Design Group

Research Group Summary

The Design Group has a diverse range of research and development interests which include design methodology and rapid product development, feature based design, computer aided design, alternative engines and energy conversion systems, engine and vehicle test plant, human-powered vehicles and human ergometry, mobility aids for the disabled, bio-medical equipment, specialist industrial machines, water jets, robotic prostheses, workplace hazard management, industrial acoustics, engineering art and kinetic sculptures.

The group has close ties with other groups, including Robotics, Instrumentation and Control, Applied Mechanics and Manufacturing.

Key Contact

• Dirk John Pons: Member; Mechanical Engineering

Members - UC Staff

• Keith Vivian Alexander: Member; Mechanical Engineering
• Don Murray Clucas: Researcher; Mechanical Engineering
• Shayne Douglas Gooch: Member; Mechanical Engineering
• John Rombulow Pearse: Member; Mechanical Engineering
• Dirk John Pons: Member; Mechanical Engineering

• (COGNITION) Design cognition
• Zones of physical or temporal risk
• Solar Desalination

• Engineering and Technology: Acoustics; Applied Mechanics; Computational Mechanics; Design; Energy and Fuels; Manufacturing; Materials; Thermodynamics & Heat Transfer; Transportation

• Design Group