Introduction

The IET South Australia & Northern Territory Local Network will be, pending successful sponsorship, holding a Professional Network Dinner on the evening of 17 July 2009 at the National Wine Centre, Adelaide.

The Professional Network Dinner (PND2009) is intended to provide a unique opportunity to connect academia, industry and government with the best and most enthusiastic final year engineering students during an evening of fine food, fine drink and fine company.

The targeted industry will be that which may recruit Graduate Electrical, Electronic, Mechanical, Manufacturing, or Mechatronic Engineers in 2010.

Invitation to sponsor and attend

It is with great pleasure that the IET SA & NT Local Network invite members of industry to sponsor a table at a cost of $1000. Table sponsorship allows up to five engineers from your company per sponsored table to dine with 5 final year engineering students who will be allocated to your table. Seating arrangements can be negotiated, i.e. whether your company would like all 5 delegates on one table, or spread over tables to maximise exposure. Student seating arrangements will be suited to best match that of your companies needs. The Heads of Engineering Schools at UniSA, University of Adelaide, and Flinders University, will be invited to select the students to attend, based on their proven academic performance, enthusiasm and drive.

In times of economic hardship, it is important for industry to be employing the best quality graduates rather than quantity, in order to get the most “bang for their buck”. The Professional Network Dinner gives you the opportunity to meet with and promote your company to the best engineering students available.

Interest in sponsoring a table, or other proposals to sponsor the event are appreciated by mid March 2009, so that we can send you further information.

Previous event

The first Professional Network Dinner was held in the Adelaide Museum by the then IEE (Institution of Electrical Engineers) Branch, now IET (Institution of Engineering & Technology) Local Network, in Adelaide in 2004. It was a highly successful event, attracting sponsors including ETSA Utilities, ElectraNet, and GHD. Sir Eric Neal was the guest speaker of the evening. The then Australian Technical Papers Prize (now known as the South Pacific Present Around the World) was also presented on this evening. A Professional Network Dinner has not been held since 2004 due to the tremendous effort required by volunteer committee members of the IET.

How to help

As a member or non-member of the IET, it would be of great assistance to bring this event to the attention of your engineering employer if they might be interested in recruiting graduate Electrical, Electronic, Mechanical, Manufacturing, or Mechatronic Engineers in 2010. Please contact the Honorary Chairman should you have any suggestions for potential sponsors for the event.

Further Information / Contact

Please do not hesitate to contact the Honorary Chairman should you have any questions concerning this event.

This is a great opportunity for students to network with IET members, senior engineers, and prospective employers. Cocktail food will be provided shortly after arrival, with proceedings commencing by 7.30pm. In compliance with IET regulations, the following charges apply per person to recover costs, to be paid in cash or cheque upon entry to the upstairs room.

When: Friday 10th October 2008, 7pm to 9:30pm
Where: The Historian Hotel, 18 Coromandel Place, Adelaide. Upstairs Function Room (refer to flyer below for map).
Dress code: Neat Casual / Informal Attire
Cost: Free for student members. For other members, guests, and non-member students a cost will apply to cover drinks and nibbles. Refer to flyer below for details.
RSVP: Required by 30th September
Further information: Please refer to flyer below.

2008 AGM Invitation

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Due to geographical relocation of two committee members, various positions will soon be open for nominations to be confirmed at the AGM on 10th October. Nominations will be due by Wednesday 1st October, and the nomination form is available below. Positions include:

• Honorary Chair
• Vice Chair
• Northern Territory Representative
• General Committee Member
• Younger Members Section Chair

2008 AGM Nomination Form

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TRISTRAM OGILVIE CARY, OAM, MA(Oxon), DMus, LMus TCL, HonRCM, I Eng, born Oxford 14th May 1925, third child of Joyce Cary, the novelist, and Gertrude Margaret Cary (née Ogilvie). Cary passed away in Adelaide, South Australia, on 24th of April 2008, at the age of 82. Cary was a member of the Institution of Electronic & Radio Engineers (IERE), which in 1973 merged with the Institution of Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) and thus Cary became a member of the IEE. In 2006, Cary became a member of the Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET) when IEE merged with the Institution of Incorporated Engineers (IIE) to become the IET. Cary was a long time member of the South Australia & Northern Territory Local Network. Cary was a member of the IERE/IEE/IET for over 62 years and counting.

Education: Dragon School, Oxford; Westminster School, London (King’s Scholar); Christ Church, Oxford (Exhibitioner); Trinity College of Music, London. Served Royal Navy, 1943-6 (interrupting education), specialising in radar and thus receiving training in electronics. During his war service Cary independently developed the idea of what was to become tape music, and began experimenting as soon as he was released from the Navy in late 1946. Took BA at Oxford, and then to London where studied composition, piano, horn, viola and conducting. While a student augmented grant by evening class teaching. 1951-54 starting a family, writing music, and teaching, while holding a part-time job in a gramophone shop and developing his first electronic music studio. From 1954 gradually able to live by score commissions, gave up most teaching and job. Since then a large variety of concert works and scores for theatre, radio, film, TV, public exhibitions etc.

Cary was founder (in 1967) of the electronic music studio at the Royal College of Music, and designer/builder of own electronic music facility, one of the longest established private studios in the world. Beginning in Marylebone, it went to Earls Court, then Chelsea and eventually to Fressingfield, Suffolk. The equipment from this studio was brought to Australia, and most of it was incorporated into the expanding teaching studio at Adelaide University. Cary was also a founder Director of EMS (London) Ltd, and co-designer of the VCS3 (Putney) Synthesiser and other EMS products.

In 1986 Cary left the University to resume self-employment. Combining a specialised personal studio with the facility available to him at the University, he could call upon powerful resources for generating film, TV, theatre, radio or concert music, special dialogue treatments, or anything in the area of specialised sound. His wide experience as a composer included all sizes of instrumental and vocal ensemble, any aspect of electronic music, or combinations of several types. Though normally resident in Australia, today’s efficient communication systems allowed him to undertake work from anywhere in the world, apart from being able to travel to any location within a day or so.

During 1988-90 Cary was largely occupied with writing a major book on music technology which was published in London as Illustrated Compendium of Musical Technology in May 1992 (Faber & Faber). The American version – substituting Dictionary for Compendium – is distributed by Greenwood Press, Connecticut.

In 1995 and 96 there were performances in London and Adelaide to mark his 70th birthday, and a new suite based on his music for the Ealing film The Ladykillers won The Gramophone Award for best film music CD in 1998.

Apart from composition activity, Cary wrote on concerts and opera for The Australian newspaper. He lectured and broadcasted regularly and undertook some higher degree supervision. The University of Adelaide awarded him the position of Honorary Visiting Research Fellow, in which capacity he is continuing his computer music research. In 2001 the University also conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Music. Cary is a citizen of both Australia and Britain, and in 1991 was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for services to Australian music. In 1999 he received the SA Great Music Award for the year, and Symphony Australia commissioned a new work – Scenes from a Life – to mark his 75th birthday in 2000.

Cary received the Adelaide Critics Circle 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award on December 5, 2005.

Nutritious food at a very reasonable price!

UniSA BEEST (Bachelor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Social Team) invite all to attend a BBQ…

When: Thursday, August 28, 2008
Time: 12:00pm – 3:00pm
Location: Universtiy of SA, Mawson Lakes campus, F Building BBQ Area

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
]]> http://sant.theiet.org.au/2008/06/seeking-nominations-for-northern-territory-representative/feed 0 http://sant.theiet.org.au/2008/05/2008-ale-appreciation-tour http://sant.theiet.org.au/2008/05/2008-ale-appreciation-tour#comments Sat, 10 May 2008 14:35:32 +0000 Tom Bammann http://sant.theiet.org.au/2008/05/2008-ale-appreciation-tour/ A much anticipated event for our younger members, the 2008 Ale Appreciation Tour, organised by engineering students at UniSA.

When: Friday 16th 23rd May, 7pm onwards
Where: Starting at P.J. O’Briens, click to enlarge shirt below for details. Note that Church Nightclub has unfortunately closed down, and that the alternate venue will be announced on the night (or before).
Who: Everyone of course! Including your friends, or just make some on the night.
Cost: Approximately $10 for t-shirt, available at UniSA by contacting Kosta or by attending one of the UniSA engineering BBQ’s.

The Adelaide & Darwin time for The Great Environment Briefing web-cast event on 10th April was previously incorrect due to not considering the end of daylight savings. The Great Environment Briefing will commence from 3:30am Adelaide & Darwin time for a 4:30am start. This error has been amended on this website although unfortunately the email all members have received will still be incorrect. Apologies for any confusion.

Note: Darwin does not participate in daylight savings, therefore Adelaide will become Darwin time as of 3am Sunday April 6th when Adelaide turns our clocks back to 2am.

Regards,
Tom Bammann
Honorary Secretary
IET SA & NT Local Network

The new courses will build on the University’s teaching and research strengths in biomedical, robotics, electronics, computer systems and software engineering and will equip graduates for careers in such diverse industries as medicine, mining, defence and industry,” Sir Eric said.

For further information visit Inspiring Engineering.

Extract from Vice-Chancellor’s letter:

I am very pleased to advise you that Flinders University has positioned itself to make a major contribution to the most dynamic sectors of the State’s economy by offering five new Bachelor of Engineering courses in 2009. The new courses build on the University’s teaching and research strengths in biomedical, robotics, electronics, computer systems, and software engineering and will equip graduates for careers in such diverse industries as medicine, mining, defence and industry. Flinders’ strong commitment to teaching engineering reflects the current and anticipated high demand for highly skilled professional engineers across the private and public sectors of the economy.

South Australia is witnessing extraordinary growth in the defence and mining sectors which are establishing long term design and construction capabilities in this State. Flinders intends making the maximum contribution possible to the skills and experience required for this emerging and highly sophisticated industrial base. The University is also an active supporter of efforts by the State and Federal governments and the business sector to stimulate new and expanded small to medium enterprises in Adelaide’s southern regions. Boosting the available pool of engineering graduates will ensure that the required skills are available in a post-Mitsubishi era as new business and employment opportunities are explored and realised. It is clear from student admissions information that a recent State-wide lift in interest in engineering courses is not reflected by applicants from the southern region of Adelaide, suggesting the absence of some courses in this area is affecting the first course preferences of some students.

The five new Bachelor of Engineering courses to be offered by Flinders will address that unmet need. Flinders’ nationally recognised industry placement program provides students with 20 weeks of structured industrial work experience with one of 100 local, national and international organisations – often leading to an ongoing employment with that company. This element of our engineering program distinguishes Flinders’ courses from their counterparts and is well regarded by students and host companies alike.

The new courses are:

• Bachelor of Engineering (Robotics)
• Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics)
• Bachelor of Engineering (Biomedical)
• Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Systems)
• Bachelor of Engineering (Software)

Further detailed information on the new courses, and the other engineering courses offered at Flinders can be found at: www.flinders.edu.au/engineering.
Flinders looks forward to working with you in an exciting period ahead for universities, engineers, the business sector and the State economy.

Yours sincerely,
Professor Michael N Barber
Vice-Chancellor

Mechanical & Manufacturing Joint Technical Programme Event.

University of South Australia, School of Advanced Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering, Mawson Campus (download map for printing)

UniSA Mawson Lakes Campus Map

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M2‐12 (M Building, Level 2, Room 12) – meet in front of M Building, (Tan square, N.E. area of Map).

Note: Please park in University Boulevard car park, see attached map. Bring small change for parking meter fee: 10c per hour. Enclosed shoes must be worn.

All members of the respective Engineering Institutions, University Staff & U/G’s and visitors are welcome to attend.

RSVP to brochure below for RSVP instructions by 7th March.

UniSA Electric Vehicle Site Visit Flyer

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Download flyer for full details of the JTP at http://sant.theiet.org.au/2008/01/joint-technical-programs-for-2008/

The IET Berkshire Network Committee would like to invite you to the upcoming event. Joint IET, IMechE, ICE and IChemE Event: Great Environment Briefing, chaired by Professor Brian Hoskins, Imperial College and Reading University.

When (UK time):
Wednesday 9 April 2008, 18.00 for 19.00

When (Adelaide & Darwin time):
Thursday 10 April 2008, 03:30 for 04:30

Where (for non web-cast attendees in UK):
The Town Hall, Blagrave Street, Reading RG1 1QH

Where (for web-cast attendees in UK and abroad):
Refer to email you receive after registration at http://www.iethampshirenorth.org.uk/eventmanagement/apply/GEnvB/

Australians (IET membership is not necessary) have the opportunity to attend via webcast, at 3:30am for a 4:30am start on Thursday 10 April 2008, but registration is essential (see below for details). It’s not too early to be awake, just a minor change in the regular Australians sleeping pattern.

Climate change is the variation in the Earth’s global climate or in regional climates over time. It involves changes in the variability or average state of the atmosphere over durations ranging from decades to millions of years.

These changes can be caused by dynamic process on Earth, external forces including variations in sunlight intensity, and more recently by human activities. This event will investigate many of the aspects that contribute to climate change as well as looking at the environment generally.

Scope of Meeting:

The protection of the environment is now firmly a mainstream consideration in all our lives. This briefing will focus on the challenges associated with human interaction and exchanges with the environment in the World.

The timeframe is to 2050. Reference will be made to more macro environmental issues throughout the world.

Climate Change: What is the evidence? – What is causing it? – What could happen in the future?
Energy: What are the sustainable options for energy; transport, heat, cooling and electricity generation. Demand reduction, energy efficiency, energy mix, CO2 sequestration, decentralised power and heat generation.
Water: What are engineers doing to reduce and reuse water whilst protecting potable water supplies. Leakage/ contamination. Desalination. Grey/ Black water.
Waste: What is waste? Waste hierarchy; reduce/ reuse/recycle/energy recover– then landfill? What are the options to reduce waste at each level?
Air Quality: What are the major polluters, what is being done to reduce pollution in to the air – particularly in urban environments and from energy generation.

Chaired by Professor Brian Hoskins, jointly affiliated to Imperial College and Reading University

Also in attendance will be: Dist. Professor Roland Clift, Surrey University Peter Fraenkel, Technical Director of MCT Prof. Peter Matthews, Past President and joint founder of SEnv Jeff Cooper, President of CIWM Dr Tim Chatterton, Bristol University.

Registration is essential. Please visit http://www.iethampshirenorth.org.uk/eventmanagement/apply/GEnvB/ to
register and for further details visit http://www.theiet.org/local/uk/thames/berks/env-debate.cfm

For further information please contact the South East Regional Co-ordinator Julie Hudson. Email: mailto:jhudson@theiet.org, Tel: 00 44 1438 767285.

Download the “Great Environment Briefing” poster to stick up in your workplace, university, or fridge at home. Even put it in your neighbours letterbox.

The Great Environment Briefing Poster

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Kevin’s funeral is to be held at Centennial Park’s Florey Chapel, on Monday 17th December 10am.

An article of Kevin McDermott has been published in the Autumn 2008 Local Network newsletter.

An obituary of Kevin appeared in The Advertiser, on 22nd March 2008:

Obituary of Kevin McDermott in The Advertiser

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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

This message is from the Vice-Chancellor to all staff. If you are not a member of staff at Flinders University please ignore this message.

The University has been concerned about the situation with respect to engineering for a number of years. Flinders has employed different strategies aimed at increasing demand however student interest and enrolments in engineering continue to remain low.

I am writing to advise that after careful and deliberate consideration and evaluation, Flinders University Council at its meeting on December 7, as the governing council of the University, gave in-principle agreement to a plan for Flinders to refocus the activities of its Faculty of Science and Engineering, with the emphasis on science and technology.

The University established courses in engineering in the early 1990s but, while the courses are highly regarded professionally, they have not been attracting high enough numbers of students in recent years to continue to be sustainable. The University will not have an intake into engineering courses (other than software engineering) in 2007.

Flinders is examining the implications of this situation for the staff and the students and for the University and today affected School staff and all other School and Faculty staff have been advised of the Council’s decision.

The University will be developing plans to manage the future and will ensure that all students enrolled in these courses will be able to complete their degrees.

Professor Anne R. Edwards
Vice-Chancellor
Flinders University

The committee of The IET responded to this by writing a letter, which you can read below:

Engineering at Flinders Letter

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