources, ecosystem and environmental engineering (hydrology, hydraulics, water infrastructure and water resource management)
  • Biofilm formation and methods of prevention in environment and industry  
  • Sustainable energy generation (eg biofuels)
  • Modelling of traffic flow based on ant colony organization  

Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering

  • Biomedical engineering for muscle physiology and injury prevention, bio-optics, auditory and vestibular system, limb prostheses, medical training simulators and hospital equipment management
  • Robotics with artificial intelligence programming, advanced navigation technology, tele-operation and humanoid robotics, computer vision and sensor fusion, video surveillance
  • Neuromuscular system control and rehabilitation technology development
  • Systems for analysing muscle physiology, mechanisms of contraction, prevention of muscle injury, development of proprioceptive instrumentation
  • Cochlear implant signal processing, neurophysiology of the auditory midbrain, neural signalling and acoustic noise cancellation
  • Medical lasers and applications
  • Medical robotics optimization   
  • Medical imaging, especially high-performance MR imaging
  • Computational modelling of biological processes such as molecular signalling in cells and tissue networks and cellluar interactions with light photons

Materials Engineering

  • Biomaterials for tissue engineering including implantable polymer meshes for brain tissue and neural stem cells; ceramics for bone and cartilage; hydrogels for soft tissues
  • Implantable solid nanocomposites for slow release of pharmaco-active substances

Mechanical Engineering

  • Velocity effects on white blood cell and platelet adhesion to blood vessel walls and endothelial monolayers
  • Biomedical applications of fluid mechanics (eg cell sorting technology)
  • Computational modelling of fluid flow and nutrient mass transport in bioreactors and blood flow under laminar flow or turbulent conditions
  • Rheology and biomechanics of tissues under normal and pathological conditions
  • Biomedical applications of image-based technology and analysis (eg novel xray, infra-red and fluorescence techniques, computer-based imaging processing)

 

  
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