Shaokoon Cheng

Associate Professor

20052025

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Biography

Shaokoon is the program director of the Mechanical Engineering undergraduate program at Macquarie University. His major interest is in translational research, with a particular focus on the design and development of biomedical devices and equipment for disease monitoring and diagnosis. Shaokoon has received several competitive national and international research funding and they include two NHMRC,  four ARC and two international grant from the Food Drug Administration (FDA, USA). Six of his inventions have been awarded patents and they are also the core technologies for a range of biomedical equipment currently being developed in his laboratory. Shaokoon has written more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and is currently leading a team of 7 PhD students and 1 postdoctoral staff to synthesize discoveries obtained from MR imaging, microfluidics, particles fluidization experiments and computational modelling. He has been invited as the organizer and invited speaker for many major international conferences in his field of research. 

 

Research interests

We are looking for bright and enthusiastic Masters or PhD students with a strong passion to find solutions to improve the quality of lives through engineering. 

BIOMECHANICS and PART (Particles And Respiratory Technology) research group

Current projects:

1. Biomechanics of inhaled drug delivery. 
2. Novel organ-on-chip devices. 
3. Fluid-structure flow interactions in biological systems. 
4. Biomedical devices. 
5. MRI. 
6. 3D printing for biological applications. 

Equipment:

1.  Stereoscopic PIV system for velocity measurement including a micro-PIV system.
2.  High Speed (10KHz) and high resolution (2um) Particle Visualization and Sizing System.
3.  High-Speed Data Acquisition (1-2MHz) and Instrument Control Capabilities.
4.  Tabletop tensile machine (MTS, exceed testing system, E42.503).
5.  Micro-tensile testing machine - SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope) compatible. 
6. Advanced additive manufacturing capabilities to develop optically accessible and highly-complex geometries for any biological organs. 
7.  In house capabilities and facilities to develop organ-on-chip devices.
8.  MR Elastography system. 
9. Optical coherence tomography system (multiple channels) with extended capabilities in flow and elastography measurements. 

Expertise: 

1. Design and development of microfluidic devices, organ-on-a-chip platform. 

2. MR Imaging - Phase Contrast MRI, MR Elastography, MR Tagging.

3. Development of optically accessible and physiologically realistic biological organs. 

4. Human and animal MR studies. Ethics applications that involved human patients and diseased animal models.

5. Computational modelling - turbulent and multi-phase flows.

6. Characterization of soft tissue rheological properties. 

TEACHING RESEARCH

My current teaching research interests are in the area of understanding students career information literacy and the development of teaching pedagogies and tools to help improve students' employability and entrepreneurial capabilities. 

 

Teaching

I have a background and a strong passion in product design and development. 

I have developed and convened the following units and the units mark with an asterisk are the units which I am currently teaching and convening. 
1. ENGG150 - Fundamentals of Mechanical and Electronics Engineering
2. MECH203 - Engineering Design 1. (*)
Computer-aided design, a framework for decision-based engineering design, machine design and analysis. (Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design)
3. MECH204 - Mechanics of Solids. (*)
Modes and mechanics of failure, structural analysis (Hibbeler Mechanics of Materials)
4. MECH303 - Engineering Design 2
5. MECH401 - Product Design and development - Capstone unit. (*)
Product design and development process (Ulrich and Eppinger Product Design and Development)

Education/Academic qualification

Biomedical Engineering, PhD, The University of New South Wales

Mechanical Engineering, BEng, Honours Class 1, University of Sydney

External positions

Member, Australian Rheological Society

Member, Australian and New Zealand Society of Biomechanics

Member, Australian and New Zealand Society of Respiratory Science

Board of Directors, Cerebrospinal Fluid Hydrodynamics

Member, Society of Rheology

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