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State-of-the-art facilities

The outstanding research equipment and facilities at Monash Engineering are among the best in Australia. Here are just some examples.

  • We boast a huge wind tunnel, in fact the largest in the southern hemisphere. This affords amazing opportunities for our students, and has recently been used to:
    • test concept car and yacht designs
    • test Olympic skier aerodynamics
    • investigate the behaviour of air masses that might one day whirl around high-rise buildings planned for cities throughout Asia.
  • Our world-class 80-metre wave tank can simulate the action of any large body of water. We use it to test a range of different vessels, as well as offshore and coastal engineering structures.
 
  • Microscopy and microanalysis equipment worth more than $8 million. It includes:
    • a three-dimensional atom probe
    • one of only a few such instruments in the world
    • which images individual atoms
    • a suite of atomic-force microscopes, indispensable in nano and biotechnology.
  • Our 150-node parallel cluster has been designed to integrate seamlessly with the Victorian high performance clusters (VPAC) and the Australian national facility clusters (APAC) for computer-intensive scientific and engineering problems.
  • State-of-the-art communications test equipment for digital signal generation and capture to 40 billion sample/s ( one million times faster than MP3 players)
  • Our specialist laboratories include:
    • robotics and vision laboratories, with high speed cameras
    • accident research
    • large-scale structural testing
    • fire research
    • high-voltage to 500kV
    • biomedical engineering clean-rooms
    • printing
  • We have easy access (it’s next door to our Clayton campus) to Australia’s new $206 million synchrotron, which is helping researchers develop new computer chips and design new drugs.

We're committed to supporting our students in every way, so we also boast:

  • State-of-the-art computer laboratories, specifically geared towards the printing, scanning and software needs of the engineer-in-the-making
  • A recently refurbished and expanded library and resource centre, specially designed for Engineering studies