The 2009 South Pacific Present Around the World Competition was held on 17th April 2009, in Auckland, New Zealand.

Winner
Kip Cooper, Auckland, New Zealand

Runner-Up
Chanelle Harvey, Queensland, Australia

Further details of the presentation titles and abstracts can be downloaded in the brochure below. Photos of the event will be located on the Auckland Local Network website in the near future.

The 2010 South Pacific Present Around the World will be held in Adelaide, South Australia, on 16 April 2010.

2009 SPPAW Winners

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Colin’s career ambitions:

“I am determined to work in a technical engineering role that involves application of the principles I’ve learned at uni. Research and development/ mechanical design are the areas that interest me most as they usually require both creativity and application of technical principles. Also, I really enjoy learning and I see these fields of engineering as requiring continual expansion of knowledge and learning of new skills.”

Colin Hayes & Derek Marley enjoying a lighter moment.

Professor Bassam Dally, (Acting Head of the Mechanical Engineering School), Derek Marley, Colin Hayes

2008 Student Presentation Prize

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The IET South Australia & Northern Territory Local Network is staging the 2008 IET Rex Johns (SPPAW State Level) Student Presentation Prize (recently renamed in honour of Mr Johns who did so much work to establish the prize). It is to be awarded to an individual for excellence in the presentation of his or her final year project. All students undertaking the final year of an IET accredited degree in South Australia are eligible to be nominated by their university to compete for the prizes. Each university can nominate only two candidates from their eligible courses to compete for the prizes and the chance to represent South Australia in the Australasian Final. The emphasis of this prize is on the ability of the student to communicate the technical information of their project to an audience.

Each individual student presenter will be given 15 minutes for his or her presentation, and a maximum of 5 minutes allowed for questions. There will be a marking panel of four judges. Results will be announced at the end of the evening. State Final winners will receive a $400 cash prize, a year’s free IET membership, and a trip to Auckland, New Zealand to participate in the Australasian Regional Final on April 17th 2009. Second place will receive a cash prize of $200, and third place $100.

The overall winner from the Australasian region will be flown to the U.K. to participate in an IET Younger Members conference and receive one year’s IET membership.

Previous years presentations have been as diverse as anything from Airship Telemetry to GSM (mobile phone) payphone systems. If you want to find out more or cheer on friends and family who are presenting on the night then come along on the evening of Tuesday 28th October.

Competition date

Tuesday 28th October 2008
5.30pm for 6.00pm. 11, Bagot Street, North Adelaide

Enquiries

Enquiries should be directed to Jason Smith in the first instance, or Dan Kitching.

The University of Adelaide

Am I eligible?

• Younger members of SA & NT IET
• Less than 30 years of age at 31st March in the year of entry to the competition.

What do I have to do?

• Write a paper of 3500 words on an engineering topic, could be design project you have worked on
• Has to be solely written by the entrant, with team contributions acknowledged
• 2008 entries close on Friday 6 June 2008. This is the extended deadline, and no further extensions will occur.

How is it judged?

• A panel of IET committee members will be appointed to assess the papers and determine the winner.

So what is the PRIZE?
The Winner of the Richards Premium Prize will receive:

• A Cheque for $250.00
• Framed IEE Certificate
• Inscribed IEE Medallion.

Please refer to the Awards Page for more details.

1. James N Kirby Award

   The Award was established to mark the contribution made by Sir James Kirby to manufacturing in Australia. Candidates for the Award do not have to be engineers, but are presented to people who have achieved outstanding eminence, distinction and public recognition. The recipient is required to present a paper relating to their sphere of activity at the time of the presentation.

2. Sir Lionel Hooke Award

   This award was established to commerate the services to the electrical engineering profession in acknowledgement of the contribution Sir Lionel Hooke made to the electronics and telecommunications industry. The award is presented to an engineer who, by virtue of his or her degree of dedication, character and professional achievements has made a significant contribution to the wider profession of electrical engineering. The criteria are:

   • eminence and distinction in the fields of electrical, electronic, communications, computer systems engineering or in related fields;
   • service to the community;
   • assistance to educational and public institutions.

3. Jack Finlay Award

   This award commerates the services to production engineering in Australia made by Jack Finlay as one of the founders of manufacturing engineering in Australia. The award is presented to an engineer who, by virtue of their dedication, character and professional achievements has made a significant contribution to manufacturing.

Information brochures about the 2007 Australian Prestige Awards, and more information about IET awards in general can be found by clicking on the Awards page.

Any member or non-member can nominate a member or non-member for the awards by completing the form below and emailing to the SA & NT Awards Committee (Jason and Dan).

2008 APA Awards Nomination Form

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• 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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Each individual student presenter will be given 15 minutes for his or her presentation, and a maximum of 5 minutes allowed for questions. There will be a marking panel of four judges. Results will be announced at the end of the evening. State Final winners will receive a $400 cash prize, a year’s free IET membership, and a trip to Melbourne to participate in the Australasian Regional Final early next year. Second place will receive a cash prize of $200, and third place $100.

The overall winner from the Australasian region will be flown to the U.K. to participate in an IET Younger Members conference and receive one year’s IET membership.

The three universities in Adelaide have nominated two presenters each and topics are as diverse as Airship Telemetry and a GSM (mobile phone) Payphone system. If you want to find out more or cheer on friends and family who are presenting on the night then come along on the evening of Wednesday 24th October.

Competition date

Wednesday 24th October 2007
5.30pm for 6.00pm. 11, Bagot Street, North Adelaide

Enquiries

Enquiries should be directed to Dan Kitching or Jason Smith.

Please note that a more complete collection of photos can be located here.

The IET South Australia and Northern Territory Network cordially invites you to our IET Anniversary Dinner to be held at:

Adelaide Oval, Bradman Room
Friday 10 August at 7:00 pm for pre-dinner drinks.

This is the IET SA & NT prestigious event for 2007 where you the members have the opportunity to network or catch-up with friends and colleagues.

Seats are limited so get your RSVP in early!

Dress: Formal (Black Tie) preferred.
Venue: Adelaide Oval, Bradman Room, enter via Clarrie Grimmett or Phil Ridings Gates.
Cost: $47-50 per person for IET Members & Members’ guests, $35-00 for IET Younger Members and IET Student Members and $70-00 for non-members and guests.
Time: 7:00pm for pre-dinner drinks: 7:30pm – 11:00pm dinner.

Please print your invitation via the download link provided below. Members of IET South Australia and Northern Territory Local Network can expect an invitation to their postal address by 11th July. If you have not received your invitation by then, please contact the Local Network Secretary.

IET Anniversary Dinner Invitation

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This is an environmental electronic/engineering/science design competition, where any idea to benefit the globe is valid to enter.

On the website you’ll find all the details including a presentation from our Farnell’s CEO Harriet Green giving an overview of the competition.

Basically anyone can enter it is not restricted in anyway – students, professionals, amateurs, individuals and companies alike, all the opportunity to win this prize and see their environmental invention grow!

Go on – register today, even if your design/idea is not finalised – there’s nothing to lose and no time to waste!

www.live-edge.com

Congratulations to Say Wei Tan, who has won the IET SA & NT Local Network Outstanding Female Student in Engineering Prize for the University of Adelaide in 2006.

Each Australian State runs its own competition culminating in a State Final, with the winner proceeding to the National Final early in the following year (which is usually shortly after graduation). Later that year the National winner goes on to UK to compete in the World Final (the IET International Premium) and take part in an associated Younger Members Conference at that time.

The first National Final was held in Melbourne in 2002. It was again in Melbourne in 2003 but moved to Adelaide in 2004 where the winner was Kerrin Pine of South Australia who spoke on “Radio Direction Finding for Maritime Search & Rescue”. It moved to Perth in 2005 from where the winner, Tim Nelson again of South Australia who spoke on his robotic eye project “EyeSim”, went on to win the international event held in Birmingham UK in November 2005. Last year in Sydney the National winner was Kelly Poole of NSW whose topic was “Design of Zigbee systems: concept and implementation”, the gauging of student understanding in real time during lectures.

And now it’s Queensland’s turn. This year’s National Final will be held in Brisbane on Friday 30 March, the competition itself at the Novotel Hotel in the morning and the Presentation Dinner at Gianni’s Portside Restaurant in the evening. Details below, and all are encouraged to attend. Pre-registration for the Dinner is necessary, and the form for this is attached.

The Competition

Friday 30 March 2007 – 10.00 am to 12.30 pm
National Final of the IET Australian Technical Presentation Prize (ATPP)
Novotel Hotel, 200 Creek Street, Brisbane.
NO ADMISSION CHARGE.

The Gala Dinner

Friday 30 March 2007 – 6.45 pm for 7.15 pm
IET National Gala Dinner and ATPP Awards Presentation
Gianni’s Portside Restaurant, Remora Road, Hamilton.
See attachment for costs and registration

ATPP and Gala Dinner

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Also keep an eye on the National IET website for more information regarding this event.

Please note that these are IET National events, but the main organisation has been delegated to the IET Queensland Younger Members Section. As per the attachment, emailed returns are to be made to the YMS Chairman Tony Richardson. Also as per the attachment, any telephoned queries should be to Tony on 0424 578 224.

Tony says:

The IET ATPP is primarily a presentation skills competition. However, the topic should be relevant to IET endeavours and the speaker should target the presentation appropriately. Designing the latest gadgets and widgets is one thing; convincing people of their successful operation and commercial merit is another. The ATPP is a way for final year students enrolled in Engineering and Technology courses to test their skills in this area, so come along and support your future colleagues and fellow students.

Fore more information on the ATPP:
http://sant.theiet.org.au/awards/#atpp

Second place getter was Brian Playford, also of the University of Adelaide, with his paper: Camera and Microphone Control via a Phone Connection. Brian received a cheque for $200.

There were 2 equal third prizes, reflecting the high standard of entries and the difficult task facing the judging panel: Miriam Margaret Whitten of Flinders University presented her paper: Mandibular Advancement Splint Compliance Monitor.

Nicholas John Cox of the University of South Australia shared third place with his paper: Co-channel Speaker and its integration with Transcription Services within a Military Environment.

Both Third Place entrants received a cheque for $100. Prizes were presented at the completion of Judging by SANTB Chairman Andrew Russack. Certificates and medallions will be presented to all 6 entrants at a technical evening in 2007, and the University of Adelaide will receive a framed Certificate for spawning the winning entrant.