The IET SA&NT

Dear members of the IET SA & NT Local Network,

The SA & NT Local Network Executive Committee is currently seeking nominations for the position of Northern Territory Representative, which Anjan Kundu has held for many years. Please contact Anjan in the first instance for any queries or nominations for this position.

Tom Bammann
Honorary Secretary, YM Secretary, & Website Administrator
The IET SA & NT Local Network

Where: Engineers House, Chapman Hall, 11 Bagot Street, North Adelaide
When: 6.15pm Wednesday 9th July 2008
Refreshments from 5:30pm
RSVP: Refer to flyer for details

This event is hosted by the Electric Energy Society of Australia.

Speaker: Russell Lee, Forensic Consulting Engineer

This seminar is to address the subject of large industrial failures and risk mitigation factors. Russell will use a number of case studies and share his experiences on investigations to determine the origin and cause of failures, fires, and accidents in diverse industrial environments. Case studies will include the Moomba explosion and fire of 2003, a number of transformer failures, the Loy Yang A generator failure, a wind generator fire and switchboard explosions and fires. Russell has presented at a number of conferences and seminars and the subject matter has been of great interest to investigators, risk and maintenance engineers, tradespeople and the general public.

EESA Event - Forensic Investigation of Failures

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Download flyer for full details of the JTP at http://sant.theiet.org.au/2007/03/joint-technical-programs-2007/

Please watch the organiser’s website for changes to the above. If you find this event interesting you may certainly find many other EESA events interesting, so please keep an eye on their events schedule.

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Regards,
Tom Bammann
Honorary Secretary, YM Secretary, & Website Administrator
The IET SA & NT Local Network

Combined Mechanical & Manufacturing, and Electrical & Electronic Joint Technical Programme Event, supported by the AIAA Adelaide Section.

Where:
Engineers House, Chapman Hall, 11 Bagot Street, North Adelaide
When:
6.15pm Tuesday 17th June 2008
Refreshments from 5:30pm
Who:
All visitors with an interest in Mechanical Engineering are welcome to attend (please RSVP).

Presenter

Dr Ian Tuohy

The Woomera Test Facility (WTF), which is operated by the RAAF Aerospace Operational Support Group (AOSG), is being heavily used for a diverse range of Defence and non-Defence air, space and ground trials. Recent and upcoming Australian Defence Force (ADF) programs include air-to-ground missile trials, bomb improvement trials, HyCAUSE and HIFiRE hypersonic trials, Explosive Ordnance activities and Electronic Warfare trials. Non-Defence programs include testing of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), Japanese supersonic airplane trials and also the targeted landing of the Hayabusa asteroid sample return capsule in the Woomera Prohibited Area in mid 2010. This talk will present an overview of the WTF together with a selection of contemporary Australian and international trials that highlight the unique capabilities of the WTF as the largest land-based Test and Evaluation range in the world.

RSVP instructions and further information detailed in the printable brochure below.

Trail Activities at the Woomera Test Facility

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Download flyer for full details of the JTP on the 2008 JTP page.