In the new millennium of digital communications, everything is wireless everywhere. Electromagnetic waves and propagation drive the wireless physical world. Therefore, it is imperative to teach advanced electromagnetics (AEM) as the core unit in university. AEM is the most abstract discipline in electrical and electronics engineering. The 21st century learners are less math equipped, but more exposed to social media and multi-media contents. For educators innovation in pedagogy is the key to teach the very abstract principle of engineering discipline. The seminar presents a new method of pedagogy drawn from experiential and anecdotal inferences in advanced electromagnetics. Inferences and analogies, which are drawn from nature, fauna, flora, and human interaction in society, help digest complex physical principles and laws of AEM. Such pedagogical practices make students more keen to learn AEM, and retention of complex and abstract concepts is maximised. Speaker A/Prof. Nemai Karmakar of Monash University A/P Nemai Karmakar graduated with BSc (EEE) and MSc (EEE) degrees from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, MSc in EE from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, PhD in ITEE from the University of Queensland, PGDipTHE from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and MHEd from Griffith University. He worked as a microwave design engineer at Mitec Ltd., Brisbane from 1992-1995 and contributed significantly to the development of Optus Mobilesat smart antennas. He taught senior-level courses in electronics, radar, microwave active and passive design and antennas at QUT, NTU, and Monash University. He has been working on collaborative research projects on smart antennas for soil moisture measuring radiometer in L/Ku/K-band downscaling, fully printable chipless RFID sensors for ubiquitous tagging and sensing, wireless power transmission, microwave biomedical imaging and devices, smart antennas for mobile satellite communications, and diagnostics of faulty power equipment. He has many patent applications in chipless RFID and sensors, eight books and about three hundred refereed journal, conference and workshop publications. A/P Karmakar is a graduate member of IEAust and a senior member of IEEE. Registration https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/278754 The Zoom link will be sent one day before the event. The event is co-organised by Australian IEEE AP-MTT Chapters. For further details, please contact Fatemeh Babaeian ([email protected]).  

Multi degree of freedom robotic manipulators often have complicated kinematics and dynamics, each manipulator requires models of kinematics and dynamics before they could be of real robotic use. Such models are essential for the analysis, simulation, optimisation and control of the robot. In this talk, Dr Hamid Abdi will introduce the concepts of modelling robotic manipulators and demonstrate several applications of kinematics and dynamics modelling of these robots that and his team have developed in the past. Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/modelling-robotic-manipulators-for-analysis-optimisation-and-control-tickets-166364164695 Zoom meeting link: https://deakin.zoom.us/j/84766776197?pwd=Z1ppUStNTTdzSUpsRFd6RWRTYXJ0Zz09&from=addon Meeting ID: 847 6677 6197 Password: 29774078 Biography of Presenter: Dr Hamid Abdi is a senior academic in the school of engineering at Deakin University, He is a senior member of IEEE, and PhD with 21 years of work/teaching experience in four universities in Australia, USA, China and Iran. He has vast experience of being a senior lecturer, a senior research fellow, an entrepreneur, and a winner of multiple scientific and entrepreneurship awards. He brings a successful history of chairing large academic units and programs, teaching and mentorship university students and industry personnel. Hamid’s areas of interest are innovative research and entrepreneurship projects, scientific and industry research partnerships, supervision of research projects at PhD and masters levels, and developing university-industry relationships. Hamid is a passionate and driven professional with an extensive track record in areas of control systems, robotics, IoT, system modelling, simulation, and optimisation.  

Join us for the highly anticipated release of a Global AI Standard 6 years in the making There has been a rapid movement worldwide to gain the benefits of AI and automated IT development, both for economic and humanitarian purposes. But the future of our world and our generational legacy will depend on the growth of our collective wisdom and the conscious, thoughtful and ethical way that we design, develop and govern these systems, in order to mitigate the risk of existential harm that such powerful technologies may introduce. Organizations and individuals that embrace this challenge can now utilize a new global standard by the IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization for the advancement of technology for humanity. IEEE 7000TM promotes ‘Value-Based Engineering’, a form of ‘ethics by design. This provides a way to incorporate ethics and human values into the design of IT and AI systems which can be integrated into an organizations’ preferred system development, risk and project management methodologies. More information and registration https://dif.vic.gov.au/event/13808827-a/engineering-collective-wisdom-the-value-of-ethically-aligned-it-standards