Business and Industry
The School of Mechanical Engineering can provide your company or
organisation with assistance through a wide range of frameworks.
How can the school help your organisation?
We can solve technical problems and develop state of the art technology and processes directed at making
your organisation more efficient. If your organisation is a legal firm, we can provide expert advice on a range of
technical issues. One of our aims is to provide an expert professional service to Australian industry and
South Australian industry in particular. In so doing, we will help the University of Adelaide, and our School,
achieve their goals in terms of research activity as well as postgraduate and undergraduate education.
Consulting projects and test facilities
The School is proud of its consulting and testing record and demand for it services is such that a commercial arm,
MECHTEST has been established to coordinate the work. Through MECHTEST, the
expertise, experience and facilities traditionally viewed as being
solely for research and undergraduate teaching are available to the wider community. Clients range from
large national and international companies, government agencies, external consultants and legal firms
to fledgling organisations and inventors. Academic staff are also called upon regularly to act as
expert witnesses in legal cases.
The School has a range of Unique Facilities that
are available for product testing and for research and development.
Highly skilled technical staff and fully equipment instrumentation, electronics and mechanical workshops support the sophisticated facilities and equipment necessary to sustain
the commercial and research activities of the School.
Short courses
From time to time, short courses in areas of technical and research strengths are offered by the School.
These courses range in length from 1 day to 4 days. Please contact the School if you are interested in attending a future course in any of the areas of listed
here, including management, business enterprise and innovation.
Design and build competitions
Tuesday through Friday of the first week of Semester 1 is devoted to a design and build competition involving all undergraduate and postgraduate students in the School. The students are divided into about 25 groups of up to 10 students in each (2 or 3 from each year of the course and a postgraduate student as a group leader). There are cash prizes for the best performing device and the best overall project. Lectures are given on group dynamics and project management as well as on the principles of operation of the device to be designed and built. Your organisation can be involved
by providing professional engineers as mentors for a few hours during the week. We believe that this exercise will improve the coporate culture in the School as well as enhancing the practical and communication skills of students.
Companies associated with the school
Causal Systems
Manufacture computer control systems for use in active noise and vibration control.
DadanCo
Manufacture airconditioning products such as induction cooling units.
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