Latest School News and Events

• Award winning pilchard29 April 2013

  

  An academic paper by A/P Philip Leong has been recognised by his international peers as one of the most influential contributions to reconfigurable computing in the past two decades." Read more...

• We could be superheroes: the era of positive computing 2 April 2013

  

  A/Prof Rafael Calvo says: "The advent of positive computing provides us with an opportunity to put human potential and wellbeing front and centre when imagining and creating future technologies." Read more...

• Funding boost for information technology 11 March 2013

  

  Associate Professor Xiaoke Yi, a QEII Fellow at the University's Institute of Photonics and Optical Science, was among the group that will share up to $13 million committed under the Capability and Technology Demonstrator Program. Read more...

• Summer School 2013 - A Great Success 7 Feb 2013

  

  For the project, the students built a GPS tracker which transmitted the GPS coordinates via SMS. The system was fitted to a light aircraft and a tethered weather balloon for the final tests. Read more...

• Education Hub for Power and Telecommunications Engineering

  

  The School of Electrical and Information Engineering has been awarded $2.675m funding towards the upgrading of existing facilities for the teaching and research of power and telecommunications engineering. Read more....

• Top Scores at recent ERA evaluation 6 December 2012

  

  The School achieves top scores at recent ERA evaluation.
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• School of EIE Staff Service Awards 2012 - 6 Dec 2012

  

  Congratulations to Rodica Popp and Melissa Yeung, the recipients of The School of Electrical and Information Engineering Staff Service Awards 2012 in recognition of outstanding service.

• Successful Australian Government Office of Learning and Teaching Grant 30 November 2012

  

  The project "Driving curriculum and technological change to support writing in the engineering disciplines" led by A/Prof Rafael Calvo from our School and Sarah Howard from the University of Wollongong, received the Australian Government Office of Learning and Teaching grant for two years.. Read more...

• Successful ARC Discovery Grants and DECRA Award 9 November 2012

  

  Many congratulations to David, Gregor, Branka and Wibowo, on securing ARC Discovery grants , as well as to Nicholas Epain on getting a DECRA award.
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• Head of School Visit to Chinese Universities 31 October 2012

  

  Professor Branka Vucetic visited Harbin Engineering University and Harbin Institute of Technology, China and established greater ties and collaboration for future undergraduate and postgraduate students. Read more...

• Collaboration with Harvard University 24 October 2012

  

  A/Prof Javid Atai has won an International Program Development Fund grant to collaborate with world-leading researchers from Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Harvard Medical School. The project aims to develop novel techniques and algorithms to improve the capabilities of biomedical imaging devices so that real-time high-definition video can be transmitted and analyzed.

• IEEE Best Student Presentation award October 2012

  

  Yan Shvartzshnaider, a PhD student from the Power Research Group, has won the IEEE Best Student Presentation award at the 4th Annual Postgraduate Research Conference held at the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies, University of Sydney. Yan has now been invited to the annual IEEE NSW AGM in November to present his paper "Design For Change: Information-Centric Architecture to Support An Agile Disaster Response System".

• National Award for Outstanding Teaching 20 September 2012

  

  Assoc. Prof Calvo, Director for the Software Engineering program receives national award for his contributions to teaching and learning. Read more...

• EIE Peer Mentoring Program for International Students 7 August 2012

  

  On 3rd August, new international students enrolling in the School of Electrical and Information Engineering program were officially welcomed by Prof. Branka Vucetic, Head of School, in the first Peer Mentoring Program lunch meeting of the semester. Read more...

• Smart Grid Collaboration with Chinese Delegation

  

  The School meets the Chinese delegation to discuss Smart Grid collaboration Read more...

• Gates grant helps to fight childhood malnutrition

  

  Shu Ning Bian undergraduate student is part of a team, led by Dr Alistair McEwan, to receive a US$100,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to further develop a non-invasive, solar-powered device measuring body fat in newborns. Read more...

• 2011 Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE)

  

  Prof David Hill and George Maltabarow have just been elected as 2011 Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE). Read more...

• Dr Dylan Lu is Looking to Boost Adaptor Energy Efficiency

  

  LIFTING the energy efficiency of electronics products could lengthen their life and reduce power use, says Dr Dylan Lu from the University of Sydney. Read more...

• Successful NHMRC Program Grant

  

  A/Prof David Levy has been successful in getting the NHMRC grant entitled "The Development And Investigation Of Respiratory-Modulated Four-Dimensional Cone Beam CT Imaging", funded for 5 years . Read more...

• Most cited paper in IEEE Trans Wireless

  

  Dr Raymond Louie, Dr Yonghui Li and Prof B. Vucetic's paper , "Practical physical layer network coding for two way relay channels: performance analysis and comparison" is the most cited paper in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications since 2010. Read more...

• We are ranked 35th in the world!

  

  The Times Higher Education (THE) yesterday published their Top 50 Engineering & Technology universities for 2011-2012 and the faculty has moved up 5 places from number 40 to 35. Read more...

• Future Undergraduate Scholarship

  

  Future undergraduates are invited to apply, by 6 January 2012, for the EIE Foundation Undergraduate Scholarship valued at $6,000 ... Read more...

• Strong Collaboration with Beihang University

  

  Prof Zulin Wang, Dean of the School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University visits the School... Read more...

• Gold diggers: Aussies strike it rich in Silicon Valley

  

  The article above features a couple of EIE graduates: Ryan Junee, BE (CompEng) 2003, BCom 2003, Simon Ratner,BE (Software) 2004, BSc 2004, who were awarded "Young Alumni of the Year" a couple of years ago...Read the smh.com.au article...

• Author of one of the top 1% most highly cited papers

  

  Dr Guoqiang Mao has been invited to the Council of Canadian Academies Survey of Science and Technology Strengths as an author of one of the top 1% most highly cited papers in his field worldwide... Read more...

• Winning the Dean's Research Award

  

  Congratulations to Dr. Dylan Lu who is this year's recipient of Dean's Award for Research... Read more...

• Successful New ARC Linkage Grants

  

  Many congratulations to Philip, Gregor, David, Branka and Wibowo, for winning new ARC Linkage grants... Read more...

• SCHOOL'S GRADUATION DAY

  Congratulations to recent graduates of the School of Electrical and Information Engineering. Read more...

• Matt Barrie's Freelancer.com wins the 2011 Webby Award

  

  Freelancer.com, a company set and managed by Matt Berry, won the 2011 Webby Award in the Employment category. The Webby Award is the leading international award, honouring excellence on the Internet... More about Matt Barrie...

• The Inaugural BRW Entrepreneur of the Year

  

  Matt Barrie, an EIE alumnus and external lecturer, has been named the inaugural BRW Entrepreneur of the Year... Read more...

• Dean's Award for Outstanding Teaching

  Congratulations to A/Prof Philip Leong who is this year's recipient of the Dean's Award for Outstanding Teaching.

• A/Prof Rafael Calvo receives Google grant to enhance online writing tutor

  

  A grant from the world's most popular search engine will help University of Sydney researchers enhance an online tool that improves writing skills and offers more functions than those available on word processing software... Read more...

• Key Issues in Future Wireless Networks

  Prof Jinglin Shi, Director of the Wireless Communication Technology Research Centre from the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Computing Technology, visited the School from 11 to 25 November 2010 and gave a lecture on Key Issues in Future Wireless Networks. Read more...

• Matt Barrie, Alumnus of the Year

  

  Alumnus of the year Matt Barrie is the founding CEO of Freelancer.com, the world's largest micro-outsourcing website and board member of Julius Finance, a provider of advanced services and solutions to participants in the $45 trillion dollar credit derivatives markets.
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• Summer School Applications Now Open

  

  IT and Project Management units available for Summer School.
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• Pre-enrolment Opens in October

  

  All students continuing their studies in 2011 are required to pre-enrol.
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• New Bioelectronics Undergraduate Degree On Offer in 2011

  Want to be part of an emerging field in engineering and IT which is opening major scientific and technological avenues? Read about our new bioelectronics undergraduate degree on offer in 2011.

• Smart Grids & Telecommunication Networks Research

  On 11 March the School hosted an event on Smart Grids and Telecommunication Networks presented by Prof Branka Vucetic, and supported by The Electric Energy Society of Australia and Engineers Australia.

• In Pictures: Sir William Tyree Laboratory in Power Engineering & The ABB Technology Centre

  Highlights from the Laboratory Visit on Thursday, 25 February 2010.

• 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...

• $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...

• 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....

• 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...