Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Part 4 Exhibition Day 201214 September 2012
The Science Building 301Open to the public
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Junyu Zhu
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Radio Propagation Modelling in H
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Dr M
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32Intelligent Tutoring System
for Electromagnetic Fields
Dora Xu
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Intelligent Tutoring System for Electrom
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Yajing LiuD
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Sai N
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63Exploring M
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Shing Z
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Dr Partha Roop
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ireless sensor network light controller
Yanbo Zhang
Yijun Hao
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Dr S
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David Fraser
Robert Gallichan
Dr S
tevan Berber
86Visualisation of S
ignal Processing Procedures in Radio TransceiversIvan W
alynetzJonathan W
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Dr S
tevan Berber
87Bluetooth link to sm
art phoneSam
Bristow
Rachel TupouD
r Stevan B
erber108
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munications schem
es in local Microgrids
Xinw
ei Wang
Jack FangProf John B
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Intelligent Tutoring System for Transm
ission LinesKaluachchigam
age JayatilakeD
r Gerard Row
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Intelligent Controllers for Photovoltaic System
sIgnus Ferreira
Johnny Song
Dr A
kshya Swain
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plementation of an application for D
elta Robot using nxtStudio
Heng-You Lin
Dr Partha Roop
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Jiwin H
oLisa Xue
Assoc. Prof B
ruce MacD
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panion robotShuchita Taneja
Divey Punj
Assoc. Prof B
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ell as reporting patients status back to their doctorH
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proving Speech Synthesis for the H
ealthbotsJon C
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ent of vision and localisation capability for an autonomous robot : Part B
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