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IEEEQUEENSLAND SECTION

NEWSLETTER

June 2016

Volume 19 - Issue 2Print Post Approval No. PP4458860011Editor: David Russell ([email protected])

In this issue:

Section Chair’s Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Treasurer’s Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3Newsletter Editor’s Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5Computational Intelligence Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Control Systems/Robotics and Automation Societies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Microwave Theory and Techniques/Antennas and Propagation Societies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Power and Energy & Dielectric and Electrical Insulation Societies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Women in Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Young Professionals Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Griffith University Gold Coast Student Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14Griffith University Nathan Student Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Queensland Section Office Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182017 Call for Nominations for IEEE Queensland Section Office Holder Positions . . . . . . . . . . . 21

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IEEE QUEENSLAND SECTION NEWSLETTER JUNE 2016

Section Chair’s Report

Welcome to IEEE Queensland’s second Newsletter for2016.

Our world seems to be in a constant state of change.The technology mix that we relied on last year willbe subtly different next year. Major changes haverecently occurred in our national energy markets. Forexample, in South Australia they have a high per-capita installation of wind turbines and solar panels.The consequent reduced demand for coal-generatedelectricity has resulted in the Leigh Creek Coal Mineand the Port Augusta Power Station being shut down.Now South Australia purchases its baseload electricitydemand from Victorian (coal-fired) power stations. InQueensland, some of the less productive coal minesare in the process of being sold. These changes havenegatively impacted on traditional engineering jobmarkets. On the up side, there is a rapid take-up of

solar PV and there is a high appetite for energy storageR&D.

Agility is everything. Keep abreast of recent develop-ments and don’t get left behind. Our teams typicallyorganise over 60 conferences, workshops and seminarseach year to help you keep up to date.

The pages that follow describe our most recent events.For instance, Dr Robert Kennedy is organising aworkshop on HF Over-the-Horizon Radar which will beheld at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centreon 22 July 2016.

We are calling for volunteers to nominate for 2017Chapter and Affinity Group positions. Please contacta member of our team if you have capacity to organiseevents of interest to our members.

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Treasurer’s Report

There has been an improvement in the section’sfinances since my last report in the April 2016newsletter. This has been brought about partly by bettercontrol over expenditure and partly by an increase inthe value of funds on deposit.

At the time of writing, the bank balance is approxi-mately $8,000. A cheque for $US8,398.75 (the annualIEEE rebate) is due and should be in the bank by thetime you read this report. The rebate income will bringthe bank balance to approximately $19,500.

Funds on deposit now total $111,976.59, the highestit has ever been, and 26.5% higher than in June 2015.The increase is due to receipts from two conferencesthat were held in 2015.

Combining the term deposits and the current accountbalance gives the section a net worth of $131,476, thehighest ever recorded. This augers well for the section’sfuture, but does not mean we should relax our spendingcontrols.

The section has a fixed annual income, which consistsof the section’s IEEE rebate, sundry other IEEE rebatesearned by high-performing chapters, and interestearned on investments. The latter is a paltry amount.

The highest interest rate available to the sectioncurrently is 3.05% but the majority of our investmentsearn around 2.75%. If the entire $111,976 earned3.05% per annum it would return $3,415. In contrast,the section’s annual student grants total $3,750.

The annual IEEE rebate varies with the value of theAustralian dollar, and with the number of membersregistered at the start of each year. Currently theexchange rate favours the section but this could changein the future as it has in the past.

Only three chapters out of eight are high-performingchapters. Total chapter rebates earn the section approx-imately $2,000 per annum. Together the three sourcesof income bring in approximately $17,000. In contrast,the section spent approximately $28,000 in 2015, butrevenue was slightly higher than normal in that year.

That is why it is important to regulate expenditure sothat it corresponds to our income. New expenditureguidelines have been posted on the section websitehere. Forms are also available on the website forrequesting financial support for chapter and studentactivities. Please familiarise yourself with the formsand use them when it is appropriate.

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Newsletter Editor’s Report

This is the second addition of the IEEE QueenslandSection Newsletter for 2016. Thank you to ourmembers who have contributed to this edition. Thisissue highlights many of the activities our chapters andaffinity groups have undertaken in the last few monthsand details some of the upcoming events. I hope youfind this information interesting and informative.

If you judge a newsletter by the numbers of pages itcontains, this issue passes the weight test. Please notethe final section contains a number of pages that callfor nominations of the 2017 committee, chapters andaffinity groups. If you have some time available andwould like to join the committee, please refer to thesepages.

I was pleased to join a number of other IEEE membersat the annual “Electrical Fraternity Chair Dinner andAwards Presentation” during June.

Venue for the “Electrical Fraternity Dinner”

The diner is jointly hosted by EA, IEEE, EESA, IET

and ITEE. It was a wonderful evening and a greatopportunity to network with members of the electricalfraternity.

Some of our IEEE members at the Dinner

Newsletters from prior years are stored in the section’swebsite archives and are accessible to all members.

If you have any comments or changes you would liketo see in the newsletter, please let me know. I welcomeyour feedback.

Mike Robinson has written some guidelines to followwhen making submissions to the newsletter whichappear on the section’s website. I strongly encourageyou to follow these guidelines when submitting yourreport.

Finally, please feel free to circulate this newsletter tocolleagues and friends who may be interested in theactivities of IEEE. I have included a link below foranyone interested in joining IEEE.

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Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society

Committee:Chair: Robert Kennedy, Boeing Defence AustraliaVice-Chair: Ken Morris, Air Services Australia

So far this year we have held one lecture and we havea one day workshop with IEEE Fellow Dr Joe Fabriziocoming up in July.

5 May 2016Gordon Young from Air Services Australia presenteda lecture based around GLS (GPS based InstrumentLanding System (ILS)). GLS is installed in Sydney.Our Vice-Chair Ken Morris provided support.

ILS systems have been around for a long time, withbasic ILS installed from World War II. ILS unfor-tunately does not allow for multiple approaches andrequires an ILS kit (glide path and localiser) at everyrunway end. GLS solves this limitation.

On 22 July 2016A one day workshop on HF Over-the-Horizon Radar(OTHR) by IEEE Fellow Dr Joe Fabrizio of theAustralian Defence Science and Technology Group(DSTG) will be held.

The workshop introduces the fundamentals of OTHRdesign and operation. This includes HF passive radar,multipath driven geolocation, adaptive processing

techniques and signal separation. Dr Fabrizio is aDistinguished Lecturer for the AESS.

For more information and to register, please downloadthe registration form which is found on the IEEE QldAESS site here.

Radar 2018We have formed the organising committee for theAESS Radar Conference that is coming back toAustralia in 2018. The conference will host a numberof industry & universities delegates from all over theworld.

Please keep an eye out for emails and check our websitefor any updates and vTools for meetings.

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Computational Intelligence Society

Committee:Chair: Amin Gharipour, Griffith UniversityVice-chair: Andrew Lewis, Griffith UniversitySecretary: Zahra Jadidi, Griffith UniversityTreasurer: Alan Liew, Griffith University

Computational Intelligence Society Chapter hasorganized the following seminars this year:

DICTA 2016 conference30 November - 2 December 2016Computational Intelligence Society Chapter will beproviding technical sponsorship of DICTA 2016(Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applica-tions) conference that will be held on the Gold Coast.

July 2016Title: ‘Some Progress in Robotic Vision’Speaker: Professor Peter Corke, Professor of RoboticVision at QUT, and Director of the ARC Centre ofExcellence for Robotic Vision.Abstract: This talk will define and motivate theproblem of robotic vision and discuss some recentprogress at the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision.This includes component technologies such as deeplearning for computer vision and motion, middleware,and end-to-end systems for applications such asagriculture, environmental remediation and assetinspection.

Jun 2016Title: ‘On Cyber Conflict, Industrial Control SystemSecurity, and Feature Selection’Speaker: Dr. Ernest Foo, an active researcher in thearea of information and network security. He has beenresponsible for the design and development of the QUTSCADA security research laboratory.Abstract: Industrial control systems have been movingfrom isolated communications networks to IT networks

connected to corporate networks, making it probablethat these devices are being exposed to the Internet.Many industrial control systems have been designedwith poor or little security features, making themvulnerable to potential attack. This talk discussedrecent incidents of successful cyber attacks againstcritical infrastructure that are changing the landscape ofmodern conflict. In addition, the talk discussed recentresearch that identifies and analyses several featuresets that have been used in studies related to industrialcontrol system communication protocols in order topropose a well-defined initial feature set.

May 2016Title:‘Emerging Technologies for Smart Cities’Speaker: Professor Simon Kaplan, CEO of [ui!]Australia, a German-based smart city company thathas recently set up in Australia.Abstract: Increasing urbanisation is resulting in citiesstruggling to meet the needs of their rapidly-growingpopulations. At the same time there is increasingpressure to reduce the carbon footprint and energyuse of cities, for both economic and climate-changereasons, and a need to do ‘more with less’ in econom-ically difficult times. Unsurprisingly, many citiesare turning to technology to solve this hydra-headedproblem. Smart City technologies broadly have 3 parts:1) Sensors, to gather more data at finer granularitymore frequently; 2) Analytics, to use the data from thesensors, fused with existing data stores within the city,to manage resources better, reduce resource load, andimprove services; and 3) Access, to allow residents ofthe city to track and participate.

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Title: ‘AI: The Future of Travel’Speaker: Dr Kelvin Ross, the a founder of K. J. Ross& Associates, currently employing over 100 specialistsoftware testing consultants, and a NATA accreditedtesting laboratory.Abstract: Recently, Barry Diller (chairman and seniorexecutive of Expedia) forecasted that AI will be travel’snext big thing. Technology disruption from datascience and machine learning will likely have an impacton many different industries and roles. As foretold byDiller, an area that is likely to change dramatically is therole of the travel agent. As more and more consumersbook their travel online, how may online travel agenciesevolve to utilize data science and machine learningto provide greater support to the traveler? Dr KelvinRoss is founder of SkiDreamz.com, a tech startup thatis investigating AI and machine learning to providetravel planning support normally provided by a travelagent. In this presentation, Kelvin explained the activ-ities of a traveller, and at what stages data can be usedto optimize the experience. He discussed a number ofconsiderations:

• Why would AI be a benefit to the traveller andthe travel agent?

• How machine learning algorithms can be appliedto these activities?

• What access to data would further optimize theexperience?

• What human interaction is involved to enhancethe customer experience?

Title: ‘Big Data Fusion for Mining e-Health Data’Speaker: A/Prof Xue Li, DKE Division, School ofInformation Technology & Electrical Engineering, UQAbstract: In medical research and healthcare, there aremany large data sets which are related to each other interms of the clinical trials, medical research publica-tions, Electronic Health Records (EHR), annual healthcheck-up records, and patient bed-side monitoring data.In this talk, he discussed case studies and experimentson how they could connect the relevant medical andhealth data sets together to rank the most influentialtreatments for diseases, to predict the health statesfor ageing individuals, or to predict the mortality ofhospital patients. A graph-based data fusion approach

was introduced to represent the different types ofrelationships among data items and learn from data forpredictions.

March 2016Title: ‘Social Media & Social Network Data Analytics’Speaker: A/Prof Xue Li, DKE Division, School ofInformation Technology & Electrical Engineering, UQAbstract: Social media and networks are a popularplace for people to express their opinions aboutconsumer products, to organize or initiate social events,or to spread news. Some questions would be askedin order to understand the social media and socialnetworks: how can we detect and predict the emergingsensitive events? How can we predict the propagationpatterns of online micro-blogs? How can we under-stand peoples opinions about a current issue, a newproduct, or an important event? This talk was to reportrecent research work on the social media and socialnetworks data mining. A few application systems werereported to answer the above questions.

February 2016Title:‘Big Data Analytics’Speaker: A/Prof Xue Li, DKE Division, School ofInformation Technology & Electrical Engineering, UQAbstract: A stunning story on a successful predictionof 2012 USA Presidential Election with 100% accuracyby Mr Nate Silver has shown that the challenges are notjust to invent new algorithms to deal with large, noisy,and uncertain data, but to link the multiple relevantdata sources, structured or unstructured, together tomake effective recommendations. Information is nowavailable everywhere from the Web, sensor networks,social networks, or the proprietary databases. Conse-quently, making effective and efficient recommenda-tions based on Big Data is becoming a significant andurgent challenge because of complex, fast changingrelationships between data objects. Therefore, thequestion is: how can we make effective recommen-dations based on the relevant information collectedfrom high-speed, time-variant, high-dimensional, anddistributed data sources in the current changing andinterconnected world? This talk introduced currentresearch activities in the big data analytics and researchgroup led by Dr Xue Li and provided insight into theissues in the current research.

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Control Systems/Robotics and AutomationSocieties

Committee:Chair: Dr. Luis Mejias (Queensland University of Technology)Vice-chair: Navinda Kottege (CSIRO)

The IEEE QLD chapter on Control Systems/Roboticsand Automation (CS/RAS) held a meeting on Friday15 April at QUT Gardens Point Campus. During thismeeting Professor Paul Newman gave a talk on MobileAutonomy and Self-Driving Cars. Professor Newmanis the BP Professor of Information Engineering atthe University of Oxford and an EPSRC LeadershipFellow. He heads the Mobile Robotics Group withinthe Department of Engineering Science, which enjoysa world-leading reputation in mobile autonomy devel-

oping machines, robots and cars which map, navigatethrough and understand their environments.

In this talk, Professor Newman explained some of thecompetencies needed to build “intelligent” self-drivingvehicles, explaining what makes it hard, what makes itexciting and how it all comes together in a glorious bitof robotics science. Click here for more information onProfessor Newman.

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Microwave Theory and Techniques/Antennas andPropagation Societies

Committee:Chair: Konstanty Bialkowski, University of QueenslandVice-chair: Antony Lui, The University of QueenslandVice-chair: Morteza Shahpari, Griffith UniversitySecretary: Mostafa Shabani

The MTT/AP Queensland Chapter has a number ofupcoming seminars for the second half of 2016. Thefirst of these is Dr Andrew Horsley from UniversityBasel in Switzerland. His seminar will be on ‘WidefieldMicrowave Imaging using Atoms and Diamond NVCentres’ and will be at the University of Queensland,in the Advanced Engineering Building. This work isable to provide 2D images at a rate of 10Hz with aresolution of up to 60 micro-metres in a 6 mm squarearea.

The next scheduled seminar for our MTT/AP chapteris from Dr Rowan Gilmore on 25 August 2016. EMSolutions is a company head-quartered in Brisbanewhich works on microwave and communicationsystems which range in applications from satelliteand terrestrial to defence. Rowan is an excellentspeaker and the presentation should be suitable for both

academic and industry members alike.

Later in the year (October), we have Professor AriSihvola from Aalto University in Finland. He is an APsociety distinguished lecturer and will be doing a tourof Australia between 23 and 30 October. His seminar inBrisbane will be on the 24 October. Professor Sihvolais an expert in the areas of metamaterials, materials andelectromagnetics.

We also have a number of other events planned for thisyear. Therefore, the best place to check up on upcomingseminars is our website.

For full details on these seminars and other upcomingevents please visit our chapter page on the new IEEE-Queensland website or IEEE vTools.

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Power and Energy & Dielectric and ElectricalInsulation Societies

Committee: Chair: Dr Nilesh Modi, AEMOVice-chair: Rahul Sharma, University of QueenslandSecretary: David Batterham

Professor Janaka Ekanayake delivering the Distinguished Lecture on ‘Wind Generation and Grid Connection’

PES/DEIS chapter had another busy quarter. The activ-ities and achievements are briefly outlined below.

• The chapter combined with CIGRE NGN toorganise an IEEE Distinguished Lecture event on‘Wind Generation and their Grid Connection’.The lecture was given by Professor JanakaEkanayake, Head of Department and Professorof Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Facultyof Engineering, University of Peradeniya, SriLanka. Professor Ekanayake is an expert on windpower generation, their connection and modernpower systems. He is a Senior Member of IEEE(USA), a Fellow of IET (UK), and Member ofthe Institution of Engineers (Sri Lanka).

The lecture covered topics including windturbine basics, operation and control of gener-

ators, wind farm collector network; and gridcode requirements and how they are achievedin modern wind farms. The types of gener-ators covered were fixed speed and doubly fedinduction generators, full power converter windturbines and an introduction to the supercon-ductive type (mainly used offshore). The gridcode requirements covered power curtailments,reactive power support, fault ride through, inertiaresponse and harmonics.

• The chapter organised a seminar on “GridIntegration of Intermittent Renewable EnergySources with Intelligent Loads”. The seminarwas presented by Professor Prabir Barooah, fromthe University of Florida on 26 April 2016.

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• Our chapter was runner-up in IEEE PESOutstanding Chapter Awards for large sections.This is the sixth consecutive year our chapter hasbeen runner-up.

• The chapter called for applications for2016 IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES)Queensland Chapter Conference Travel Prizeto attend IEEE PES General Meeting 2016 inBoston, USA. Congratulations to the followingtwo students who won the prize:

[a] Amit Dhoke from the Universityof Queensland for a paper titled ‘ConditionMonitoring of a Large-scale PV Power Plant inAustralia.’

[b] Juliana Barbosa Nunes from theUniversity of Queensland for a paper titled‘Stochastic Generation and TransmissionPlanning Considering Future Renewable and GasOpportunities in Queensland, Australia.’

• AUPEC2016: The chapter is technically co-sporing the AUPEC2016 conference to be heldin Brisbane, Australia during 25-28 September2016. The theme of the conference is ‘IncreasingRenewable Generation and Battery Storage inPower Systems’. PES/DEIS members areencouraged to participate in the conference.More information about the conference isavailable here.

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Women in Engineering

Committee:Chair: Marie-Luise WilleVice-chair: Negareh GhasemiSecretary: Alexandra Posoldova

The WIE committee is pleased to announce their nextbig event:

CSIRO Queensland Centre for AdvanceTechnologies Facility Tour

9 September 2016 @ 4 PM

This event aims to encourage female engineeringgraduate students to visit and interact with Australia’slargest research and development institution CSIRO.

Queensland Centre for Advanced Technologies(QCAT) is an integrated research and developmentprecinct for the resources and advanced technologyindustries. Graduate (female) Queensland Universitystudents are, however, often not able to visit industrialresearch facilities outside of their common environment

(i.e. universities). Also, most of the female studentsdon’t have a clear vision about their future as femaleengineers. We would like to give the opportunity tograduate students to engage with industry and visitthe CSIRO facilities for potential engineering careeroptions and to find out more about the roles of femaleengineers in industry sectors (especially in CSIRO).

Registration is limited to 30 (female) partic-ipants, so hurry up and register via vTools:https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/40269.

Further details will be distributed via email and ourFacebook page; so stay tuned!

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Young Professionals Program

Committee:Chair: Alexandra PosoldovaVice-chair: Reuben PeterkinSecretary: Rob MakaremiTreasurer: Hamid Moghadam

We started this year with seminar called “Leadershipfor Engineers” by Phoebe Tee, a project managerat Queensland Government Public Safety BusinessAgency. Her talk covered how engineers becomegreat leaders in the industry, with a particular focuson “leading by example”. She described the key traitsof successful leaders as being engaged and involved,valuing people, being consistent with integrity, andthinking positively. She later spoke of the challengesshe faced while transitioning from a design engineer toa manager, as well as being a female leader in a maledominated industry. Following the Q&A, the event wasconcluded with a networking session.

The following “Big Data” seminar was presentedby Professor Xue Li from University of Queensland.Professor Li is honoured as one of the most powerfulpeople in Australia on Big Data by the FinancialReview 2015. He started his talk with his personalexperience on his journey towards Big Data. Thenhe explained how the information which is extractedfrom a large amount of data can be utilized in ouradvantage. As an example, he demonstrated hiswork on extracting information from social media andutilizing it on enhancing the public transport time tableat UQ. Finally, he explained how machine learning canbe used to improve our lifestyle in the era of tablets andcomputers. A networking session followed the Q&A.

Our next event will be a seminar on PowerEngineering, planned for the 2nd half of August. This

event will be held at the University of Queenslandand our guest speaker is Dr. Daniel Eghbal, wherehe will speak about impacts of new technologies ondistribution networks, and the opportunities this bringsfor future power system engineers. Daniel is a FutureNetwork Strategy Engineer at Energex and an adjunctresearch fellow at the University of Queensland. Danielalso serves as the vice chair of the IEEE QueenslandSection. More details about this event including thedate will be published soon.

We are excited to announce the dates for the StartupBootcamp will be 10 & 11 September in Brisbane.People who would like to kick off their startup, as wellas those who just want to know more, are very welcometo attend. Firstly, the event will walk attendees throughdifferent topics related to starting a business fromlegal to business, finance and marketing. Those whowould like to kick off their idea, can find their perfectteam in the afternoon networking session. During thesecond day, teams will learn how to pitch their ideato potential sponsors and work throughout the day ontheir marketing strategies and presentations with helpfrom mentors. Finally, teams will pitch their ideas tojudges with the opportunity to win a prize.

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Griffith University Gold Coast Student Report

Committee:Chair: Reza AkbarzadehVice-chair: Matthew JaySecretary: Tim AlroyTreasurer: Elise Jenkins

The Griffith University Gold Coast Student Branch hasheld three events during Quarter 2 2016.

Networking Event “Know Your Industry”Date: Tuesday 5th April 2016Presenters: Dr Daniel Eghbal (Energex), AnthonyAucone (Ledtek Global), Peter Bull (Noja Power),Jonathan Shepherd (Queensland Academy of Sport)

It is well known that in recent years the collaborationbetween industry and academia has slowly declined. Asengineering students, we find it particularly helpful togain the real world perspectives of engineering profes-sionals due to their exposure to the different challengesfaced in industry. In a bid to help bridge this gap, thebranch hosted an evening that included presentationsfrom industry representatives, dinner and networking.

Anthony Aucone presentation at “Know Your Industry”

The event was attended by over 30 students fromthe Electrical, Electronic, Biomedical and Mechatroniccohort, Griffith academics and a number of industryrepresentatives, four of which delivered presentationsover the course of the evening. Feedback from the eventwas very encouraging with many students enjoying thedifferent perspectives the presenters had to offer. Thebranch would sincerely like to thank Dr Daniel Eghbal

and the other industry representatives who gave theirtime to travel to the Gold Coast and share their experi-ences with the students.

Seminar “Electro-Optic Systems Engineering”Date: Tuesday 3rd May 2016Presenter: Mic Walsh, Chief Engineer, LaserdyneTechnologies

Mic Walsh at “Electro-Optic Systems Engineering”

The Griffith University IEEE Student Branch wasfortunate to host a seminar delivered by Mr MicWalsh of Laserdyne Technologies. With over 20 yearsexperience with electronics engineering design, Micis an expert in all aspects of analogue and digitalelectronics.

The duration of the seminar was two hours. Duringthis time Mic spoke about the systems engineeringapproach as well as PCB design from a real worldperspective. The students in attendance found theseminar particularly insightful and were inspired byMic’s technical skill, knowledge and accomplishmentsas an electronics engineer. The branch is looking tohost Mic again in the coming months for a series ofworkshops on PCB design using Altium.

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Seminar “Advanced Power Electronic Applications”Date: Thursday 2nd June 2016Presenter: Olivier Trescases, Associate Professor,University of Toronto

Power electronics is certainly one of the fast growingindustries. The aim of this area is the design,control, computation and integration of nonlinear, time-varying energy-processing electronic systems with fastdynamics.

Wide-bandgap power semiconductors, combined withnew control techniques and power topologies offertremendous opportunities for renewable energy andtransportation applications. This talk provided anoverview of the research activities of ProfessorTrescases in the area of power electronics at theUniversity of Toronto, focusing on five recent projects:1) Ultracapacitor/Battery Hybrid Energy StorageSystem with Real-Time Power-Mix Control; ValidatedExperimentally in a Custom Electric Vehicle2) A Dual-Mode Driver IC with Monolithic NegativeGate Voltage Capability and Digital Current-ModeController for GaN Power Devices3) A Cell-Level Differential Power Processing IC forConcentrating PV Systems4) Lightweight Silicon Carbide Power Converter for anall Electric Aircraft5) Burst-Mode Resonant LLC Resonant Converterfor an LED Luminaire With Integrated Visible LightCommunication for Smart Buildings

Professor Trescases at “Advanced Power Electronic Appli-cations”

Professor Olivier Trescases received his PhD fromthe University of Toronto in 2007. From 2007 to2008, he worked as a concept engineer and mixed-signal IC designer at Infineon Technologies in Viilach,Austria. While at Infineon, he designed application-specific ICs in BCD technologies for safety-criticalautomotive applications, such as electronic controlunits for airbag modules. Dr. Trescases joined theDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineeringat the University of Toronto as an Assistant Professorin 2009 and was promoted to Associate Professor in2014. While on sabbatical in 2016, Dr. Trescasesworked at the Texas Instruments Kilby Labs in SantaClara, USA. He conducts research on advanced powerelectronics for automotive, industrial, aerospace andrenewable energy applications. He is the co-inventorfor six patents and has published over 65 papers inIEEE conferences and journals. He received fourbest-paper awards, one IEEE Vehicular Technologyaward as well as the 2010 Green Innovation Awardfrom the City of Toronto. He is the Vice Chair ofIEEE Toronto Section with over 5000 members andhas served on the technical committee of various IEEEconferences, including the Applied Power ElectronicsConference (APEC), the International Symposium onPower Semiconductor Devices and ICS (ISPSD), theCustom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC) and theVehicle Power and Propulsion Conference (VPPC).Since 2015, he is an Associate Editor of the IEEETransactions on Power Electronics and currently is thevice chair of IEEE Toronto section.

This event attracted almost 20 students, academics andindustry members. The attendees found this talk veryinformative and requested we organise more of suchtopics for future events.

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Griffith University Nathan Student Report

Committee:Chair: Mojtaba MoghimiVice-chair: Nazanin NadianSecretary: Arslan Akram NizamiTreasurer: Domagoj Leskarac

Griffith University IEEE Student Branch (NathanCampus) started its activities with a new committeein February 2016. Our main purpose is to provide theopportunity for students to get familiar with differentactivities and various sections of IEEE. In order toachieve this goal, we held two events in first semesterof 2016, a student recruiting event in conjunction withan Electric Bike presentation and an Advanced PowerElectronics seminar later in the semester. Our planfor second half of 2016 is looking fantastic with atleast two IEEE Student Branch events. One proposedevent will relate to Smart Buildings, with a presen-tation surrounding the Sir Samuel Griffiths Centre(N78) located at Griffith University, and another eventon advancements in power electronics with invitedProfessor Petar Grbovic from Huawei Germany.

Electric Bike Presentation and Recruiting Event:April 2016

Our first event as Griffith University IEEE StudentBranch Nathan was a presentation on the advance-ments in Electric Bicycles. Our guest speaker for theevening was Nick Willis, from Electric Bikes Brisbane.Students and IEEE members had the opportunity to notonly learn about motor, power electronic and batterydesigns, but how they are utilised and implemented aswell. Nick brought some of the top models in electricbikes to the presentation and gave the opportunity totest and ride the bikes. The event was held on 19April 2016 from 16:30 to 17:30 at Griffith University -Nathan campus. The seminar was followed by a BBQfor IEEE members. We achieved a total number of 35attendees with members of public, new and existing

IEEE members. Eleven new IEEE students signing upwas the considerable outcome of recruitment event aswell as the discussions on Electric Bikes.

Mr Nick Willis from Electric Bikes Brisbane

Advanced Power Electronics for Renewable EnergyApplications: June 2016

The second event of Griffith University IEEE StudentBranch (Nathan) was a seminar presented by AssociateProfessor Olivier Trescases from University of Toronto.Professor Trescases discussed five recent researchprojects of his power electronics group:

1) Ultracapacitor/Battery Hybrid Energy StorageSystem with Real-Time Power-Mix Control ValidatedExperimentally in a Custom Electric Vehicle.2) A Dual-Mode Driver IC with Monolithic NegativeGate Voltage Capability and Digital Current-ModeController for GaN Power Devices.3) A Cell-Level Differential Power Processing IC for

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Concentrating-PV Systems.4) Lightweight Silicon Carbide Power Converter for anElectric Aircraft.5) Burst-Mode Resonant LLC Resonant Converterfor an LED Luminaire with Integrated Visible LightCommunication for Smart Buildings.

Professor Olivier Trescases presented these advance-ments in research with an overview and in-depthdiscussion with the 21 attendees of mostly IEEEmembers on the day. He conducts research onadvanced power electronics for automotive, industrial,aerospace and renewable energy applications. He is theVice Chair of IEEE Toronto Section with over 5000

members and has served on the technical committeeof various IEEE conferences. Since 2015 he is anAssociate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on PowerElectronics.

The event was held on 9 June at Griffith UniversityNathan Campus and a pizza lunch was provided forIEEE members after the seminar.

In order to get information about our future eventsand activities, you can contact us through Email at([email protected]) or via our Facebookpage.

Professor Lu introducing Professor Trescases

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Queensland Section Office HoldersOffice Office holder ContactSection OfficersChair Garry Einicke [email protected] Daniel Eghbal [email protected] Ghavam Nourbakhsh [email protected] Mike Robinson [email protected] Past Chair Tapan Saha [email protected]

Newsletter Editor David Russell [email protected] Mike Robinson [email protected] Activities Dian Tjondronegoro [email protected] Development Yateendra Mishra [email protected] and Recognition Preethi Preethichandra [email protected] Activities Jaroslaw Krata [email protected] Activities Kalum Udagepola kalum [email protected] Australia Liaison Tapan Saha [email protected] Program Mike Robinson [email protected]

Chapter OfficersAerospace and Electronic Systems SocietyChair Robert Kennedy [email protected] Ken Morris [email protected] Vacant

Australian Oceanic Engineering SocietyIEEE Queensland Section Representative Navinda Kottege [email protected]

Computational Intelligence SocietyChair Amin Gharipour [email protected] Andrew Lewis [email protected] Zahra Jadidi [email protected] Alan Liew [email protected]

Computer SocietySecretary Jingxin Xu [email protected] Mike Robinson [email protected]

Control Systems SocietyRobotics and Automation SocietyJoint ChapterChair Luis Mejias [email protected] Navinda Kottege [email protected] Vacant

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Office Office holder ContactEngineering in Medicine and Biology SocietyChair Mohan Karunanithi [email protected] Qing Zhang [email protected] Yan Li [email protected]

Microwave Theory & Techniques SocietyAntennas & Propagation SocietyJoint ChapterChair Konstanty Bialkowski [email protected] Antony Lui [email protected] Morteza Shahpari [email protected] Mostafa Shabani [email protected]

Power & Energy SocietyDielectrics and Electrical Insulation SocietyJoint ChapterChair Nilesh Modi [email protected] Rahul Sharma [email protected] David Batterham [email protected]

Signal Processing SocietyCommunications SocietyJoint ChapterChair Andrew Bradley [email protected] Vaughan Clarkson [email protected] Vacant

Society on Social Implications of TechnologyIEEE Queensland Section representative Samuli Haataja [email protected]

Women in EngineeringChair Marie Luise Wille [email protected] Negareh Ghasemi [email protected] Alexandra Posoldova [email protected]

Young Professionals ProgramChair Alexandra Posoldova [email protected] Reuben Peterkin [email protected] Rob Makaremi [email protected] Hamid Moghadam [email protected]

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Office Office holder ContactStudent CounsellorsCentral Queensland University - Brisbane Sangeetha Kutty [email protected] Queensland University - Rockhampton Edward Palmer [email protected] University - Gold Coast Jahangir Hossain [email protected] University - Nathan Sascha Stegen [email protected] University of Technology Mark Broadmeadow [email protected] University of Queensland (ITEE) Rahul Sharma [email protected] University of Queensland (PES) Tapan Saha [email protected] of Southern Queensland Vacant

Student BranchesGriffith University(Gold Coast Campus)Chair Reza Akbarzadeh [email protected] Matthew Jay [email protected] Tim Alroy [email protected] Elise Jenkins [email protected]

Griffith University(Nathan Campus)Chair Mojtaba Moghimi [email protected] Nazanin Nadian [email protected] Arslan Akram Nizami [email protected] Domagoj Leskarac [email protected]

The University of Queensland(ITEE)Chair Jeremy Taylor [email protected]

The University of Queensland(Power & Energy Society)Chair Hanxiao Zhang [email protected] Lakshitha Naranpanawe [email protected] Xinren Marcus Jiang [email protected] Vacant

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2017 Call for Nominations for IEEE QueenslandSection Office Holder Positions

All positions within the Queensland Section and its Chapters and Affinity Groups will be vacant in 2017. The termwill be from 1 January to 31 December 2017.

Names of past and current section office holders can be found on Queensland section’s website.

Nominations for the section, chapters and affinity groups should be emailed to the Chair of the relevant nominatingcommittee by COB 30 September 2016.

The following pages include ‘call for nomination’ letters for the 2017 IEEE Queensland Section elections. Pleaseread the letters and consider nominating for any positions for which you are eligible.

Call for Nominations:Officers & Members for the 2017 ExecutiveCommittee of the IEEE Queensland Section

The IEEE Queensland Section was established in 1985 and currently has 1000+ members (Worldwide, the IEEE hasover 429,000 members in more than 160 countries). The Queensland Section has a proud tradition of volunteer serviceto the community of technology professionals. Queensland Section is now calling for nominations for officers andmembers of the IEEE Queensland Section executive committee in 2017. A full list of current and previous committeemembers is available on the section’s website.

According to the IEEE MGA manual, that governs our Section, all elected offices and other positions on the executivecommittee will become vacant on 31 December each year. Therefore, Queensland section is calling for nominationsfor the elected offices of:

• Chair

• Vice-Chair

• Treasurer

• Secretary

• Webmaster

• Newsletter Editor

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• Chairs of the following Standing Committees:

– Membership Development Activities Committee

– Professional/Career Activities Committee

– Student Activities Committee

– Educational Activities Committee

– Awards & Recognition Committee

Eligibility: To be eligible, a nominee must be an active IEEE Queensland Section member of the Graduate StudentMember, Member, Senior Member or Fellow grade. Volunteers who have served two consecutive years in a roleimmediately prior to next year or six years in their membership period are NOT eligible for further service in thesame role.

IEEE Queensland section always encourage and welcome members to join the committee. However, the nomineeshould have reasonable experience to conduct the expected duties. (e.g. the Webmaster role requires experience inweb design and maintenance, and a knowledge of responsive web design principles; the Treasurer role requires basicknowledge of accounting principles and some exposure to accounting software, specifically NetSuite; the NewsletterEditor role requires a good command of English and experience with document preparation software, specificallyLaTeX).

Term: The new committee would serve for one year from 1 January until 31 December 2017.

Duties: The duties of the officers can be downloaded from the resources section of the website under officer guides.

Nominations should be emailed to the Chair of the Section Nominating Committee by COB 30 September 2016.Details of the nominating committees will be available on section’s website. The Nominating Committee will thenprepare a list of candidates for election by Section members (if necessary) in accordance with IEEE by-laws. Theelection results will be announced at the Sections Annual General Meeting in late November-Early December.

IEEE greatly values the contributions of the volunteers and we hope you will consider volunteering for a committeeposition next year.

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Call for Nominations for the 2017 IEEE Queensland Section Committee

Aerospace and Electronic Systems Chapter

The Queensland Aerospace and Electronic Systems Chapter prides itself on its efforts to sustain and grow our technicalcommunity through the organisation of seminars and activities that inform our members of latest developments as wellas promote collegiality and networking. All elected offices and other positions on the chapter committee will becomevacant on 31 December 2017. The Chapter Nominating Committee is therefore seeking nominations of volunteers foroffices in the new Chapter committee who would be prepared to further its mission. Nominations are sought for thepositions of Chair, Vice-Chair and Secretary.

Eligibility: To be eligible, a nominee must be an active IEEE Queensland Section Aerospace and Electronic SystemsChapter member of the Graduate Student Member, Member, Senior Member or Fellow grade. Volunteers who haveserved two consecutive years in a role immediately prior to next year or six years in their membership period are NOTeligible for further service in the same role.

IEEE Queensland section always encourage and welcome members to join the chapter committees. However, thenominee should have reasonable experience to conduct the expected duties.


Duties: The duties of the officers are as follows (details are available on the website):-

1. The Chapter Chair shall serve as Chair for all meetings of the Chapter and be its representative on the QueenslandSection Executive Committee (which meets once a month).

2. The Chapter Vice-Chair shall assist the Chair in the coordination of all Chapter activities. At the request ofthe Chapter Chair or in the absence of the Chapter Chair, the Chapter Vice-Chair shall chair meetings of theChapter or represent the Chapter at the Section Executive Committee meetings.

3. The duties of the Chapter Secretary shall include correspondence, the keeping of the minutes of the Committeemeetings, mailing notices, and submission of meeting reports to the Queensland Section Secretary orSecretary/Treasurer and to IEEE Headquarters directly at the end of each year and such other duties as areassigned to him/her by the Chair.

Nominations should be emailed to the Chair of the Chapter Nominating Committee by COB 30 September 2016.Details of the nominating committees will be available on section’s website. The Nominating Committee will thenprepare a list of candidates for election by the society members (if necessary) in accordance with IEEE by-laws. Theelection results will be announced at the Section’s Annual General Meeting in late November-Early December.

IEEE greatly values the contributions of the volunteers and we hope you will consider volunteering for a chaptercommittee position next year.

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Computational Intelligence Society Chapter

The Queensland Computational Intelligence Society Chapter prides itself on its efforts to sustain and grow ourtechnical community through the organisation of seminars and activities that inform our members of latest develop-ments as well as promote collegiality and networking. All elected offices and other positions on the chapter committeewill become vacant on 31 December 2017. The Chapter Nominating Committee is therefore seeking nominations ofvolunteers for offices in the new Chapter committee who would be prepared to further its mission. Nominations aresought for the positions of Chair, Vice-Chair and Secretary.

Eligibility: To be eligible, a nominee must be an active IEEE Queensland Section Computational Intelligence SocietyChapter member of the Graduate Student Member, Member, Senior Member or Fellow grade. Volunteers who haveserved two consecutive years in a role immediately prior to next year or six years in their membership period are NOTeligible for further service in the same role.









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Computer Society Chapter

The Queensland Computer Society Chapter prides itself on its efforts to sustain and grow our technical communitythrough the organisation of seminars and activities that inform our members of latest developments as well as promotecollegiality and networking. All elected offices and other positions on the chapter committee will become vacant on31 December 2017. The Chapter Nominating Committee is therefore seeking nominations of volunteers for offices inthe new Chapter committee who would be prepared to further its mission. Nominations are sought for the positionsof Chair, Vice-Chair and Secretary.

Eligibility: To be eligible, a nominee must be an active IEEE Queensland Section Computer Society Chapter memberof the Graduate Student Member, Member, Senior Member or Fellow grade. Volunteers who have served two consec-utive years in a role immediately prior to next year or six years in their membership period are NOT eligible for furtherservice in the same role.









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Control Systems/Robotics & Automation SocietiesChapter

The Queensland Control Systems/Robotics & Automation Societies Chapter prides itself on its efforts to sustain andgrow our technical community through the organisation of seminars and activities that inform our members of latestdevelopments as well as promote collegiality and networking. All elected offices and other positions on the chaptercommittee will become vacant on 31 December 2017. The Chapter Nominating Committee is therefore seekingnominations of volunteers for offices in the new Chapter committee who would be prepared to further its mission.Nominations are sought for the positions of Chair, Vice-Chair and Secretary.

Eligibility: To be eligible, a nominee must be an active IEEE Queensland Section Control Systems/Robotics &Automation Societies Chapter member of the Graduate Student Member, Member, Senior Member or Fellow grade.Volunteers who have served two consecutive years in a role immediately prior to next year or six years in theirmembership period are NOT eligible for further service in the same role.









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Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society Chapter

The Queensland Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society Chapter prides itself on its efforts to sustain and grow ourtechnical community through the organisation of seminars and activities that inform our members of latest develop-ments as well as promote collegiality and networking. All elected offices and other positions on the chapter committeewill become vacant on 31 December 2017. The Chapter Nominating Committee is therefore seeking nominations ofvolunteers for offices in the new Chapter committee who would be prepared to further its mission. Nominations aresought for the positions of Chair, Vice-Chair and Secretary.

Eligibility: To be eligible, a nominee must be an active IEEE Queensland Section Engineering in Medicine & BiologySociety Chapter member of the Graduate Student Member, Member, Senior Member or Fellow grade. Volunteers whohave served two consecutive years in a role immediately prior to next year or six years in their membership period areNOT eligible for further service in the same role.









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Microwave Theory & Techniques/Antennas &Propagation Chapter

The Queensland Microwave Theory & Techniques/Antennas & Propagation Chapter prides itself on its efforts tosustain and grow our technical community through the organisation of seminars and activities that inform our membersof latest developments as well as promote collegiality and networking. All elected offices and other positions on thechapter committee will become vacant on 31 December 2017. The Chapter Nominating Committee is thereforeseeking nominations of volunteers for offices in the new Chapter committee who would be prepared to further itsmission. Nominations are sought for the positions of Chair, Vice-Chair and Secretary.

Eligibility: To be eligible, a nominee must be an active IEEE Queensland Section Microwave Theory & Techniques/Antennas& Propagation Chapter member of the Graduate Student Member, Member, Senior Member or Fellow grade. Volun-teers who have served two consecutive years in a role immediately prior to next year or six years in their membershipperiod are NOT eligible for further service in the same role.









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Power and Energy Society & Dielectric & ElectricalInsulation Joint Chapters

The Queensland Power and Energy Society & Dielectric & Electrical Insulation Joint Chapters prides itself on itsefforts to sustain and grow our technical community through the organisation of seminars and activities that informour members of latest developments as well as promote collegiality and networking. All elected offices and otherpositions on the chapter committee will become vacant on 31 December 2017. The Chapter Nominating Committeeis therefore seeking nominations of volunteers for offices in the new Chapter committee who would be prepared tofurther its mission. Nominations are sought for the positions of Chair, Vice-Chair and Secretary.

Eligibility: To be eligible, a nominee must be an active IEEE Queensland Section Power and Energy Society &Dielectric & Electrical Insulation Joint Chapters member of the Graduate Student Member, Member, Senior Memberor Fellow grade. Volunteers who have served two consecutive years in a role immediately prior to next year or sixyears in their membership period are NOT eligible for further service in the same role.









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Signal Processing & Communications Chapter

The Queensland Signal Processing & Communications Chapter prides itself on its efforts to sustain and grow ourtechnical community through the organisation of seminars and activities that inform our members of latest develop-ments as well as promote collegiality and networking. All elected offices and other positions on the chapter committeewill become vacant on 31 December 2017. The Chapter Nominating Committee is therefore seeking nominations ofvolunteers for offices in the new Chapter committee who would be prepared to further its mission. Nominations aresought for the positions of Chair, Vice-Chair and Secretary.

Eligibility: To be eligible, a nominee must be an active IEEE Queensland Section Signal Processing & Commu-nications Chapter member of the Graduate Student Member, Member, Senior Member or Fellow grade. Volunteerswho have served two consecutive years in a role immediately prior to next year or six years in their membership periodare NOT eligible for further service in the same role.









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Women in Engineering (WIE) Affinity Group

Queensland Women in Engineering affinity group is a vibrant community of engineers, scientists, and technicalexperts. The mission of IEEE WIE is to facilitate the global recruitment and retention of women in technical disci-plines. IEEE WIE envisions a vibrant community of IEEE women and men collectively using their diverse talents toinnovate for the benefit of humanity. All elected officers and other positions on the affinity group committee of WIEQueensland will become vacant on 31 December 2016. WIE Nominating Committee is therefore seeking nominationsof volunteers for officers in the new executive committee who would be prepared to further its mission. Nominationsare sought for the positions of Chair, Vice-Chair and Secretary.

Eligibility: To be eligible, a nominee must be an active IEEE Queensland Section Women in Engineering (WIE)Affinity Group member of the Graduate Student Member, Member, Senior Member or Fellow grade. Volunteers whohave served two consecutive years in a role immediately prior to next year or six years in their membership period areNOT eligible for further service in the same role.









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Young Professionals Affinity Group

Queensland Young Professionals Program (formerly known as GOLD) affinity group is a vibrant community ofengineers, scientists, and technical experts. Young Professionals Program members have a wide variety of benefits andopportunities available to them through IEEE membership. These highlighted benefits are geared towards the needsand interests of young professionals and revolve around professional growth, community, and technical development.All elected offices and other positions on the affinity group committee will become vacant on 31st of December 2016.Young Professionals Program Nominating Committee is therefore seeking nominations of volunteers for officers inthe new executive committee who would be prepared to further its mission. Nominations are sought for the positionsof Chair, Vice-Chair and Secretary.

Eligibility: To be eligible, a nominee must be an active IEEE Queensland Section Young Professionals AffinityGroup member of the Graduate Student Member, Member, Senior Member or Fellow grade. Volunteers who haveserved two consecutive years in a role immediately prior to next year or six years in their membership period are NOTeligible for further service in the same role.









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Documents

IEEE QUEENSLAND S Nieee-qld.org/files/Newsletters/2016q2.pdf · 2016. 10. 15. · Queensland, some of the less productive coal mines are in the process of being sold. These changes