Rate My Professor Dylan Cuskelly

Cuskelly has commercialized MGA technology through MGA Thermal, a start-up company he co-founded and directs, enabling local manufacturing in the Hunter region and engaging international customers. In teaching, he develops and delivers courses such as ENGG1500 on practical problem-based learning and a new experiential 'Engineering Practice' course, earning the 2017 Excellence in Teaching and Learning award from the University of Newcastle. He has supervised six PhD students, with five completed, on topics including MAB phase ceramics and thermal energy storage materials. Cuskelly has secured six grants totaling $272,688 from funders including MGA Thermal, Google Australia, and FPR Energy. Key publications encompass the book chapter 'Miscibility Gap Alloys: A New Thermal Energy Storage Solution' (2018) and conference papers like 'Practical problem-based learning during and ‘post’ COVID; a case study of ENGG1500' (2021), '‘Optimised Blackboard’; How first year students created their own pseudo-LMS' (2021), and 'Synthesis and Plasmon Responses of Sodium Tungsten Bronze Nanoparticles' (2019).