Undergraduate Prospectus 2014

Never Stand Still Faculty of Engineering School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications

School of Electrical Engineering and TelecommunicationsThe University of New South Wales

UNSW SydneyN.S.W 2052

Australia

Telephone: +61 (2) 9385 4000

Facsimile: +61 (2) 9385 5993

Email: eet@unsw.edu.au

EE&T Homepage: www.eet.unsw.edu.au

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UNSW Homepage: www.unsw.edu.au

▶ WELCOME FROM THE HEAD OF SCHOOL OF EE&T

The School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications is one of the strongest Schools in the University of New South Wales and has a well regarded reputation across Australia and around the world. It is the largest Electrical Engineering School in Australia and is recognised for its research excellence and the high quality of its learning and teaching.

The School has great depth in its research activities that makes it one of the largest postgraduate Schools in the country and a world leader in a num-ber of key research areas. The School comprises five research disciplines namely Power Engineering, Telecommunications (including Photonics), Systems and Control, Microsystems and Signal Processing.Our academic, professional and technical staff are experts in these fields and share re-search interests and teaching commitments across all five disciplines.We offer undergraduate and postgraduate programs with electives from all

branches of the profession of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications. We have a focus on flexible teaching delivery modes, such as open online lectures, with the use of educational technology developed at the School.

The School’s branded undergraduate BE programs in Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications continue to act as the fundamental models for educating Australian Engineers in tomorrow’s technology.The 5 year BE ME in Electrical Engineering is a flagship program offered by the School, which has an inte-grated minor, and is the only program of its kind to be offered in Australia. Introduced in 2011, this program now offers 10 minors, and promises to produce high-calibre, well rounded engineering graduates for the Australian market.

The School continues to offer a world-class, challenging and well balanced learning environment that has produced excellent engineering graduates over the years. With a team that is recognised for its teaching excellence and innovative research, the School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications is pro-ducing the next generation of innovative engineers who will be equipped with the skills and knowledge to make a positive impact on industry and society.

Professor Eliathamby AmbikairajahHead of School of Electrical Engineering & TelecommunicationsAugust 2013

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▶ SCHOOL OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING & TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Electrical Engineering and telecommunications (EE&T) is arguably the origin of most high technology as we know it today. Based on fundamental principles from mathematics and physics, engineering concepts until students are equipped to tackle professional electives spanning microelectronics, systems and control, signal processing, energy systems, telecommunications, photonics embedded systems design, instrumentation and real time computing, video, image and speech processing and data networks.

While the focus is geared towards providing the ultimate analytical skill set for the technology based world, this is strongly supported by practical applications. The majority of courses have a significant laboratory component, providing a critical link between theory and practice in a hands-on environment. Professional electives and core courses in management and entrepreneurship form the basis for a career path towards technology management. The industrial training component of the program provides the link between university lab and project work with the life of a graduate engineering and sees students engaged in everything from climbing on heavy equipment at constructions sites, designing new microe-lectronic devices and writing code for the automation of large factories to improving efficiency on multimil-lion-dollar projects.

EE&T programs offer excellent career opportunities and develop a set of core skills and attributes that are highly sought after in many sectors both within and outside of engineering. UNSW EE&T graduates find themselves in constant demand everywhere, whether they are building electric motors for hybrid cars, de-signing new brain-computer interfaces, programming control systems for autonomous aircraft, pioneering quantum electronic circuits, doing financial modelling for a bank, developing gigahertz switching technolo-gy using microelectromechanical systems, or planning the next generation of wireless networks. EE&T at UNSW offers a challenging undergraduate program of international standing, an enjoyable and support-ive social and academic environment with potentially exciting career opportunities following graduation. UNSW electrical engineering degrees are accredited by Engineers Australia (EA), which also gives our graduates international recognition for their qualifications under the Washington Accord. Our graduates work in more than 90 countries around the world. A UNSW Electrical Engineering degree will always have high value in the job market.

SINGLE DEGREE PROGRAMSBE (Electrical Engineering) 425100BE (Telecommunications) 425100BE (Photonics Engineering) (entry through BE (Electrical Engineering)) 425100

INTEGRATED DEGREE PROGRAM (5 years)BE ME in Electrical Engineering with minor 425150

DUAL DEGREE PROGRAMSBE BA (Electrical, Photonics, Telecommunications) 425850BE BSc (Electrical, Photonics, Telecommunications) 425580BE BCom (Electrical, Photonics, Telecommunications) 425900BE MBiomedE (Electrical, Telecommunications) 425950BE LLB (Electrical, Photonics, Telecommunications) 426000

Details available via: www.eet.unsw.edu.au

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Electrical Engineering is a broad and creative profession concerned with the design, development, planning and management of systems and devices which underpin modern economics and contribute to the quality of life.

An electrical engineer may be responsible for the research, design, development, manufacturing and manage-ment of complex hardware and software systems and reliable, cost effective devices, many involving the use of new information and computer intensive technologies. These include:

• Computer systems, data and telecommunication networks including the Internet• Mobile telecommunications and wireless networks• Optical and microwave communications• Integrated electronic systems• Advanced robotics and intelligent machines• Video and image processing systems• Quantum devices and quantum computing• Generation and transmission of electrical power• Renewable energy systems and solar energy conversion• Biomedical instruments and applications, such as medical imaging scanners, the cochlear implant (bionic

ear), pacemakers and hearing aids

Career Opportunities

Potential employers include service industries such as Energy Australia, Eraring Energy or Waubra Wind Farm; large private industrial groups, such as Alstom, BHP, Boeing Australia, Downer EDI, Honeywell, Google, Canon, Transfield and Alcatel; and small innovative private firms specializing in the application of new technol-ogies to new products and services, for example Cochlear.

▶ BE IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

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SESSION 1

MATH1131 Mathematics 1A*

PHYS1131 Higher Physics 1A*

COMP1911 Computing 1A*

ENGG1000 Introduction to Engineering Design and Innovation

SESSION 2

MATH1231 Mathematics 1B*

PHYS1231 Higher Physics 1B*

2 Electives L1

Recommended L1 ElectivesELEC1111 Electrical and Telecommunications Engineering

COMP1921 Computing 1B*

▶ ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING PROGRAM

*Different versions and schedules of theses courses may be possible.

YEAR 2SESSION 1

MATH2069 Mathematics 2A

ELEC2141 Digital Circuit Design

ELEC2134 Circuits and Signals

General Education

SESSION 2

MATH2099 Mathematics 2B

ELEC2142 Embedded System Design

ELEC2133 Analogue Electronics

General Education

YEAR 3SESSION 1

ELEC3115 Electromagnetic Engineering

ELEC3106 Electronics

ELEC3104 Digital Signal Processing

Elective L3

SESSION 2ELEC3105 Electrical Energy

ELEC3114 Control Systems

ELEC3117 Electrical Engineering Design

Elective L3

YEAR 1

YEAR 4SESSION 1

ELEC4120 Thesis A

ELEC4123 Design Proficiency

2 Electives L4

SESSION 2

ELEC4121 Thesis B

ELEC4122 Strategic Leadership and Ethics

2 Electives L4

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For more information about courses, schedules and a complete list of L1 electives, please see www.eet.unsw.edu.au/information-for/future-students/future-undergraduate-students/programs

Telecommunications engineering is concerned with communicating information at a distance. It is strongly associated with data communications, largely because of the tendency to encode, compress and encrypt all information, and because of the growing importance of digital and wireless (eg mobile telephony) net-works. Telecommunications engineering will appeal to those who are interested in the following fields:

• Satellite communications• Signal and image processing• Optical fibres and photonics• Mobile satellite communications• Data networks• Software systems including e-commerce• Microelectronic devices and systems• Data coding, compression, encryption and transmission• Real-time embedded systems• Quantum telecommunications

▶ BE IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING

Career Opportunities

Telecommunications engineering is developing rapidly and the demand for graduates in telecommunica-tions is evolving as the technology advances and broadens its scope of applications.

Graduates could find employment with large infrastructure projects like the National Broadband Network; major service providers such as Telstra, Optus and AAPT; large private industrial groups such as Mo-torola, Alcatel, Skype, Ericsson, Cisco and Nokia; or a host of smaller service and technology providers, some of them highly specialised and technologically sophisticated.

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“Telecommunications teaches you how to create technology - from scratch. it’s a great feeling knowing you can design a computer, or stereo, or a new internet if you wanted to.” Rami Banna, University Medalist, 2006.

▶How do I decide between Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications ? Our Telecommunications program is essentially a specialisation of the Electrical Engineering degree, designed for students who know they are interested specifically in Telecommunications and would like a degree of this name. Students who are uncertain about specialisations or prefer a wider breadth of elec-tive choice are advised to select Electrical Engineering. It is usually possible to transfer between the two programs during the first or second year of study.

SESSION 1

MATH1131 Mathematics 1A*

PHYS1131 Higher Physics 1A*

COMP1911 Computing 1A*

ENGG1000 Introduction to Engineering Design and Innovation

SESSION 2

MATH1231 Mathematics 1B*

PHYS1231 Higher Physics 1B*

2 Electives L1

Recommended L1 ElectivesELEC1111 Electrical and Telecommunications Engineering

COMP1921 Computing 1B*

▶ TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROGRAM

*Different versions and schedules of theses courses may be possible.

For more information about courses, schedules and a complete list of L1 electives, please see www.eet.unsw.edu.au/information-for/future-students/future-undergraduate-students/programs

YEAR 2SESSION 1

MATH2069 Mathematics 2A

ELEC2141 Digital Circuit Design

ELEC2134 Circuits and Signals

General Education

SESSION 2

MATH2099 Mathematics 2B

ELEC2142 Embedded System Design

ELEC2133 Analogue Electronics

General Education

YEAR 3SESSION 1

ELEC3115 Electromagnetic Engineering

ELEC3106 Electronics

ELEC3104 Digital Signal Processing

TELE3118 Network Technologies

SESSION 2ELEC3114 Control Systems

TELE3117 Electrical Engineering Design

TELE3113 Analogue and Digital Communications

TELE3119 Trusted Networks

YEAR 1

YEAR 4SESSION 1

ELEC4120 Thesis A

ELEC4123 Design Proficiency

2 Electives L4

SESSION 2

ELEC4121 Thesis B

ELEC4122 Strategic Leadership and Ethics

2 Electives L4

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Photonics is about generating, manipulating (processing) and detecting light (photons), and specifically light that is carrying useful information, be it voice telephony, image data files, measurement signals, or performing some other useful purpose, such as remote illumination. Photonic engineers unlock the enor-mous bandwidth of optical fibres and waveguides, they deliver the huge storage capacity of DVDs, their expertise provides the images making keyhole-surgery possible, and they implement all-optical control networks which enhance safety in industrial environments where electrical signals present fire hazards.

Soon photonic engineers will develop processors with speeds thousands of times faster than anything currently available as well as laser instrumentation for new medical procedures. Today, photonics is an area of great excitement and possibilities; it will become as important, fundamental and generic as elec-tronics was in the twentieth century.

Photonic engineering will appeal to those interested in the following fields:• Optical fibres• Optical signal processing• Optical and quantum communications• Optical devices

▶ BE IN PHOTONIC ENGINEERING

Career opportunities

Photonics is at the core of the National Broadband Net-work, Australia’s largest ever infrastructure project. Aus-tralia’s photonics industry has an established reputation as one of the most successful and innovative in the world and exports to every continent.

Potential employers include major international photonic device companies (e.g. Alcatel, JDS Uniphase, Lucent, Nortel) that have operations based in Australia; telecom-munication carriers (Telstra, Optus, Powertel) and other operations (electricity utilities, railways) that use large-scale photonic technologies.

Currently there is no entry into BE (Phot) - can be taken by transferring from BE (Elec).

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Professor Ladouceur and his UNSW colleagues Dr Zourab Brodzeli and Dr Leonardo Silvestri are the founders of start-up company Zedelef, which is commercialising a new optical sensor that could have applications for the oil and gas, and electricity industries.

“At the end of the day, we’re not necessarily in this for the money, we’re in it for the adventure, and because it’s going to make our lives more interesting,” says Professor Ladouceur. “We devel-oped this at UNSW and we want to see Australia benefit.”

▶ Electives for BE (Elec), BE (Tele), BE (Phot) proposed for 2014:

SYSTEMS & CONTROLReal-Time Instrumentation (L3)Continuous-Time control System Design (L4)Computer Control Systems (L4) Real Time Engineering (L4)

DATA & MOBILE COMMUNICATIONSNetwork Technologies (L3) Trusted Networks (L3)Analogue and Digital Communications (L3)Digital Modulation and Coding (L4)Mobile and Satellite communications (L4) Network Performance (L4)Wireless Communication Technologies (L4)

ENERGY SYSTEMSDistributed Energy Generation (L3) Power System Protection (L4) Electrical Energy (L3)Electrical Drive Systems (L4) Power Systems Equipment (L4) Power Systems Analysis (L4) Power Electronics (L4)

MICROELECTRONICSSolid-State Electronics (L4)Microelectronic Design and Technology (L4)Digital and Embedded Systems (L4)RF Electronics (L4)

PHOTONICSApplied Photovoltaics (L3)Optical Circuits and Fibres (L4) Photonic Networks (L4)

SIGNAL PROCESSINGEngineering Modelling and Simulation (L2) Advanced Digital Signal Processing (L4) Multimedia Signal Processing (L4)

COMPUTER SYSTEMS Software Engineering (L3) Operating Systems (L3)Computer Architecture (L3)Database Systems (L3)

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATIONEntrepreneurial Engineering (L4)

MATHEMATICSInformation, Codes and Ciphers (L3) Dynamical Systems and Chaos (L3) Optimisation (L3)

Key: L2: Level 2 elective L3: Level 3 elective L4: Level 4 elective

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“My aspirations when I left university were to just be a good engineer. I never intended to go into managing things...it’s just happened.” Mike Quigley, fomer National Broadband Network CEO and UNSW EE&T Alumnus.

▶ 5-YEAR INTEGRATED BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING MASTER OF ENGINEERING (BE ME) IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING WITH MINOR

An innovative program catering specifically for elite students1 and pro-viding future engineers for Australian industry, offering:

Improved flexibility:

• Choose a minor in many interest areas - computer science, music, me-chatronics, photovoltaics, maths, physics and more, either at UNSW or overseas . . . it’s up to you.

• Significant elective choice from year 2 onwards, including choice among 19 postgraduate electives not normally accessible to 4-year BE program students.

Better specialisation:

• Maximise your learning in the Electrical Engineering disciplines of your choice.

• Work right at the cutting edge on your fourth and fifth year project.

More design:• Coursework thread in engineering design from year 1 to year 4.

Easier integration with international exchange:

• Four to six courses can be arranged overseas as a part of the minor.

More detail: see www.eet.unsw.edu.au/programs/BEMEwithMinor.html

Contact: Dr Ray Eaton, Director of Academic Studies, r.eaton@unsw.edu.au, Ph: 02 9385 4000

Take advantage of this leading new program from UNSW Engineering, the largest faculty of engineering in Australia, recognised for excellence through-out Asia.

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“A highlight was being present when the patient’s cochlear implants were switched on for the first time, seeing the reaction and knowing that your work has positively impacted someone’s quality of life.” Tim Neal, BE (Elec), 2002.

▶ BE ME Program

Stage 1 (48 UoC core)MATH1131 Mathematics 1A orMATH1141 Higher Mathematics 1AMATH1231 Mathematics 1B orMATH1241 Higher Mathematics 1BPHYS1131 Physics 1APHYS1231 Physics 1BCOMP1917 Higher Computing 1ENGG1000 Introduction to EngineeringDesign & InnovationELEC1112 Electrical CircuitsELEC1041 Digital Circuits

Stage 2 (36 UoC core)ELEC2133 Analogue ElectronicsELEC2134 Circuits & SignalsELEC2142 Embedded Systems DesignELEC2117 Electrical System DesignMATH2069 Mathematics 2AMATH2099 Mathematics 2B6 UoC Free elective6 UoC of Minor in chosen area (see p16)

Stage 3 (30 UoC core)ELEC3115 Electromagnetic EngineeringELEC3104 Digital Signal ProcessingELEC3105 Electrical EnergyELEC3114 Control SystemsELEC3117 Electrical Engineering Design6 UoC of Minor in chosen area6 UoC of General Education6 UoC L3 elective (see p12)

Stage 4 (24 UoC core)ELEC4122 Strategic Leadership & EthicsELEC4123 Electrical Design ProficiencyELEC4120 Thesis AELEC4121 Thesis B6 UoC of Minor in chosen area (see p16)18 UoC L4 electives (see p12)

Stage 5 (12 UoC core)ELEC9120 Project Report AELEC9121 Project Report B6 UoC Engineering and Technical Manage-ment Course6 UoC of Minor in chosen area (see p16)24 UoC L5 electives (see p17)

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Note: Program structure/schedule may have to be adjusted depending in the minor chosen.

▶ A QUICK COMPARISON BETWEEN THE BE & BE ME

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) - Accredited

60 Days approved industrial training

BE ME in Electrical Engineering (Integrated Degree with Minor)

60 Days approved industrial training

YEAR 4

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1ST YEAR ENTRY

YEAR 5

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Minors consist of a minimum of 4 courses and a maximum of 6 courses, mutually agreed upon by theSchool of Electrical Engineering &Telecommunications and the School providing the minor.

Minors taken within the Faculty of Engineering must consist of a maximum of 4 courses as 2 general education courses must be taken outside the Faculty.

It is possible that the degree can be completed in 4.5 years if students complete two summer sessions.

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MUSIC MINOR

Year 2 MUSC1101 Music reinvented

Year 3/4/5 Select two courses in MusicianshipANDSelect one from the following: ElectronicMusic; Film Music; Popular Music; Musichistory; Psychology of Music; Musicanalysis; Ethnomusicology; Musicianship C

LANGUAGE MINOR

Year 2/3/4/5 Select six language courses are available in different languages

COMMERCE MINOR

Year 2/3/4/5 ACCTB2 AccountingFINSB2 FinanceECONC2 Business EconomicsECONB2 Business StrategyIBUSB2 International BusinessMGMTA2 ManagementMGMTB2 Human Resource ManagementMARKB2 Marketing

GEOSPATIAL MINOR

Year 2/3/4/5 Select four from the following:GEOS9016 Principles of GeographicInformation SystemsGMAT4900 Introduction to GPS Position-ingGMAT4910 GeoIT & InfomobilityApplicationsGMAT9201 GPS Receivers & How They WorkGMAT9300 Aerial & Satellite ImagingSystemsGMAT9600 Principles of Remote Sensing

PSYCHOLOGY MINOR

Year 2/3/4/5 PSCY1001 - Psychology 1APSCY1011 - Psychology 1BPSYC2061 - Social and DevelopmentalPsychologyPSYC2071 - Perception and CognitionPSYC2081 - Learning and PhysiologicalPsychologyPSYC2101 - Assessment, Personality andPsychopathology

MECHATRONICS MINOR

Year 3/4/5 MTRN3020 Modelling and Control ofMechatronic SystemsMTRN3100 Robot DesignMTRN4230 RoboticsMTRN4010 Advanced Autonomous Sys-tems

PHOTOVOLTAICS MINOR

Year 2 SOLA2540 Applied Photovoltaics

Year 3/4/5 Select three from the following of:SOLA2020 Photovoltaic Techn &ManufacturingSOLA3507 Solar Cells & SystemsSOLA5509 Photovoltaics MaterialsProcessing TechnologySOLA5508 High Efficiency Silicon SolarCellsORSOLA4012 Grid-Connected PhotovoltaicsSOLA5054 PV Stand-Alone Sys. Des.& InstSOLA5057 Managing Energy EfficiencySOLA5053 Wind EnergySOLA3010 Low Energy Building andPhotovoltaics

COMPUTING MINOR

Year 2 Select two from the following courses:COMP1927: Computing 2COMP2911: Engineering Design inComputingCOMP3231: Operating SystemsCOMP3211: Computer ArchitectureCOMP4601: Configurable Systems andLogic Design

Year 3/4/5 Select two from many breadth and depthcourses available

▶ MINORS FOR THE BE ME IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING PROGRAM UAC Code: 425013 Program Code: 3731 CRICOS Course Code: 074733F

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Dr Julien Epps works in the field of speech processing, in particular paralinguistic speech classifica-tion problems like recognition of emotion and mental state from speech, speaker recognition (validat-ing a speaker’s claimed identity).

▶ L5 ELECTIVES FOR BE ME PROPOSED FOR 2014:

MicroelectronicsELEC9701 Mixed Signal MicroelectronicsDesignELEC9702 RF IC designELEC9703 Microsystem Design & TechnologyELEC9704 VLSI TechnologyELEC9705 Quantum Devices

Energy SystemsELEC9711 Advanced Power Electronics forRenewable GenerationELEC9712 High Voltage SystemsELEC9713 Industrial & Commercial Power SystemsELEC9714 Electricity Industry Plan & EconomicsELEC9715 Electricity Industry Operation & ControlELEC9716 Electrical Safety

Signal ProcessingELEC9721 Digital Signal Processing & ApplicationsELEC9722 Digital Image ProcessingSystemsELEC9723 Speech Processing

Control SystemsELEC9731 Robust & Linear Control SystemsELEC9732 Analysis & Design of Non-Linear ControlELEC9733 Real Time Computing & Control

Data and Mobile CommunicationsTELE9751 Switching Systems ArchitectureTELE9752 Network Operations & ControlTELE9753 Advanced Wireless NetworkTELE9754 Coding & Information TheoryTELE9755 Microwave Circuits, Theory andTechniquesTELE9756 Advanced NetworksTELE9757 Quantum CommunicationsGSOE9758 Network Systems Architecture

Spatial Information SystemsGMAT9200 Principles of GPS PositioningGMAT9201 GPS Receivers and How They WorkGMAT9202 Satellite Navigation:Receivers & Sys-temsGMAT9210 Geopositioning Technologiesand Infomobility Applications

Engineering and Technical Management ElectivesGSOE9420 Project Management in Eng & Re-searchGSOE9747 Innovation & Commercialisationfor EngineersGSOE9820 Engineering Project ManagementGSOE9210 Engineering Decision StructuresGSOE9810 Process and Product Quality inEngineering

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“I chose Electrical Engineering in particular because it had the most breadth andflexibility, which was important to me, and was also intellectually rigorous. Iwanted to be in a position where after completing the degree, I felt like I was equipped with the skills and knowl-edge to take on the challenges of life, butalso to have room for further growth and learning” Raji Ambikairajah, BE (Elec), 2006.

To further increase study flexibility, the School of Electrical Engi-neering and Telecommunications offers a suite of courses run in block-mode over summer, catering for the different needs, e.g.: mid-year entry or students wishing to accelerate their program to finish in quicker time (e.g. completion of a BE in 3.5 years may be possible), or students wishing to “underload” duringthe normal semester time in their final year, when the thesis is taken. In the 2013/2014 summer semester, the following cours-es were run:

• ELEC1111 Electrical and Telecommunication Engineering (Year 1)

• ELEC2134 Circuits and Signals (Year 2)• ELEC2133 Analogue Electronics (Year 2)• ELEC3104 Digital Signal Processing (Year 3)• TELE3118 Network Technologies (Year 3)

The summer courses run over an 8-week period straddling the Christmas break, so students still have 2-weeksvacation time over summer. Pre-recorded lectures together with blackboard/Moodle class room teaching and support allow great flexibility during summer study.

▶ SUMMER SESSION COURSES

ELEC1111 and ELEC1041 now available to High School students.

Contact: Dr Ray Eaton, r.eaton@unsw.edu.au for details.

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“What I like best about my job is the constant challenge each new day brings and the feeling of satisfaction and pride when you see the result of all your hard work, whether it be a new building installation, the first container of oranges to run through a refurbished juice factory or clean water running from a new water treatment plant.” Serena Teh, BE (Elec) Hons 1, 2006.

Nicholas Ritchie, 2011 summer industrial training.

▶ UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPSUNSW Co-op Program Scholarships

For high achieving students, the UNSW Co-op Programoffers an ideal combination of challenge and opportunity.

• $15,000 pa for every year of study• 18 months of relevant industrial training with up to four

different companies during your degree• Network with leading employers and make valuable con-

tacts within your industry

More details: www.coop.unsw.edu.au

NICTA -UNSW Undergraduate ResearchScholarship

This new scholarship program offers opportunities for highachieving students to pursue exciting and challengingresearch during bachelor degree studies. The programis possibly the first of its kind in Australia. If you have apassion for solving problems, a desire to work right at thecutting edge of technology development, and an excellentacademic record, applying is a must.

www.nicta.com.au/education/scholarships/undergradu-ate_scholarships

Other Scholarships

Other scholarships are also offered at different levels ofstudy within the school. Please check http://www.eet.unsw.edu.au/information-for/future-students/future-undergrad-uate-students/scholarships regularly. In 2012, ten different types of scholarship were offered.

▶ WHAT DOES FIRST YEAR LOOK LIKE?

Apart from the maths, physics and computing, a highlightfor many of our first-years is the ENGG1000 course. Aimingto teach principles of engineering design and methodologythrough project-based learning, ENGG1000 is a hands-oncourse with a lot of scope for creativity, effective teamorganisation and fun.

“These challenges have taught us the valueof collective effort in researching and communicating ourattained knowledge to each other. With these efforts, wewere able to overcome most problems” – Team 7

“More glue isn’t always better, especially when you aregluing something to the wrong side of the car”“Overall, I enjoyed the project a great deal”“We never previously had any experience of team work onsuch a large project” – Team 4

“We found that the most effective time for learning was inthe laboratories, where we were able to learn things forourselves, experiment with components and circuits, andobserve the results” – Team 1

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▶ LIFE OUTSIDE LECTURES AND LABS

ELSoc

Founded in 1954, ELSoc is one of the largest and most active student societies on campus, with over 600 members. They host a range of events from the engineering sports days, social barbeques to peer and academic mentoring.

www.elsoc.net/www.facebook.com/eetunsw

▶ NEW EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES IN EE&T COURSES

The School of EE&T is leading the way in applying newtechnologies to improve student learning outcomes, bothwithin UNSW and within Australia. EE&T’s proprietaryVCPlayer software, which allows students to review lecturesat their own pace with all the realism of a live lecture theatre,and its teaching laboratories, equipped with state-of-the-arthardware for teaching and collaboration, combine to producean innovative learning experience that has received positivestudent reviews every year since 2003.

The School has incoporated the use of iOs devices as part of the teaching & learning initiative, which includes provid-ing lecture materials and assesment of laboratory work. We utilise YouTube to deliver pre-recorded lectures to students to enchance their learning process.

VCPlayer is “a great way to save time and make learningmore efficient and personal . . . it is really beneficial; youcan skip the bits you already know and concentrate on themore difficult ideas”;

“I can revisit more difficult concepts more than once anddevelop a better understanding”;

“If I can’t understand a concept early in the lecture, I canrevise it before trying to understand the later material that

BLUEsat is a digital amateur radio satellite being designed and built solely by UNSW Engineering students. The satellite is a small cube weighing around 14kg. Powered by fixed solar panels on eachface, it will carry a flight computer, radio transmitters and receivers, a power-control system, battery packs for when its orbit places it in the Earth’s shadow, and magnets to passively stabilise the satellite and align it with the Earth’s magnetic field.

www.bluesat.unsw.edu.au/

See it for yourself!visit www.youtube.com and seach for “ambikairajah”

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▶SATELLITE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING BEING LAUNCHED IN EE&T

From mid-2013, the University of New South Wales is offering a world class Masters level program in satellite systems engineering developed in collaboration with the international space industry and global leaders in space education. As Australia’s first comprehensive postgrad-uate program of its type - and one of only a handful of similar programs worldwide - the new Satellite Systems Engineering program is designed to produce “industry ready” graduates for the Australian, regional and interna-tional satellite and space industries. The program includes contributions from UNSW key part-ners Optus (Australia’s only satellite owner and operator), Thales group (France-based multinational), and Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace (ISAE) (Tou-louse-based internationally renowned leader in space education). These ensures that the Masters program is informed by, and up to date with, the latest industry devel-opments worldwide.

The program was developed as part of the Warrawal Project (www.warrawal.unsw.edu.au) led by Dr Elias Aboutanios of the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications

The School of EE&T expects to offer Satellite Systems Engineering as a minor through the BE ME.

Dr Elias Aboutanios’ contributions to this field are a novel and powerful set of algorithms for estimating the parameters of complex exponentials in noise. This led to a patent and the algorithms have been applied in a wide range of problems from optical systems to wireless communi-cations, to

Produced by Dinesh Mohan in the School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications at UNSW. Thank you to all the contributors. ©2013 The University of New South Wales

The information contained in this Undergradute Prospectus is subject to revision and correction. Courses, Programs and any arrangements for Programs stated in this prospectus are an expression of intent only. The University reserves the right to discontinue or vary arrangements at any time without notice. Limitations on the number of students in a course may have to be imposed.

▶ RESEARCH PROFILES

Dr Vijay Sivaraman is using Android smartphones to obtain air pollution measure-ments from the field, which are then uploaded to the cloud and available to every-one. Air pollution is a bigger cause of death than road accidents in Australia, and a huge problem in countries like India and China. Dr Sivaraman has developed an air quality sensor designed specifically for smart phones, which are rapidly becoming ubiquitous. “If we can estimate an individual’s exposure to air pollution then we could improve their health.”

Professor Dzurak leads a research team of more than 20 researchers and technical staff devoted to silicon-based quantum computing and nanotechnology. His core research continues to focus on the goal of demonstrating the key technologies for the realisation of scalable quantum computing based on single electron and nuclear spins in silicon. In 2012 Prof Dzurak and colleague Dr Andrea Morello demonstrated the first single-atom electron spin qubit in silicon. Using a silicon single electron transistor (Si-SET) to enable single-shot readout of an electron spin bound to an implanted P atom, they configured a device with an on-chip transmission line for the delivery of micro-waves up to 50 GHz.

Application of microwave pulses at the electron spin resonance frequency enables Rabi oscillations of the P donor electron spin, thus realising a 1-qubit gate. The team also demonstrated the single-shot readout and control of a 31P nuclear spin qubit, with a remarkable gate fidelity of 98%. Underpinning this qubit scheme is an extremely high fidelity (> 99.6%) sin-gle-shot qubit readout.

These results represent the realisation of a nuclear spin 1-qubit gate, as first envisaged by Bruce Kane more than a decade ago, and open the path to long-lived quantum memories based on single atoms.

Associate Professor Iain MacGill works in the field of electricity industry sustainability, with a focus on clean energy technologies including renewables, their integration into the elec-tricity industry, and the use of electricity market design, policies and regulations to drive more sustainable technology deployment.

In the coming years, he will be working on facilitating this clean energy transformation within the electricity industry. Two key area of research will be modeling the techni-cal, economic and commercial challenges and opportunities of high renewable energy penetration in the electricity industry, and for greater demand-side participation through distributed generation, energy efficiency and demand management.

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