Melbourne School of Engineering researchers provide leadership and expertise with an array of research institutes and centres, involving active partnerships with industry, government, universities and research organisations.

These include:

Centres and Institutes for Research and Research Training

These prestigious hubs of research expertise enable high-quality researchers to collaborate with other universities within Australia and overseas to maintain and develop Australia’s international standing in research areas of national priority. These are often discipline specific and include Australian Research Council Special Research Centres.

• Australian Research Council Special Research Centre for Particulate Fluids Processing
• Centre for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration
• Centre for Energy-Efficient Telecommunications
• Melbourne Materials Institute
• Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute
• Melbourne Energy Institute
• Institute for a Broadband Enabled Society

Collaborative Research Centres

These research centres are formed in association with other institutions.

• Advanced Centre for Automotive Research and Testing
• Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Design in Light Metals
• National ICT Australia Limited

Cooperative Research Centres (CRC)

The Australian government’s CRC program delivers social, economic and environmental benefits by encouraging collaboration between research institutions and industry with a strong commercialisation focus.

• Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies
• Cooperative Research Centre for Polymers
• Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information
• eWater Cooperative Research Centre