Robert Simpson High Temperature Laboratory
A generous gift in memory of one of Australia's leading furnace engineers, Robert (Bob) Simpson, has provided Swinburne with a world-class research and teaching facility.
Bob founded Furnace Engineering, and through the Jolimont Foundation, his family provided $500,000 to establish the Robert Simpson High Temperature Processing Laboratory within the university's new Advanced Technologies Centre.
The new laboratory features
- state-of-the-art induction and resistance furnaces,
- high temperature laser microscopes for observing reactions at high temperatures,
- special analysis equipment for studying the changes in matter at high temperatures and
- a solar simulator for studying the potential of using solar energy for smelting metals
