Past Events

Last year we took you on a tour of discovery to NEC Australia's 3G Mobile R&D and DSL laboratories.

This year we took you on a discovery tour of Australia's leading telecommunications and information services company: Telstra. There we saw how a world-class telecommunication network operates at their Global Operations Centre -- routing 65 million calls and 8.5 million SMSs daily -- then we went on to see what new innovations are happening at their Research Labs.

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The career advisor from Engineers Australia visited the University of Melbourne and provided valued advice for postgraduate job hunters. The question and answer session following was hugely popular and was found very helpful by the large number of students present.

We received great response from the female students in all engineering departments at the University. It was a great opportunity to meet women from across the spectrum of engineering disciplines and share each other's experience as female engineers.

To celebrate/commiserate the beginning of a new year at university, the UniMelb IEEE Student Branch hosted a BBQ! It was a great chance to catch up with everyone after summer, and meet some new people for those who were new to the whole IEEE scene.

As the end of 2004 approached, we had one final get-together to celebrate! Partners were welcome for an evening of scrumptious food, good wine, delicate delights, and great company. Check out the photos from the event!

This end-of-year dinner also coincided with our Annual General Meeting and Polling Meeting for the annual executive committee election.

Congratulations goes to the new execuitive for 2005: Jennifer Che (Chair), Nishaanthan Nadarajah (Vice-Chair), Genevieve Coath (Secretary), Masud Bakaul (Treasurer). Additionally, a job well done to the recipients of the various prizes awarded on the night!

The branch had a day out at the MCG on Boxing Day for members and friends of the branch to see Australia take on Pakistan in the second test. It was a great day of cricket close to the pitch and well enjoyed by all.

In this LaTeX workshop, we taught attendees how to produce great looking professional typeset documents in LaTeX, including how to write conference/journal papers in the IEEE style. This was the second time we've run such an intensive-mode and we had a full house -- view the photos on-line!

The Australian Centre for RF Bioeffects Research is putting up multiple $2,000 prizes for any Australian University undergraduate student completing a substantial research or design project (e.g. Honours, Final year or 3 semester project) this year on the topic of radiofrequency bioeffects, dosimetry or safety. Students from the engineering, science and medical disciplines are especially welcome to apply. Full details are given in the flyer. Good luck!

Aussie barbecue, with a Mexican twist! Check out those burritos in the photo album!

On our second movie event, we took you on an exciting space journey over 100kms above the Earth as we see how SpaceShipOne broke a 41 year old altitude record for winged aircraft to win the Anasri X-Prize.

We hosted a tour to discover one of Australia's largest employers of R&D engineers in the communications area: NEC Australia. Visitors saw and talked with real engineers in the 3rd Generation (3G) Mobile and Digital Subscriber Line (xDSL) groups and went on a half-day tour of the facilities.

Best of all, the event was free, including bus transport to and from the lab.

Do you enjoy practical problem solving, seeing people work in a team to create to real-life business scenarios? The Case Study Competition will test the competing teams' skills of analysis, logic and creativity to the limit. Teams of 3-4 people will be competing for the $200 prize. Come along for the presentation session and hear how each team cracks the case! It's free and open to the spectating public.

Interested to know what happened at the last Region 10 Student Congress? We were there! Check out the slides from the talk we presented, "The Game of Life: from Nodes to Networks" and more!

We've been awarded second prize and a $US350 cheque in the Region 10 Student Branch Website Competition for 2004. The first prize winner was the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia student branch, while third prize went to the Thadomal Shahani Engineering College student branch.

If you think we can improve, please and our webmaster will get right on it. First prize winners of the regional competition are entered into the inter-region (world-wide) competition -- our goal is to compete on a global scale with the best of them!

The first one was so popular, we ran a second repeat MATLAB workshop in Percy Baxter at the University of Melbourne!

The branch hosted yet another BBQ on Friday 7 May to give everyone a chance to catch up after the Easter break. Photos are now available!

The BBQ to welcome everyone back for the new year, 2004.

For our first ever movie event, we'll take you on an entertaining and educational journey through the life of a startup company during the so called dot-com boom. Startup.com is an interesting real-life documentary that cannot be missed for those of us in the high technology area of research, academa and industry!

Check out the photos from the event!

Fancy a game of tennis? If you're a complete beginner, or a seasoned professional, we'd like you to participate in our first ever tennis championship!

Grab a friend - all matches will be doubles and are open to everyone: all branch members, staff and non-members. If your favourite tennis partner can't make it, or you'd like to meet someone new, let us know and we'll do our best to organise a partner.

There are two prizes to be won, and the competition will finish with a BBQ for all participants.

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The BBQ to finish off the second semester, 2003.

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Our first ever workshop was a three and a half hour intensive event that taught participants how to produce great looking professional typeset documents in LaTeX, focusing on writing conference/journal papers in the IEEE style.

Check out the photos from the event!