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Dr Andrew Maxwell

Name :	Dr Andrew Maxwell
Position :	Lecturer (Electronics and Communications Engineering)
Section :	Faculty of Engineering and Surveying Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering
Office :	Z315B
Location :	Toowoomba Campus
Phone :	+61 7 4631 1875
Extension :	1875
E-mail :
Qualifications :	BEng, PhD USQ

Home Page : http://www.usq.edu.au/users/maxwell
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Professional Affiliations

Australian Nanotechnology Alliance - Participant

Research Interests

Instrumentation, Distributed sensing systems, Remote access labs, Web portal integration, Microservers, High-performance grid computing.

Satellite Communications, Radio communications.

Engineering education(Member of Engineering Education Research Group)

Project commercialisation and technology startups.

Recent Research Outcomes

Three most recent :

Ahfock, T., Buttsworth, D.,Phythian, M., Maxwell, A. (2008). Infrastructure for remotely accessible laboratories at the University of Southern Queensland. Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, Yeppoon, Queensland, Australia 07-10 Dec 2008

Hancock, N.H., Maxwell, A.D. and Ah Fock, (2008) Commercialisation of Conductivity-Based Acidity Measurement Systems for Dairy Applications. Dairy Australia Project Code: USQ 12175 - Final Report. Dairy Australia, Melbourne. [Commercial-in-Confidence]

Maxwell, A.D., (2005) Acidity measurement systems for dairy applications - Results of preliminary applications assessment survey. (DA Project Code: USQ 10956) Dairy Australia, Melbourne. 52pp. [Commercial-in-Confidence]

Hancock, N.H., Maxwell, A.D. and Ah Fock, (2005) Acidity measurement systems for dairy applications. Dairy Australia Project Code: USQ 10956 - Final Report. Dairy Australia, Melbourne. 204pp. [Commercial-in-Confidence]

A.Maxwell (2002), "A Carbon Dioxide Sensor for Low-Cost Applications using Chemical Transduction", PhD Dissertation, University of Southern Queensland, Australia.

Most notable :
Hancock, N.H., Maxwell, A.D. and Ahfock, T., (2005). Method and apparatus for measuring electrical conductivity. International Patent Application PCT/AU2005/000400 (published 28 July 2005)

Currently Teaching Courses/Programs

ELE1911 Electrical and Electronic Practice A
ELE2912 Electrical and Electronic Practice B
ELE3914 Electrical and Electronic Practice D

ENG1101 Engineering Problem Solving 1
ELE1301 Computer Engineering
ELE3107 Signal Processing
ELE4605 Fields and Waves
ELE4606 Communication Systems

Teaching Experience

Tertiary : 11 years
Other : 3 years

Administrative Responsibilities

Moodle Mentor - FoES
Remote Laboratories Manager - FoES
Staff Research Lab Manager - FoES

Prior Additional Roles
Moodle Implementation Board Member - USQ