Welcome to the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering.

Our mission is to train the future leaders of electrical and electronic engineering and to perform world-class research that leads to real social and economic benefits. Because our field evolves rapidly, with new technologies and techniques being patented every day, electronics is a vibrant and challenging profession with plenty of opportunities to turn your ideas into reality.

Monash is positioned in the high-tech belt in Melbourne's south-east, and is surrounded by alumni who have founded their own high-tech businesses. Our Chancellor from 2008, Dr Alan Finkel, is just one of our entrepreneurial graduates who is internationally recognised for application of electronics to bioscience. Other graduates enjoy success in consulting businesses, global corporations, government and non-government agencies.

Our staff have a broad range of research and teaching interests, and are actively engaged with local and global industry. Our students are amongst the best in the state. We provide an exciting learning environment with extremely well-equipped teaching laboratories, and state of the art research equipment. We encourage open-ended mini-projects in many of our units (subjects) from Level 2 upwards. We span all scales of electrical and electronic engineering, from the fundamentals of circuits, electronic signals and signal processing; through digital electronics and systems on a chip; to the design of large-scale power and telecommunications systems. We have invested heavily in computer-interfaced experimental workstations that mimic industry design and test environments, and in industry grade SOC development boards and high-speed test equipment.  

Our research environment includes multimillion dollar communications and power laboratories equipped with commercial systems and best-in-class instrumentation, a world-class robotics and vision research team, and extensive research in biomedical engineering and control. We have won innovation prizes for our research and all projects are planned to have commercial support and outcomes. Our aim is to bring innovative solutions, based on a broad understanding of emerging engineering principles, to real-world problems.

 I hope you enjoy browsing our webpages, though I look forward to meeting you in person as a student, research collaborator or colleague.

Arthur Lowery, FEIT