Matthew Doolan

Position: Lecturer

Address: Department of Engineering, Building 32 North Road, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia

Phone: +61 2 6125 2739
Fax: +61 2 6125 0506

Teaching

ENGN3212 - Manufacturing Technologies
ENGN3221 - Engineering Management
COMP3120 - Managing Software Development

Research Interests

Signature Analysis in Manufacturing Process Control
End of Life Vehicles
Supply Chain Management and Control

Current Responsibilities

Graduate Field Studies Convener, Engineering
Associate Degree Conveyor
Formula SAE car project mentor
AutoCRC Honours Project Coordinator

Current PhD Students

Clive Rossiter - Collaborative supply chain management.
Zo Lowrie-Nunes - Performance Measurement for a 3PL using RFID.
Ezzat El Halabi - Strategic Policy for End of Life Vehicles in Australia.

Current Honours Projects

Oddie telescope rebuild - James White and Tarun Kalms
Optimization of the SHRIMP optical viewing system - Katherine Pardy
GMT primary mirror thermal analysis - Giles Field
International versus local supplier, a comparison of costs and risks - Charles Featherstone
RFID portal design for Toll Autologistics - Sam Nissink

Recent Positions

Lecturer - Australian National University 2006 - Present
Project Manger Gemini South Adaptive Optics Imager - Mount Stromlo Observatory 2005-2006
Project Engineering - Mount Stromlo Observatory 2002 - 2004
PhD - Metal Forming Signature Analysis Using Active Shape Models 1997 - 2002

Recent Publications

Journal Articles:

S OByrne, M Doolan, AFP Houwing; “Analysis of Transient Thermal Choking Processes in a Model Scramjet Engine”; Journal of Propulsion and Power, 2000, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 808.

S O'Byrne, M Doolan, SR Olsen, AFP Houwing; “Measurement and imaging of supersonic combustion in a model scramjet engine”; Shock Waves Journal, 1999, Vol. 9, pp. 221-226.

Doolan M., Kalyanasundaram S., Hodgson P.D., Cardew-Hall, M.J., “Use of image recognition techniques in the analysis of sheet metal forming force signature curves”; Jnl. Manufacturing Sciences and Engineering, Transactions of ASME, 2003, p363-368.

Doolan M., Kalyanasundaram S., Hodgson P.D., Cardew-Hall, M.J.; “Identifying variation in sheet metal forming”; Int. Jnl. Materials Processing Technology,115, (2001), p142-146.

Conference Papers:

Doolan M., Kalyanasundaram S., Hodgson P.D., Cardew-Hall, M.J., “Identifyig variation in sheet metal forming”, 7th International Conference on Sheet Metal, SheMet99, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, 27th-28th September 1999.

Doolan, M., Kalyanasundaram, S., Hodgson, P., Cardew-Hall, M.J.., “Identifying the cause of variation in sheet metal stamping”, Eighth Intl. Conf. On Manufacturing Engineering, ICME2000, Sydney, Australia, 27-30 Aug, 2000.

Doolan, M., Kalyanasundaram, S., Hodgson, P., Cardew-Hall, M.J.; “Signature analysis using active shape models”; SheMet2001, 9th Intl Conf. On Sheet Metal, Leuven, Belgium, 2-3rd April 2001.
M.C. Doolan, M.A. Dopita, L.E. Waldron, J. Hart, R. Zhelem, G. Bloxkam, P. Conroy, P. McGregor, L Pfitzner, “Optical wavelength image slicer”; Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, v 5492, n PART 1, Ground-based Instrumentation for Astronomy, 2004, p 421-428.

Dopita, M.A.; Waldron, L.E.; McGregor, P.; Conroy, P.; Doolan, M.; Zhelem, R.; Bloxham, G.; Saunders, W.; Jones, D.; Pfitzner, L.; “WiFeS: The wide field spectrograph”; Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, v 5492, n PART 1, Ground-based Instrumentation for Astronomy, 2004, p 262-270.

Doolan, M.; Bloxham, G.; Conroy, P.; Jones, D.; McGregor, P.; Stevanovic, D.; Van Harmelen, J.; Waldron, L.E.; Waterson, M.; Zhelem, R.; “Focusing a NIR adaptive optics imager, experience with GSAOI”; Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, v 6273 II, Optomechanical Technologies for Astronomy, 2006, p 62732D.

Waterson, M.; McGregor, P.; Van Harmelen, J.; Dawson, M.; Doolan, M.; Young, P.; “Characterization and performance of HAWAII-2RG focal plane arrays for NIFS and GSAOI” ; Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, v 6276, High Energy, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy II, 2006, p 62760N.

E. el Halabi, M. Doolan, B. Newell; “A global comparison of end-of-life vehicles policies”, International Conference on Sustainable Automotive Technologies, 2008, submitted.