Welcome to the official website of the IEEE Western Australia (WA) Section. IEEE WA Section is a not-for-profit technical unincorporated association registered with the Australian Business Registrar (ABN 73 150 912 699), and represents the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE) in Western Australia. In this website, you will find information about the Section, its sub-units, committee and activities.
VALE - Kit Po Wong (Born: 7 Oct 1946 Died: 8 Jul 2018)
It is with deep sadness and heavy hearts that we announce the passing of our great colleague and friend Professor Kit Po Wong.
Our Tribute to Kit Po Wong (PDF: 494 KiB)
Announcements
DICTA 2019 IEEE best student technical paper award
Awarded to Can Peng, Kun Zhao, Arnold Wiliem, Teng Zhang, Peter Hobson, Anthony Jennings, and Brian C Lovell for their paper "To What Extent Does Downsampling, Compression, and Data Scarcity Impact Renal Image Analysis?".
Outstanding WA PES/PELS Engineer 2019 - Nominations Invited
PES or PELS IEEE membership (mandatory).
Closing Date: 20 December 2019
Nominations are invited for the 2019 Chapter Outstanding Engineer Award. This award is organised by the IEEE joint Power and Energy Society & Power Electronics Society Western Australia Chapter. It recognises the outstanding contributions of a local engineer to the power engineering profession.
For details read read the nomination instructions.
IEEE Annual General Meeting (AGM) and dinner
The AGM (meeting) : Thursday 5th December Aquarium Seafood Restaurant, 202 Great Eastern Highway, Ascot: From 5:30 pm for a 6:00 pm start.
There is plenty of parking in front, beside and behind this dining complex.
Some refreshments and nibbles will be served.
The AGM dinner: Thursday 5th December Thursday 5th December Aquarium Seafood Restaurant, 202 Great Eastern Highway, Ascot: From 7:15 pm for a 7:30 pm start.
A banquet menu will be served but other diets can be catered for. When you register interest please indicate any dietary restrictions. BYO wine only, corkage fee applies.
Cost to each IEEE Member $20 AUD, $20 per member's first guest $20 AUD. Partners are warmly welcomed as the first guest.
For second and any additional guests $50 AUD per additional guest.
To pay on the night (cash only please) to Harry McDonald
Places will be limited. Please contact the section secretary Farhad Shahnia f.shahnia@murdoch.edu.au to register. Please indicate how many guests will be joining you. If for any reason you need to cancel after registering please let us know. Last year we had 30% no shows.
Call For 2020 Nominations
The IEEE is the largest professional engineering organisation in the world with over 400,000 members worldwide. Western Australia has over 600 members.
Each year the term of the elected officers ends on the 31st Dec and the newly elected officers commence early in the following year. Many of the volunteers continue to support the IEEE and nominate from year to year. The IEEE Western Australia Section and it's technical society chapters is inviting nominations from existing IEEE committee members and also members at large to serve on its committees in 2020.
The main roles are: chair, vice chair, treasurer and secretary on each of the committees. There are other roles e.g. webmaster, technical activities coordinator, awards and recognition coordinator, student activities coordinator, educational activities coordinator, membership development.
There are also affinity groups Women In Engineering (WIE) and Young Professionals (YP) where the group focuses on particular of interest areas that extend beyond technical and embrace diverse lifestyle topics.
As a member of these committees you will get the opportunity to work with other IEEE volunteers and perhaps gain new skills or sharpen existing ones that can be applied in volunteer roles or help you in your employment. Some examples: organisation skills, minute taking, financial management, seminar and conference operations. The amount of time that you devote to volunteering is up to you and the role that you might enjoy, either because it suits your existing skills or you would like some challenges.
It can be a foot in the door to other IEEE volunteer activities locally and internationally plus career progression /recognition.
The IEEE is an international organisation and many volunteers get the opportunity to represent Western Australia or a particular engineering discipline overseas.
Most of the work undertaken by these committees relates to technical events including international conferences.
The main roles are:
- Chair
- Vice Chair
- Treasurer
- Secretary
You could also join as a general committee member and decide on a specific role after the AGM.
The organisational units are:
- Western Australia Section – as the oversight group for all the WA activities
- Circuits and Systems (CAS) Chapter
- Joint Computational Intelligence /Robotics & Automation (CIS and RAS) Chapter
- Communications (Comsoc) Chapter
- Computer (CS) Chapter
- Joint Electron Devices/ Solid State Circuits / Photonics (ESP) Chapter
- Joint Power & Energy and Power Electronics (PES / PELS) Chapter
- Systems Man & Cybernetics (SMC) Chapter
- Signal Processing (SP) Chapter
- Circuits and Systems (CAS) Chapter
- Industrial Electronics (IE) Chapter
- Oceanic Engineering (OE) Chapter (Australia wide chapter rather than a WA chapter)
- Society On Social Implications Of Technology (SSIT) (national chapter with WA representation)
- Young Professionals (YP)
- Women In Engineering (WIE)
The closing date for the formal nominations is COB Friday the 29th Nov 2019.
Outstanding IEEE WA Section volunteer awards
The IEEE WA section is seeking nominations for 4 outstanding IEEE volunteer of the year awards.
These are:
- WA section outstanding volunteer- WA section outstanding YP volunteer
- WA section outstanding WIE volunteer
- WA section outstanding student volunteer
Applications will close by COB on the 31st October 2019.
Winners will be advised by mid November 2019 and expected presentation of certificate at the AGM on the 5th Dec 2019.
Please read the guidelines linked for each award above and complete the nomination form.
For any other queries please contact Assoc Prof SM Muyeen (sm.muyeen@curtin.edu.au) or Harry McDonald (harry.mcdonald@ieee.org).
IEEE WA section support for STEM program in Western Australia
Seeking expressions of interest from IEEE WA Members
STEM Professionals in Schools is a CSIRO national volunteer program that facilitates voluntary partnerships between schools and industry to bring real STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) into the classroom.
The STEM Professionals in Schools program partners teachers with STEM professionals to enhance STEM teaching practices and deliver engaging STEM education in Australian schools. STEM Professionals in Schools is funded by the Australian Government Department of Education and Training.
More details: STEM_csiro_support_jun_2019.doc.
IEEE WA Section meetings
The IEEE WA section meets approximately every 6 weeks to discuss both operational items and long term goals.
All of the sub-units are represented at the section meeting - technical chapters, student branches, WIE, and YP. Volunteers also manage other specialised portfolios like web page, awards, and industry liaison.
The 2019 meetings are hosted at Murdoch University. On this occasion the meeting was hosted at Curtin University and a new pull up banner was on display. The pull up banner and the fabric banner are part of the sections plans to promote the IEEE brand at events. A proposal to form a new Industrial Electronics chapter was also discussed and approved at this meeting.
All of the entities are always looking for new volunteers to help. Please contact the section chairperson Harry McDonald at harry.mcdonald{at}ieee.org for further information.