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2016 AGM Report Contents:

Section Chair’s Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Section Vice-Chair’s Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Secretary’s Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Treasurer’s Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Awards and Recognition Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Educational Activities Chair’s Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15Newsletter Editor’s Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17Membership Development Chair’s Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Professional Activities Chair’s report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Webmaster’s Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23Computational Intelligence Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Computer Society Chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27Control Systems/Robotics and Automation Societies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29Microwave Theory and Techniques/Antennas and Propagation Societies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31Oceanic Engineering Society Australian Chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33Power and Energy & Dielectric and Electrical Insulation Societies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34Signal Processing and Communication Societies Chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Society on Social Implications of Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38Women in Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Young Professionals Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41PES Travel Award Winner’s Report #1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43PES Travel Award Winner’s Report #2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45CQUniversity Brisbane Campus Student Branch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46Griffith University Gold Coast Student Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48Griffith University Nathan Student Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51Power and Energy University of Queensland Student Branch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54Queensland University of Technology Student Branch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55University of Queensland Student Branch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 572016 Queensland Section Office Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

GARRY [email protected]

IEEE QUEENSLAND SECTION 2016 AGM REPORT

Section Chair’s Report

Part A Review of 2016

This is the final year of my term as Chair of theQueensland Section of the IEEE.

We have approximately 910 higher grade membersand 196 student members, that is, 1106 members intotal. This represents a reduction of 3% compared to2015 and compares favourably with other AustralianSections.

Our Organizational Units (Chapters and AffinityGroups) have organised 70 events. Most OUs hostedby the Section have held at least two events in 2016.I am grateful to our most outstanding Chapters:Signal Processing & Communications (led by AndrewBradley), Power & Energy (led by Nilesh Modi) andComputational Intelligence (led by Amin Gharipour).

Our most successful event was the Australasian Univer-sities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC 2016),which was held at the University of Queensland on25-28 September, 2016. The Power and Energy Teamincluding Tapan Saha (Conference Chair), Nilesh Modi(PES Chair), Rahul Sharma (PES Vice Chair) andDavid Batterham (Secretary) are to be congratulatedfor their success.

The Queensland Section’s financial position remainshealthy. We have benefited from the efforts of our

ICASSP 2015, APPECC 2015 and AUPEC 2016volunteers who have injected modest cash contribu-tions into our accounts - which in turn is used to supportongoing seminars, workshops and conferences.

Part B Closing Remarks

At our Section level, the IEEE is staffed by volunteers.I am grateful to the following two outstanding IEEEQueensland Office Holders who have spent hundredsof hours behind the scenes to benefit our electricalengineering community:

• The outgoing Australia Council Chair - TapanSaha.

• The outgoing Queensland Section Webmasterand Treasurer - Mike Robinson.

There are organizational changes in progress, namely,establishing a legal entity, provisionally known asIEEE Australia, to better manage our risks/liabilitiesand processes. Australia’s Section Chairs and ViceChairs will be responsible for managing these changes.I thank the incoming Queensland Section Chair, DanielEghbal, and the Vice Chair, Nilesh Mod, for taking onthe tasks ahead.

I hope that you all enjoy the festive season and I lookforward to supporting you in 2017.

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DR. DANIEL (MEHDI) [email protected]


Section Vice-Chair’s Report

2016 was my third and last year as section vice-chair.It was another productive year with major activitiesincluding Region 10 section chair’s meeting, hostingIEEE conferences and working with young volunteersin the Queensland Section Committee.

IEEE Region 10 annual meetings are held in Marchevery year in one of the Region 10 countries. Unfor-tunately, over the past two years, Queensland Section’sbids to host the event were unsuccessful due to thelower overall cost of organising the event in SouthEast Asia. This year the annual meeting was heldin Bangkok, Thailand. Region 10 annual meetingsprovide a great opportunity for all section leaders inthe region to share experiences, ideas and discuss theirchallenges face to face.

I am pleased to share with you that in 2016, oursection was one of the active sections in Region10. Queensland Section did not win the OutstandingSection Award but the outstanding performance ofsome of our chapters has been recognised interna-tionally. I believe membership development, profes-sional and educational activities are areas that we canimprove our performance.

In 2016, the Queensland Section’s chapters and affinitygroups organised 70 technical and professional eventsincluding technical seminars, workshops, and distin-guished lecture seminars. Please see the chart on thenext page for details.

The section committee has about 70+ positionsincluding members of the section executive committee,chapter and affinity groups’ officers, student branchvolunteers and student councillors. All officers arevolunteers and elected annually. I am pleased toannounce that almost all executive committee andchapter positions for 2017 are filled. The 2017committee will be a team of experienced and newvolunteers and I look forward to working with them.The full list of 2017 officers and any vacant positionswill be announced during the Annual General Meetingon 29 November. I would like to thank all thenominating committee members and chairs for theirhelp in achieving this result.

In summary, it is a privilege working with a great teamof volunteers. Going forward, with a great team Ibelieve we can improve our performance and increaseengagement with our members. I look forward tomeeting you at the AGM and working with the newcommittee members in 2017.

Last but not least, I want to thank all IEEE volunteersand members that I had the pleasure to work with in2016. I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and hopeyou have happy holidays.

Please stay safe during the holiday season.

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Number of Technical and Professional Events in 2016

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DR. GHAVAMEDDIN [email protected]


Secretary’s Report

This is the first year (2016) of my role as the secretary of the Queensland Section of the IEEE.

In this year, I have prepared ten monthly (February – November) committee meeting minutes including; meetingagenda, officers’ reports and attendance records. I have also called the meetings and submitted the minutes to theWebmaster for publication on our site.

I would like to thank all committee members for their active contribution, participation and cooperation, and assistingme in my role as the secretary.

The meetings were held at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. The attendance was in person andvia remote Skype conference call.

This year’s summary of committee members participation in the meetings are compiled and provided in the followingtable:

Office Holders Attending Apology Absent Skype ScoreAfsaneh Narimani 3 1 0 0 4Alan Wee-Chung Liew 1 0 7 2 10Alexandra Posoldova 4 2 0 4 10Amin Gharipour 0 2 3 5 10Andrew Bradley 1 5 4 0 10Andrew Lewis 0 5 4 1 10Antony Lui 5 4 1 0 10Arslan Akram Nizami 3 4 2 0 9Ben John 1 1 0 0 2Daniel Eghbal 9 1 0 0 10David Batterham 9 1 0 0 10David Russell 10 0 0 0 10Dian Tjondronegoro 0 0 7 3 10Domagoj Leskarac 3 4 2 0 9Edward Palmer 0 1 5 4 10Garry Einicke 10 0 0 0 10Ghassem Mokhtari 2 0 0 0 2Ghavam Nourbakhsh 9 1 0 0 10Hamid Amini Moghadam 3 1 6 0 10Hanxiao Zhang 5 2 3 0 10Jahangir Hossain 0 2 0 3 5Jan McSweeney 0 0 2 0 2Jaroslaw Krata 6 3 1 0 10

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Office Holders Attending Apology Absent Skype ScoreJeremy Taylor 6 0 4 0 10Jingxin Xu 2 3 5 0 10Kalum P. Udagepola 2 0 0 8 10Ken Morris 1 5 1 3 10Kieran Tranter 0 2 8 0 10Konstanty Bialkowski 3 1 0 6 10Lakshitha Naranpanawe 1 3 6 0 10Luis Mejias Alvarez 3 2 2 3 10Lyria Bennett Moses 0 0 2 0 2Marie Luise Wille 7 3 0 0 10Mark Broadmeadow 2 2 2 4 10MB Mhd Noor 0 0 1 0 1Michael Broe 1 1 8 0 10Michael Rigby 0 0 2 0 2Mike Robinson 8 0 0 1 9Mohanraj Karunanithi 0 2 5 3 10Mojtaba Moghimi 1 5 4 0 10Morteza Shahpari 1 0 6 3 10Mostafa Shahbani 2 1 5 2 10Navinda Kottege 3 5 1 1 10Nazanin Nadian 3 4 3 0 10Negareh Ghasemi 8 2 0 0 10Nilesh Modi 7 3 0 0 10Nima Khoshsirat 3 1 0 0 4Paul Wen 0 0 1 0 1Preethi Chandra 0 3 1 6 10Qing Zhang 1 1 6 2 10Rahul Sharma 1 7 2 0 10Reuben Peterkin 9 0 0 1 10Reza Akbarzadeh Sohi 6 3 0 1 10Rob Makaremi 6 4 0 0 10Robert Kennedy 3 2 0 5 10Ruslan Puscasu 0 0 4 0 4Samuli Haataia 0 1 1 1 3Sangeetha Kutty 0 5 3 2 10Sascha Stegen 2 7 0 1 10Tapan Saha 8 2 0 0 10Tomasz Bednarz 0 0 7 0 7Vaughan Clarkson 5 5 0 0 10Xinren Marcus Jiang 1 5 3 0 9Yan Li 0 0 10 0 10Yateendra Mishra 0 2 2 6 10Zahra Jadidi 0 1 4 5 10

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DR ROBERT [email protected]


Treasurer’s Report

Comments on the 2016 accounts

Overall statusThere were several conferences that contributed to the cashflow through the accounts in 2016. The net worth of thesection is 10% higher this year than it was last year.

Expenses were significantly larger if we take into consideration the bank transfers. Without bank transfers theexpenses were half of last years expenses.

The opening balance of the Access Account was $13,040.06 on December 1st 2015, and the closing balance was$6,849.01 on 11 November 2016.

A new $10,000 term deposit account was opened in 2016, bringing the total value of term deposits to over $120,000.

IncomeIncome from the IEEE membership rebate was approximately the same as 2015.Income from external sources increased.

• APPEEC 2015 conference brought over $13,000 to the section, which was in return for providing ABN andGST accounting facilities to the conference.

This is a healthy future source of income for the section.

ExpensesThe main expense items were the same as last year with student activities, AGM, meeting catering and student prizes.Chapter expenses were a little more than last year at just over $7,200.

The feature this year in the expenses were the bank transfers with opening and closing conference accounts and termdeposits.

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2016 FINANCIAL REPORT

PERIOD: 1ST DECEMBER 2015 - 30TH NOVEMBER 2016TREASURER: MIKE ROBINSON (DEC15 – SEP16) / ROBERT KENNEDY (OCT 16 – 11 NOV 16)

INCOME

IEEE Member Rebates) $11,407.08IEEE Various Rebates $2,534.56

2015 AGM dinner payments $440.002016 AGM dinner payments $690.00

Interest received $1.27ATO Credit $3,184.00

IEEE APPEEC 2015 $13,238.00APPEEC2015 $65,269.45

Other Income $665.00

Total Income $97,429.36

EXPENSES

Administration $25.002015 AGM $2,925.70

Bank TransfersTransfer to Term Deposit 12081075 $3,184.00Close APPEEC Account $65,269.45Open Term Deposit 138359450 $10,000.00Open TermDeposit 138360424 $10,000.00

Meeting catering expenses $664.32Australia Council Levy $601.50Engineers Australia sponsorship $210.00

Student thesis prizes $1,500.00

Student branchesCQUSB $320.15

GUSB $936.92UQSB $287.16USQSB $0.00Chapters & Affinity Groups

AESS $0.00CIS $74.85CS $0.00CSS/RAS $0.00EMBS $105.90MTT/AP $103.00PES/DEIS $3,452.06SP/CS $107.00WiE $1,375.22YPP $447.44

Sundry sponsorship $1,571.00Professional FeesProfessional Fees $459.74

Total Expenses $103,620.41


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IEEE MEMBER & GEOGRAPHIC ACTIVITIES REBATES - 2016

Section Allowance $2,000.00

Member Rebate No Rate AmountMember 807 3.00 $2,421.00Grad Student Member 146 3.00 $438.00Student Member 73 3.00 $219.00Associate Member 13 3.00 $39.00Affiliate 33 1.50 $49.50Senior Member 138 4.00 $552.00Fellow Member 1 4.00 $4.00

Total member Rebate $3,722.50

Meeting Rebates Chapter AffinityAES10 2 $200.00 0AP03/MTT17 14 $200.00 0C16 4 $200.00 0CIS11 3 $200.00 0CS23/RA24 4 $200.00 0EMB18 3 $200.00 0PE31/DEI32 11 $200.00 0SP01/COM19 10 $200.00 0WIE 10 $0.00 4 $200.00YPP 10 $0.00 3 $200.00

$1,600.00 $400.00$2,000.00

Subtotal 2016 rebate $7,722.5010% Bonus $772.25Less Deductions (24 certificates) $96.00

Activity BonusChapter Bonus 3 @ $75.00 ea $225.00

AUDTotal 2016 Rebate USD 8,623.75 $11,407.08


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2016 FINANCIAL REPORT

Assets as at November 30 2016Bank Australia

Access Account $6,849.01Term Deposit 138322014 @ 2.95% matures 17 February 17 2017 $26,088.08Term Deposit 307188228 @ 2.65% matures 13 September 2017 $25,443.25Term Deposit 138356429 @ 3.05% matures 26 May 2019 $20,581.58Term Deposit 307188229 @ 3.05% matures 15 May 2019 $20,546.46Term Deposit 138357658 @ 3.05% matures 24 November 2018 $10,000.00Term Deposit 1383559450 @ 3.05% matures 11 May 2019 $10,000.00Term Deposit 138360424 @ 3.05% matures 9 August 2019 $10,000.00

Total cash at bank $129,508.38Total assets $129,508.38

Long-term Liabilities8/01/2012 IEEE Reserve Allocation $5,779.877/01/2013 IEEE Reserve Allocation $5,303.018/01/2014 IEEE Reserve Allocation $591.228/01/2014 IEEE Reserve Allocation $5,608.87

Total liabilities $17,282.97

Net worth $112,225.41

AESS AEROSPACE AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS SOCIETY

CIS COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE SOCIETY

CS COMPUTER SOCIETY

CSS/RAS CONTROL SYSTEMS/ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION SOCIETIES

EMBS ENGINEEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY

MTT/AP MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES/ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION SOCIETIES

PES/DEIS POWER AND ENERGY/DIELECTRICS AND ELECTRICAL INSULATION SOCIETIES

SP/CS SIGNAL PROCESSING AND COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETIES

WIE WOMEN IN ENGINEERING

YPP YOUNG PROFESSIONALS PROGRAM


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PREETHI [email protected]


Awards and Recognition Report

This year the Awards and Recognition committee has retained the award structure used in previous years. The processis also the same as 2015. From 2015 onwards the awards process commences early in the year immediately followingthe year being evaluated.

There are three award categories for section volunteers and two award categories for student members. While studentawards are not administered by the Awards and Recognition committee they are mentioned here for completeness.

The first volunteer award category is Recognition of Service awards. These are an official recognition of a person’scontribution in a particular role and are awarded at the first AGM following the completion of a person’s term in arole. These awards do not require a nomination.

The second volunteer award category is Outstanding Contribution awards, given to people who have been identifiedas having made a significant contribution during their term in a role. They are awarded at the first AGM followingthe completion of a person’s term in a role. These awards require a seconded nomination from members of the IEEEQueensland Section, along with a reason for the nomination, to be submitted to the section committee.

The third volunteer award category is the Volunteer of the Year award. This is awarded to the person who is regardedas having made the most substantial contribution during their time in office. Only people who have completed theirterm of office are eligible. A single plaque is awarded each year. Nominations from members of the IEEE QueenslandSection are submitted to the section committee for final selection of Volunteer of the Year.

Recognition of Service AwardsA total of 16 Recognition of Service awards were presented by the IEEE Queensland Section in 2016.

Recipient RoleTony Sahama Section SecretaryHugo Espinosa Section Newsletter EditorAlireza Jolfaei Professional ActivitiesAndrew Lewis Computational Intelligence Society ChairAmin Gharipour Computational Intelligence Society Vice-ChairMike Robinson Computer Society SecretaryGreg Hislop Microwave Theory and Techniques/Antennas and Propagation Chapter ChairKonstanty Bialkowski Microwave Theory and Techniques/Antennas and Propagation Chapter Vice-ChairAntony Lui Microwave Theory and Techniques/Antennas and Propagation Chapter SecretaryChandima Ekanayake Power and Energy Society ChairNilesh Modi Power and Energy Society Vice-ChairRuifeng(Richard) Yan Power and Energy Society SecretaryAlexandra Posoldova Women in Engineering Affinity Group ChairBafrin Zarei Women in Engineering Affinity Group Vice-ChairMarie-Luise Wille Women in Engineering Affinity Group SecretaryMohammad Amanzadeh Young Professionals Program Affinity Group Chair

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Outstanding Contribution AwardsNine Outstanding Contribution awards were awarded by the Queensland Section in 2016.

Recipient RoleTony Sahama For dedication to the very important role of Section Secretary, and a perfect attendance

recordAlireza Jolfaei For revitalising the role of Professional Activities, organising several events through

the yearGreg Hislop For maintaining an outstanding schedule of activities for the MTT/A&P chapterKonstanty Bialkowski For maintaining an outstanding schedule of activities for the MTT/A&P chapterChandima Ekanayake For maintaining the excellent and longstanding tradition of the PES chapter in organ-

ising many relevant activities for its membersAlexandra Posoldova For revitalising the WIE affinity group, organising several activities and laying the

foundations for its continued successMohammad Amanzadeh For revitalising the Young Professionals affinity group and organising several activitiesNilesh Modi For outstanding contribution towards PES chapter and organising the 2015APPEEC

conferenceRuifeng(Richard) Yan For outstanding contribution towards PES chapter and organising the 2015 APPEEC

conference

Volunteer of the Year AwardA vote was taken by members of the IEEE Queensland Section committee and Konstanty Bialkowski was electedVolunteer of the Year for 2015.

Undergraduate Student Thesis AwardsEach year, the IEEE Queensland Section administers three thesis prizes for undergraduate students in Queenslanduniversities. 2016 winners of undergraduate student thesis awards are:

• The IEEE Student Thesis Prize (general category)Daniel Muthukrishna, Thesis title: “Deep Learning for the Spectral Classification of Transient AstronomicalObjects” from the University of Queensland

• The ICPADM-Mat Darveniza IEEE Student Prize (Power Engineering category)Reza Akbarzadeh Sohi, Thesis title: “Semi-Automation of LV Network Balancing” from Grifffith University

• IEEE Student Prize (Signal & Image Processing)Aiden Carey, Thesis title: “Reducing background noise in ultra low field nuclear magnetic resonance” from theUniversity of Queensland

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PES Travel Prize AwardsEach year the IEEE Power and Energy Society invites student members to attend its Annual General Meeting andsubmit papers and/or posters. The meetings are usually held in the USA. The Queensland Section’s PES chapterawards two travel grants of $1,000 each to students studying power engineering at Queensland universities to facilitateattendance at the AGM. 2016 recipients who were awarded $1000 each are

• PhD candidate from the University of Queensland Juliana Barbosa Nunes

• PhD candidate from the University of Queensland Amit Dhoke

PES Outstanding Engineer AwardThis annual award recognises outstanding technical, professional, and society contribution on behalf of the power andenergy profession. The 2016 winner is Professor Peter Wolfs from Central Queensland University.

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PROFESSOR KALUM [email protected]


Educational Activities Chair’s Report

The Year in Review

2016 is my second year as Educational Activities Chair.My main function is coordinating educational activitiesin the chapter.

Initially, I planned to organise more than two functionsacross Queensland. I particularly targeted events at theUniversity of Queensland, Queensland University ofTechnology, and Griffith University.

I proudly organized an event at the University ofQueensland on 21 March 2016 titled “Developing DataMining and Visualisation Techniques for the IntegratedAnalysis of Complex Spacially-located Data Sets forBoth Exploration and Mining Purposes”.

For this seminar, we invited two experienced expertsfrom Mining Systems Group QCAT, CSIRO. Wetargeted an audience of students, researchers andyoung engineers who are interested in expandingtheir knowledge in this area. The expertsdelivered their sessions on topics which covered“Drilling Technologies Automation Monitoring” and“Knowledge from Data Using Self Organizing Maps”.

The event started with a welcome speech from Ms.Hanxiao Zhang, where she introduced Mr. StephenFraser, Senior Principal Research Scientist fromCSIRO and Mr. Andrew Olsson, Research EngineerMining Systems from CSIRO.

Drilling Technologies Automation Monitoring byMr. Andrew Olsson, Research Engineer MiningSystems.

Andrew Olsson is a Senior Research Engineerat CSIRO Mineral Resources, where he developshardware and software for sensing and automationin the Mining Systems Group. He has over 25

years of experience in the automation and electronicengineering domain.

After graduating, Andrew worked in the automationindustry developing special purpose machines andcontrol systems. He then ran his own electronicdesign and manufacturing business for 13 yearsdesigning hardware and software for industrial andautomotive control and robotics. At CSIRO, Andrewworks on projects developing and implementing newtechnologies for the exploration and mining industry.

He used his deep knowledge of drilling in hislecture. Andrew explained to the audience Remote RigMonitoring, Drill Rod Handling, Drilling Monitoring -Sensor Sob, Percussive Drilling Optimization - “Sweet-Spot”, Composite Drill Rods, Rock Fragmentation- Smart Blasting, Optical Fibre Sensing for Drill &Blast, 3D Shape Sensors and CSIRO SMART*CUTTechnology.

We invited the second of our guest lecturers Mr.Stephen Fraser to discuss the topic of Knowledge fromData Using Self Organizing Maps.

Stephen Fraser - Senior Principal Research Scientist atCSIRO

Stephen is a geologist/explorationist by training andinclination with data analysis and interpretation skillsrelated to minerals exploration and mining. He hasinterests and capabilities in the areas of remote sensingand spectral analysis (satellite, aircraft, HyLogger R©,

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PIMA & Face Mapper studies), geochemistry, airborneand down-hole geophysics, and in the display, inter-pretation and storage of spatially-located geoscien-tific data. He is currently developing data mining andvisualization techniques for the integrated analysis ofcomplex, spatially-located data sets for both explo-ration and mining purposes. Also, he is leading aproject aimed at developing a geochemical down-holelogging tool for routine use by the minerals industry.

Stephen has authored or co-authored over 200 publi-cations, which include refereed papers, conferenceproceedings and client-initiated research or consultingreports. He has presented at various university andindustry short courses in the areas of remote sensing,geophysical interpretation and data analysis. He hasalso lectured various postgraduate and undergraduateclasses, and co-supervised PhD, MSc and Honoursstudents both nationally and internationally.

He explained to the audience how deeply he used

mathematics in his job. It was impressive to thestudents to understand how their study is used in“real” job functions. His speech imparted knowledgeregarding how we intelligently analyse and interpretthe volumes of data we collect?. Discussions includedtopics such as Clustering & Data Analysis, A Toolfor Conceptualizing Data Processing Methods, anIntroduction to Self-Organizing Maps, Analysis ofGeoscience BC’s QUEST Stream & Lake SedimentGeochemical Database, U-Matrix & K-means2 (20clusters), Surficial Geology vs Samples Codedby SOM-derived K-means (20 clusters), SOM onVoxel Volumes of Petrophysical Data resulting fromGeophysical Inversion of Magnetic and Gravity Dataand many other techniques relevant to the topic.

We are expecting to organise another event which willfocus on “Spatial Thinking for a Spatially EnabledSmart City”. I am planning to organise this event beforethe end of this year.

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DAVID [email protected]


Newsletter Editor’s Report

It has been my pleasure to act as Queensland SectionNewsletter Editor this year.

I have enjoyed interacting with other committeemembers and IEEE members to bring the newslettersto publication. Working together we have publishedthree newsletters in 2016 so far. I hope you have foundthe newsletters useful and enjoyable. In putting thenewsletter together each quarter, I have learned a lotabout IEEE and the events our various chapters andsocieties have organised. The Queensland Section is anactive group which is reflected through the number ofinteresting articles which have been published.

To my mind the newsletters this year have served threepurposes, namely:

• Highlight the events and activities which haveengaged the IEEE community in Queensland.

• Act as an avenue to inform members ofupcoming events and issues which are of interestto IEEE Queensland members.

• Provide a ready reference for the office bearers ofthe Section committee, chapters and societies.

I thank all of the people who have contributed content

to the newsletter this year.

I will be continuing as newsletter editor next year.Please consider contributing to the newsletter throughyour chapters and societies. I would like to see thenewsletter continue to focus on notifying members offuture events. This gives our members another avenueto find out what events have been scheduled whichmight be of interest to them.

Newsletters from this year and prior years are storedin the section’s website archives and are accessible toall members.

If you have any comments or changes you would liketo see in the newsletter, please let me know. I welcomeyour feedback.

Our website contains written guidelines to followwhen making submissions to the newsletter. Istrongly encourage you to follow these guidelines whensubmitting a report.

Finally, please feel free to circulate the newsletters tocolleagues and friends who may be interested in theactivities of IEEE.

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YATEENDRA [email protected]


Membership Development Chair’s Report

In 2016, the total IEEE Membership number for ourQueensland Section is 1106, which is down by around3% from the last year (1144 in 2015). There is anoticeable increase in the student membership this year(around 42%) to 70 in 2016 from 49 in 2015, whereasthe membership numbers for “Members” grade haveslipped to 739 this year from 777 last year. This year,David A Abramson (Computer Society) was awardedan IEEE fellowship, increasing the numbers of fellowsin the Queensland Section to two.

In 2016, the Queensland Section has actively continuedto promote student activities and membership drivefunctions. All student branch chapters were activethroughout the year in disseminating the importanceof IEEE memberships at various avenues such asconferences, classes, industry based lectures andseveral student chapters at different universities inQueensland. Moreover, during mid-year, the memberswho had not renewed their IEEE membership untilJune, were encouraged to join and avail the benefitsfor 50% of the cost. Email promotion worked inour favour. There were a couple of members whoraised concerns about problems they were facing whilerenewing their membership this year due to a websitehiccup. This was eventually resolved from the IEEE

helpdesk. In addition, membership development adver-tising materials were ordered and used by our studentchapter and affinity groups for promotions at severalseminars and meetings.

Over the past 6 years, the total membership numbersin Queensland Section have stayed stable around 1100.However, the recent decline in the IEEE membershiptrend in Queensland may be due to slow economicgrowth in the mining and commodities industry inrecent years.

Queensland Section will undertake a few strategicinitiatives next year to improve membership retentionsuch as:

• Roll out Membership Development initiatives toraise the awareness and visibility of IEEE.

• Convert the students to higher grade members toretain them.

• Improving coordination among several studentchapters, young professionals and members toenhance active participation and retention ofIEEE membership across the board.

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ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DIAN [email protected]


Professional Activities Chair’s report

Review of IEEE QLD Section Professional Activities2016

This is the first term I have served as the Chair forProfessional Activities.

This year, the IEEE R10 and Queensland Sectionhave approved sponsorship for one activity, namelyQUT BlueSky Forum. The Forum annually unites theexpertise of academics, government, industry profes-sionals and students to generate ideas and scope forinnovative projects that help to shape new research andstart ups.

The interactive forum combines panel keynotes,thematic workshop and plenary discussions topropose a suite of projects that will address theidentified key challenges, and generate opportunitiesfor emerging topics and themes. The forum wasfollowed by a workshop with Meshed to bootstrapthe innovations in the IoT community network. Theselected project proposal will be supported byQUT BlueBox Accelerator Program ($25k cash plusmentoring and other supports) to turbo-charge the ideasinto tangible outcomes and foster new research andinnovation opportunities.

For IEEE Professional activities: this brings togetherprofessionals for promoting an “innovation culture”.It will feature a “continuing professional educationexpo”, and book a table for IEEE to empower the partic-ipants with resources and pathways for their innovativecareer and projects.

This year, QUT Bluebox will sponsor the AcceleratorProgram ($25k funding plus mentoring) to the selectedproject idea.

Organiser

Chair: A/Prof. Dian Tjondronegoro.Organising team: QUT Mobile Innovation Lab(milab.com.au). The QUT Ubiquitous Computingand Multimedia Innovation (UMMI) Lab focuses onreal-world research to deliver novel contributions onknowledge and socio-economic impacts in the fieldsof: “integrated intelligent sensing”, “machine learninganalytics of multimedia data”, and “innovative appson pervasive UI”. We actively collaborate with cross-disciplinary researchers and industry while conductingworld-class research and teaching.

DateWednesday 26 October 2016, 8am-12:30pm

VenueP419 (The Forum), P Block Level 4, 2 George Street,BrisbaneQueensland University of Technology (Gardens PointCampus

ParticipantsThe event hosted 60+ IEEE and non-IEEE partic-ipants representing industry (AusAsia HealthInnovation, Retire Australia, Newman Summer,BESST Engineering, Fulton Trotter Architects),government (BCC, AARNet), cross disciplinaryresearchers (QUT, UTS, CSIRO, Griffith, UQ, USyd,etc), and students across PhD and undergrad.

In addition, to help inspiring brave new ideas, wehosted a panel of multidisciplinary experts and world-class thought leaders from research, government andindustry to lead the interactive discussions.

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Keynote Speakers:

1. Professor Stuart White, Director of theInstitute for Sustainable Futures, University ofTechnology Sydney

2. James Bangay, Managing Director and Founder,Fugro Roames

3. Cat Matson, Chief Digital Officer, City ofBrisbane

Theme Chairs:

• Prof. Laurie Buys (IFE Infrastructure forSustainable Communities), Dr. Markus Ritten-bruch and Dr. Rafael Gomez (QUT School ofDesign) Sustainable and Creative Communities

• Prof. Andry Rakotonirainy (QUT Centre forAccident Research and Road Safety QLD), Dr.Marc Miska (QUT Smart Transport ResearchCentre) Safe and Smart Transport and Mobility

• Prof. Stewart Trost (QUT Institute for Healthand Biomedical Innovation) and Dr. ChristhinaCandido (University of Sydney Indoor Environ-mental Quality Lab) Productivity and Wellbeing

• Prof. Alistair Barros (QUT InformationSystems School), Catherine Caruana-McManus (Meshed) the Things Network Integration

Activities

• Registration and demos (breakfast served)

• Welcome and Opening remarks Prof. TristanPerez, Intellisensing Leader, the Institute forFuture Environments, QUT

• Keynotes 1, 2 and Theme Chairs Insights

• Thematic Discussions

• Keynote 3 and Plenary discussions (report fromeach theme)

• Closing Remarks and Next Steps Prof. ArunSharma, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research andCommercialisations) QUT

• Community IoT Workshop (run by MeshedIoT integrators

Expenditure

The total expenditure for this activity is AUD$3,690.

Financial support is from R10: USD500 andQueensland Section: USD300 (˜$1040AUD.

Keynote 1: Prof White.

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Keynote 2: Tim Brassell (Roames).

Panel Insights.

IoT Workshop (afternoon session).

IoT Workshop (afternoon session).

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DR. GHASSEM [email protected]


Webmaster’s Report

I joined the IEEE Queensland Section as the Webmasterin October 2016. This report summarises my activitiesduring this period.

Late in this year, I used a new platform to design a moreattractive website for the IEEE Queensland Section.A Wordpress platform, provided by IEEE, is used todevelop the new look for the website. The new websiteis more user-friendly with more functionality.

This website provides easy access for the users tonavigate through the contents. Additionally, it looksmore modern. Now, all the upcoming events for the

IEEE Queensland Section will be listed on the frontpage. Additionally, it is possible to post updates in thewebsite which is good for users to know more aboutrecent IEEE Queensland Section activities. Moreover,responsive web design is also utilised for the newwebsite. In other words, the new website adjusts itssize based on the size of the device such as a mobilephone or ipad.

Last but not least, IEEE Queensland Section nowhave Facebook and LinkedIn pages. These pages areregularly updated with new posts related to the IEEEevents.

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DR ROBERT [email protected]


Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society

Committee:Chair: Dr Robert Kennedy, Boeing Defence AustraliaVice-Chair: Ken Morris, Air Services Australia

May 2016Gordon Young from Air Services Australia presented alecture based around GLS (GPS based ILS), installedin Sydney. This was supported by our Vice-Chair KenMorris.

ILS systems have been around for a long time, withbasic ILS from WW2. ILS unfortunately does notallow for multiple approaches and require an ILS kit(glide path and localiser) at every runway end. GLSsolves this.

Nov 2016Ken Morris of Air Services will host a lecture on thefuture of GBAS in Australia. This event will be held onMonday 28 November at Air Services offices, BrisbaneAirport.

The 1 Day workshop on HF Over the Horizon Radarby Dr Joe Fabrizio of DSTG scheduled for Nov 2016has been canceled due to lack of initial registra-tions. Dr Fabrizio will be available as a DistinguishedLecturer for a lecture early in 2017. This includes HFpassive radar, multipath driven geolocation, adaptiveprocessing techniques and signal separation.

Radar 2018We are currently organising the AES Radar Conferencethat is coming back to Australia in 2018. Theconference will host a number of delegates fromindustry and universities all over the world. Theorganising committee has been setup with Dr VaughanClarkson as the General Chair, Dr Robert Kennedyas the Financial Chair and Dr Gordon Fazier as theTechnical Chair.

The Conference will be at the Brisbane Convention& Exhibition Centre in South Bank. The local IEEEQueensland section and Engineers Australia havecommitted to seed funding.

Please keep an eye out for emails and check our websitefor any updates and vTools for meetings.

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AMIN [email protected]


Computational Intelligence Society

Committee:Chair: Amin Gharipour, Griffith UniversityVice-chair: Andrew Lewis, Griffith UniversitySecretary: Zahra Jadidi, Griffith UniversityTreasurer: Alan Liew, Griffith University

Computational Intelligence Society Chapter hasorganized several successful technical activities in2016. Our professional guest speakers were fromdifferent universities and industries, presenting currentresearch areas and industry gaps. We had an audienceof students and academics.

30 November - 2 December 2016DICTA 2016 conferenceComputational Intelligence Society Chapter will beproviding technical sponsorship of DICTA 2016(Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applica-tions) conference that will be held on the Gold Coast.

September 2016Title: ‘What is Spiral Optimization Algorithm?’Speaker: Dr Kenichi Tamura from Tokyo MetropolitanUniversityAbstract: In recent years, nature-inspiredmetaheuristic algorithms have been attracting moreattention in recognition of their versatility andconception. With this as background, the spiraloptimization (SPO) algorithm, a metaheuristic inspiredby spiral phenomena in nature, was proposed byTamuraand Yasuda to solve continuous optimization problems.In this seminar, motivation, modelling and theory onSPO algorithm were introduced.

July 2016Title: ‘Some Progress in Robotic Vision’Speaker: Professor Peter Corke, Professor of RoboticVision at QUT, and Director of the ARC Centre ofExcellence for Robotic Vision.

Abstract: This talk defined and motivated the problemof robotic vision and discussed some recent progressat the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision. Thisincludes component technologies such as deep learningfor computer vision and motion, middleware, and end-to-end systems for applications such as agriculture,environmental remediation and asset inspection.

Jun 2016Title: ‘On Cyber Conflict, Industrial Control SystemSecurity, and Feature Selection’Speaker: Dr. Ernest Foo, an active researcher in infor-mation and network security. He has been responsiblefor the design and development of the QUT SCADAsecurity research laboratory.Abstract: Industrial control systems have been movingfrom isolated communications networks to IT networksconnected to corporate networks, making it probablethat these devices are being exposed to the Internet.Many industrial control systems have been designedwith poor or little security features, making themvulnerable to potential attack. This talk discussedrecent incidents of successful cyber attacks againstcritical infrastructure that are changing the landscape ofmodern conflict. In addition, the talk discussed recentresearch that identifies and analyses several featuresets that have been used in studies related to industrialcontrol system communication protocols in order topropose a well-defined initial feature set.

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May 2016Title:‘Emerging Technologies for Smart Cities’Speaker: Professor Simon Kaplan, CEO of [ui!]Australia, a German-based smart city company that hasrecently set up in Australia.Abstract: Increasing urbanisation is resulting in citiesstruggling to meet the needs of their rapidly-growingpopulations. At the same time there is increasingpressure to reduce the carbon footprint and energyuse of cities, for both economic and climate-changereasons, and a need to do ‘more with less’ in econom-ically difficult times. Unsurprisingly, many citiesare turning to technology to solve this hydra-headedproblem. Smart City technologies broadly have 3 parts:1) Sensors, to gather more data at finer granularitymore frequently; 2) Analytics, to use the data from thesensors, fused with existing data stores within the city,to manage resources better, reduce resource load, andimprove services; and 3) Access, to allow residents ofthe city to track and participate.

Title: ‘AI: The Future of Travel’Speaker: Dr Kelvin Ross, the a founder of K. J. Ross& Associates, currently employing over 100 specialistsoftware testing consultants, and a NATA accreditedtesting laboratory.Abstract: Recently, Barry Diller (chairman and seniorexecutive of Expedia) forecast that AI will be travel’snext big thing. Technology disruption from datascience and machine learning will likely have an impacton many different industries and roles. As foretold byDiller, an area that is likely to change dramatically is therole of the travel agent. As more and more consumersbook their travel online, how may online travel agenciesevolve to utilize data science and machine learningto provide greater support to the traveler? Dr KelvinRoss is founder of SkiDreamz.com, a tech startup thatis investigating AI and machine learning to providetravel planning support normally provided by a travelagent. In this presentation, Kelvin explained the activ-ities of a traveller, and at what stages data can be usedto optimize the experience. He discussed a number ofconsiderations:

• Why would AI be a benefit to the traveller andthe travel agent?

• How machine learning algorithms can be applied

to these activities?

• What access to data would further optimize theexperience?

• What human interaction is involved to enhancethe customer experience?

Title: ‘Big Data Fusion for Mining e-Health Data’Speaker: A/Prof Xue Li, DKE Division, School ofInformation Technology & Electrical Engineering, UQAbstract: In medical research and healthcare, there aremany large data sets which are related to each other interms of the clinical trials, medical research publica-tions, Electronic Health Records (EHR), annual healthcheck-up records, and patient bed-side monitoring data.In this talk, he discussed case studies and experimentson how they could connect the relevant medical andhealth data sets together to rank the most influentialtreatments for diseases, to predict the health statesfor ageing individuals, or to predict the mortality ofhospital patients. A graph-based data fusion approachwas introduced to represent the different types ofrelationships among data items and learn from datafor predictions.

March 2016Title: ‘Social Media & Social Network Data Analytics’Speaker: A/Prof Xue Li, DKE Division, School ofInformation Technology & Electrical Engineering, UQAbstract: Social media and networks are a popularplace for people to express their opinions aboutconsumer products, to organize or initiate social events,or to spread news. Some questions would be askedto understand the social media and social networks:how can we detect and predict the emerging sensitiveevents? How can we predict the propagation patterns ofonline micro-blogs? How can we understand peoplesopinions about a current issue, a new product, or animportant event? This talk reported recent researchwork on the social media and social networks datamining. A few application systems were reported toanswer the above questions.

February 2016Title:‘Big Data Analytics’Speaker: A/Prof Xue Li, DKE Division, School ofInformation Technology & Electrical Engineering, UQAbstract: A stunning story on a successful prediction

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of 2012 USA Presidential Election with 100% accuracyby Mr Nate Silver has shown that the challenges are notjust to invent new algorithms to deal with large, noisy,and uncertain data, but to link the multiple relevantdata sources, structured or unstructured, together tomake effective recommendations. Information is nowavailable everywhere from the Web, sensor networks,social networks, or the proprietary databases. Conse-quently, making effective and efficient recommenda-tions based on Big Data is becoming a significant andurgent challenge because of complex, fast changingrelationships between data objects. Therefore, thequestion is: how can we make effective recommen-dations based on the relevant information collected

from high-speed, time-variant, high-dimensional, anddistributed data sources in the current changing andinterconnected world? This talk introduced currentresearch activities in the big data analytics and researchgroup led by Dr Xue Li and provided insight into theissues in the current research.

Acknowledgement

I want to acknowledge Dr Andrew Lewis (Vice-chair),Associate Professor Alan Liew (Treasurer) and DrZahra Jadidi (CIS Secretary) for their efforts in organ-ising theses productive events in 2016. IEEE CIS hasanother event planned in November 2016.

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GARRY [email protected]


Computer Society Chapter

Committee:Former Chair: Tomasz BednarzFormer Vice-chair: Ruslan PuscasuFormer Secretary: Mike Robinson

The Computer Society Chapter held the following twoactivities in 2016.

April 20th A Professional Seminar on “ResponsiveWeb Design (RWD)” was presented by Mike Robinsonat the Central Queensland University. Mike described aJavascript framework (known as Jrwd) for achievingresponsive web design. The framework eliminatesstyle-sheet CSS3 media queries completely, butsimulates them exactly and efficiently. It works onall major browsers and operating systems, and has beentested on a variety of mobile devices. The frameworkcan be used to create new RWD sites or add RWDto existing sites. It provides access to a web page’sHTML mark-up and the CSS selectors in its stylesheets, allowing these resources to be manipulated tofacilitate RWD effects such as dynamic DOM events,turning HTML elements on and off, changing fontsizes, altering page layout (flexbox), menu controland selection, and many other effects through alteringCSS selector properties. Jrwd saves time and moneyby dispensing with CSS3 media queries and theirassociated logic completely, while delivering minimal-sized web pages. Thirty-six people attended theseminar including six IEEE Members.

October 18th A Technical Seminar on “High OrderFiltering of 3D Point Clouds” was provided by GarryEinicke at the Brisbane Convention and ExhibitionCentre. 3D point cloud models of building interiorsand streetscapes are routinely constructed from LIDARmeasurements. However, LIDAR measurements areadversity affected by dust, rain and fog, which canyield imprecise point cloud models. The seminaroutlined a high order signal model which enables anoptimal linear filter to be specified. It was shownthat a minimum residual error variance criterion maybe used to select the model parameters. Shiploaderdata was presented which demonstrated that theproposed method can outperform conventional Kalmanand Hidden Markov Model filtering approaches atlow signal-to-noise ratios. Nine IEEE Membersfrom research and industry organisations attended theseminar.

Concluding Remarks

Although university Information Technology coursesare very popular, it continues to be difficult to recruitComputer Society Student Branches and CommitteeMembers. It would be worthwhile to conduct targetedmembership drives in 2017.

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ASSOC. PROFESSOR LUIS [email protected]


Control Systems/Robotics and AutomationSocieties

Committee:Chair: Assoc. Professor Luis Mejias (Queensland University of Technology)Vice-chair: Navinda Kottege (CSIRO)

The CS/RA Society chapter had four events this year.These events included two meet-up meetings withthe Brisbane Robotics Interest Group and two distin-guished lectures. The meetings covered contemporarytopics ranging from robotics, automation, technologyto start-ups and entrepreneurship. We had a numberof local and international speakers from Georgia Tech.and Oxford University.

The two distinguished lectures were from ProfessorRonald Arkin (Georgia Tech) and Professor. PaulNewman (Oxford University). The talk from Professor.Arkin covered an interesting topic on how biologicalbehaviours can be replicated in robots so these systemscan obtain the ability to evade (collision avoidance) andto swarm (cooperative robotics behaviours). Professor.

Newman’s lecture touched on the practical implica-tions and competencies needed to build intelligentautonomous cars.

Additionally, we had two meet-up meetings in Brisbanewhere the robotics community and professionals hadthe chance to exchange ideas and hear from profes-sionals about start-up companies, entrepreneurship andnew robotics technologies.

Thanks to all the members of the CS/RA chapter.Next year, I will be taking a period of extended leave,therefore we will have a change in roles for 2017. I willtake the role of vice-chair and Navinda will step intothe Chair role.

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MOHAN [email protected]


Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society

Committee:Chair: Mohan Karunanithi, CSIROVice-chair: Qing Zhang, CSIROSecretary: Yan Li, University of Southern QueenslandProgram Officer: Ghassem Mokhtari

In 2016, the IEEE QLD EMB chapter committee wasformed with four key members listed above.

In the first half of the year the Chapter planned eventsthat focused on three areas: (i) Aged care innovation(ii) Big data and (iii) Career development. The chapterwas quite productive in organising both national andinternational speakers: two in aged care and two in bigdata. As planned, the chapter will have their last eventon career development for up and coming biomedicalengineers in three major Queensland universities.

Activities

Although, the chapter looked at conducting two eventsfor the year, we exceeded our plan by having five variedevents as outlined below:

• 10 June 2016: Artificial Intelligence And BigData For Aged CareIEEE Qld EMBS invited two speakers fromacademia and industry to share their visions onArtificial Intelligence applications and Big Dataanalytics in the aged care environment.

• 27 June 2016: Sensorless Sensing: WirelessNetworks As Human Context SensorsIEEE QLD EMBS, together with CSIRO, inviteda researcher from the University of Utah to sharetheir cutting edge research results on wirelessnetworks as human context sensors.

• 15 July 2016: D4health: Data Driven DecisionsFor Digital Health & CareIEEE QLD EMBS invited a researcher from

the Austrian Institute of Technology to talk onhealthcare data processing to support a clinicaldecision support system.

• 22 August 2016: Digital Biomarkers AsOutcome MeasuresIEEE QLD EMBS invited a researcher fromOregon Health and Science University to talk onDigital Biomarkers as outcome measures.

• 11 Nov 2016: Career Development ForEngineering In Medicine And BiologyThis was the final event for 2016 and was themost successful event for the Chapter in thisyear. It was a joint event with IEEE QUT Studentchapter. The main objective was to target finalgraduate Biomedical Engineering students toset direction, and bring awareness to studentsseeking biomedical engineering jobs in Australiaand Queensland. The event was sponsoredby the IEEE QLD Section and AustralianeHealth Research Centre (AeHRC), CSIRO. Thiswas mainly due to the lack of promotion inbiomedical engineering jobs despite it being arapidly growing industry.

A number of varied speakers with different perspectivestowards career development in Biomedical Engineeringwere invited to present at the Career Development eventas outlined below:

• Welcome by QLD IEEE EMBC Society Chair(Dr. Mohan Karunanithi)

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• Biomedical engineering journey in themedical industry (Mr. Vidur Lal, Senior ProjectManager, Philips Health Care)

• Biomedical engineering career from researchand development perspective (Dr. ShaunGregory, Technical Director, ICET Lab,University of Queensland and The Prince CharlesHospital)

• HR presentation (Ms Laurie Mackenzie,CSIRO HR Officer)

• Post-doc journey from student to researchscientist in health engineering (Dr. Ying Xia,CSIRO)

• Post-doc journey from student to researchscientist in health engineering (Dr. Yang Xie,CSIRO).

The career development event was well received andgenerated a number of questions by students. As akey annually planned event of the IEEE Qld EMB inthe past, the resumption of this event was consideredimportant. We recommend future chairs continuethis event annually to grow the discipline and careerpathway for the biomedical engineers.

In summary, the IEEE QLD EMB chapter was veryproactive and conducted five prominent events for theyear 2016. The events were quite diverse in thebiomedical engineering field.

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KONSTANTY [email protected]


Microwave Theory and Techniques/Antennas andPropagation Societies

Committee:Chair: Konstanty Bialkowski, University of QueenslandVice-chair: Antony Lui, The University of QueenslandVice-chair: Morteza Shahpari, Griffith UniversitySecretary: Mostafa Shabani

In 2016, the MTT/AP joint chapter was pleased to hostnine events for the calendar year. We had a slow startto the year but overall we managed an active technicalprogram.

This year our technical program involved industryspeakers, international researchers and IEEE distin-guished lecturers (DL).

Our DL speakers this year were all from the Antennasand Propagation Society (APS) DL program. Given theconsiderable distances to get to Australia from Europeand the USA - and to ensure efficient usage of theDL program, we scheduled the DL visits with otherchapters around Australia. Most DLs travelled to fivechapters in Australia.

Our first DL speaker was Prof Ari Sihvola fromFinland, in October this year. He presented a talkabout metamaterials. Through the use of mixtures, itis possible to create very unusual mediums with exoticelectrical properties. The only requirement is that themixtures need to have a feature size proportional to thewavelength. Due to this the majority of this work is forhigher frequencies.

Our second DL speaker was Dr Ed Miller from theUSA. Ed Miller has first-hand knowledge of the historyof computational electromagnetics and participates inprojects in so many areas of EM. At one stage in his

career, he worked at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories,which developed ‘numerical electromagnetics code’(also known as NEC). He presented two seminars overtwo days as part of his trip to Brisbane. His first seminarwas on the verification and validation of electromag-netic simulation software, and his second seminar wason model-based parameter estimation.

The last DL speaker was to be Prof Andrea Massa fromTrento in Italy. He presented on “Inverse Problems inElectromagnetics”. At the time of writing this report,the seminar was yet to happen.

The remaining speakers of the year were local industryand international researchers:

• Dr Andrew Horsley from Switzerland, presentedon “Widefield Microwave Imaging using Atomsand Diamond NV Centres”. This seminar offereda way to sense electrical and magnetic fieldswith incredible spatial resolutions by using fixedvolumes of atom cells.

• Dr Rowan Gilmore from EM Solutions inBrisbane presented on “Innovation in veryhigh-speed radio communications - it’s not allabout the NBN!”. This seminar talked abouta 10 Gigabit radio backhaul system developedhere in Brisbane, which operates over several

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kilometres. It also happens to be the world’sfastest wireless modem.

• Dr Thomas Fickenscher from Hamburg inGermany presented on the interaction betweenradio signals and wind turbines. Unlike normalscattering objects, the rotating rotors have thepotential to add frequency shifts to the signals.

• Alex Crawford from Telstra, presented “NetworkEngineering: Transitioning from Student toEngineering Professional”. Topics in thisseminar included Telstra the company, as wellas how students can expect to transition frombeing a student to an engineering professional.

All of the seminars were well received and with goodattendance, with a good mixture of IEEE members andguests. The MTT/AP joint chapter committee wishesto thank everyone for their support of our events duringthe year, and we look forward to seeing you at moreevents in 2016.

Seminars and Workshops 2016

We encourage all of the members to regularly check thechapter website for future notices and announcements.The chapter is found here.

In closing, I would like to thank the MTT/APcommittee for 2016 for their support in running thechapter and in helping to organise this nice variety ofevents for our chapter.

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NAVINDA [email protected]


Oceanic Engineering Society Australian Chapter

The IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society AustralianChapter organized the following three events duringthe year. The first was a jointly sponsored TechnicalMeeting with the South Australian IEEE Section atFlinders University. It was presented by Prof. OlegYakimento from US-NPS titled “Unmanned Vehicles- State of the Art and Future Challenges”. Approxi-mately 40 people attended. The second event was ajointly sponsored Technical Meeting at James CookUniversity with Northern Australia IEEE Sectionin October by Dr James Whinney titled “DredgeMonitoring in Australia”. A third Technical Meetingwas jointly sponsored with the Victorian IEEE Section

and the University of Melbourne Student Branch inNovember by Prof Mal Heron and titled “HF OceanRadar: From Down-Under to Europe”.

A proposal for OES Australia Chapter to be TechnicalCo-Sponsor for EA Coasts and Ports Conference inJune 2017 was approved by OES AdComm in March2016 with approval for a student poster competitionfunded by OES. An MOU between IEEE and EngineersAustralia was approved in November 2016. Theactivity had to be withdrawn because the lead time wasconsidered too short.

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DR. NILESH [email protected]


Power and Energy & Dielectric and ElectricalInsulation Societies

Committee: Chair: Dr Nilesh Modi, AEMOVice-chair: Rahul Sharma, University of QueenslandSecretary: David Batterham

Highlights of 2016

1. Organised 13 events: 10 technical seminars, twodistinguished lectures and one workshop.

2. The PES chapter was recognized as oneof the High Performing Chapters under theHigh Performing Chapters Programs in 2015.89 chapters received funding for this award.Queensland was placed 6th in Region 10 in termsof the award received.

3. The PES chapter was recognised as one of theRunners-up for the Outstanding Large Chapteraward for the 2015 program year. Queenslandwas in 5th place in the overall list of winningchapters. This is the sixth consecutive year thatthe PES Queensland chapter has won this award.

4. The PES chapter awarded student travel prizesfor two student members to attend and presentpapers at the 2016 IEEE PES General Meeting,held in Boston, MA, USA. Mr. Amit Dhoke andMs Juliana Barbosa Nunes from the University ofQueensland were the winners of the award. Eachwinner received a cheque for $1000.

5. The PES chapter won funding from an IEEEPES Member-Driven Initiatives campaign for aproject “1 Day Workshop – Brisbane as a SmartCity, The Role of Smart Grids” to be held in earlyDecember 2016.

6. The PES chapter Secretary attended the 2016Region 10 PES Chapter Chairs meeting inMelbourne in November.

7. The PES chapter technically co-sponsoredthe annual Australasian Universities PowerEngineering Conference.

Technical Seminars:

1. “Planning in the Real World” by Prof SimonBartlett from the University of Queensland.

2. “Research Activity Required for Future EnergySupply” by Dr Bevan Holcombe from ElevareEnergy.

3. “Large Scale Renewable Generation forQueensland” by Andrew Deme from Ergon.

4. “Power Semiconductor Devices: Key EnablingTechnology for Future Power ElectronicsSystems” by Dr Leo Lorenz from InfineonTechnologies, Germany.

5. “Helping Grid-Integration of IntermittentRenewable Energy Sources with IntelligentLoads” by Prof Prabir Barooah from theUniversity of Florida, USA.

6. “Security Assessment due to Increased WindGeneration in a Complex Power Grid” by Nahid-Al-Masood, the University of Queensland.

7. “Challenges and Opportunities in DistributionNetwork Planning” by Daniel Eghbal fromEnergex.

8. “Innovative transformer manufacturing inAustralia”, by Jon Retford, General Manager,

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Distribution Transformer Business Unit, WilsonTransformer Company, Australia.

9. IEEE meet and greet event at Griffith University.

10. “Industry Project From a Student’s Perspective”,by Reza Akbarzadeh Sohi, Griffith University.

Distinguished Lecture:

1. The PES chapter organised, combined withCIGRE NGN, an IEEE Distinguished Lectureevent “Wind Generation and their GridConnection” by Prof Janaka Ekanayake from theUniversity of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.

2. The PES chapter organised an IEEE Distin-guished Lecture event “Managing Uncertaintiesof the Future Grid” by Jay Giri, Director ofPower Systems Technology and Strategic Initia-tives GE Grid Software Solutions, USA.

PES Outstanding Engineer Award 2016

Professor Peter Wolfs from the School of Engineeringand Technology, CQ University was named outstandingengineer for 2016.

PES Outstanding Volunteer Award 2016

Nominations were called for the PES outstandingvolunteer award. The results will be announced inJanuary 2017.

Australasian Universities Power EngineeringConference (AUPEC)-2016

AUPEC 2016 was held at the University of Queenslandduring 25-28 September 2016. The conference waswell attended by a mix of industry and academia withtotal of 150+ delegates. This conference was supportedby power industry, CIGRE, IEEE and Australian PowerInstitute (API). IEEE PES was the technical co-sponsorof the conference. More than 100 research articleswere presented in the conference and papers will bepublished in IEEE Xplore.

On the first day, Prof Tapan Saha welcomed thedelegates on behalf of the AUPEC local organisingcommittee. The conference was opened by Prof StuartCrozier from UQ and Terry Effeney, Interim CEO,Energy Queensland from the local power industry. ProfCrozier welcomed the delegates on behalf of UQ. Mr.Effeney discussed the importance of changing powersystem dynamics and the need for innovation. Hepresented “2027 outlook of the power system of thefuture where the grid is going to be more digital, self-monitoring and self-healing” .

The key note speech was delivered by Prof. MiroslavBegovic from Texas A&M University, USA. He is thePast President of IEEE Power & Energy Society. Hefocused on the role of renewables and the effect of solarPV on the distribution system. He also touched onthe importance of Synchrophasor in managing systemsecurity in the USA.

The second day included a panel session on “EnergyStorage and PV” which was moderated by Prof. PeterWolfs of Central Queensland University. The panelistswere Mr. Peter Price (Energy Queensland), Mr.Paul Liddell (Redback Technologies) and Prof SimonBartlett (UQ). The panel discussed the future of batterytechnologies, the need for innovation and customersentiments around use of batteries with PV. In theafternoon, the poster session and GHD-CIGRE NGNinnovation poster competition was arranged, whichattracted participants from industry and academia.Dr Geoff Garett, Queensland Chief Scientist was thespeaker in the prize award ceremony and highlightedthe importance of innovation for the power industry.Prizes were given by Mr. David Bones – CIGRE NGNInnovation Awards, Mr. Mike Griffin – API TravelAwards & Mr. Ed Wilson – Wilsons TransformerCompany Awards. There was an Industry Forum: “Isthe Future of the Power Industry in Our Hands?” andthe Panel Moderator was Mr. Nic Pappapetros fromErgon Energy and Panel members were Mr. GerardReiter & Mr. Ed Wilson (API Board members), Mr.Matthew White, Mr. Brian Joseph & Ms. Dan Tangwere API bursary holders, & Ms. Emma Rodgers(NGN member).

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Mr Terry Effeney giving his opeining address.

Professor Miroslav Begovic delivering his keynote address.

The conference dinner was held at Shore restaurant,Southbank. During the dinner 20+ travel and regis-tration awards were presented by Prof Tapan Saha,

General Chair of AUPEC 2016. Dr Nilesh Modi,PES Queensland Chapter Chair presented the PESQueensland Outstanding Engineer award to Prof.Simon Bartlett (UQ). Two technical site visits wereorganised on Wednesday afternoon at University ofQueensland Gatton Solar Research Facility and NojaPower and Energex Battery Trial. API Bursary awardfunction, API Board Meeting and ACPE Professorsmeeting along with API-ACPE Professor dinner wasalso held during the AUPEC conference.

Dr Nilesh Modi, with 2015 PES Queensland outstandingengineer award winner Professor Simon Bartlett (UQ).

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PROFESSOR ANDREW [email protected]


Signal Processing and Communication SocietiesChapter

Committee:Chair: Professor Andrew Bradley (The University of Queensland)

The ever-enjoyable First Tuesday Journal Paper Club(1TJPC) meetings, which were initiated by VaughanClarkson in 2013, have continued throughout 2016. Inthese meetings, the participants discuss a highly cited,‘top ten’ or major-prize-winning article in an SPS orComSoc journal. In this way, it is hoped we all broadenour understanding of the field. These meetings alsoserve as an informal network in which researchers fromlocal universities, industry and government agenciesare able to meet, over a beer, and share informationabout recent developments. In 2016 there were fiveregular Journal Paper Club meetings at a variety ofvenues, plus one IEEE Day Special Edition meetingheld in October.

We hosted one IEEE Distinguished Lecturer: ProfessorBen Othman from the University of Paris gave a presen-tation on “DoS in VANETs an issue or a fatality?” atQueensland University of Technology.

We also hosted two special guest seminars with ourfriends at the Brisbane Convention and ExhibitionCentre (BCEC):

• Prof. Ba-Ngu Vo from Curtin Universitypresented a one-hour seminar entitled“Estimation and Control in a Multi-objectSystem”, and

• Dr Marco Martorella from the University of Pisapresented a seminar entitled “Three-DimensionalReconstruction of Non-cooperative Targets viaMulti-static Interferometric ISAR” co-sponsoredby Queensland Aerospace & Electronic SystemsChapter.

We are grateful to the BCEC for providing such a highquality and central location for these seminars.

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Society on Social Implications of Technology

Committee:Chair: Lyria Bennett-MosesVice-chair: Kieran TranterSecretary/Treasurer: Michael RigbyIEEE Queensland Section representative: Samuli Haataja

Introduction

The Queensland section of SSIT Australia continuedits activities in 2016 with the aim of increasing SSIT’spresence and membership in Queensland. SSIT focuseson the impact of technology on society, including bothpositive and negative effects, the impact of societyon the engineering profession, the history of thesocietal aspects of electrotechnology, and professional,social and economic responsibility in the practice ofengineering and its related technology. In Queenslandin 2016, we organised three events in the form of publiclectures and seminars touching on a range of ethical,social and legal issues raised by technology.

Major Activities for 2016

On 11 March, as part of SSIT’s Distinguished LecturerProgram, Professor Ronald Arkin from GeorgiaInstitute of Technology gave a lecture on robotdeception and its ethical implications. This event

was co-hosted with the Control Systems/Robotics andAutomation (CS/RAS) chapter.

As part of IEEE Day 2016 on 4 October, we hosted apublic lecture given by Professor Charles Lawson fromGriffith Law School, Griffith University. This lecture,titled “Keeping the human perspective in technology:Plant names and metadata structures”, explored theissues surrounding the naming or orchids. This eventwas co-hosted with the Law Futures Centre, GriffithLaw School.

On 16 October, at the Alternative Technology Associ-ation Electric Vehicle Expo, Associate Professor KieranTranter gave a seminar on the legal issues surroundingdriverless vehicles at the Queensland Museum, Cobb& Co Campus, Toowoomba. The seminar was to 80people and was also reported on the local Channel 7news.

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Women in Engineering

Committee:Chair: Marie-Luise WilleVice-chair: Negareh GhasemiSecretary: Alexandra Posoldova

Introduction

The new Women in Engineering QLD committeeorganised a variety of events throughout 2016 withthe aim to recruit new members and to inspire andencourage women to pursue careers in STEM fields.

Activities

In 2015 the WIE Affinity Group organised four majorevents: one information session, two seminars and oneindustry facility tour.

Early in the year we started with an IEEE WIEpromotion event at Queensland University ofTechnology. The event was well received and facili-tated for a vibrant interaction and we received four newmembership applications.

IEEE WIE & QUT Student Branch at the QUT Open Day.

In July, together with the IEEE QUT Student Branchwe had a stall at the QUT open day, a university infor-mation day for year 12 students, and we had a great

time to promote and advertise IEEE.

In August, WIE held a lunch-bag seminar with railwayengineer Jane Copperthwaite, who shared her excitingjourney from the UK to Australia in railway signalling.Within a causal BYO lunch environment, she gave avery inspiring and joyful presentation about her passionin railways and what it takes to make our train ridessafe, how to avoid collisions and control thousands oftrains throughout the country and city networks.

Jane Copperthwaite (back left) sharing her inspiring careerstory.

In September, the WIE QLD committee organisedan industry facility tour to the CSIRO QueenslandCentre for Advanced Technologies (QCAT). Thanksto the support fund grant of US$200 from WIE R10,the WIE QLD committee could provide catering andtransport for the 14 participants to and from QCAT.This event aimed to encourage female engineeringgraduate students to visit and interact with Australia’slargest research and development institution CSIRO. AtCSIRO we were welcomed by Garry Einicke and Anna

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Littleboy, Senior Research Project Officer a QCATand we enjoyed some afternoon tea while listeningto Anna and her CSIRO story. We were also ableto visit the Remote Mining Centre with Craig James,where we could experience 360 virtual reality glasses,followed by the navigation lab with John Malos. SevdaDehkhoda gave us an insight about her career as a rockscientist and her research about rock/cutter interactionand rock failure. To conclude the event, Garry Einickeguided us around the CSIRO site, where drones androbots and auto pilot vehicles were built and tested.

The event was well received by all participants and itwas a great experience to get such a close up look intoCSIRO QCAT.

Participants of the CSIRO facility tour.

Dr Garry Einicke (right) explaining CSIRO porjects thatinvolve drones and robots during his guided walk around

the CSIRO site

In October, the WIE committee invited Dr LucyCameron, a Senior Research Consultant at Data61,to give a presentation about CSIRO’s Data61. Theseminar was held at the Institute of Health andBiomedical Innovation and 20 interested researchers(student and staff members) attended the event. DrCameron gave a very interesting overview of thedifferent projects in which Data61 is involved, such asdata-mining, data-mapping, and health management,just to name a few. Data61 aims to assist researchersand institutions to define their path to a data-drivenfuture.

Dr Lucy Cameron presenting Data61.

Conclusion

We concluded a very successful 2016 year with a goodmix of events and also a few new member recruitments.I am very grateful to be re-elected as Chair for the 2017WIE committee and I look forward to an exciting newyear with my team Alexandra (Vice-Chair), Negareh(Secretary), and Hanxiao (Treasurer).

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Young Professionals Program

Committee:Chair: Alexandra PosoldovaVice-chair: Reuben PeterkinSecretary: Rob MakaremiTreasurer: Hamid Moghadam

Introduction

Young Professionals chapter is a vibrant group ofstudents just before their graduation and graduatesentering their professional life. This year, we organizedsix events, with the second half of them dedicated tostartup related topics. We were successful in winningtwo support grants from R10 Young Professionals andR10 Power Engineering Society.

Activities

The first event we organized focused on leadershipskills. It is not surprising that engineers make greatleaders. Engineers train themselves to be analyticaland detail oriented, and have strong numeracy skills.While being cautious at times, they take calculated riskswith pragmatic outlooks. Moreover, their reductionisticapproach to problems enables them to perform accurateroot cause analysis. The speaker of this event, PhoebeTee, is a PMP and PRINCE2 certified project managerwith more than 9 years experience in Government,Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), cutting edgetechnology, telecommunication and software design.

We followed with an event on a burning topic, bigdata, called “All you need to know about Big Data”presented by Professor Xue Li who explained why BigData is such a big deal. He is honoured as one of “themost powerful people in Australia” on Big Data bythe Financial Review - the Power Issue 2015. He isthe Winner of the Microsoft Start Up Q Award 2014

and the Winner of the Best use of Open Data QLDPremiers Awards for Open Data 2014. We were able toattract a “big” audience, mainly students curious aboutthis topic.

Another engineering related event was held inSeptember in collaboration with Engineers Australia.The topic of this event was “Challenges and Oppor-tunities in Distribution Network Planning” presentedby Daniel Eghbal, who is a Future Network StrategyEngineer at Energex and an adjunct research fellowat the School of ITEE, The University of Queensland.This event utilised funds from R10 Power EngineeringSociety and we attracted lot of professional members.

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The rest of the year was dedicated to series of threestartup events. This series of events was financiallysupported by R10 Young Professionals. Money wasspent for catering purposes. All the events were heldat River City Labs co-working space, which kindlysponsored the venue hire.

The first event featured a live broadcast from SiliconValley, which we brought to our members in collab-oration with liveh2h.com. This broadcast consistedof a 12 week series targeting different aspects ofstartup businesses. Silicon Valley experts targetedtopics ranging from legal formation, finding a targetmarket, determining a business model, advanced salesstrategies, building a team, pursuing venture capitalinvestment, and much more.

The second event featured Ed Horwood as speaker. Edis a successful entrepreneur and experienced startupist.He studied a MBA at Bond University and in 2014won Bond University Accelerator Program with hiscompany service.com.au. Currently, he is scalinganother of his businesses, MyShipper, globally. Edshared his journey and explained what it takes to kickstart and scale your startup idea.

The third event of this series and last event of thisyear had two speakers. The first speaker, ColeWilkinson, described the process of funding businessand addressed issues of how to protect the businesswhen more owners and investors are involved. WayneRabnott spoke about business ideas and how brilliantideas can be undermined or come from an inexpe-rienced person. Between presentations, attendeesnetworked with each other and shared their startupideas and experiences.

Conclusion

It has been an exciting year for Young Professionals.We organized six events, received two grants andcollaborated with three different organizations likeEngineers Australia, River City Labs and liveh2h. Welook forward to next year and will organise more eventson topics that are of interest to our members.

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PES Travel Award Winner’s Report #1

IEEE PES Travel Award USA ExperienceIt was a great honour for me to win IEEE QueenslandSection Power and Energy Society Chapter TravelAward to attend the IEEE Power and Energy SocietyGeneral Meeting (PES GM) 2016 and other technicalvisits.

This travel involved:

1. Attendance and presentation at the biggest powerand energy systems international conference(called IEEE PES GM 2016). IEEE PES GMis attended by 3500 attendees from most of theleading academic and industry research organi-sations from all over the world. It was a greatopportunity for me to meet, discuss my researchand collaborate with leading researchers in myfield and other PhD students.

2. A visit to an industry called Solectria - AYaskawa Company which manufactures powerelectronics devices for solar applications, inparticular for monitoring and fault detection.Understanding a manufacturing process andgaining insight into the design of devices willhelp me to plan my experiments.

3. Fraunhofer is one of the biggest Research andDevelopment Institutes for solar energy systems.Visiting their PV testing lab and models for faultdetection and forecasting was a great learning forme which will enhance my research skills formodelling systems and expected outcomes.

4. A visit to the University of California San Diegowas a useful and important learning regardingfire detection in solar panels. They have a solarresource assessment and forecasting laboratorywith fire detection facility which has given meinsight for further experiments planned at UQ.

Attending the conference helped me to network withother scholars and to improve my visibility in academiccircles and with researchers in the industry. Byattending presentations at the conference, I found thereis reasonable improvement to be gained in my ownskills and knowledge for my research field. Finally,networking with specialists in my area of researchenabled me make contacts and develop future careeropportunities.

Industry visits have assisted me to reinforce thetheoretical knowledge that I have acquired throughliterature review. A technical visit to UC SanDiego Solar Resource Assessment and ForecastingLaboratory has allowed me to create a connection withtheir research group. Overall, these visits will greatlybenefit me in my professional development and in initi-ating collaborations with our university groups workingon solar energy.

Amit Dhoke at PES GM 2016

This experience will be of great benefit to me as Iplanned it well to get the best out of it. Definitely,

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it will help me to gain assistance for research fromexperienced people in my research area. Also, people Imet at the conference are keen to work with me whichmay help to publish research outcomes together. Indus-trial visits at Solectria and Fraunhofer were awesomeexperiences for me where I met with experienced scien-tists and had good discussions about my research.Similarly, during my visit at California University Igave presentations which included a UQ overview andmy research. This was a good platform for me torepresent UQ. As a result, I have been advised to reviewa paper in one of the renowned journals in solar energy.Overall the visit made me more confident towards myacademic, personal and future potential which will

definitely open the doors for industrial placement orpost-doctoral opportunities.

Finally, my heart-felt gratitude and thanks to IEEEQueensland Section - Power and Energy SocietyChapter for the travel award.

With best regards,Amit DhokePhD CandidatePower and Energy Systems Research DivisionThe University of QueenslandBrisbane, Australia

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PES Travel Award Winner’s Report #2

IEEE PES GM 2016 ReportI was very pleased to receive the IEEE QueenslandSection Power and Energy Society Chapter TravelAward to attend the IEEE Power and Energy SocietyGeneral Meeting (PES GM) 2016. The award helpedme a lot with the expenses of the trip, enabling myparticipation at the conference given the high costswith travelling to the United States. The conferencewas held from 17 July to 26 July 2016 in the SheratonBoston Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts. My paper“Stochastic Generation and Transmission PlanningConsidering Future Renewable and Gas Opportunitiesin Queensland, Australia” was selected to be presentedin a poster session on 17 July. Additionally, on 18July, I attended a poster competition, where 800 posterscompeted for the best poster content e-presentation.

It was a great opportunity to attend an internationalconference of such a level, with more than 2,500papers submitted and attended by people from bothacademia and industry from all over the world. Ihad the opportunity to interact with authors and gotsome feedback from them which will be helpful tomy future research. I attended several panels, where

authors and professors shared their knowledge aboutmodelling and planning and presented future trends.In addition, plenary sessions were also useful in orderto show both what has been done in my research areaas well as the challenges faced by researchers for thedevelopment of their research. Overall, my partici-pation in the conference was very positive. It was agood opportunity to understand the research of someauthors in the same area as well as share ideas andchallenges with some of them.

Finally, I would like to thank again IEEE QueenslandSection - Power and Energy Society Chapter for theopportunity given to me to participate at IEEE PESGM 2016.

Regards,Juliana NunesPhD CandidatePower and Energy Systems Research DivisionThe University of QueenslandBrisbane, Australia

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CQUniversity Brisbane Campus Student Branch

Committee:Chair: Colin BertramSecretary: Parvinder KaurTreasurer: Lucia Venturi

Introduction

This is my first year as a student counsellor for our IEEEStudent Branch CQUniversity Brisbane Campus whichbecame operational in the second half of 2012. In thisnew role, I found that keeping the branch active wasa challenging task as we have a low number of ICTstudents similar to the trend experienced in previousyears. However, with the support of IEEE seniormembers, the branch was operational and the activ-ities organised are well-attended by on-campus students,professionals, and students from neighbouring univer-sities located in Brisbane city.

Major Activities for 2016

In 2016, the student branch organised one technicalevent and two professional activities as detailed below.As a first event for the year, we had the IEEE studentbranch promotion at Brisbane campus on Monday March21 with pizza lunch. We had Mike Robinson, seniormember of IEEE, joining us at the promotion. Ourspeaker Mike Robinson, ex-treasurer, ex-webmaster anda senior member of IEEE talked about the benefits ofIEEE membership and IEEE online services, includingvTools, and the IEEE Job Site. We had 10 students regis-tering on that day.

The technical event was a seminar on “Responsive WebDesign” conducted on 20 April 2016 held at CQUni-versity Brisbane Campus, 160 Ann Street, Brisbane.

Responsive Web Design registration

Mike Robinson from the IEEE Queensland Sectionconducted a seminar on this topical subject, which wasattended by 36 people. The seminar was co-sponsored bythe Australian Computer Society’s Queensland Branchwhich saved on running costs as well as obtainingimproved attendance promoting students from neigh-bouring universities in Brisbane to actively participate.

Mike Robinson presents Responsive Web Design to theparticipants

In addition to these two events, we are also arranging anICT Careers Evening on 23 November at CQUniversityBrisbane Campus, 160 Ann Street, Brisbane. MichaelSallaway, a senior software engineer from Opengear

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will share his experience with our audience. He hasworked with embedded computing and networking since2006, first at Snapgear/Secure Computing building UTMfirewall appliances, Leica Geosystems for precisionagricultural GPS solutions, and now at Opengear,building console servers and remote access gateways.

Social Activities

To promote networking amongst the participants wedesigned the presentations in such a way that they couldinteract with other participants, past students who areworking in the industry and with the presenter. Refresh-ments were provided during each event.

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Griffith University Gold Coast Student Report

Committee:Chair: Reza AkbarzadehVice-chair: Gul ZKSecretary: Josh CataldiTreasurer: Elise Jenkins

My second term of office as the chair of the GriffithUniversity (Gold Coast) Student Branch is comingto an end. I established the IEEE Student Branch inSeptember 2015. Since the foundation of the branch,I have organized a plethora of events encompassingboth professional development and educational activ-ities. The branch held six events throughout the yearand all were well received and welcomed by students,academics, and industry members. 2016 has been ahighly successful year in terms of the number of eventsand the attendees. This report provides a brief outlineof the 2016 events.

The Meet and Greet Promotional Activity was heldon 14 March 2016. The presenter of this event wasDr. Andrew Seagar. Dr. Seagar is the current headof Electrical and Electronic Engineering at GriffithUniversity and is a senior IEEE member with over 30years of experience. Dr. Seagar shared his experiencesand the advantages of joining IEEE.

This event attracted over 40 attendees, most ofwhich were undergraduate students, keen to explorewhat IEEE can offer to their professional careers.The purpose of this event was to expand the IEEEcommunity within Griffith University by recruiting newmembers; this was highly successful. The branch alsoused this opportunity to present to the attendees, theannual plan for the 2016 academic year.

Attendance at the meet and greet, presenter Dr. AndrewSeagar.

Seminar on “Adventures in the CommunicationsIndustry” was held on Thursday 17 March 2016. Wewere fortunate to welcome the University of Tasmania’sProfessor JC Olivier. Prof. JC Olivier is one of the co-inventors and a strong contributor towards the widelyused 2.5G and 3G wireless standards. JC continuedto contribute towards the emerging 4G standard, until2003.

During this seminar, Prof. Olivier shared informationabout his career journey and spoke about current oppor-tunities in the telecommunications industry. He alsofielded questions from a number of students. Thestudents and academics in attendance found the seminarparticularly insightful and were inspired by JCs accom-plishments.

Prof. JC Olivier seminar on “Adventures in theCommunications Industry”.

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in recent years the collaboration between industryand universities has slowly declined. This event washosted on 5 April 2016, in a bid to help bridge thisgap. The event was attended by over 30 students fromthe Electrical, Electronic, Biomedical and Mechatroniccohorts, Griffith academics and a number of industryrepresentatives. Feedback from the event was veryencouraging with many students enjoying the differentperspectives the presenters had to offer.

This event had four presenters which include Dr. DanielEghbal (Energex), Anthony Aucone (Ledtek Global),Peter Bull (Noja Power) and Jonathan Shepherd(Queensland Academy of Sport).

Anthony Aucone presentation at “Know Your Industry”event.

The Seminar on “Electro-Optic SystemsEngineering” was held on 3 May 2016. The presenterof this event was Mic Walsh who is the Chief Engineerof Laserdyne Technologies. With over 20 yearsexperience with electronics engineering design, Mic isan expert in all things analogue and digital electronics.

During this time Mic spoke about the systemsengineering approach as well as PCB design from anindustry perspective. The students in attendance foundthe seminar particularly insightful and were inspired byMics technical skill, knowledge, and accomplishments.

Mic Walsh presenting “Electro-Optic SystemsEngineering”.

Semester 1 concluded with a seminar on “AdvancePower Electronic Applications”. The event was heldon 2 June 2016 and was addressed by Presenter:

Associate Professor Olivier Trescases of the Universityof Toronto. He is the co-inventor for six patents andhas published over 65 papers in IEEE conferences andjournals.

The aim of this event was to explore design, control,computation and integration of nonlinear, time-varying energy-processing electronic systems with fastdynamics. This event attracted almost 20 students,academics, and industry members. The attendees foundthis talk incredibly informative.

Prof Olivier Trescases “Advanced Power ElectronicApplications”.

To further spark student’s interest in the area ofpower engineering, the branch organised a site visitto the Gold Coast University Hospital Substationwith Energex on 8 September 2016. Third-yearstudents studying ‘Power Transmission and Distri-bution’ benefitted greatly as Energex technicians Mattand Tony spent time giving a tour of the plant andexplaining the transmission process, control systemsand maintenance involved.

Griffith University Hospital Substation Visit.

Due to a high number of requests, a seminar was heldon “Industry Project From a Student’s Perspective”on 21 September 2016. I presented the event oncompleting my industry project and thesis at Energex,a vital part of my final year.

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proactive networking and to provide helpful advicefor completing an industry project. During this event,attendees reported that they gained a valuable insightregarding what they can expect from the experience andhow best to prepare for the transition from academia toindustry.

To finish off a fantastic year, the upcoming officeholders of 2017 were also elected. Dr. Stephen So

(senior lecturer at Griffith University) will be the branchcouncillor. Furthermore, the forthcoming chair of2017 is Ben John, an undergraduate student at GriffithUniversity. I wish the very best for the upcomingexecutive team.

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Griffith University Nathan Student Report

Committee:Chair: Mojtaba MoghimiVice-chair: Nazanin NadianSecretary: Arslan Akram NizamiTreasurer: Domagoj Leskarac

Griffith University IEEE Student Branch NathanCampus started its activities with a new committeein February 2016. Our main purpose is to providethe opportunity for students to get familiar withdifferent activities and various sections of IEEE.In order to achieve this goal, we held two eventsin the first semester of 2016, a student recruitingevent in conjunction with an Electric Bike presen-tation and an Advanced Power Electronics seminarlater in the semester. We continued our activities insecond semester of 2016 with a tour to UQ solar farmand an event about Smart Buildings presenting theSir Samuel Griffith Centre (N78) located at GriffithUniversity. We ended our activities in 2016 with astrong presence at Australasian Universities Power andEnergy Conference (AUPEC2016) and are lookingforward to further improving the student branch in2017.

Electric Bike Presentation and Recruiting Event:April 2016

Our first event as Griffith University IEEE StudentBranch Nathan was a presentation on the advance-ments in Electric Bicycles. Our guest speaker for theevening was Nick Willis, from Electric Bikes Brisbane.Students and IEEE members had the opportunity to notonly learn about motor, power electronic and batterydesigns, but how they are utilised and implemented aswell. Nick brought some of the top models in electricbikes to the presentation and provided the opportunityto test and ride the bikes. The event was held onthe 19 April 2016 from 4:30pm to 5:30pm at GriffithUniversity - Nathan campus. The seminar was followed

by a BBQ for IEEE members.

We achieved a total number of 35 attendees withmembers of the public, new and existing IEEEmembers. Eleven new IEEE student sign ups was theconsiderable outcome of the recruitment event as wellas the discussions on Electric Bikes.

Mr Nick Willis from Electric Bikes Brisbane

Advanced Power Electronics for renewable EnergyApplications: June 2016

The second event of Griffith University IEEE StudentBranch Nathan was a seminar presented by AssociateProfessor Olivier Trescases from the University ofToronto. Professor Trescases discussed five recentresearch projects of his power electronics group:1) Ultracapacitor/Battery Hybrid Energy StorageSystem with Real-Time Power-Mix Control ValidatedExperimentally in a Custom Electric Vehicle.2) A Dual-Mode Driver IC with Monolithic Negative

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Gate Voltage Capability and Digital Current-ModeController for GaN Power Devices.3) A Cell-Level Differential Power Processing IC forConcentrating-PV Systems.4) Lightweight Silicon Carbide Power Converter for anElectric Aircraft.5) Burst-Mode Resonant LLC Resonant Converterfor an LED Luminaire with Integrated Visible LightCommunication for Smart Buildings.

Professor Lu introducing Professor Trescases

Professor Olivier Trescases presented these advance-ments in research with an overview and in-depthdiscussion with the 21 attendees of mostly IEEEmembers on the day. He conducts research onadvanced power electronics for automotive, industrial,aerospace and renewable energy applications. He is theVice Chair of IEEE Toronto Section with over 5000members and has served on the technical committeeof various IEEE conferences. Since 2015 he is anAssociate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on PowerElectronics.

The event was held on 9 June at Griffith UniversityNathan Campus and a pizza lunch was provided forIEEE members after the seminar.

UQ Solar Farm Field Trip: September 2016

Griffith University Nathan IEEE Student Branchcontinued its activities in the second semester of 2016with a tour to UQ Solar Farm in collaboration withGriffith School of Engineering. The 3.275 megawattGatton Solar Research Facility (GSRF) comprises morethan 37,000 thin-film photovoltaic panels, mounted onthe campus’s 10ha former airstrip. The GSRF contains

a 3.275 MW CdTe array, bespoke Central SupervisorySystem, Data Hub, Research Building and BatteryStorage Research Station. The installation providesabout 40 percent of the Gatton Campus electricityrequirements, and during peak production exports intothe local Lockyer Valley 11 kV network.

A total of 56 students attended the tour. The visitto the solar farm was on 15 September from 9am to12pm. The tour started with a presentation of thefacility by one of the managers at the solar farm. Then,students had the chance to go to the solar farm andsee how different types of solar arrays work in a realenvironment. Dr. Kaparaju and Dr. Stegen explainedthe differences between fixed mount systems, singleaxis and dual axis trackers to students.

UQ Solar Farm Field Trip

Smart Buildings: The Path Towards Future Cities:September 2016

Smart buildings are necessary for creating cities ofthe future. Such buildings are completely carbonand energy neutral and form self-sufficient nodeson distribution networks. Griffith University’s SirSamuel Griffith Centre forms the basis of smartbuildings, with a large incorporated solar arraypowering the facility alongside Lithium and Hydrogen-Metal Hydride batteries serving as the primary energystorage systems alongside energy management systemsfor power distribution and control. The Sir SamuelGriffith Centre has been awarded a 6-star green ratingby the Green Building Council of Australia.

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Sir Samuel Griffith Centre (N78), Griffith University -Nathan Campus

Griffith University Nathan IEEE Student Branch askedProfessor Evan Gray and Dr. Alison Rice to present theSir Samuel Griffith Centre. Professor Gray presentedtechnical aspects of Sir Samuel Griffith Centre andDr. Rice explained more general aspects of the smartbuilding. The event was held on the 16 September2016 from 5pm to 6pm at Griffith University NathanCampus. The seminar was followed by a building tourand catering.

Thirty-three guests from industry, members of thepublic, university staff and IEEE student membersattended the meeting.

Professor Evan Gray presenting the Sir Samuel GriffithCentre (N78)

Australasian Universities Power and EnergyConference (AUPEC2016): September 2016

Solar and wind-powered generation are rapidlyincreasing in Australasia. Battery storage and electricvehicles are also emerging. The main theme of theconference was increasing renewable generation andbattery storage in power systems. New techniques tomodel and mitigate the impacts of the game-changingtechnologies on the operation of the power system werea key focus of this conference. The conference was heldfrom 25 to 28 September at University of Queensland.

Griffith University Nathan IEEE Student Branch had astrong presence with a high number of papers presentedat the conference (4th rank in number of acceptedpapers) with members of the student branch receivingprizes at the conference. Besides the technical achieve-ments at the conference, we initiated collaborationswith QUT and UQ student branches for future eventsand cooperation.

Griffith, QUT and UQ IEEE student branches atAUPEC2016

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Power and Energy University of QueenslandStudent Branch

Committee: Chair: Hanxiao Zhang (B. Eng at University of Queensland)Vice Chair: Lakshitha Naranpanawe (PhD Eng at University of Queensland)Secretary: Xinren Marcus Jiang (M. Eng at University of Queensland)Counsellor: Rahul Sharma

The major events in 2016 are as follows:

March 21 - Developing Data Mining and Visual-ization Techniques for the integrated analysis ofcomplex, spatially located Data Sets for Both Explo-ration and Mining PurposesSpeakers: Stephen Fraser, Andrew Olsson (CSIRO)This technical talk was organized by IEEE Power andEnergy Society UQ Chapter for all the students of theSchool of Engineering Architecture and InformationTechnology.

March 24 - Information Session (in collaborationwith IEEE UQ Student Branch)Prof. Tapan Saha and Dr Rahul Sharma gave presenta-tions about the benefits of joining IEEE to continuingstudents with pizza for new and existing members.Approximately 100 attendees.

July 27 Membership Promotion ProgramIEEE PES UQ chapter organized this event in associ-

ation with UQ Market Day to promote IEEE and IEEEPES.

October 16 - Boost Your Employability with BetterCommunication SkillsSpeaker: Catherine Moore (Communication Specialistand an English Language Consultant from ETS Global)IEEE Power and Energy Society UQ Chapter organizedthis talk for all the students of the School ofEngineering Architecture and Information Technologyto help them improve their communication skills.

Catherine Moore speaking at Boost Your Employabilitywith Better Communication Skills.

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Queensland University of Technology StudentBranch

Committee:Chair: Nima KhoshsiratVice-chair: Afsaneh NarimaniSecretary: Venkata Satyavani VaranasiTreasurer: Aaron Liu

IntroductionNew committee was elected through an election on11 July 2016 and officially started their activitieson 15 July 2016. The main mission of the electedcommittee is to bring more value for IEEE studentmembers at QUT by organizing local and regionalevents. Accordingly, throughout the last four monthsfrom the beginning of new committee’s activities, fiveevents have been organized. Below are the eventsdetails:

1. QUT Open Day (31 July 2016):IEEE QUT student branch committee members activelyparticipated in QUT Open Day to promote andintroduce IEEE activities, missions and visions topotential future students. IEEE membership benefitsand values were described in detail for students whowere interested in IEEE as a great professional network.

QUT Open Day event.

2. Technical Talk on Potentials of Solar Energy inAustralia (19 August 2016)The potentials of solar energy in Australia werediscussed in this technical meeting. Professor JohnBell, head of the School of Chemistry, Physics andMechanical Engineering gave a talk on solar energypotentials, challenges and prospects in Australia. ThenMr Cameron Tuesley, founder of Team Arrow solar car(which successfully finished the world solar challengecompetition) shared their interesting story of successwith us.

Potentials of Solar Energy in Australia event.

3. IEEE Day Event (11 October 2016)This meeting with QUT IEEE student members wasplanned to celebrate 2016 IEEE DAY. There was alsoa talk by Dr Mark Broadmeadow, QUT IEEE StudentBranch Councilor. As a young academic and profes-sional, Dr Broadmeadow discussed his career path,research, activities in industry and horizons in students

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and young researcher’s future. Then Nima, chair ofQUT student branch, introduced lesser-known IEEEmembership values to our student members and non-member students to encourage them to take out IEEEmembership. He also encouraged student membersto get involved in branch activities in an interactivediscussion session.

IEEE Day event.

IEEE Day event speaker Dr Mark Broadmeadow.

4. Career Development for Engineering inMedicine/Biology (11 November 2016)An this event, the speakers shared their experiences inBiomedical Engineering with the audience. The careerjourneys included a R&D perspective and a post-docjourney from student to research scientist in HealthEngineering.

The following speakers presented:Dr. Mohan Karunanithi (QLD IEEE EMBC SocietyChair), Mr. Vidur Lal, (Senior Project Manager, PhilipsHealth care), Dr. Shaun Gregory (Technical Director,ICET Lab, University of Queensland and The PrinceCharles Hospital), Ms Laurie Mackenzie (CSIRO HROfficer), Dr. Ying Xia (CSIRO).

Dr Mohan Karunanithi talks about career development.

Senior project manager Mr Vidur Lal talks about PhilipsCompany.

5. Developing Scientific Survival Skills (24November 2016)Professor Federico Rosei (director of INRS-EMCUniversity of Quebec) presented his lecture on jobmarkets for graduates in science and engineering,publishing quality paper, presenting our work to ourpeers, and fundamental laws of ‘scientific survival ’.

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University of Queensland Student Branch

Committee:Chair: Jeremy TaylorVice-chair: Michael BroeSecretary: Elizabeth DeebCounsellor: Rahul Sharma

The major events in 2016 are as follows:

February 23 - Faculty of EAIT OrientationMichael and Jeremy ran a stall during orientation weekproviding information about IEEE to commencingstudents and distributing promotional giveaways.Approximately 1000 attendees.

March 24 - Information SessionProf. Tapan Saha and Dr Rahul Sharma gave presenta-tions about the benefits of joining IEEE to continuingstudents with pizza for new and existing members.Approximately 100 attendees.

October 5 - Academic Poster Design WorkshopJeremy ran a workshop on academic poster design forfinal year students preparing for thesis presentationsand PHD students preparing for conferences. Over 50attendees.

Throughout the year the student branch also promotedthe events held on campus by other IEEE societies tothe wider student body who do not regularly checkvTools.

Further details with more detailed descriptions can befound on the Facebook page.

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2016 Queensland Section Office HoldersOffice Office holder ContactSection OfficersChair Garry Einicke [email protected] Daniel Eghbal [email protected] Ghavam Nourbakhsh [email protected] Treasurer Robert Kennedy [email protected] Past Chair Tapan Saha [email protected]

Newsletter Editor David Russell [email protected] Webmaster Ghassem Mokhtari [email protected] Activities Dian Tjondronegoro [email protected] Development Yateendra Mishra [email protected] and Recognition Preethi Preethichandra [email protected] Activities Jaroslaw Krata [email protected] Activities Kalum Udagepola kalum [email protected] Australia Liaison Tapan Saha [email protected]

Chapter OfficersAerospace and Electronic Systems SocietyChair Robert Kennedy [email protected] Ken Morris [email protected] Vacant

Australian Oceanic Engineering SocietyIEEE Queensland Section Representative Navinda Kottege [email protected]

Computational Intelligence SocietyChair Amin Gharipour [email protected] Andrew Lewis [email protected] Zahra Jadidi [email protected] Alan Liew [email protected]

Computer SocietySecretary Jingxin Xu [email protected]

Control Systems SocietyRobotics and Automation SocietyJoint ChapterChair Luis Mejias [email protected] Navinda Kottege [email protected] Vacant

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Office Office holder ContactEngineering in Medicine and Biology SocietyChair Mohan Karunanithi [email protected] Qing Zhang [email protected] Yan Li [email protected]

Microwave Theory & Techniques SocietyAntennas & Propagation SocietyJoint ChapterChair Konstanty Bialkowski [email protected] Antony Lui [email protected] Morteza Shahpari [email protected] Mostafa Shabani [email protected]

Power & Energy SocietyDielectrics and Electrical Insulation SocietyJoint ChapterChair Nilesh Modi [email protected] Rahul Sharma [email protected] David Batterham [email protected]

Signal Processing SocietyCommunications SocietyJoint ChapterChair Andrew Bradley [email protected] Vaughan Clarkson [email protected] Vacant

Society on Social Implications of TechnologyIEEE Queensland Section representative Samuli Haataja [email protected]

Women in EngineeringChair Marie Luise Wille [email protected] Negareh Ghasemi [email protected] Alexandra Posoldova [email protected]

Young Professionals ProgramChair Alexandra Posoldova [email protected] Reuben Peterkin [email protected] Rob Makaremi [email protected] Hamid Moghadam [email protected]

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Office Office holder ContactStudent CounsellorsCentral Queensland University - Brisbane Sangeetha Kutty [email protected] Queensland University - Rockhampton Edward Palmer [email protected] University - Gold Coast Jahangir Hossain [email protected] University - Nathan Sascha Stegen [email protected] University of Technology Mark Broadmeadow [email protected] University of Queensland (ITEE) Rahul Sharma [email protected] University of Queensland (PES) Tapan Saha [email protected] of Southern Queensland Vacant

Student BranchesGriffith University(Gold Coast Campus)Chair Reza Akbarzadeh [email protected] Gul ZK [email protected] Tim Alroy [email protected] Elise Jenkins [email protected]

Griffith University(Nathan Campus)Chair Mojtaba Moghimi [email protected] Nazanin Nadian [email protected] Arslan Akram Nizami [email protected] Domagoj Leskarac [email protected]

The University of Queensland(ITEE)Chair Jeremy Taylor [email protected]

The University of Queensland(Power & Energy Society)Chair Hanxiao Zhang [email protected] Lakshitha Naranpanawe [email protected] Xinren Marcus Jiang [email protected] Vacant

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