Apply your advanced engineering skills to industry-focused research projects and identify real-world solutions to existing and emerging chemical engineering problems.
You can select from existing applied research projects that are well supported by industry. These projects will deliver fundamental research leading to innovative new products, processes and knowledge.
Research opportunities are in the fields of rheology, advanced and functional materials, water and wastewater, energy, complex liquid flow, microfluidics, and surface science.
You will be expertly supervised while you work on a project in one of the following areas:
anaerobic digester hydrodynamics
biochemical engineering
biodegradable polymer nanocomposites
biomass utilisation and conversion
chaos and mixing
colloids science
corrosion and materials degradation
drinking water treatment
flow process and mixer analysis of complex fluids and multiphase mixtures
life cycle analysis of processes
microfluidics
nanodroplets, nanobubbles and nanocatalysts
polymer processing
rheology of polymers and sludge
surface science
water quality and wastewater treatment
This PhD may be undertaken in a project, thesis with publication or thesis mode. Prospective candidates should discuss these modes of submission with their potential supervisor.
Career
You will be able to pursue an academic career in a university or be employed in senior leadership and management positions in government, scientific and industrial research laboratories.
*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please check with institution
February 2025
Melbourne City Campus
124 La Trobe Street,
MELBOURNE,
Victoria,
3000, MELBOURNE, Australia
*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please check with institution
May 2025
Melbourne City Campus
124 La Trobe Street,
MELBOURNE,
Victoria,
3000, MELBOURNE, Australia
The minimum requirements for admission to a PhD program are:
a bachelor degree requiring at least four years of full-time study in a relevant discipline awarded with honours. The degree should include a research component comprised of a thesis, other research projects or research methodology courses that constitute at least 25% of a full-time academic year (or part-time equivalent). The applicant must have achieved at least a distinction average in the final year; or
a master degree that includes a research component comprised of at least 25% of a full-time academic year (or part-time equivalent) with an overall distinction average or a master degree without a research component with at least a high distinction average; or
evidence of appropriate academic qualifications and/or experience that satisfies the Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research Training and Development or nominee that the applicant has developed knowledge of the field of study or cognate field and the potential for research sufficient to undertake the proposed program.
At RMIT a grade of distinction represents academic achievement of 70% or higher and a high distinction is 80% or higher.
To study this program you will need to complete one of the following English proficiency tests:
IELTS (Academic): minimum overall band of 6.5 (with no individual band below 6.0)
TOEFL (Internet Based Test - IBT): minimum overall score of 79 (with minimum of 13 in Reading, 12 in Listening, 18 in Speaking and 21 in Writing)
Pearson Test of English (Academic) (PTE (A)): minimum score of 58 (with no communication band less than 50)
Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): minimum of 176 with no less than 169 in any component.
*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.
RMIT is among the premier international universities in the world is renowned for its innovative curriculum and applied research.
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