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SA & NT Local Network

Please find the Minutes & Chairperson’s Report of the 2007 AGM for download.

2007 AGM Agenda

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2007 AGM Minutes and Chairpersons Report

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Presentation by Duncan Botting

Duncan Botting is visiting Australia from the UK, where he has presented his recent keynote paper at AUPEC 2007 titled “Recent Advancements on the Delivery of Low-Carbon Sustainable Transmission & Distribution Networks”.

The drivers behind today’s electricity networks have changed dramatically over the last ten years. Electricity Networks (or Grids) have traditionally been a very stable and well understood design, build, operate and maintain environment. This presentation will chart the changes and explore some of the technological solutions being proposed to mitigate the risks that this new world order is exhibiting.

When (UPDATED 12/12/2007): Due to lack of RSVP’s for the Thursday session, the Thursday session has been cancelled. Friday 14th December 12:30pm is now the only session. Apologies for any inconvenience.
Invitation: Open to members and non-members of the IET.
Where: ETSA Utilities building, 1 Anzac Highway, Keswick. Auditorium Room, Ground Floor.
Car parking: Limited parking available up the ramp to the ETSA building off of Hampton Road
RSVP: Due to limited room size, please RSVP to IET Local Network Secretary, honsec.sa&nt@theiet.org

Duncan Botting - Keynote Paper

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Duncan Botting - Short Biography

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The 2007 IET Student Papers Night was an informative and well fought event with six excellent presentations. Each SA university nominated two presenters for the event who competed for the chance to represent South Australia in the interstate competition. The winner of the Australian competition will present for Australia at the international event in the UK (competition attendance expenses paid by the IET). On the night the judges struggled to agree on the top three presenters, because of the consistently high standard of presentation, but eventually made the following awards:

• In 3rd place Emily O’Brien (Flinders University) who presented her project; an instrument to measure articular cartilage stiffness.
• In 2nd place Sunil D’Souza (University of Adelaide) who presented his team’s project; a GSM payphone.
• And in 1st place Emilio De Stefano (University of SA) who presented his team’s project; airship telemetry.

Awards of $100, $200 and $400 were made for 3rd, 2nd and 1st respectively on the night and presentation certificates will go out to all of those who took part in the event.

Mr Rex Johns, the founder of the competition, attended the evening and presented the prize money to the winners. It was encouraging to see a top three position going to each of the three universities as it indicated the high calibre of engineering students at all of the universities and bodes well for the national and future competitions.

Presenters in the above image from left to right in the bottom left picture on the web site - Rob Baginski (Overhead imaging platform, University of Adelaide), Sunil D’Souza (GSM payphone, University of Adelaide), Emilio De Stefano (Airship telemetry, University of SA), Emily O’Brien (an instrument to measure articular cartilage stiffness, Flinders University), Nathan Grocke (integration of a commercial digital camera into an automated vision system, University of SA) and James Galdes (autonomous underwater vehicle - 6 DOF inertial measurement unit, Flinders University).

2007 ATPP Running Sheet

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2007 ATPP Judging Information

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