Cees Bil

Professor Cees Bil

Professor

Details

  • College: School of Engineering
  • Department: School of Engineering
  • Campus: Bundoora East Australia
  • cees.bil@rmit.edu.au

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

Academic positions

  • Associate Professor
  • RMIT University
  • Department of Aerospace Engineering
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • 1998 – Present
  • Senior Lecturer
  • RMIT University
  • Department of Aerospace Engineering
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • 1995 – 1998
  • Assistant Professor
  • Delft University of Technology
  • Faculty of Aerospace Engineering
  • Delft, Netherlands
  • 1988 – 1995
  • Associate Researcher
  • Delft University of Technology
  • Faculty of Aerospace Engineering
  • Delft, Netherlands
  • 1981 – 1988

Supervisor projects

  • Development of an AI driven simulation to test and validate the performance of a swarm of drones against various Directed Energy Weapon scenarios
  • 20 Mar 2024
  • Improved Air Traffic Flow Optimisation using Weather Information
  • 1 Dec 2023
  • Aero-Structural Optimisation of Wingtip Design with Smart Materials
  • 15 Nov 2023
  • Sustainable High-Speed Transportation: Understanding of Shock Dynamics in Evacuated Tube Trains and Their Numerical Prediction
  • 9 Oct 2023
  • Design of Integrated Electric Motor and Drive Propulsion System for Fixed Wing Propeller-Driven Aircraft Applications
  • 10 Jan 2023
  • ECOptimization of MicroLaunchers
  • 9 Feb 2022
  • How does training moderate the critical decision making in pilots when exposed to adverse flight conditions? 
  • 7 Jul 2020
  • Development of a Shipboard Landing System for Rotorcraft using Real-Time Ship Motion Prediction Algorithms
  • 18 Jun 2020
  • Design, Build and Test of a Bi-Modal Unmanned System
  • 24 Mar 2020
  • A Digital Twin Concept to Improve Travellers ‘Door-to-Door’ Travel Experience
  • 25 Sep 2019
  • Robotic Multi-Axis Electric Discharge Machining of Exotic Hard-to-Cut Materials
  • 12 Mar 2019
  • Exploration and Development of New Drag Prediction Models for UAVs
  • 13 Feb 2019
  • Cybersecurity of Air Traffic Management and Aviation Systems: A Systems Engineering Approach to Risk Mitigation
  • 28 Sep 2017
  • Modelling and Experimental Investigations of a Bi-modal Unmanned Underwater/ Air System
  • 1 Mar 2017
  • Aerodynamic Performance Comparison of a Conventional UAV Wing and a FishBAC Morphing Wing
  • 1 Mar 2017
  • Methodology for Multidisciplinary Aircraft Design under Consideration of Hybrid-Electric Propulsion Technology
  • 26 Sep 2016
  • A Concurrent Design Facility Architecture for Education and Research in Multi-Disciplinary Design of Complex Systems
  • 18 Jul 2016
  • Multi-Criteria Air Traffic Flow Optimisation Including Uncertainty
  • 27 Jan 2014
  • A decision-support tool for military aerospace performance-based contracting
  • 17 Mar 2010

Research interests

Aerospace Design and Optimisation, Aerodynamics, Dynamics and Control, Computer-Aided Engineering, Simulation and Modelling
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