Smart technology solutions

Academics at RMIT are using breakthrough technologies to develop innovative solutions to complex technical challenges. These solutions require both the development of theoretical and technical know-how as well as the skills to design, invent, test and apply smart devices.

RMIT research - Global, connected and making an impact

Who is making an impact?

• Platform Technologies Research Institute draws together researchers from many disciplinary backgrounds, to provide industry with the expertise to develop smart technology solutions.
• Microelectronics and Materials Technology Centre undertakes research in the fields of integrated optics, lab-on-a-chip devices, nanotechnology enabled devices, sensors, functional materials, microsystems, microelectronic devices, and RF/microwave technologies.
• Sir Lawrence Wackett Aerospace Centre focuses its research on aerospace structures and materials, through-life management technologies, dynamic aerospace systems, aerospace design and manufacturing processes.

RMIT partners with universities, government and private industry through the following Cooperative Research Centres (CRCs):

• CRC for Advanced Composite Structures
• CRC for Advanced Manufacturing
• CRC for Smart Services
• CRC for Advanced Automotive Technology
• CAST Cooperative Research Centre
• CRC for Polymers