Dr. Qing Wu
Ph,D., M.Eng., B.Eng.Senior Research Fellow, ARC DECRA Fellow
School of Engineering and Technology
Centre for Railway Engineering
70 - 1.12
Centre for Railway Engineering
Dr Qing Wu is a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Engineering and Technology, CQUniversity. He is also the Mechanical Discipline Leader at the Centre for Railway Engineering. His research interests include mechanical system dynamics, parallel computing, multiobjective optimization, dynamics control, and their applications in railway and road vehicles.
Dr. Wu is a project leader and chief investigator for more than 10 research projects. He is also the recipient of an Australian Research Council DECRA funded by the Australian Government.
Dr. Wu has more than 162 scientific publications with 2243 citations and a H-index of 27. He is on editorial boards of Journal of Traffic and Transport Engineering, Railway Engineering Sciences, and Electronic Research Achieve. He is also a Guest Editor for several Special Issues on different international journals and a member for two Australian Standards development groups. Dr Wu is a grant assessor Australian Research Council Discovery Projects, Linkage Projects and Industry Fellowship, as well as an award reviewer for Chinese Academy of Sciences.
He has organised two international collaborative research projects ‘freight train air brake modelling practices (2021)’ and ‘International Benchmarking of Longitudinal Train Dynamics Simulators (2017)’ which had participants from more than 20 ionisations from more than 12 countries. He is also the CQU Technical Representative to UIC (International Union of Railways) Harmotrack Project, and a member of the International Joint Laboratory on Railway Engineering System Dynamics.
Dr Wu has won various awards including multiple best paper awards, best thesis awards, researcher awards and presentation awards.
Universities Studied At
2013-2016: Ph.D, Centre for Railway Engineering, Central Queensland University, Australia.
2010-2012: M. Eng (Mech), Rail Vehicle Institute, State Key Laboratory of Traction Power, China
2006-2010: B.Eng (Mech), Rail Vehicle Department, Southwest Jiaotong University, China
Universities Worked At
2019-present: Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Railway Engineering, CQU.
2016-2018: Research Fellow, Centre for Railway Engineering, CQU.
2013-2016: Assessment marker; tutor; lab instructor; lab supervisor, CQU.
2012-2013: Research Assistant, State Key Laboratory of Traction Power, China.
Awards
· 2022, Best Paper Award, World Congress on Railway Research, Birmingham, UK.
· 2021, Early Career Researcher Award, CQU.
· 2021, Best Paper Award, the 2nd International Conference on Rail Transportation, China.
· 2019, Commendation of Early Career Researcher, CQU.
· 2018, Five Minute Research Pitch (National) 2nd Place; (CQU Internal) 1st Place.
· 2017, Post Graduate Thesis Award (1st Prize), awarded by the Railway Technical Society of Australasia (RTSA)
· 2017, Outstanding Research Higher Degree Thesis Award, CQU.
· 2013-2016, International Postgraduate Award, CQU.
· 2013-2016, University Postgraduate Research Award, CQU.
· 2015, Faiveley Youth Scholarship, jointly awarded by Faiveley Transport & RTSA.
· 2015, Best Paper of RHD students symposium, SET, CQU. (1st prize)
· 2014, Faiveley Youth Scholarship, jointly awarded by Faiveley Transport & RTSA.
Media Citations
CQUniversity and the digitalisation path to predictive maintenance, Rail Express, Railpage
Research on track to help prevent railway accidents Courier Mail
Outstanding Academics Recognised In 2021 Vice-Chancellor’s Researcher Awards
CQU uses supercomputer to monitor heavy haul, Track and Signal (magazine), 2019, 23(3).
Supercomputers shunted into heavy rail research by CQU
Academics pitch their research in five minutes
Celebrating national science week with Qing Wu
Rail research with the power to keep global economy moving
ACRI-funded study to boost life cycle of tracks
Half-million-dollar research funding will help boost life cycle of railway tracks
Railway tracks receive a funding boost
High-tech vehicle could scan railway tracks for early detection of damage
Chinese rail research students already at ‘full-steam’
Professional Memberships
CPEng, RPEQ (Mechanical)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Engineers Australia (EA)
Railway Technical Society of Australasia (RTSA)
China Railway Society (CRS)
Computer Software
The chief developer and owner of the Train Dynamics and Energy Analyser/ Train Simulator (TDEAS)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40534-014-0055-x
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00423114.2016.1252049
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00423114.2017.1377840
Editor
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· Standard Development Group Member: (1) Train Braking Rates, Australian Standards AS 7481; and (2) Disc Brakes and Pads AS 7504.
· Editorial Board member for: (1) Railway Engineering Science, (2) Electronic Research Achieve, (3) Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, and (4) Advances in Vehicle Engineering (2017-2018).
· Guest Journal Editor for: (1) International Journal of Rail Transpiration, (2) Vehicle System Dynamics, (3) Australian Journal of Mechanical Engineering (Engineers Australia), and (4) Railway Engineering Science.
Railway Research Ranking Benchmark - Stage 1 (OTH21)
Grant: Contract Research (Category 3: Industry and Other)
Funding Scheme: ACRI - Australasian Centre for Rail Innovation
Total Funding: $33,000.00
Impact of train driving strategies on rail damage (HH03C)
Grant: Contract Research (Category 3: Industry and Other)
Funding Scheme: ACRI - Australasian Centre for Rail Innovation
Total Funding: $360,080.00
Wheel diameter differences (F04)
Grant: Contract Research (Category 3: Industry and Other)
Funding Scheme: ACRI - Australasian Centre for Rail Innovation
Total Funding: $319,086.63
PF16A - Field Research Overhead Wiring Temperatures: Optimising the efficient and safe operation of overhead wires through temperature modelling
Grant: Contract Research (Category 3: Industry and Other)
Funding Scheme: ACRI - Australasian Centre for Rail Innovation
Total Funding: $250,211.00
Parallel computing 3D train-track dynamics to understand track buckling and related train derailments (DE210100273)
Grant: Competitive Grant (Category 1: Aust Competitive Grant)
Funding Scheme: ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) for funding commencing in 2021
Total Funding: $407,679.00
HH27 - Wear Simulation Development - Stage 1
Grant: Contract Research (Category 3: Industry and Other)
Funding Scheme: ACRI - Australasian Centre for Rail Innovation
Total Funding: $194,577.66
Rail Surface and Subsurface Stresses Induced by Locomotive
Grant: Contract Research (Category 3: Industry and Other)
Funding Scheme: V/Line Corporation
Total Funding: $246,000.00
HH12-13 Limits for Load Distribution For an Individual Wagon and a Consist of Loaded Wagons
Grant: Contract Research (Category 3: Industry and Other)
Funding Scheme: ACRI - Australasian Centre for Rail Innovation
Total Funding: $304,587.53
HH22 - Combine Track Geometry Irregularities Including Cyclic Faults - Analysis of combine and cyclic faults to elucidate new track defect limits vs current standards
Grant: Contract Research (Category 3: Industry and Other)
Funding Scheme: ACRI - Australasian Centre for Rail Innovation
Total Funding: $151,300.80
Accreditation
I am currently accredited for supervision in the following:
- 4017 Mechanical Engineering
At the level of Principal Supervisor
