Swinburne University of Technology
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| Motto: | Factum per Litteras (Latin) |
| Established: | 1908 |
| Type: | Public |
| Chancellor: | Bill Scales AO |
| Vice-Chancellor: | Professor Ian Young |
| Staff: | 1365 (2007) [1] |
| Undergraduates: | 12,280 (2008) [2] |
| Postgraduates: | 5,017 (2007) [3] |
| Doctoral students: | 569 (2007) [4] |
| Other students: | 31,626 (2007) [5] |
| Location: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Campus: | Urban |
| Mascot: | George Swinburne |
| Affiliations: | ACU, ASAIHL, ECIU, OUA |
| Website: | www.swinburne.edu.au |
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The Swinburne University of Technology (also referred to by just Swinburne) is an Australian public university in Melbourne, Victoria. Its foundation campus is located in the inner-eastern suburb of Hawthorn.
Founded in 1908 by engineer and politician, The Hon. George Swinburne, as the Eastern Suburbs Technical College, it changed its name to the Swinburne Technical College in 1913, to honour its founder. In 1992, the College was granted official public university status and became known as the Swinburne University of Technology.[6]
The University has six campuses in the state of Victoria, and one in Malaysia. It's also the host university for Australia's national circus school, the National Institute of Circus Arts.[7]
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[edit] History
Swinburne was established as the Eastern Suburbs Technical College by George Swinburne in 1908. By 1913, the institution had changed its name to Swinburne Technical College to commemorate its founder [8]. Both a boys' and girls' technical school and were soon established. In 1965 Swinburne became affiliated with the Victoria Institute of Colleges. The technical schools were taken over by the Victorian Education Department in 1969, however the college remained a separate institution.
Between 1976-78 extensive reorganisation of the Victorian education system took place. Under the changes of the Victorian Post-Secondary Education Act, Swinburne was conferred the power to grant bachelor degrees. The first of these were granted in 1981. Swinburne was proclaimed a University on July 1, 1992 and businessman Richard Pratt became the university's first Chancellor. Eastern TAFE was amalgamated with the university in July 1998, increasing the size of the university to six campuses. [9]
[edit] Structure
The University has six faculties and four TAFE vocational schools.
[edit] Faculties
- Faculty of Business and Enterprise
- Faculty of Design
- Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences
- Faculty of Higher Education, Lilydale
- Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies
- Faculty of Life and Social Sciences
[edit] TAFE schools
- School of Arts, Hospitality and Sciences
- School of Business
- School of Engineering
- School of Social Sciences
[edit] Other
[edit] Campuses
Swinburne's presence extends to campuses in numerous parts of Victoria including Hawthorn, Croydon, Prahran, Lilydale, Wantirna, and Healesville. Outside of Australia, Swinburne also has a campus in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia.
[edit] Hawthorn campus
Swinburne's original campus at Hawthorn is home to the University's central administration, many of its undergraduate and postgraduate programs, TAFE courses and short courses. It is also the site of many of Swinburne's research and training centres. Hawthorn is a dual sector campus and offers courses from pre-apprenticeship level through to PhD.
The campus is located seven kilometres east of the city of Melbourne, and is easily accessible by train and tram. It is situated in the heart of Hawthorn and is close to restaurants, cafes and shops on Glenferrie Road. Students enjoy an extensive library, bookshop, cafeterias and sports centre. Over recent years there has been a major redevelopment of the campus, including a covered Atrium next to the library, the building of a combined office/retail/residential complex Swinburne Place, significant investment in the latest learning and teaching technologies and refurbishment of the multi-storey EN and BA buildings.
In early 2008, the university completed a series of renovations and landscaping projects which saw one and a quarter acres of public space being created at the campus [10]. A new Advanced Technology Building is currently under construction and due to be completed in 2010 [11].
[edit] Prahran campus
Prahran is known as Swinburne's 'arts campus,' since it houses a number of arts areas including the National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) and the Faculty of Design, which offers a range of film and television, graphic, interior, industrial and multimedia design courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level. At the TAFE level it also has graphic design, multimedia design, costume, performing arts and makeup courses.
In addition to the arts offerings, Prahran also has a range of programs in business, social sciences, and hospitality. Prahran is a dual sector campus of Swinburne, meaning that it provides both TAFE and university programs.
[edit] Sarawak campus
The Sarawak campus is in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. Degrees offered at Swinburne's Malaysian campuses are similar in content to that of its Australian degrees.
[edit] International Partnerships
Students are given the opportunity to study overseas. In addition to its Sarawak Campus, Swinburne has over 50 partner institutions worldwide in 10 different countries. [12]. There are also a number of scholarships available. [13]
[edit] Research
Swinburne University operates research programs in several areas. As a medium-sized university, Swinburne has adopted a strategy to seek excellence in a limited number of areas. The University is strong in specialised areas of science and technology, such as radio astronomy, astrophysics, reliable software systems, service oriented computing, photonics & optics, social research, biotechnology, biomedical engineering, psychology and molecular simulation.
The university is a member of four Australian Research Council (ARC) Centres of Excellence. [14]
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Coherent X-ray Science
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Creative Industries and Innovation
Swinburne also hosts a Defence Materials Centre and is a core member of the Australian Centre for Radiofrequency Bioeffects Research (ACRBR). Swinburne is the only Australian member of the European Consortium of Innovative Universities (ECIU). [15]
[edit] Research Centres and Institutes
- Brain Sciences Institute (BSI)
- Business, Work and Ageing Centre for Research
- Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures (CAIA)
- Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
- Centre for Atom Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy
- Centre for Complex Software Systems and Services
- Centre for Micro-Photonics
- Centre for Molecular Simulation
- Centre for Sustainable Infrastructure
- Environment and Biotechnology Centre
- Industrial Research Institute Swinburne (IRIS)
- Institute for Social Research
- Swinburne Psychological, Clinical, Health and Evaluation Centre (SwinPsyCHE)
[edit] Research Groups
- Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship
- Asia-Pacific Centre for Philanthropy and Social Investment
- Bio-S
- Centre for Electronic Financial Services
- Centre for Mathematical Modelling
- Centre for New Manufacturing
- Centre for Regional Development
- Information Security Research (iSECURES) Laboratory
- National Centre for Sustainability
- Sensory Neuroscience Laboratory
[edit] Notable Alumni
- Gillian Armstrong: film director
- Graeme Base: Children's illustrator
- Mark Bolton: Australian Football League player for Essendon Football Club
- Kathy Bowlen: ABC (Australia) newsreader, journalist
- Steve Stubbings: English Cricketer who plays for Derbyshire County Cricket Club
- Alisa Camplin: aerial skier and Olympian
- Domenic Carosa : CEO Destra Corporation
- Ray Crooke: artist
- Mark Korda: Founder KordaMentha, Ansett administrator
- Michael Leunig: cartoonist
- Richard Lowenstein: film director
- Sidney Nolan: artist
- Philomena Tan: author [16]
- Sarah Watt: film director and writer (Look Both Ways)
[edit] Official site
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Strategic Planning and Quality Statistics Book". Swinburne University. Retrieved on 2008-11-10.
- ^ "Swinburne University". QS Top Universities. Retrieved on 2008-11-10.
- ^ "Strategic Planning and Quality Statistics Book". Swinburne University. Retrieved on 2008-11-10.
- ^ "Strategic Planning and Quality Statistics Book". Swinburne University. Retrieved on 2008-11-10.
- ^ "Strategic Planning and Quality Statistics Book". Swinburne University. Retrieved on 2008-11-10.
- ^ History of Swinburne (Swinburne University of Technology homepage)
- ^ What We Do (National Institute of Circus Arts homepage)
- ^ "History of Swinburne University". Swinburne University. Retrieved on 2008-11-10.
- ^ "Swinburne University". Cultural Heritage Unit, University of Melbourne. Retrieved on 2008-11-10.
- ^ "Swinburne creates more open space on campus". Swinburne University. Retrieved on 2008-11-10.
- ^ "Hawthorn Campus Map". Swinburne University. Retrieved on 2008-11-10.
- ^ "Swinburne's International Exchange Partner Institutions". Swinburne University. Retrieved on 2008-11-10.
- ^ "Swinburne International Scholarships and Travel Grants". Swinburne University. Retrieved on 2008-11-10.
- ^ "Swinburne Research Excellence". Swinburne University. Retrieved on 2008-11-10.
- ^ "Swinburne Research Excellence". Swinburne University. Retrieved on 2008-11-10.
- ^ Swinburne Alumni - Philomena Tan
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