Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Engineering

PhD opportunities

With the guidance of an expert supervisor, take the opportunity to leverage Flinders’ extensive industry connections and plug into our $120 million hub of innovation and entrepreneurship at Tonsley.  

Your chosen research area is flexible, and ultimately agreed between you and your supervisor. Areas of focus could include:

• Biomedical Engineering
• Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Mechanical and Materials Engineering
• Robotic, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Or another area of interest in consultation with your supervisor.

You will drive a project that creates valuable new scientific knowledge; with the ultimate goal of finding economic and environmental solutions to real world problems.

You’re not here to reinvent the wheel – you’re here to reimagine the wheel, to progress the wheel, to dynamize the wheel, and to take it to places it’s never been before.

The Medical Device Research Institute (MDRI) aims to develop innovative solutions to a range of healthcare problems including: new assistive technologies to make rehabilitation more engaging and build independence for people living with impairments; developing personalised models and new medical devices to improve surgery successes and big data to better understand Australian health.

To achieve this, we are bringing great minds together; engineers and clinicians, health researchers and web developers, designers and users, industry and government to collaborate on creative solutions to address global healthcare challenges.

Centre for Defence Engineering Research and Training (CDERT) is to bring our research strengths to bear, to develop world-leading academic knowledge and capability in key disciplines that make up defence engineering and technology.

Working together with our partners in the defence industry, both in Australia and in allied nations, CDERT is focused on the provision of research, training and consultancy excellence. Our research objective is to work with our partners to find innovative practical solutions to real-world defence problems. Our training programs are designed to meet the rapidly growing demand from our partners, to build a highly-skilled workforce supporting the uptake of advanced technologies driving industrial transformation.

Our strong collaboration with the defence industry, coupled with our research strengths in key disciplines and our unique research facilities, support our capability in conducting world-class research and in achieving impact.