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Dr Euan Lindsay

Senior Lecturer

Program Leader, Mechatronic Engineering

Euan has been at Curtin since the beginning of 2004. His primary research area is engineering education, in particular remote and virtual access to laboratory hardware. He presently teaches in the "core" Mechatronic areas of the curriculum, supervising units where students actually create integrated mechatronic systems involving computers, electronics and physical hardware. Euan has a strong profile internationally in the area of Engineering Education, and is the recipient of a number of awards in this field.

Euan is presently on Sabbatical with Virginia Tech's Department of Engineering Education.

Awards / Research / Undergraduate Teaching / Postgraduate Teaching / Publications / University Service / AaeE / Public Outreach / PhD / Contact Details

Awards:

In 2008, Euan recieved the “2008 DELOS Best Paper Award” from the Division of Experimental and Laboraory Oriented Studies of ASEE.

In 2007, Euan was awarded the Carrick Institute's Early Career Award for Teaching Excellence. The press release can be seen here.

In 2006, Euan (with co-author Malcolm Good) received the IEEE Education Society's Transactions on Education Best Paper Award.

In 2005 Euan was chosen as one of the 30 Most Inspirational Young Engineers in Australia.

Research interests:

Engineering education, in particular:

Remote and Virtual Laboratory Classes
The Assessment of Group Work
Student workloads, the stresses they cause, and the factors that cause them

Artificial dextrous hands for sign language, incorporating:

Artificial Neural Networks for Trajectory Control
Hand design & implementation
Feedback control of Air muscles

Euan also collaborates with the Insitute for Multi-Sensor Processing and Content Analysis (IMPCA), primarily in the area of data mining of educational data.

Undergraduate Teaching:

Semester One: Mechatronic Automation 331, Mechatronic System Design 431 and Engineering Foundations: Principles & Communications 100

Semester Two: Mechatronic Project 322 and Engineering Foundations: Principles & Communications 100

Euan supervises a number of students in the final-year Mechatronic Project 491 / 493. Projects for 2008 include:

Motion tracking of pilots in flight simulators
Automated store mannequin that can track shoppers
Voice-controlled mobile robots
Artificial hand for sign language

Previous years' projects include:

Animatronic Puppetry
CNC Machining
Pneumatically-articulated Robot Hand
Self-tuning Guitar
Automated belaying system for indoor rock-climbing
Artificial hand for sign language
Robotic painting
Automated profiling machinery for shipbuilding

Postgraduate Teaching:

Euan supervises four PhD students:

Peter Scarfe, working on Artificial Neural Networks for Trajectory Control
Matt Ramage, working on producing audio transcripts via image processing techniques on pure video
Dan Arthur, working on infrared-based sensing for Brain-Computer Interfaces
Josh Portlock (on leave), working on multi-rotor helicopter stability & trajectory control

Euan is always looking for potential candidates who are motivated and keen to work in applying artificial intelligence techniques to meaningful contexts such as rehabilitative engineering. He is also keen to expand his own engineering education work on remote and virtual laboratory classes through the recruitment of postgraduate students.

Publications:

Euan has a number of publications in the field of engineering education, specialising in Remote and Virtual access to laboratory hardware. Thus far his publications record includes:

1 PhD Thesis
1 Book Chapter
4 Journal Papers
20+ Refereed Conference Papers
Assorted other presentations & workshops.

For a complete listing, click here. He also has a number of other publications under editorial review at this time.

University Service :

Euan is actively involved in a number of projects and initiatives at Curtin University of Technology:

Mechatronic Engineering Course Coordinator

Organiser of the Curtin Engineering Research Forum

The Australasian Association for Engineering Education:

Euan is a member of the Executive of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education. He is the coordinator of it's New Academics Peer Support Network, as well as a co-editor of the Australasian Journal of Engineering Education.

Public Presentations:

Euan believes strongly in presenting his work, and the broader discipline of engineering, to the general public. He (often in combination with his students) has given a number of public presentations and displays of his work:

"Working in High Performance Teams" & "The Elevator Speech" - Watercorp Graduate Program

"A helping hand in communication: The future of communication for the hearing and vision impaired" - presented at the 2006 Curtin Innovation Festival
"How to Make a Monster" - Public lecture at the WA Museum
Smarter than Smoking 2005 Animation Expo

Contact Details:

Euan is presently on Sabbatical in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. His contact details until December 2008 will be:

Dr Euan Lindsay
Department of Engineering Education
625 McBryde Hall
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, Virginia 24060

T: +1 (540) 231-2225
F: +1 (540) 231-6903

Euan's permanent contact details remain unchanged:

Dr Euan Lindsay
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Curtin University of Technology
GPO Box U1987, Perth, WA, 6845

T: +61 8 9266 7577
F: +61 8 9266 2681

Awards / Research / Undergraduate Teaching / Postgraduate Teaching / Publications / University Service / AaeE / Public Outreach / PhD / Contact Details