Personal details
- Name
- Dr Michael Cholette
- Position(s)
- Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Engineering,
School of Mech., Medical & Process Engineering - Discipline *
- Interdisciplinary Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
- Phone
- +61 7 3138 2452
- michael.cholette@qut.edu.au
- Location
- View location details (QUT staff and student access only)
- Identifiers and profiles
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- Qualifications
-
PhD (University of Texas at Austin)
- Professional memberships
and associations International Society of Engineering Asset Management (Member)
Engineers Australia (Member)
- Keywords
-
Reliability Engineering, Maintenance Optimisation, Predictive Control, Engineering Optimisation
Biography
Michael E. Cholette obtained his B.S. degree from the University of Michigan in 2007. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2012, where his research focus was fault detection and diagnosis for complex systems, with applications in automotive systems and semiconductor manufacturing. He joined the CRC for Infrastructure and Engineering Asset Management (CIEAM) in Brisbane, Australia as a postdoctoral research fellow, focusing on reliability modelling and asset management. He joined QUT as a Lecturer in 2013 and became a Senior Lecturer in 2017.
Michael has broad experience in a number of engineering disciplines related to dynamic systems, reliability, and applied optimisation. His primary expertise lies in asset management, particularly in in reliability modelling, Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM), and maintenance optimisation. He has also contributed to a number of other fields, including condition monitoring, control, autonomous vehicles, and building optimisation. His research has been supported by a variety of industrial and government bodies, such as Powerlink Queensland, Wilmar Sugar, Delta Electricity, the Australian Research Council, and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency. He also participates in a number of academic and professional societies, including co-chairing the Scientific Committee for the 2017 World Congress on Engineering Asset Management and as a member of the International Society of Engineering Asset Management.
Teaching
EGB432 Engineering Asset Management and Maintenance
EGH421 Vibration & Control
EGH413 Advanced Dynamics
Publications
- Truong-Ba H, Cholette M, Borghesani P, Ma L, Kent G, (2020) Condition-based inspection policies for boiler heat exchangers, European Journal of Operational Research p232-243
- Truong-Ba H, Cholette M, Picotti G, Steinberg T, Manzolini G, (2020) Sectorial reflectance-based cleaning policy of heliostats for Solar Tower power plants, Renewable Energy p176-189
- Bamdad Masouleh K, Cholette M, Bell J, (2020) Building energy optimization using surrogate model and active sampling, Journal of Building Performance Simulation p760-776
- Picotti G, Moretti L, Cholette M, Binotti M, Simonetti R, Martelli E, Steinberg T, Manzolini G, (2020) Optimization of cleaning strategies for heliostat fields in solar tower plants, Solar Energy p501-514
- Cholette M, Yu H, Borghesani P, Ma L, Kent G, (2019) Degradation modeling and condition-based maintenance of boiler heat exchangers using gamma processes, Reliability Engineering and System Safety p184-196
- Zhou Y, Cholette M, Bhaskar A, Chung E, (2019) Optimal vehicle trajectory planning with control constraints and recursive implementation for automated on-ramp merging, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems p3409-3420
- Bamdad Masouleh K, Cholette M, Guan L, Bell J, (2018) Building energy optimisation under uncertainty using ACOMV algorithm, Energy and Buildings p322-333
- Picotti G, Borghesani P, Manzolini G, Cholette M, Wang N, (2018) Development and experimental validation of a physical model for the soiling of mirrors for CSP industry applications, Solar Energy p1287-1305
- Wang L, Cholette M, Tan A, Gu Y, (2017) A computationally-efficient layout optimization method for real wind farms considering altitude variations, Energy p147-159
- Truong Ba H, Cholette M, Borghesani P, Zhou Y, Ma L, (2017) Opportunistic maintenance considering non-homogenous opportunity arrivals and stochastic opportunity durations, Reliability Engineering and System Safety p151-161
For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.
Research projects
Grants and projects (Category 1: Australian Competitive Grants only)
- Title
- Condition-Based Maintenance Optimisation for Queensland's Railways
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP200100382
- Start year
- 2021
- Keywords
- Title
- Condition-based Maintenance Optimisation for Australian Sugar Industry
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP150100545
- Start year
- 2016
- Keywords
- Title
- Australian Solar Thermal Research Initiative (ASTRI) - Node 4
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- 1200000689
- Start year
- 2012
- Keywords
- Energy Efficiency;Solar Chemistry;Solar Thermal;Thermal Storage;Value To The Grid
Supervision
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Modelling of Critical Components in Solar Tower Plants for Degradation Assessment and Maintenance Planning (2021)
- Towards an Optimal Model for Green and Safe Driving (2019)
- Trajectory Planning Strategies of Connected Automated Vehicles for Cooperative On-Ramp Merging and Mainline Facilitating Maneuvers (2019)
- Building Energy Optimisation Using Machine Learning and Metaheuristic Algorithms (2018)
- Opportunistic Maintenance and Optimisation Considering External Opportunities (2018)
- Numerical Optimization of Wind Farm Layout and Control Strategy (2017)