The University of Melbourne IEEE student branch is going to organize a Matlab workshop on 3rd of May. This is a great opportunity for those who are interested to make their life and research a bit easier with Matlab.
Time: 2.00pm-5.00pm
Date: Wednesday 13th Septmeber
Venue: Old Engineering-209 (ERC lab 4) Room:209 Floor:2
Cost: $8 for UniMelb IEEE student members,$15 others
Only limited places are available. Register by email before 11 September:

As soccer fever grips the nation we thought we should join in! This year the IEEE student branch is presenting the inaugural student vs staff soccer match and BBQ. If you are not playing come along anyway, grab a bite to eat and support your team!

Time: 12:00pm-2.00pm
Date: Friday 7th July
Venue: University Sports Centre Hockey Field
Cost for BBQ: Free for UniMelb IEEE student members, $3 others

Are you up for the challenge?
To participate, staff contact Thomas Hanselmann:
Students contact Rahul Sharma:
Interested in being a referee? Contact Bipin Sankar G:

The University of Melbourne IEEE student branch is going to organize a Matlab workshop on 3rd of May. This is a great opportunity for those who are interested to make their life and research a bit easier with Matlab.
Time: 1.30pm-5.00pm
Date: Wednesday 3rd May
Venue: Percy Baxter Learning Centre, Baillieu Library
Cost: $8 for UniMelb IEEE student members,$15 others
Only limited places are available. Register by email before 28th April:

The University of Melbourne's Women in Engineering (WIE) group is organising its first event for 2006, and we would be delighted if you could attend. It will be an informal, catered, afternoon event, the details of which are as follows:

Last year ended in a big bang: we had our Annual General Meeting combined with our Polling Meeting where you, the membership, elected who you'd like to run the branch in 2006. Following this, we hosted our end-of-year dinner. Fantastic door prizes (including an iPod nano) were won by lucky IEEE student members at the AGM.

Our LaTeX workshop taught you how to produce great looking professional typeset documents, including how one can write conference/journal papers in the IEEE style. This was the third time we've run such an intensive-mode workshop.

There will be four guest speakers with research and industry experience. Each speaker will talk about their work experience and there will be time for questions and discussions. This will be a great opportunity to find out more about working as a female engineer and being a female researcher. Light refreshment will also be provided after the discussion.

Our guest speaker will be talking about her work experience as a female engineer in the world acclaimed company. This is an informal event with lite refreshments provided at the end of the seminar.

The University of Melbourne IEEE Student Branch is launching a petition to start a Women in Engineering (WIE) group.

The purpose of such a group is to provide social and networking opportunities for women in all engineering disciplines. Our plan for future events includes social gatherings and professional development seminars.

If you would like to add your name and sign a petition to start the WIE group at the University of Melbourne, please contact (interim WIE Organizer).

On 2nd February 2005, Paramount -- the maker of the longest-running TV show in history -- announced that their latest series, Star Trek: Enterprise, would be cancelled. Star Trek has a 40 year history of inspiring generations of engineers, scientists and academics around the world. Their positive portrayal of humanity is a refreshing change to many other cataclysmic predictions on the future of humanity (seen the original series of the Planet of the Apes lately?)

Following the cancellation of the original Star Trek in 1968, fans of the show started an unprecedented letter-writing campaign that miraculously brought back their show to the airwaves. TrekUnited.com was set up to do exactly this: bring back Enterprise! Tim Brazeal, an entrepreneurial Star Trek fan created a website to unite fans who want to bring back the show. His premise is simple: Fund the Future, to the tune of $US35Million to fund the next season of the show!

TrekUnited can be taken seriously: they've hired a lawyer to ensure donations are refunded (minus banking fees) in case their mission is unsuccessful, and have recently raised over $US3.1 Million!

Legends never die - fund the future!

Happy New Year to all! This year looks to be a big one with plenty of new events and initiatives in store.

Congratulations goes to the new execuitive committee for 2005:

Chairperson:		Jennifer Che (see the Chair's welcome video)
Vice-Chairperson:		Nishaanthan Nadarajah
Secretary:		Genevieve Coath
Treasurer:		Masud Bakaul