ieee circuit – march 2014

IEEE NSW Family Day

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Volume 43 Issue 1 March 2014

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James Foster Best Paper

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Coming Events

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Power & Energy Society

AP Society & MTT-S Update

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Message from Chair

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2013 AGM and dinner – sampling the buffet

NSW Chair Dr David Tien & John Robinson at the 2013 AGM

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Volume 43 Issue 1 IEEE Circuit

Editorial

Editor

John Aitken [email protected]

New Section Committee 3

Message from Chair 4

Family Day – December 2013 6

Power & Energy Society 7

Coming Events 10

Norbert Wiener in 21st Century 12

Upgrade your membership 12

iToF2013 at UNSW 13

Power News and Views 14

AP/MTT-S Update 15

Macquarie University Student Branch 16

Sydney University Conversazione 18

New and Upgraded Members 19 10

Contents

IEEE New South Wales Section ARBN 078 576 495 ABN 34 078 576 495

Secretariat: Australian Professional Centre PO Box 576 Crow Nest NSW 1585

Phone 612 9431 8600

http://sites.ieee.org/nsw/

IEEE is an organisation of great diversity, powered primarily by the efforts of volunteers throughout the world.

For me IEEE has always been a source of information and education. Countless papers, transactions and magazines from societies that have reflected my interests over the years. Broadcasting, antennas and propagation, vehicular technology, EMC, power and energy, electrification, acoustics and many more. These are the readily recognised and identified IEEE resources.

CIRCUIT brings you the other dimension of IEEE, the personal dimension. There are no equations in CIRCUIT but lots of people. People doing some very ordinary things and people doing some exceptional things.

I hope you will enjoy reading this issue of CIRCUIT and that you will join in the NSW activities of the IEEE.

If you are interested in electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), please join me in a petition to start a NSW Chapter of the EMC Society. I will be circulating the petition to EMC Society members this month.

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IEEE NSW Section Committee

Secretary – Dr John Ypsilantis

John Ypsilantis is a graduate of the University of Sydney. He is a specialist in ICT systems for power, gas and water utilities, including SCADA and artificial intelligence applications to utility operations.

Treasurer – Dr Anthony Sloman

Graduated with a Ph.D in Physical Chemistry from Melbourne in 1970.

Worked in the UK as an electronic engineer from 1971 to 1993, on - amongst other things - phased-array ultrasound and electronic microscopes.

Vice-Chair – Prof Karu Esselle IEEE NSW Section volunteer for over 15 years; held Chapter Chair and Education Activities Chair positions; formed the Macquarie University IEEE Student Branch; was awarded 2011 Outstanding Counsellor Award from IEEE.

Chair – Dr David Dapeng Tien

David started serving IEEE from 1988 while he was teaching at the University of Sydney. Between 1993 and 2010, he served as Treasurer, Secretary, Vice-Chairman and Chairman at IEEE Singapore and IEEE NSW Sections.

2013 IEEE NSW Section AGM An IEEE AGM is always a great experience. The 2013 AGM was no exception, with good company, great food and plenty of time for conversation.

Several of the NSW Chapters held their meetings before the AGM. The election results were announced, the various reports presented and then it was time for dinner! (It took perhaps a little longer than that but time flies when you are enjoying yourself.)

See the NSW Section web site for more details.

sites.ieee.org/nsw James Foster receives the IEEE Australia Council Best Student Paper award from Eddie Fong at the 2013 AGM.

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Message from Chair – Dr David Tien During the AGM of 2013 I was honoured to be elected again as the Chairman of IEEE NSW Section and would like to thank you for your support. I would like to take this opportunity as chairman to enhance service to all of our members. Before being elected into this position, I worked with IEEE for over 20 years and served as Chairman and vice-Chair in several countries in Asia Pacific.

As a personal introduction, I received my undergraduate, Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science, Pure Mathematics and Electrical Engineering from Manchuria, Chinese Science Academy, the Ohio State University, and the University of Sydney, respectively. I have been teaching for 33 years at tertiary institutions in different parts of the world - Ohio State University, University of Sydney, Singapore and Charles Sturt University (CSU). My interests are in the areas of GIS, image and signal processing, telecommunication, education theory, biomedical engineering and modern politics.

Serving the Members

One of the main purposes of IEEE is to provide a platform for academics and engineers in all tertiary institutions, government agencies and industry to meet, exchange ideas, and establish professional networks. I believe that in order to achieve the recognition we deserve, engineers, computer scientists, IT professionals and academics have to go beyond narrowly defined subject areas and constantly acquire a global technical and social perspective.

Current Initiatives and Important Issues

Currently there are over two thousand members in NSW and many would like to see enhanced services and benefits for members. As the Chairman of IEEE NSW, I am committed to setting up structures which serve all IEEE members. Since taking over the Chairmanship, I have proposed and set up the following structures for our members and would like to take this opportunity to call for expressions of interest to join our efforts.

Industry and Government Liaison Initiative Most of our members are working in industry and efforts have been undertaken by IEEE NSW to serve these members and gain government and industry support for education and research activities. The outcomes of these activities have been positive and resulted in the willingness of government agencies and industry to provide expertise, assistance and sponsorship for our future activities.

Publication and Conference Service To provide a platform for academics and engineers in all IT areas to meet, exchange ideas, and establish professional networks, a conference has been hosted at the same time and same location each year: 1 – 4 July, at Sydney Hilton Hotel. It is a forum for focusing on specific disciplinary research, as well as on multi-disciplinary studies. For details please see www.icita.org

Monthly meet the members BBQ To provide a platform for IEEE members to meet face to face, a monthly meet the members BBQ will be hosted in the afternoons (2 – 5pm) of the first Sunday of each month. Location: BBQ stoves @ Wentworth Park, Glebe NSW (opposite the cnr of Wentworth Park Rd and Bay St.). Email or ring me to confirm: (I need 2 hours notice) [email protected] or 04 05 212 291.

Continuing Education IT Accreditation Initiative Efforts are being made by the IEEE NSW to set up a Continuing Education Committee to bring experts from industry and academia to offer technical courses to the general public.

Serving on Local Conference Committees From 2014 we request all organisers for IEEE conferences held in NSW to sign an MOU with the IEEE NSW Section.

Serving on Journal Committees Due to the publish or perish pressure in many institutions, many rogue journals have been asking people to serve on their editorial board. Please check their credentials before you agree to put your name down for it.

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Message from Chair …. Journal and Conference Ratings A few years ago, based on the advice of the Academy of Sciences, the Australian government disbanded the activity of Journal and Conference Ratings. However, many universities have reintroduced such practices in their performance review, promotion and hiring. We are looking into the legality of such practices and will advise you on the outcome of our investigation.

In recent years, a larger number of IEEE conferences have been parachuted into Australia without prior consultation with IEEE local Sections and there is evidence that some prospective delegates are targeting these IEEE conferences in order to get into Australia illegally (it could be a potential homeland security issue as well). Although we support international events held in Australia, the Section now requires all organisers to enter an MOU with the local Section in order to monitor the bona fides of the conference delegates. We send regular updated delegate lists to the Australian Department of Immigration. Those conferences which do not enter an MOU with the local Section will be treated as rogue conferences and

reported accordingly to the Department of Immigration along with the local organisers’ institutions. Your Copyright Unlike in the music industry, authors of the academic journal have been willing to give up their copyright to journals as well as donate their free time as reviewers. At the same time, many such journals and database make huge commercial gains. Academics should look into these issues.

Final Words

If you are interested in participating and contributing to the initiatives mentioned above, please do not hesitate to contact me. I am looking forward to meeting you during the year.

David Tien (Ph.D) Chairman IEEE NSW Faculty of Business - Charles Sturt University Phone: (02) 6338 4862 Mobile: 04 05 212 291 Email: [email protected]

Sydney University – Student Research Sydney University 5th Annual Student Research Conference, ENGIT 2013 was held on Tuesday 1st October 2013 at Sydney University and the theme was Sustainable Technology.

Sponsors for the Conference included Engineers Australia, IChemE, Thales, Civil Engineering Foundation and IEEE NSW Section.

IEEE NSW Section sponsored two prizes of $500 each.

Best poster for School of IT was won by Mr Kenneth Sabir and was titled Visual Analytics of Chromosome 3D Structure.

Best paper presentation for the School of Electrical and Information Technologies was won by Ms Yiwen Li.

Tony Zaglas

2013 NSW Section Chair Eddie Fong presents the IEEE Best Paper Certificate to Yiwen Li at the Family Day BBQ for her paper Compressive Soft Forwarding in Network Coded Multiple Access Relay Channels.

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Family Day – December 2013

On Sunday 15 December 2013 IEEE NSW Section held the inaugural Family Day BBQ and Picnic.

Family Day was instigated by Section Chair Eddie Fong and was largely organised by Section Treasurer Mark O’Mally with some assistance from Eddie Fong and myself. The initial date chosen was Saturday 26 October but had to be cancelled due to the bushfires and fire hazard. All NSW Section Members and Family were invited and about thirty five attended.

During the event there were also Life Member and GOLD meetings.

Eddie Fong presented Ms Yiwen Li with her Certificate and prize won at the Sydney University Student Research Conference. Eddie Fong was himself presented with a Past Section Chair Pin by Nominations Chair John Robinson in recognition of his service as Section Chair for the past three years.

The event was a great success and I believe will be held again in the future. I wish to thank Eddie Fong for initiating the event, and those that helped on the day with a special thanks to Mark O’Mally for doing most of the organisation and work.

Tony Zaglas

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Power & Energy Society NSW Chapter Update

Two New Australian PES Chapters Two new Australian chapters of the Power & Energy Society have recently been formed.

The South Australia PES Chapter was formed on 2 October 2013, with Dr Mohammed Haque of the University of South Australia as Chapter Chair. Speaking with Dr Haque, he said that it had been a 12 month process to form the chapter so congratulations to him on his persistence.

The Northern Australia PES Chapter came into existence on 18 September 2013, with Associate Professor Ahmad Zahedi of James Cook University as Chapter Chair.

Region 10 PES Chapter Chairs Meeting The Region 10 (Asia and Pacific) PES Chapter Chairs Meeting was held in Bangalore on 9 November 2013. The purpose of the meeting was to bring Chapter Chairs up to speed on IEEE PES processes and latest developments and to meet other PES volunteers.

The meeting was attended by representatives from India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and New Zealand. From Australia, representatives from NSW, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia were able to attend. The meeting was organised by Prof. Lalit Goel, Region 10 PES Representative. Speakers included Prof. Noel Schulz, PES President; Meliha Selak, PES Vice President for Chapters; and Prof. Lina Bertling Tjernber, PES Treasurer (and Secretary-elect for 2014). In all, there were 30 attendees, a record for this meeting. Unfortunately, Chapter Chairs from a few countries were unable to attend due to difficulties in obtaining visas.

Overall I found the meeting very useful, and an excellent way to meet other Chapter Chairs. The hospitality of the Bangalore Chapter, who hosted the meeting, was outstanding.

R10 Chapter Chair Participants

Prof Lalit Goel – PES R10 Representative

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NSW Chapter AGM The annual general meeting of the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) NSW Chapter was held on 22 November 2013 in conjunction with the NSW Section AGM and dinner. Nine members were attendance, along with three guests. Officers elected for 2014 were:

Chair Ray Brown Vice Chair Dan Candotti Secretary / Treasurer Dr Georgios Konstantinou

ISGT-Asia 2013 The Innovative Smart Grid Technology (ISGT) Asia 2013 conference was held in Bangalore, India from 10 to 13 November 2013. The first day was for tutorials, with the conference proper being held over the following three days. A Women in Engineering meeting, attended by approximately 70 people, was also held on the first day.

There were 278 participants in total, with 99 papers to be delivered. Fifteen students were supported to attend the conference. Each day of the conference started with a keynote speaker, followed by a plenary session and then parallel paper and panel sessions. A Cultural Evening gave displays of dances from the different regions of India.

ISGT Asia Opening Ceremony

ISGT Asia Cultural Evening

ISGT Asia Women in Engineering Event Participants

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Electrification Magazine The first issue of a new magazine, the IEEE Electrification Magazine, was published in September 2013. It is a quarterly magazine dedicated to disseminating information on all matters related to microgrids, electric vehicles, ships, trains, planes and off-grid applications.

The magazine is co-sponsored by the Power & Energy Society (PES), Industry Applications Society (IAS) and the Power Electronics Society (PELS). All members of PES, IAS and PELS will receive the digital edition of the magazine as a benefit of membership for one year.

The March 2014 issue has just been released.

ETAP Seminar ETAP ran a free, one-day seminar in Sydney on 24 March 2014. The seminar was on design, analysis and operation of power systems. Some of the topics discussed included advanced software solutions for AC & DC system modelling; load flow and short circuit analysis; AC & DC arc flash hazard assessment, intelligent load shedding, smart grid and micro grid; and renewable energy.

Challenges of a growing Photovoltaic Industry Photovoltaic (PV) systems have been around for some considerable time and the industry has been growing at a very rapid rate (greater than 30% /year). There is now an installed base of greater than 100GW of PV and the industry is still growing at an amazing rate.

Ted Spooner explored the current state of the industry with a close look at many of the technical and systemic challenges facing the industry moving forward at an IEEE seminar at Engineers Australia Auditorium, Chatswood in March.

2014 IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT) Asia

The 2014 IEEE ISGT Asia Conference will be held on May 20 – 23, 2014 at Berjaya Hotel, Kuala Lumpur. The aim of this conference is to promote the advancement of smart grid technology and research. It is also hoped to be a platform where researchers, academics, policy makers and industries can share and exchange new ideas, learn from each other, discuss and debate on issues related to Smart Grid Implementation and its related matters.

http://ieee-isgt-asia-2014.com/

Early bird registration up to 20 March 2014

CIGRE Technical Brochures Issued The following technical brochures have recently been issued by CIGRE: • TB 558 Guide for the Monitoring, Diagnosis and

Prognosis of Large Motors

• TB 559 Impact of EMF on Current Ratings and Cable Systems

• TB 560 Guideline to Maintaining the Integrity of XLPE Cable Accessories

• TB 561 Live Work - A Management Perspective

• TB 562 Field Test for UHV Substations

• TB 563 Modelling and Simulation Studies to be Performed during the Lifecycle of HVDC Systems

CIGRE Publications are available at www.e-cigre.org

PES update provided by

Ray Brown

IEEE NSW Power & Energy Society Chapter Chair

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Coming Events

Date Event Details Venue

7 - 11 April Working IEEE/IFIP Conferensce on Software Architecture – WICSA 2014

http://wicsa2014.org/ North Sydney

10 April Ceramic Fuel Cells & Smart Grid Dr Robert Simpson & Viriya Chittasy

http://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/events/ceramic-fuel-cells-and-smart-grid EA Auditorium

14 - 16 April TENSYMP http://ieeemy.org/tensymp/ KL, Malaysia

17 April SMC Centenary Lecture Series – The Making of an Academic

http://sydney.edu.au/engineering/electrical/about/ieee-smc-cls-2014.html The University of

Sydney

8 May Space Engineering research at ACSER Prof Andrew Dempster, UNSW

http://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/events EA Auditorium

20 - 23 May ISGT 2014 – Innovative Smart Grid Technologies

http://ieee-isgt-asia-2014.com/ KL, Malaysia

22 May Power Factor Correction for LV & MV Schneider


1 - 5 June ISCAS 2014 – International Symposium on Circuits and Systems

http://iscas2014.org Melbourne

10 June IEEE International Workshop on M2m Communications for Next Generation IoT http://wmnlab.ee.ntu.edu.tw/M2M2014.html Sydney

10 -14 June IEEE International Conference on Communications – ICC 2014

http://icc2014.ieee-icc.org/ Sydney

12 June Wholesale Hosted VoIP PBX Angus Parker, VoNEX http://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/events EA Auditorium

24 - 26 June Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century http://21stcenturywiener.org Boston, USA

10 July Low and Medium Voltage Motor Design Csaba Szabó, ABB


1 – 4 July ICITA 2014, 9th International Conference on Information Technology and\ Applications

http://www.icita.org/ Sydney

4 – 10 August Australian Engineering Week http://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/aew Australia

14 August Cardiovascular modelling & arterial BP Prof Albert Avolio MqU http://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/events EA Auditorium

28 August Ethics in Engineering Practice David Stuart-Watt, Parsons Brinckerhoff


7 – 10 September

17th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications http://www.wpmc2014.org/ Sydney

30 October – 2 November

International conference on Data Sciences and Advanced Analytics

Shanghai

30 October – 2 November

International conference on Behavioural, Economic, Socio-Cultural Computing Shanghai

12 - 13 November

EECON 2014 Energy networks – evolutionary transformation or death spiral?

[email protected] Eveleigh

Please check the IEEE NSW web site – sites.ieee.org/nsw for up to date information.

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17th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC2014)

The 17th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC'2014) will be held in Sydney, Australia under the technical sponsorship of the IEEE Communications Society.

The WPMC symposia series were inaugurated in 1998, as a global platform which aims at enabling collaboration in the field of wireless multimedia communications.

The theme of this year’s conference is Orchestrating Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications. In addition to high-quality technical sessions, the symposium will feature workshops and tutorials. It will also offer an exciting social program.

7-10 September 2014, Sydney, Australia

For more details see http://www.wpmc2014.org/

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Members are encouraged to pursue the highest grade of membership to which they may be entitled. The requirements for each grade of Senior Member and Fellow are available at the IEEE membership website.

For Senior grade of membership, application may be made on line at any time of the year. It is recommended that you arrange all your referees and supporters before you lodge an application as this will save considerable time.

For Fellow grade, applications must be lodged in February each year. The preparation of these nominations/applications can take considerable time and it is recommended that at least 6 months lead time be allowed in the preparation of all the necessary support documentation. Last minute panics are not recommended.

Contact

Bruce Poon [email protected] Development Chair, NSW Section

Upgrading Membership

Norbert Wiener made contributions across several disciplines during his lifetime. Many of these were immediately relevant, and influenced theories and production during his day. Others were long-term, and only in recent years has it been possible to test their relevance. Separately, Wiener predicted the social impact of robotic, cybernetic and other technologies on the future of society, and after several decades his writing retain their relevance.

In recent years Wiener’s work has been coming to the fore in several fields, from control theory to science, technology and society.

The IEEE 2014 Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century will provide an opportunity to look at the full range of Wiener’s contributions, particularly those on the border of multiple disciplines that he valued much.

The conference is on 24-26 June in Boston. For details see 21stcenturywiener.org/ieee-2014-conference-on-norbert-wiener-in-the-21st-century-overview/

New web site address: http://sites.ieee.org/nsw/

Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century

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iToF2013 – Technologies of the Future

The 5th IEEE Technologies of the Future (iToF 2013) Competition and Exhibition was held at the University of NSW on Wednesday 6 November 2013. Prof Nasser Khalili, Associate Dean Research UNSW, opened the competition.

There were entries from UNSW, CSU, UTS, UNC, UOW, USYD and MQU. There were two tracks, with Track One comprising Project Demos and Track Two the Poster Competition. Sponsors included IEEE NSW Section, Dolby, CSIRO, NICTA and UNSW Faculty of Engineering.

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Prizes were presented by Academic staff and Sponsors Representatives.

Project Demo Winner

Kanchana Thilakarathna

Poster Presentation Winners

Chemical processes & devices: Khoon Lim

Electronic Devices: Fahd A. Mohiyaddin

Communications: Chitra Javali

Communications: Mojtaba Maghrebi

Signal Processing: Xiangrong Wang

I wish to thank the Student Branch Counsellor Dr Elias Abutanios, Student Branch Chair Yogita Chapre and the UNSW IEEE Student Branch Committee for all their efforts and hard work in organising the event.

More details are available at http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~ieee/itof2013/index.html

Tony Zaglas IEEE NSW Section Vice Chair 2013

Dr Stuart Hay, Principal Research Scientist CSIRO ICT Centre gave the Keynote Presentation about the Square Kilometre Array

The welcome address was given by Dr Elias Abutanios, IEEE Student Branch Counsellor.

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Power News and Views No Light in August The article No Light in August in the IEEE Power & Energy Magazine for January / February 2014 gave a description of the efforts to restore the power system after a major blackout in the north-eastern United States and parts of eastern Canada on 14 August 2003.

A few of the more interesting points in the article are:

• Loss of power to approximately 50 million people.

• 61.8 GW of load was disconnected, along with 265 generating plants.

• Restoration of 100% of the load took 41 hours.

• In Detroit, the restoration effort was vulnerable to the local utility's computerised application used to prioritize and dispatch repair crews. This function was not operational due to the loss of power, forcing repair crews to make a number of extra trips back to service centres to pick up new work orders.

• Again in Detroit, during the restoration process "access to . . . southern generating plants was hampered by a fire at an oil refinery at the time of the blackout that forced an evacuation of the area".

• Things clearly weren't going their way that day in Detroit, where also five generating units reported burst rupture discs. The rupture discs are designed to fail under stressed conditions and to prevent serious physical damage to the units. However, they apparently didn't have sufficient spare rupture discs to replace those that had operated and this contributed to keeping the five generating units unavailable for more than 24 hours. Maybe a case for reviewing the spares holding of what is probably a fairly cheap component?

• In New York state they had a bit more luck - "an initial attempt to synchronise the upstate New York [electrical] island to the Eastern Interconnection at 6:02 pm by closing [a 500-kV] circuit failed because the frequency difference between the two systems was too large. Interestingly, the synchronisation was actually achieved without operators' knowledge at 6:52 pm , as an automatic reclosing scheme on [a 230-kV] line at the far western end of the [electrical] island detected that the two systems had come close enough in phase angle and voltage to permit a reclosing attempt and the reclosing attempt was successful. When operators again attempted to reclose the [500-kV] circuit at 7:06 pm, it was thus discovered that the two systems were already synchronised".

• The emergency operations centre at the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission in Ottawa had no backup power supply.

Childhood Leukaemia and Powerlines The BBC reports that a study in the British Journal of Cancer of 16,500 children in Britain who developed leukaemia between 1962 and 2008 showed no increased risk of developing childhood leukaemia from living close to HV overhead powerlines.

Whilst the researchers found no overall increased risk over the entire period, their results indicated an excess risk of leukaemia in the earlier years of the study period but this risk decreased over time. They concluded that "a risk declining over time is unlikely to arise from any physical effect of the powerlines and is more likely to be the result of changing population characteristics among those living near powerlines."

Responses to the report show that a divergence of conclusions can be drawn from the study.

http://www.emfs.info/The+Science/Research/Draper/followon+responses.hAtm

These articles kindly contributed by Ray Brown, PES Chapter Chair

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AP/MTTS - NSW Chapter Update

The New South Wales joint chapter of the IEEE Antennas & Propagation Society and Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (AP/MTTS) organizes technical events on developments in antennas and microwave technology.

We organize these events to provide new learning opportunities to students and IEEE members working in these areas. These events are free of charge and open to technical and non-technical audience on first come first come first serve basis.

In mid November to December, the chapter had hosted two IEEE distinguished lecturers and one technical workshop on RFID technology.

Greener Smart Phones Professor Dominique Schreurs from University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium is a distinguished lecturer of IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society. Prof Schreurs gave an emerging talk on “Towards Greener Smart Phones with Microwave Measurements”.

The aim of this talk was to show how microwave measurements impact smart phone design. By optimally engineering the type of measurements made before and after design (linear, nonlinear, load pull, modulation), the efficiency of the design process not only increases, but tougher specifications such as smaller form factor and lower energy consumption can be met more easily.

This observation is especially valid in the design of green multi-mode wireless radios, due to the delicate balance between energy efficiency and linearity (that is, cross talk between channels).

Physical quantities of fruit This lecture was by Prof Monai Krairiksh from King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang Bangkok, Thailand. Prof Monai is a distinguished lecturer of IEEE Antenna and Propagation society and gave an interesting talk on sensing of the physical quantities of fruits.

The talk highlighted how nondestructive determination of dielectric properties of materials is essential in various applications to monitor the nature of an object. Apart from many techniques like near infrared (NIR), X-ray, ultrasonic, and so on, a microwave based technique is of interest due to its low cost, high accuracy, and small size.

In this talk the objective was to describe and present a novel way to determine in situ the ripening of fruits and how they can be applied in real time applications. This methodology has been applied to determine the quality of fruits like Durian, Banana, Mangosteen.

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AP/MTT-S - NSW Chapter Update

RFID Workshop In addition to these talks we also had a half day workshop on RFID technology. The workshop was facilitated by Prof Nemai Karmakar from Monash University, Melbourne.

Prof Karmakar is one of Australia’s eminent RFID experts. He is professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Australia. He possesses approximately 20 years of teaching, design, and development experience in antennas, microwave active and passive circuits, and RFIDs in Canada, Australia, and Singapore.

Prof Karmakar’s talk covered some interesting topics like Chipless RFID for barcode replacement, smart materials for chipless RFID sensing, UWB high gain antennas for chipless RFID readers, Chipless RFID reader architecture and signal processing, Smart antenna for RFID systems. After the talk he also had an extended discussion with students toward future directions of research in RFID technology.

We would also like to thank and acknowledge the support provided by IEEE Student Branch, IEEE MTT-S Student Chapter at Macquarie for all logistic needs.

Antenna & Electromagnetic Engineering Workshop We organised the IEEE New South Wales Workshop on Antenna and Electromagnetic Engineering on March 5th.

Some of the most eminent distinguished speakers in this workshop included:

• IEEE AP-Society distinguished lecturer Professor Yahia Antar from Royal Military College of Canada,

• IEEE AP-Society distinguished lecturer Professor Joshua Le-Wei Li from Monash University, Malaysia,

• IEEE MTT-Society distinguished lecturer Professor Goutam Chattopadhyay from California Institute of Technology, USA, and

• Former IEEE AP-Society distinguished lecturer Professor John L. Volakis, The Ohio State University, USA.

For more information please feel free to contact me or Prof Karu Esselle ([email protected]).

Yogesh Ranga

Chair IEEE NSW AP/MTTs Joint

Chapter

[email protected]

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Macquarie University Student Branch/ MTT-S Student Chapter Update

It is a great pleasure to share with you that IEEE Macquarie University Student Branch has won First Place in IEEE Australia Council - Outstanding Student Branch Award 2013.

A major activity during November 2013 was our “3 Minute Undergraduate Thesis Competition”. The objective was to provide students with a platform to express their thesis work within a limited amount of time. To further focus their thoughts the students were allowed only one presentation slide and were given specific areas to address in their presentation. It made for an interesting and challenging time. Prizes were awarded by NSW Section for the winners.

On 18 November, IEEE Student Branch at Macquarie University organized a workshop in Sensing and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). The purpose of this workshop was to enhance education and industry for RF and Microwave basics and techniques.

In December, an invited lecture on “Towards Greener Smart Phones with Microwave Measurements” was delivered by IEEE MTT-Society Distinguished Lecturer Professor Dominique Schreurs from Katholieke Universiteit (KU) Leuven, Belgium.

[Ed: Please see the preceding article from AP/MTT-S for details of these workshops.]

In March 2014, six invited talks were presented.

A workshop titled “IEEE New South Wales Workshop on Antenna and Electromagnetic Engineering” was held on 3rd March 2014. In this workshop, four IEEE AP/MTT Society Distinguished Lecturers namely; Professor Yahia Antar, Professor Goutam Chattopadhyay, Professor Joshua Le-Wei Li and Professor John L. Volakis will be delivering their lectures.

An invited lecture on 10th March 2014, was delivered by Professor Dr.-Ing. Dirk Manteuffel from Germany.

A lecture on “Gap Waveguides and PMC Packaging: Octave Bandwidth mm- and submm-Wave Applications of Soft & Hard Surfaces, EBGs and AMCs” will be delivered by IEEE AP-Society Distinguished Lecturer Professor Per-Simon Kildal.

Syed Muzahir Abbas Chair IEEE Student Branch/ MTT-S Student Chapter Macquarie University

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Sydney University Conversazione 2013 The 25th Conversazione was held at Sydney University on Friday 1st November 2013.

Conversazione is Sydney University’s Engineering and IT applied research to Industry showcase.

The welcoming address was delivered by Engineering and IT Dean Professor Archie Johnston. Faculty of Engineering and IT Executive Director Keiran Passmore also welcomed and thanked those present.

Conversazione included paper presentations as well as poster competitions for the various fields of Engineering and IT.

Numerous prizes were presented by representatives of the various sponsors. Sponsors included Transgrid, NICTA, ABB, ALSTOM, Ampcontrol, AEMO, Cochlear, Freelancer, NHP, RESMED, SIEMENS, Telstra and Tyree.

A List of prize winners for EIE can be viewed at http://sydney.edu.au/engineering/electrical/about/conversazione2013-winners.html

A List of prize winners for IT can be viewed at http://sydney.edu.au/engineering/it/research/conversazione.shtml

Tony Zaglas IEEE NSW Section Vice Chair 2013

Dr Alistair McEwan of Sydney University congratulating Mr Mitchell Marks

Foundation Director Mr John Gaskell congratulating Mr Danan Thilakanatan

Mr Daren Williams, CTO of Freelancer congratulating Mr Farzad Noorian (below right)

Prof Archie Johnston’s welcoming address (below)

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