Advanced manufacturing materials structures engineering amase | Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

The UNSW School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering conducts world leading research across all aspects of advanced manufacturing, materials, and structures. Through our research and our partnerships with industry, we endeavour to:

Improve products and processes by making manufacturing more sustainable, by increasing the efficiency of small- and large-scale manufacturing, and by improving management strategies.
Enhance the performance and multifunctional capabilities of materials, structures, and devices to meet challenging operating conditions.
Develop multiscale computational models to link structural performance to materials characteristics and manufacturing processes.

Our School is also home to the following centres and hubs that highlight our strong commitment to working with industry partners:

Research Areas

Cross-scale manufacturing and 3D printing

Advanced Manufacturing is the development and use of innovative technologies for the fabrication of products.

Design and optimisation of lightweight composite structure

We use highly specialised experimental and simulation techniques to analyse, design and optimise lightweight composite structures.

Mechanical performance of advanced structural materials

Our research focusses on furthering our understanding of processing, microstructures, and mechanical property relationships in advanced structural materials.

Multifunctional nanocomposites for stretchable sensors & energy storage

Flexible and mechanically stretchable electronics are crucial to a wide range of emerging technologies, such as wearable medical devices, electronic skin, and soft robots.