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• Congratulations to all our successful ARC awardees

  EIE researchers have been successful in winning three ARC DP grants and two APDs and will receive over $955,000. Well done! Read more...

• Future Trends for Power Systems

  A Short Course to honour Professor David Hill.

• Highlights from Sydney Uni Live 2009

  Flash Photo Album from Courses and Careers Day at Electrical & Information Engineering.

• Intelligent Grid - The World Scene

  A Keynote Address at the Energy Futures in Regional Australia, 8-10 November 2009, Bendigo, Victoria

  Professor Vassilios G. Agelidis has been invited to give a keynote address at the Energy Futures in Regional Australia, a National Conference updating Regional Leaders on the Social, Economic and Environmental Issues for Creating a Sustainable Future.
  
  The first day program includes (provisionally):
  Opening of Conference: the Hon Greg Combet. Minister assisting the Minister for Climate Change.
  
  First Keynote Address: The Hon Gavin Jennings MLC, Victorian Minister for Environment and Climate Change.
  
  Second Keynote Address: Professor Vassilios G. Agelidis, Dept of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Sydney. World Scene.
  
  Third Keynote Address: Kane Thornton, Hydro Tasmania.
  
  Australian Scene - Part One - Renewable Energy in a changing climate. The policies needed for the accelerated deployment of renewable energy throughout Australia.
  
  Fourth Keynote Address: Professor Hugh Outred, Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales. Australian Scene - Part Two - Infrastructure and Policy.
  
  For full provisional programme of the entire conference and biographies of all conference speakers please visit the link above.

• Introducing the Centre of Excellence in Power Engineering at the University of Sydney

  We are one of Australia's leading research centres in power engineering, intelligent grid technologies and sustainable energy systems. We are seeking high caliber individuals from around the globe to join our research team and contribute to our continuous search of excellence. Read more...

• Power Engineering Research Seminar, 7 August 2009

  VSCs-Based STATCOM Technology: Topologies, Control and Applications

• Visit to King Mongkut University in Bangkok

  Prof Branka Vucetic recently visited the King Mongkut University in Bangkok where she discussed the implementation of a recently signed MOU between Sydney University EIE and KMITL. Read more...

• $5 million partnership with the University of Sydney to power EnergyAustralia's Smart Grid

  The University of Sydney and EnergyAustralia have signed an agreement, on May 26, a $5million partnership to lead smart grid development in Australia and train the next generation of power engineers. Read more...

• First-Year Scholarships Opportunity from the Australian Power Institute

  API is offering Power Engineering Bursaries to first year students with an interest in areas of engineering relevant to power industry.

• Research Seminar: Model Predictive Direct Torque Control: Algorithm, Performance Evaluation and Recent Developments

  Research Seminar: Model Predictive Direct Torque Control: Algorithm, Performance Evaluation and Recent Developments Dr Tobias Geyer Model Predictive Direct Torque Control (MPDTC) is an emerging drive control concept at the intersection of power electronics and modern control theory with a solid industrial support.

• Congratulations to Prof Branka Vucetic !

  Prof Branka Vucetic has become a member of the Australian Research Council College of Experts for Mathematics, Information and Communications, for three years, starting from 1 January 2009. She also received a Telenor Best Paper Award in December 2008.

• HEDLOC™ Graduate Program and Sydney University Awards

  HEDLOC™ in partnership with the University of Sydney offers a graduate program as well as two annual academic awards.

• Electrical and Information Engineering Student Mentoring Program

  First year students,and particularly international students often face difficulties in the transition to university life especially if it is in a foreign country. Experience shows that it can be most helpful to students to be associated with an experienced student (international or local) who can serve as a mentor to him/her. In the past many students have offered to mentor with pleasing results for mentor and mentee alike. Read more...

• Australian Defence Force Undergraduate Sponsorship

  Australian Defence Force Undergraduate Sponsorship - Applications are OPEN NOW!! The ADF Sponsored Undergraduate Scholarship offers students the opportunity to continue studying at your chosen uni whilst being a member of the ADF.

• Switching off our lights for Earth Hour on Saturday, 28 March

  The School will switch off its lights in support of the Earth Hour initiative.

• Flexible Alternating Current Transmission Systems (FACTS)

  The seminar will be held on Thursday, 12 March 2009, at Engineers Australia Harricks Auditorium, Ground Floor, 8 Thomas St, Chatswood. Professor Vassilios G Agelidis will offer an overview of the technology developments with respect to FACTS and will explain how such technologies can assist utilities to achieve a more economic, more efficient, more intelligent, more automated control and operation of the transmission network. Read more...

• CDIO (Conceive - Design - Implement - Operate)

  Our School is adopting an innovative educational framework for producing the next generation of graduate engineers. This framework, called CDIO (Conceive - Design - Implement - Operate), originated at MIT and is now supported by a consortium over 30 Universities across the world. It provides undergraduate students with an education which stresses engineering fundamentals set in the context of real-world systems and products. Read more...

• Inauguration of the new Systems Laboratory

  The School has inaugurated a new $0.25 million Systems Laboratory for teaching Electrical and Information Engineering. The new Laboratory is modeled on the CDIO approach to Engineering Education, which was initiated by MIT. The new and innovative learning laboratory is focused on Active Learning. It enables a variety of learning modes, and facilitates them with flexible spaces that also enhance interactive and group learning. The new integrated learning space is a pioneering Laboratory - one of the first of its kind in the University.

• The Nuclear Engineering Panel, Sydney Branch of Engineers Australia Public Lecture

  will be held on Wednesday, 26 November 2008, at Engineers Australia Harricks Auditorium, Ground Floor, 8 Thomas St, Chatswood. The subject "Nuclear Education" will allow the speaker, Professor Vassilios G. Agelidis, EnergyAustralia Chair of Power Engineering, to open the subject further to embrace broader aspects of power generation.

• Congratualtions to all ARC awardees [20 October 2008]

  Our School has done superlatively this year in this Australian Research Council (ARC) National Competitive Grants Program. The School has been awarded $2 million for 6 projects. It is a record performance for our School.

• 2008 Research Conversazione

  The 2008 Research Conversazione was held from 12.30 on Friday 31 October. The Conversazione enables 4th year and postgraduate students to showcase their research with a poster display for industry, academic staff and peers. Industry sponsored awards were presented in several categories from the discipline-based of both 4th year and postgraduate projects to the more general awards for 'addressing society's needs" or "potential for commercialisation". Further details about the EIE contribution to Conversazione can be found at Research Conversazione 2008 site .

• Fleurs Radiotelescope[27 September 2008]

  Something of an anniversary - the digital receiver at the Fleurs radiotelescope formerly run by EIE was shut off 20 years ago today.

• New Institutes and Programs[22 September 2008]

  The School is strongly represented in two new Institutes:

  (i) The Institute for Sustainable Solutions is a new multi-disciplinary Institute, and the School participates through the involvement of Vassilios Agelidis and the Power Engineering research.
  (ii) The Institute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS) is a new multi-disciplinary Institute, and the School participates through the involvement of Robert Minasian and the Fibre-optics and Photonics research. A new Master of Photonics and Optical Science has been launched in the Institute. This Masters program includes ELEC5511 Optical Communication Systems as a core course, and will bring additional EFTSU funding into EIE.

• Introducing TECHLAND™[13 August 2008]

  Professor Vassilios G. Agelidis, EnergyAustralia Chair of Power Engineering has received significant financial support exceeding $3M from private donors, industry and the University of Sydney towards realising TECHLAND™; a unique combination of a professional engineering environment and curriculum integrating advanced methods of teaching and learning activities that resemble professional industrial practices. One of the fundamental aspects of TECHLAND™ is that it requires considerable input from industry at every step. We are very fortunate at the University of Sydney to have many industrial partners supporting such vision. Its physical infrastructure will be unique to Australia and will become available in January 2009. For further information, please email Professor Agelidis, v.agelidis@ee.usyd.edu.au.
  TECHLAND™ = Teaching Engineering with Cooperative Holistic Learning and Advanced Noetic Development

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