Dr Vojislav Ilic

• Biography
• Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise
• Awards/Honours
• Selected Publications
• Contact Details

Biography

Vojislav came to UWS in 1995 from the University of Sydney where he obtained his PhD in 1994. Prior to his engagement at the University of Sydney, he was a Research Engineer with the CSIRO Division of Energy Technology where he led a Research Team into applications of multi-phase flow technology to petroleum metering from oil-wells (three patents) and vapour generation in parabolic trough solar concentrators. He spent two years in the US (while on leave of absence from the Australian Atomic Energy Commission, AAEC) working as a Research Fellow in the University of California (Santa Barbara) and Thayer School of Engineering in Dartmouth College (Hanover) on problems associated with multi-phase choked flow in pipes as a part of a wider study of a loss of coolant accident scenarios in nuclear reactor operations he had been researching at the AAEC. Vojislav obtained a Master of Engineering Science degree as well as his undergraduate degree (with honours) in Mechanical Engineering at the UNSW and a Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the RMIT. He is the elected Leader of the Asia-Pacific District of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and an active Board member of the International Network for Engineering Education and Research (INEER) as well as the Engineers Australia (EA) College of Mechanical Engineering.

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

Applications of magneto-rheological–fluids, hypo- and hyper- thermal ablation of tissues and cavitation with submerged water jets are of current research interest and activity. Vojislav is particularly interested in all aspects of education of engineers with his current focus on introducing humanities into engineering curriculum and technology into the humanities curriculum.

Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics are at the core of his teaching expertise, though he is adaptable to the prevailing teaching needs that saw him develop Engineering Reliability, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Vibrations and Engineering Ethics courses, introduce novel methods of teaching Mechatronic Design, and teach Kinetics and Kinematics of Machines to Mechatronics undergraduates. Vojislav also provides a significant input to the common First Year teaching effort.
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Awards/Honours

iNEER Award for "Clear Vision and Consistently Superior Scholarship in Engineering Education"(2007)

ASME Award "In Testimony and high regard of your co-workers and the deep appreciation of the Society for your valued services in advancing Engineering Profession" (2008)

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Selected Publications

Vojislav published over 110 conference and journal papers and a chapter in a book. Some of his publications are listed here:

Ilic, V – A novel way to teach Mechatronics Design. ASME Asia-Pacifc Congress on Engineering Education. Taipei 9 – 11 April 2009

Ilic, V – Introducing Rheology to Engineering undergraduates. International Conference on Engineering Education, ICEE/ICEER 2009, Seoul 23 – 28 August 2009

Aouf, R and Ilic, V – Enhancing hyperthermic treatment by incorporation of some Molecular Dynamics (MDS) Aspects of the Propagation of a Phase Change Front in a Polymeric Fluid. Conference on Computational Heat Transfer CHT-08, Marrakesh, Morocco, 11-16 May, 2008.

Hutli, EA, Nedeljkovic, M and Ilic, V – Visualization of a Submerged Cavitating Jet: Part One – The Phenomenon, Time-Synchronization, Photo Objectives and Sono-Luminescence. Transactions 16th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference, University of Queensland, 2 – 7 December, 2007

Ilic, V – Tutoring a First Year Cohort. Transactions ICEER 2007 Conference on Engineering Education and Research, Victoria University Melbourne, Australia, 3 – 7 December, 2007.

Ilic, V & Michaud, M - Role of a Professional Society in Engineering Education, Proc. International Conference on Engineering Education ICEE 2005, Gliwice, Poland, 25 - 29 July, 2005.

Ilic, V, Lundie-Jenkins, B & Curic, K - Industry and Institutes of Higher Learning: towards a synergistic partnership. Proc 15th Annual Conference for Australasian Association for Engineering Education
AAEE 2004, September 2004.

Ilic, V – A recipe for a highly successful Biomedical Engineering
Course. Proc International Conference on Engineering Education & Research, ICEER 2005, Tainan, Taiwan, March 1 – 5, 2005.

Ilic, V – Sustainability and Ethics in Engineering. Chapter 2, Innovations – 2003, World Innovations in Engineering Education and Researchs (Win Aung et al. editors). Begell House Publishing, 2003.

Ilic, V and Vincent, J - Sedimentation of complex shaped particles in a square tank at low Reynolds numbers. Int. J. Multiphase Flow, 20 (2), 445-452, 1994.

Zheng, R, Phan-Thien, N and Ilic, V - Falling needle rheometry for general viscoelastic fluids: a theoretical and experimental study, The ASME J. Fluids Eng., 116, 619-624, 1994.

Ilic, V, Tullock, D, Phan-Thien, N and Graham, AL - Translation and rotation of spheres settling in square and circular conduits: experiments and numerical predictions, Int. J. Multiphase Flow, 18 (6), 1061-1075, 1992.

Behnia, M and Ilic, V - A simple correlation for estimation of multiphase pressure drop in an oil pipeline, SPE J. of Production Eng., 370-732, Nov 1990.

For further information, contact Vic.

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