Division of Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment
School of Electrical and Information Engineering
School of Electrical and Information Engineering
The Magnetics Technology Group has strong collaboration with Universities
internationally in the research area of applied electromagnetism.
A summary of activities have been provided below.
In 1996 and 1997 the Group consolidated further its research strength in the area of applied electromagnetism. A participation has been secured in two large TEMPUS European Community projects on High Performance Computing in Electrical Engineering and Highly-Processed Electromagnetic Technologies and Devices, involving partners from the UK, Poland and Germany.
The Group has advanced the joint project with Seoul National University (based on a renewed collaboration agreement signed in August 1996) on "Integrated Design of Efficient Electromagnetic Power Devices" supported by a DIST Bilateral Science and Technology Collaboration Program.
Collaboration with the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Okayama University, Japan was brought on a new track by a Collaborative Research Grant from the Japanese Ministry of Education 1997-98 on Development of Design Methods of Energy Efficient Machines which enabled intensive academic staff exchange between UniSA and Okayama University and advance of research addressing environmental factors of the energy generation and use.
Mr Paul Ronan spent 1 year in Japan in 1996 pursuing his research in Kanazawa University on a scholarship of Association of International Education Japan (AIEJ) on "Investigation of the Influence of Electromagnetic Field on Living Organisms" in the Laboratory of Magnetic Field Control and Applications under a joint supervision of Prof. S. Yamada and Prof. A. Nafalski.
Co-operative activities with Lublin Technical University, Poland remained strong and resulted in several joint papers as well as in a close collaboration on the progress of research under the two awarded European Community grants.
A Collaborative Research Grant from the Japanese Ministry of Education on Development of Design Methods of Energy Efficient Machines enabled further intensive academic staff exchange between UniSA and Okayama University and advance of research addressing environmental factors of the energy generation and use. Two joint papers were published in 1998. A related project on Development of Design Technologies for Industrial Application of Energy Efficient Electromagnetic Power Devices approved by the Japan Australia Joint Science and Technology Consultative Committee (JSTCC) was further developed in 1998.
Research on Magnetic Hysteresis Models Using Knowledge Based Techniques was advanced under new Research Development Grant of the University. Application of intelligent techniques accelerated the modelling process required for high fidelity design of electromagnetic devices. A visiting Dutch student joined 2 postgraduate students and 2 academics advancing the project.
An international collaboration agreement and a schedule for student exchange were signed in 1999 between the Division of Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment, UniSA and the Faculty of Engineering, Kanazawa University, formalising active research collaboration in the area of electromagnetism. Two UniSA students went to Kanazawa in 1999 for one year exchange. Further exchanges are planned in 2000 and after.
A new lecture on Electromagnetic Compatibility was developed by the Group leader at Okayama University, delivered in a series Frontiers of Electrical Engineering and offered in Adelaide on a short-course basis and as an elective subject. Expertise areas of the Group were broadened by 3-month collaborative experiments in an anechoic chamber of the Doshisha University. This will enable future involvement of the Group in the EMC activities jointly with the EMC Technologies and Defence and Technology Organisation in Adelaide.
A PhD project on Assessment of Magnetic Fields in Human Environment by Nirmal Roy was finalised and the thesis submitted in September 1998. The student graduated in 2000.
Report on Assessment of Electrical and Electronic Waste Disposal Practices in South Australia prepared with the involvement of the Group was commissioned in 2000 by the Environmental Protection Agency in Adelaide.
The Group organised and conducted the First Japanese-Australian Joint Seminar on Applications of Electromagnetic Phenomena in Electrical and Mechanical Systems on 16-17 March 2000 in Adelaide. It attracted 40 Japanese and 20 Australian participants. In total 53 papers were presented.
