Centres & Institutes
Electrical and Electronic Engineering provides a world class environment for research collaborations with industry. It receives financial support from industry, government and other sources and has a number of research agreements through Federal & State Government programs such as Cooperative Research Centres, an ARC Special Research Centre and REsearch Institutes.
Through these Centres and Institutes, the Department has very close links to other universities and industry.
IBES
The Institute for a Broadband-Enabled Society (IBES) is a cross-disciplinary research institute dedicated to products, services, and innovations that maximize the benefit of new broadband technologies to Australian society. The Institute’s activities cover a wide range of fields including content creation and delivery, delivery of remote health services and education, social networking, entertainment and broadband technology.
CEET
The Centre for Energy-Efficient Telecommunications (CEET) is carrying out research that aims to improve the energy efficiency of the Internet and keep the total energy of the Internet under control as the amount of data on the network increases and as the number of users expands. CEET is a partnership between the University of Melbourne, Alcatel-Lucent and the Victorian State Government. It is an autonomous research centre within the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Alcatel-Lucent, through its research arm Bell Labs, and the University of Melbourne share governance of the centre.
NICTA
In June 2004, National ICT Australia (NICTA) together with the University of Melbourne and Multi-Media Victoria established the NICTA Victoria research laboratory. National ICT Australia (NICTA) plays a major role in the Australian Government's policy to promote science and innovation. It is capitalising on Australia's extensive ICT talent through world-class research, commercialisation, education, and industry collaboration.
MSL
MSL is principally concerned with problems associated with the control of sensing systems, including bandwidth allocation and distributed computing for networks of cooperating sensors. These research areas span topics in information theory, control theory, target tracking and data fusion, communications and signal processing.
ISSNIP
ARC Research Network on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP) is a network of researchers created in 2004 to address fundamental cross-disciplinary issues of sensor networks and Information Processing in large, complex, distributed interacting systems with direct applications in health, environment and security. It brings together distinguished Australian and International researchers from relevant disciplines: mathematics, statistics, computing, biology, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering to create an outstanding intellectual infrastructure.