Professor David Lowe
B.E (UTS, Hons, Medal), PhD (UTS), SMACM, SMIEEE, MAAEE
Associate Dean (Education)
School of Information Technologies
J12 - The School of Information Technologies
The University of Sydney
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Biographical details
Professor David Lowe is currently Associate Dean (Education) and Professor of Software Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies at The University of Sydney. Before this he was a Director of the Centre for Real-Time Information Networks (CRIN) - a designated research strength at the University of Technology, Sydney focused on blending embedded systems and telecommunications in addressing real-world problems. From 2002-2008 he was the Associate Dean (T&L) for the Faculty of Engineering, UTS.
He is also the CEO of the not-for-profit organisation The LabShare Institute, and President of the Global Online Laboratory Consortium.
Professor Lowe has published widely during his more than 20 year teaching career, including three textbooks.
Research interests
Being able to carry out laboratory experiments is central to any science student's education, but it can be very costly for every school and university to provide access to its own suite of well-equipped science labs. The work of Professor David Lowe, a world-leading researcher into the design and use of remote laboratories, offers an innovative solution whereby many schools can share access to a small number of remote laboratories, providing students with highly engaging science experiences well beyond those that could feasibly be offered by any single school.
"Historically, in order to control or use any physical system, we all had to be located in the same place as that system. But high-speed networks are increasingly allowing us to monitor and access systems without being physically near them. My research involves exploring these interactions, and finding ways to best take advantage of the opportunities created.
"A good example is the use of laboratories in education. Rather than having science equipment in each school, which is used only for short periods by science classes and otherwise sits idle for most of the year, remote access allows this equipment to be used across many schools.
"It also means that the equipment becomes accessible 24/7, allowing students the flexibility to carry out experiments in their own time as well as repeating experiments for better understanding and outcomes.
"Possibly most significantly, remote laboratories provide opportunities for access to truly innovative experimental environments.
"I have been working in engineering research and education for around 20 years, and researching remote laboratories for the past 10. I believe that remote laboratories have the potential to lead to significantly improved science and engineering education, enhanced accessibility and flexibility, and students who are better engaged in their learning."
Teaching and supervision
ELEC5614 - Real Time Computing
Associations
- Board Member and Acting Chief Executive, The Labshare Institute
- Senior Member IEEE, Senior Member of the ACM, Member of Australasian Association for Engineering Education
- Editor-in-Chief, ICST Transaction on the Real-World Web (2009-current)
- Editorial Board: International Journal of Online Engineering (2009-current)
- Managing Editor: Journal of Web Engineering (2007-2011)
- Theme editor and member, Editorial Board , Journal of Digital Information (2001-2006)
- Editorial board: International Journal of Web Engineering and Technologies (2003-2007)
- Columnist (1998-2001), WebNet Journal
- Conference General Chair, REV2013: 10th Remote Engineering and Visualisation Conf.
- Vice-Chair (Web Engineering), WWW2006: 15th International World Wide Web Conference
- Program Chair, ICWE2005: 5th International Conference on Web Engineering
- Workshop Chair, 1998 International Workshop on Hypermedia Development, Pittsburgh, July 1998
- Workshop Chair, 1999 International Workshop on Hypermedia Development, Darmstadt, February 1999
- Member, Engineers Australia - Engineering Technologist Accreditation Working Party
Awards and honours
- Finalist, 2011 Engineers Australia Engineering Excellence Awards, for the Labshare project
- Australasian Association for Engineering Education, 2002 McGraw-Hill New Engineering Educator Award
- AusWeb'2000 Paul Thistlewaite award for best paper:
- Lowe, D., (2000) "Improving Web Search Relevance: Using Navigational Structures to Provide a Search Context". in AusWeb2K (Cairns, Aust.), Southern Cross University Press, 194-209.
- ARC Postgraduate Research Award (1990-1992)
- OTC Telecommunications Student Award (1990)
Selected grants
2011
- ALTC Innov&Dev Grant; Lowe D; Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC)/Research Support.
- ALTC Innov&Dev Grant; Lowe D; Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC)/Research Support.
2009
- UTS; Lowe D; University of Technology Sydney/Research Grant.
- Fund, Labshare: National Support for Laboratory Resource Sharing; Lowe D; Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations/Research Support.
2008
- ALTC; Lowe D; Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC)/Research Support.
- ALTC; Lowe D; Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC)/Research Support.
2007
- Carrick Competitive Grants; Lowe D; Carrick Institute of Teaching and Learning/Research Support.
2005
- ARC Discovery; Lowe D; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery.
2004
- ARC International Linkage; Lowe D; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage International.
2002
- ARC; Lowe D; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery.
1999
- ARC SPIRT; Lowe D; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Spirt.
Selected publications
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XPath, XLink, XPointer, and XML: A practical guide to web hyperlinking and transclusion (Addison-Wesley,2003)
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Hypermedia and the web: an engineering approach (Wiley,1999)
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