The Hon Julie Bishop MP, Minister for Education, Science and Training, has announced the selection outcomes for proposals submitted to the Australian Research Council for funding under the Discovery Projects Scheme commencing in 2008.  UWA submitted 166 applications, 35 of which were successful - a success rate of 21% with a total of $13,089,935.  The national success rate was also 21%.

Congratulations to the following recipients from the School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering:
 

DP0881579          Prof L Faraone
Approved Project Title:  Resonant Nanostructures for Adaptive Optoelectronics

2008 :                 $ 200,000
2009 :                 $ 195,000
2010 :                 $ 190,000
2011 :                 $ 185,000
2012 :                 $ 170,000

DP0877616          Dr DD Huang
Approved Project Title:  Semi contention based multi user diversity: a new way to increase throughput of wireless communications

2008 :                 $  80,000
2009 :                 $  72,000
2010 :                 $  64,000

DP0880831          Dr CA Musca
Approved Project Title: A novel nanoimprinting technology for infrared photovoltaic sensor applications

2008 :                 $ 160,000
2009 :                 $ 150,000
2010 :                 $ 150,000

http://www.arc.gov.au/pdf/DP08/DP08_WAU.pdf

Australian Research Council for Linkage Projects Round 1

The Hon. Julie Bishop MP, Minister for Education, Science and Training, has announced the selection outcomes for Proposals submitted to the Australian Research Council for Linkage Projects Round 1 for funding commencing in January 2008.    UWA received a total of $3,673,575 from the ARC and $5,695,059 from Partner Organisations for this round.  UWA's success rate is 57.1% with the national success rate being 47.6%.

Congratulations to the following recipient from the School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering:

LP0882537        Musca, C Dr
Development of an advanced semiconductor characterisation capability for infrared focal plane array applications.  

$371,528.00