Instructors
Steve Mackay
Steve has worked in engineering throughout Australia, Europe, Africa and North America for the past 30 years being involved mainly in the automation aspects of mining, oil & gas and power projects. He has presented numerous engineering short courses
Professor Akhtar Kalam
Professor Akhtar Kalam is the head of EIT's Academic Board. He has been at Victoria University in Melbourne since 1985 and was formerly Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science for 7 years. He is currently the Head of External Engagement in the College of Engineering and Science. He is also the Editor in Chief of the Australian Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. More than 40 PhD students have graduated under his supervision.
He has wide experience in educational institutions and industry across four continents. He received his B.Sc. and B.Sc. Engineering from Calcutta University and Aligarh Muslim University, India in 1969 and 1973 respectively. He completed his MS and Ph.D. at the University of Oklahoma, USA and the University of Bath, UK in 1975 and 1981 respectively. He has worked with Ingersoll Rand and other electrical manufacturers. He has held concurrent appointment as Distinguished Professor at the University of New South Wales – Sydney, Australia; MRS Punjab Technical University – Bhatinda, India; Crescent University – Chennai, India; VIT – Vellore, India and 5 Malaysian universities.
He is regularly invited to deliver lectures, work on industrial projects and examine external thesis overseas. His major areas of interests are power system analysis, communication, control, protection, renewable energy, smart grid, IEC61850 implementation and cogeneration systems. He has been actively engaged in the teaching of Energy Systems to undergraduates, postgraduates and providing professional courses to the industry both in Australia and overseas. He regularly offers Continuing Professional Development and Master Class courses on Power System Protection, Renewable Energy, IEC61850, Cogeneration & Gas Turbine Operation and PBL in engineering education to practicing engineers, the Energy Supply Association of Australia (ESAA) and Australian Power Institute (API). He also runs postgraduate distance education program on Power System Protection for the ESAA. He has conducted research, provided industrial consultancy and published over four hundred and seventy publications on his area of expertise and written over 29 books in the area. He provides consultancy for major electrical utilities, manufacturers and other industry bodies in his field of expertise. Professor Kalam is a Fellow of EA, IET, AIE, a member of IEEE and CIGRE AP B5.
Indu Mathi
Indu started her career in Electronics, Computer and Communication engineering after completing her Diploma studies in Singapore. She has extensive knowledge in the semiconductor industry starting out a failure analysis specialist in a German MNC.
She subsequently went on to complete her Bachelor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Western Australia. After completing her bachelors, she went on to work as a Failure analysis engineer for
For the past 7
Indu is a passionate STEM advocate and has designed and run STEM open days particularly targeting females into the engineering industry. She is currently pursuing an MBA and has been working on industry projects in both commercial and government agencies
Akhlaqur Rahman
Dr. Akhlaqur Rahman (AK) is currently a Lecturer at Engineering Institute of Technology (EIT). AK has been teaching at a higher education level for 8 years (since 2012). In 2019, he completed his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. Before that he completed BSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from American International University- Bangladesh in 2012. AK has also been the Department Coordinator and Lecturer at Uttara University in Dhaka, Bangladesh. His research Interest Includes: Cloud Networked Robotics, Industrial Automation, Smart Manufacturing, IoT, Electrical Vehicles and Renewable Energy. Till date, Dr. AK has published 1 Q1 and 2 Q2 Journals, while also attending several IEEE conferences (GLOBECOM, ISAECT, ICAMechS, ISGT-Asia). As a passionate academic, Akhlaqur follows the philosophy that, “Scientists discover the world that exists; Engineers create the world that never was”, hence tries his utmost best to prepare the engineers of the future.
Ana Evangelista
Dr Evangelista is a Civil Engineer, Lecturer at the Engineering Institute of Technology. Her research in Australia has been focused on sustainability in construction and engineering materials. PhD research was mostly concentrated on non-destructive tests to evaluate concrete structures. In 1997, she started her academic career coordinating and teaching units at the School of Civil Engineering at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Additionally, she managed the Construction Materials Laboratory providing external consultancy to the Construction Engineering sector. In 2008, she joined the Environmental Engineering Program at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) conducting research and supervising higher degree students investigating eco-friendly engineering materials. From 2016 to 2019 she worked as a visiting research fellow in the area of recycled concrete at Western Sydney University / School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics. Also, she worked as a casual academic teaching Engineering and Construction Management Units.
Arti Siddhpura
Arti is an academic with 16 years of experience in teaching various Mechanical Engineering units at Australian and overseas universities.
She is an expert in the development and delivery of various mechanical engineering units at bachelors and master’s level in synchronous and asynchronous mode with a strong focus on proven adult learning theories. She has extensive knowledge of various aspects involved in the delivery of mechanical engineering course in face-to-face, blended and fully online delivery modes. Arti has been working with EIT since 2017 as a lecturer in mechanical engineering and has been teaching various mechanical engineering units at bachelors and masters’ level in addition to supervising masters’ thesis. In her current role as RPL coordinator, she is also in charge of coordinating the RPL process, RPL quality assurance, communication between various stakeholders involved in every aspect of RPL, drafting RPL guidelines and policies and organizing relevant PD and training sessions.
Arti's Ph.D. project was partly supported by prestigious CIEAM (CRC for Infrastructure and Engineering Asset Management) scholarship and hence based on the research requirements of the industry partners her project mainly focuses on stick-slip vibration-based diagnosis and prognosis of the cutting tool wear. Her research interests lie in the area of condition monitoring and automation with a focus on improving unmanned tool wear prediction methods.
PhD in Mechanical Engineering (The University of Western Australia); MEng (Mechanical); BEng (Mechanical); Grad Dip Ed,; Cert IV in TAE; Diploma of PM
Milind Siddhpura
Dr Milind Siddhpura has substantial and internationally-significant experience in Engineering while working as an academic in top Australian and overseas Universities as well as in VET sector for more than 13 years. He has accomplished a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Western Australia (UWA) and has won many prestigious awards. He has published articles and served as a reviewer in high impact international journals. He has taught at University of New South Wales. He has also accomplished a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment and worked as a lecturer/trainer at North Metropolitan TAFE. He has continuously updated himself by participating in courses like ‘Instructional Leadership’ and ‘Facilitate e-learning’. He is proficient in using the Learning Management Systems such as Blackboard, Moodle and Electromeet. Milind has expertise in face-to-face, blended and online delivery modes. Milind has developed novel engineering experiments which he regularly demonstrates at various engineering exhibitions. He is currently teaching at UWA in a multidisciplinary engineering environment.
In terms of Industry experience, Milind had been working in the gear manufacturing industry where he supervised the production of more than 25 types of gears and gearbox components including spur, helical and bevel gears. He was responsible for the commissioning and maintenance of gear hobbing and shaping machines. Milind has immense
Seyed Morteza Alizadeh
Dr Seyed Morteza Alizadeh is a Lecturer and Unit Coordinator in Electrical and Industrial Automation Engineering. He graduated with a PhD degree from Victoria University in December 2017.
He has over 10 years of extensive experience in teaching and research in the university sector. Before being appointed to Engineering Institute of Technology, he worked as an academic member at Victoria University (Australia). His research interests deal with the power system analysis and machine learning. Initially, this was applied to the improvement of the performance of Distributed Generation systems using Artificial Intelligence-Based methods. More recently, his research efforts have involved the optimal sizing and siting of wind power plants in distribution networks using novel numerical methods. He is a subject matter expertise on modelling and simulating power system networks using software commonly used in the industry. The results of his research have been published in high ranked journal and conference papers.
Yuanyuan Fan
Yuanyuan is based in Perth, WA. She has been working in the electrical field since 2006. She
finished her bachelor and master degrees respectively in 2010 and 2013 at North China Electric
Power University. She got three papers published and worked on HVDC industrial projects during her master study, including working with China Electric Power Research Institute. She finished her research project on offshore wind power, based on which many project reports and research papers were generated. She got her
Rodney Jacobs
Dr Rodney Jacobs is based in the middle regions of South Africa, and has been involved as an instructor for the EIT group since 2004. His area of expertise includes all aspects of process control (PLC, SCADA, DCS, Loop tuning, as well as multiple facets of electrical engineering). Jacobs was one of the original pioneers of e-learning, when EIT took it’s first steps into what would become a global phenomenon. Not only has he seen e-learning grow to what it is today, but he has seen the major e-learning packages transform, in order to keep up with the high-tech requirements and understands what it needed, to deliver effective presentations. He has a passion for knowledge transfer and a soft spot for “gadgets and technology”.
Jacobs currently does hundreds of e-sessions per year for EIT (sometimes up to five sessions per day, at all times of the day or night), and is active as a consultant to industry. His motto is “find a job you love, and you never work a day in your life”. Due to the nature of his work, he has presented live EIT e-sessions from many varied locations in a multitude of countries – in food courts, airport lounges, departure areas waiting to board a flight with minutes to spare, up in many different international hotels, next to pools, whilst out on safari looking out at elephants, buffalo, giraffe, crocodiles, etc. At least twice per year, he presents e-sessions whilst observing the world-renowned African sunsets whilst on safari. It is not unusual for him to do e-sessions, whilst overlooking some of the most famous international landmarks in the background.
Currently, Jacobs is presenting for the BSc group, as well as numerous diploma and certificate modules.
Haresh Khemani
Haresh is passionate about Mechanical Engineering, and teaching and writing. In a career spanning over more than 20 years he has gained extensive industrial experience in the area of utilities, which provides him command in this field to teach and provide consultancy.
Haresh has worked in the installation, erection, and commissioning of utility plants such as instrument air and padding air compressor plants, water chilling plants, central air conditioning systems, chlorine liquefaction plants, cooling tower, diesel generators, payloader, pumps etc. He has been responsible for the maintenance and operations of the above plants for a number of years.
As a lecturer at the SSVPS College of Engineering, Haresh has taught his favourite subjects including Refrigeration and Air Conditioning (HVAC), Thermodynamics, Automobile Engineering, Power Plant Engineering, Mechanical Measurements and Control and Industrial Instrumentation.
He has developed course materials and several power points presentations on various subjects of mechanical engineering for EIT. One of his major involvements has been with www.brighthub.com, where he and his team published more than 2500 articles covering various areas of engineering. He has personally written more than 400 articles for the website.
Over the years, Haresh has specialized in the fields of utilities and has been developing his knowledge in this field. He also loves helping people with stress management and goal setting to live a happy and meaningful life.
Steve Steyn
Steve is a Professional Engineer and certified Project Manager with nearly a decade of experience in the process control, automation, GIS, product development and project management. He has full turnkey business management, financial management and product development experience from running his own business for a while. He is also a specialist in robust control and modelling, having a Masters degree in Engineering on Advanced Mathematical Control Systems. He later worked as a Senior Engineer in a large international electric utility company, in charge of and project managing cutting edge MES, Transmission & Distribution Asset management rollout, GIS, as well as R&D product and software development teams. Steve is currently with EIT and IDC technologies, consulting and developing new academic courses, working on new business and product development avenues, and creating new streams of revenue and product ventures.
Tristan Holland
Tristan has been working within the Australian water industry for the past 13 years after graduating with his engineering degree. His engineering experiences have taken him from the humble port of Adelaide to all areas of Australia and around the world including Africa, PNG, India and Canada. Tristan started off in commissioning and operations of water and wastewater treatment
Over the years the technology that Tristan has been involved with has been as varied as his engineering experiences, including pipework design for water treatment, air pollution treatment systems, and wastewater treatment systems in remote challenging environments. Two years ago Tristan decided to expand his qualifications and started a Masters of Advanced Process Design, providing an advanced ability to adapt other engineering technologies to water and wastewater treatment systems.
By bringing together his technical knowledge, understanding of theoretical processes and practical based engineering background, you will leave this course with practical ideas and applications that can be implemented into existing systems.
Tom Neillings
Tom started his career as an engine fitter in the RAF. After leaving the RAF Tom worked in oil and gas North Sea projects. During this period he gained valuable experience and knowledge of diesel power generating systems operating in harsh environments. Tom continued his career in South Africa with a short period in Saudi Arabia.
Tom's down-to-earth and practical, yet entertaining approach makes him a
Thomas Simko
Tom has eleven years of experience with HVAC and fenestration (windows). His recent research concerns the thermal processes in vacuum glazing, which is used in highly insulating windows. He was a representative from the University of Sydney vacuum glazing group on the International Energy Agency Solar Heating and Cooling Program, Task 18. He has also spent six years working on and advising solar-electric vehicle projects.
For the past six years, Tom has taught HVAC at the University of Toronto to graduate or continuing education students.
Tom has received ten university teaching awards. He ensures that concepts are thoroughly explained not only with theory but also with practical common sense and real-life examples so students truly understand them.
Tom also writes technology features about solar cars and aerospace for major newspapers in Australia, Asia and Canada (links at www.energy-innovations.ca/Articles.htm ). He is passionate about explaining complex science and engineering topics in plain language and describing the practical benefits of technology.
Terry Cousins
Terry attended Wits University where he completed a BSc (Electrical Engineering) degree in 1977. After completing military service he joined ISCOR where was involved in design, project and maintenance work on HT and LT distribution systems, design and manufacture of equipment for testing electrical motors and commissioning work on variable speed drives.
In 1981 he joined the Chamber of Mines Research Organization. He was involved with the design, develop and manufacture of equipment for powering mechanized equipment in deep level gold mines. Projects included design, manufacture and testing of trailing cable, accelerated life testing of switchgear used in underground mines and development and testing of mobile distribution panels. In 1987, Terry was promoted to manager of the Engineering Branch.
In 1988 he co-founded TLC Software with two colleagues. The company’s objective was to develop and market custom engineering software solutions for the industrial markets. He has been involved in the design and development of numerous products including an electrical power quality recorder, engine protection systems, appliance control unit, portable instrumentation and the design of electronics for various medical applications.
Terry is a senior member of the SAIEE, member of the IEEE, and has authored several papers on various topics for local and international conferences and publications. He is a Green Star accredited professional with the Australian Green Building Council. Terry also has BComm and MBL degrees from the University of South Africa.
Srinivas Shastri
Srinivas has worked in a variety of roles ranging from process engineering to academia and has gained experience in a number of areas. He has worked across cultures in India, Singapore, New Zealand (as a student) and now Australia. He completed his first degree in 1989 and then worked on a project for API as part of his Masters.
Srinivas started off as a process engineer and then moved to industrial research culminating in the development of a model of the complex hydrometallurgical process of hydrogen reduction of nickel. As a Research Engineer, Srinivas worked on an optimisation solution for a refinery in Singapore before embarking on research
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Srinivas is currently developing, in addition to traditional process engineering support, areas of alternative energy technologies, scoping studies, and is actively involved in Business Development.
Shailesh Vaidya
Robert Holm
After completing his studies in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (MEng) and applied mathematics (BSc Hons) in 1997, Robert worked in industry as a power electronics design engineer. The design of electrical machines was his next pursuit, and he completed a PhD at TU Delft in the Netherlands on this subject. His thesis project was not only an academic
Robert Snaith
With over 30 years of experience in fluid transport systems and associated equipment, Rob has done the hard yards. After graduating he commenced work in fluid system applications engineering. In later years, Rob expanded his focus to the management of the national and international distribution networks of a major international fluid sealing and transport equipment manufacturer.
In the past decade as a private consultant, he has worked extensively in designing and troubleshooting complex fluid transport systems and equipment.
When not working long hours on the design, commissioning and troubleshooting of pumps, pipelines and associated equipment, Rob squeezes some time in for his Harley Davidson motorbike and scuba diving expeditions. He has done many presentations and workshops throughout the world and was placed in the world’s top three in an international, "Train the Trainer" exam during a workshop in Boston, Massachusetts in 1998.
One of his passions and sources of enjoyment is instructing technical courses and he is in constant demand both locally and internationally. No matter whether you have very little knowledge or are a veritable guru; you will be sure to take away valuable information from his courses.
Partha Dev
Partha Dev has 27 years of Civil Structural Engineering & Management experience in the Oil & Gas sector. He has worked on major capital projects involving fixed and floating offshore structures, onshore hydrocarbon, LNG facilities, Power, Mining and Infrastructure assets from concept to commissioning and beyond, including facilities engineering, asset integrity & reliability and operations. His area of specialization is in the field of development of novelty concept structures like Floating LNG (FLNG) and Asset Structural Integrity Management. Partha has been in senior technical leadership roles on major capital projects like Gorgon, Wheatstone & North Rankin Redevelopment Projects for global operators like Chevron, Woodside Petroleum, Shell and Gas de France Suez. He has also worked for EPC contracting majors like Worley Parsons, KBR, Aker Kvaerner and Bechtel. His work has spanned across Australia, Asia, Europe and USA. Partha also consults as the Director of Devtree Consultants based in Perth servicing clients like Petronas (Malaysia), ABS and Nihar. He is passionate about mentoring engineers/technical professionals and trains students in Management & Leadership, Civil & Structural Engineering, and Future Problem Solving across the world. He has the highest level of commitment and energy reserved for instructing and assessing students at Engineering Institute of Technology, Perth. He is proficient in breaking down complex topics into simple and easy to understand elements with practical examples leveraged from his subject matter expertise and experience. He remains a strong advocate for diversity including gender equality at
Nagendra Gangadharan
Nagendra began his engineering career in 1982 as an electronics technician at Van-West Clinic, Sri Lanka and then worked as an electrical technician in New Zealand. Later he joined the Biomedical Engineering Services, University of Auckland. There he worked with medical researchers to develop data acquisition system to monitor calcium levels on heart muscles. During this three year period, he also serviced and maintained medical equipment. He then moved to Singapore to work as a lecturer at the Singapore Polytechnic. He was appointed as the program manager for the Biomedical Engineering option for two diploma programs, and the chairman of
In 2005, he joined a multi-national company in New Zealand, specialising in baggage handling systems. He developed automation systems for a few international airports in New Zealand and two major parcel handling systems for Australia Post in Australia. He then joined another multi-national company in New Zealand, specialising in
He is also the founder and managing director of Yarl Technologies Pty Ltd, an engineering consultancy services company that focuses on providing simple
Nabeel Ashraf
Nabeel has over 20 years’ experience in the area of Civil Construction Design and Mechanical Engineering. After completing his Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, Nabeel started his career as a Site Engineer in an air-conditioning firm where he was involved in planning, designing and execution of site plans for air-conditioning systems. He later joined construction industry as Maintenance Engineer where has was in charge of the maintenance work of heavy machinery. Nabeel has a passion for teaching and worked as a
Mohamed A. El-Reedy
Mohamed A. El-Reedy’s background is in structural engineering. His main area of research is the reliability of concrete and steel structures. He has provided consulting to different engineering companies and oil and gas industries in Egypt and to international companies such as the International Egyptian Oil Company (IEOC) and British Petroleum (BP). Moreover, he provides different concrete and steel structure design packages for residential buildings, warehouses, and telecommunication towers and electrical projects with WorleyParsons Egypt. He has participated in Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) and Natural Gas Liquid (NGL) projects with international engineering firms. Currently,
Medhat K. Boutros
Medhat is a qualified professional Structural Engineer, and since 1986 has lectured at numerous institutions, including the Xian Highway Institute in China, Sultan Qaboos University, and the University of Western Australia. He currently works as an Advanced Skill Lecturer in Civil Engineering at the North Metropolitan TAFE, based in Perth, Western Australia. Previously, Medhat worked in the fields of teaching, research and consultancy; as a research and teaching assistant at the University of Michigan, a consultant in Cairo, and also as a design and site engineer.
Medhat has achieved thirteen journal papers, two research reports and eighteen papers in conference proceedings. These cover several topics including structural dynamics, nonlinear analysis, cyclic loading, analysis and retrofitting of structural steel braces, bridge decks and structural stability.
Medhat also has other talents and interests outside of engineering. He enjoys travel and is fluent in Arabic, French and English, as well as being able to understand basic Mandarin Chinese and Roman languages. He also enjoys
Mark Shuttleworth
Mark has up to 30 years experience in electronics and communications engineering. Mark began his career gaining broad and extensive industrial experience in various electronic communication companies and departments such as GPT Telecommunications, Unilab Telecommunications and Stanilite electronics, where he has worked on the development, installation and commissioning of cellular/trunk UHF radio and two way radio HF, VHF and UHF systems for the defence, emergency services and commercial clients. Mark then started a training career as an engineering lecturer in TAFE teaching fundamental electrical units to more advanced units in wireless communications, industrial data communications, telecommunications and engineering mathematics. He has also designed and built RF electronic devices for training purposes and written many training manuals for both students and commercial clients.
Mark currently works as an advanced skills lecturer for TAFE in Telecommunications and oil and gas engineering. Further, Mark also works as a consultant communication systems engineer in his partnership business Shuttleworth Engineering Training and Consulting where he has for the past few years worked on various small to large projects. One large project that Mark worked on was as an independent technical consultant with the Western Australian Police which included consulting with the police radio division and Motorola on the installation and commissioning procedures of a multi-million dollar digital trunk radio system.
Kobus Harmse
One word describes Kobus. Passionate! He loves his work in chemical engineering. He has worked in a number of roles at Sasol in the chemical engineering area ranging from the ammonia
Kobus has received outstanding reviews with his presentations of this course overseas; with many participants commenting on his strong practical bias thanks to his experiences in chemical engineering.
Kerry Newlin
Kerry is a nurse practitioner currently working for the NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI), leading the organisation’s work in diabetes as the Endocrine Network Manager. In addition to her work with ACI, Kerry is a course writer and tutor for Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia in the school of nursing and midwifery. Kerry has a doctorate of health sciences degree with a focus in global health and health system reform. Kerry, originally from California, United States has over 30 years experience in nursing and midwifery. From 1993-2003, Kerry was the senior medical provider in a California public health clinic, taking care of paediatric to geriatric patients and all those in between. From 2005 to 2011, Kerry worked extensively in Africa and East Timor with various humanitarian aid organisations. Kerry is happily married to a biomedical engineer and since 2011, has called Sydney, Australia home.
Justin Shute
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Justin has spent time working for Power & Water, Minara Resources, Cockburn Cement and Nilsen as their High Energy Engineering Manager specializing in catastrophic HV design issues.
During this time Justin has worked in, designed and commissioned
John Piperides
John is a professional electrical engineer with over 25 years experience in industrial maintenance, production, management, sales and improvement. He has held management positions in several manufacturing and sales companies. His diverse responsibilities have included contract negotiation, authoring and responsibility of departmental budgets, daily management of over 20 reports, practice of cGMP, auditing in a pharmaceutical plant, and system administration and programming of diverse IT and embedded systems. He has been directly involved with industries including building management, pest control, mining, power utilities, food, pharmaceutical, steel, building products, sugar, paper and pulp, rail and airports.
John has completed many years of further education including developing, writing and delivering many work based courses and seminars. He has spent 10 years as a part time teacher at TAFE in electrical engineering, and 15 years delivering structured courses in thermography, power quality, instrument safety, motor drive theory, PLC, SCADA, and pest inspection.
John Lawrence
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John was extensively associated with the Diamond and Gold mining industries in Southern Africa, and has over 20 years of experience as a project and departmental manager for a multinational oil company, focusing on designing and managing the infrastructure of the telecommunications, data communications and IT systems.
In the past 5 years, John has worked extensively for a number of multi-national clients, managing projects including facilities management, budgeting and financial forecasting.
When John is not consulting or lecturing, he enjoys increasing his own skills by reading and writing about state-of-the-art technology topics and how to optimise Return On Investment (ROI) for the overall IT infrastructure. John is a dedicated professional who has trained engineers and technicians throughout the world.
John Brussen
John has over 25 years experience as a mechanical engineer with a strong technical background in pressure and pump equipment
Ivan Fair
Ivan Fair has extensive industrial and academic experience in telecommunications and data networking. He was a research and design engineer for both Bell Northern Research and MPR
Ivan has held various administrative positions within the university environment, including Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has also been active in various volunteer professional activities, including assisting Engineers Canada with their development of an Electrical Engineering syllabus and being a member of the Board of Examiners for the Association of Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta
Bruce Morrison
Bruce Morrison has an Electrical Engineering degree from UNSW and a Master of Applied Science in Clinical Measurement. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, a Chartered Professional Engineer and is registered on the National Professional Engineers Register. He is a member of the Biomedical College Board and was Chairman of the Board in 2002 and 2003. Mr Morrison is also a member of the National Panel for Clinical Engineering and was Chairman of the Panel from 1996 to 2002. He is currently President of the Society for Medical and Biological Engineering, NSW Inc.
Mr Morrison has over forty years’ experience in clinical engineering as both a manager and an engineer. He has worked extensively in public hospitals in NSW and in developing countries with long periods spent in Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste, and several shorter periods in Pacific Island Countries. He led the Hunter New England Clinical Technology group providing clinical engineering services to the healthcare facilities of that region for fifteen years until 2009.
In the training arena, Mr Morrison has written and delivered training courses for both Biomedical Engineering Technicians and Nursing staff in Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and several Pacific Island Countries. He developed and co-wrote the course material for the New England TAFE’s Medical Equipment Servicing and Technical Support course. He has provided a two-day training/mentoring workshop for Clinical Engineering practitioners at early stages in their careers each year since 1998.
Mr Morrison has also participated in Engineering Faculty accreditation visits under the auspices of Engineers Australia to several universities, including Auckland University, Flinders University in Adelaide and Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, as well conducting desk audits on the biomedical engineering courses at the University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology.
He now lives in Roseville, a leafy suburb of Sydney, and advises NSW Health Infrastructure on major medical equipment being planned and installed in new and refurbished hospitals and healthcare facilities across NSW.
Ian Verhappen
Ian has been involved in digital communications since 1994 installing the first multi- vendor Foundation Fieldbus project in 1996.
Since then, Ian has served as both a leading Project Engineer/Designer and an external/cold eyes review consultant for a number of companies and in pulp and paper, mining, food processing, water and wastewater, oil sands processing, petrochemical and refining industries.
Ian is co-author, with Augusto Pereira, of ISA's popular "Foundation Fieldbus Pocket Guide" now in its fourth edition..
Ian is also an active volunteer with ISA, serving as Vice-President of the Standards and Practices 2005/6 and is presently Canadian Chair of IEC TC65, SC65B and SC65E.. Ian is known as a digital communications evangelist and his passion for the topic has taken him around the world to share his experiences.
Ian has accumulated over 20 years experience in oil sands mining where he supported plant operations using standard mining processes of slurry transport, flotation / separation cells and multiphase flow. He is also experienced in truck and shovel operations with associated crushing and solids transport including real time maintenance/operating data for this mobile equipment via wireless communications.
Ian has the ability to explain technology in simple terms that can be understood by others without the same level of theory or experience, a rare quality!
Hashemi Ford
Hashemi has over 20 years international experience in electrical power industry with a focus on modelling, analysis, planning and operation of power systems including distribution, sub-transmission and transmission networks. He has been involved in modelling and analysis of major projects including HVDC interconnectors and wind farms.
Hadi Harb
Hadi has more than 15 years of experience in the development and management of Artificial Intelligence and Audio Signal Processing projects.
From 2000 to 2004 he pursued his PhD working on content-based multimedia indexing. He then worked as a research engineer at Centrale Lyon Innovation SA from 2004 to 2006. During his PhD and research engineer work period, he participated in many R&D projects in collaboration with world-class institutions such as INRIA, France Télécom R&D and IRCAM. He issued for 2 patents and published 17 articles in known international scientific journals and conference proceedings.
From 2006 to 2015 he co-founded and managed Ghanni, a company specialized in multimedia content recommendation and identification. Several European radio stations and websites licensed Ghanni’s music recommendation technology. In 2015 he restructured Ghanni to transform it into a consultancy company in the domain of Artificial Intelligence where he acts as the principle consultant. His current interests are in the application of Artificial Intelligence techniques to natural language understanding and human-like process control.
Hadi holds a MEng (2000) in electrical-electronic engineering. He earned his MSc in 2001 and PhD in 2004 both in computer science from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées INSA Lyon, and the Ecole Centrale de Lyon respectively.
Greg Bell
Greg Bell has been working with computers in technology companies since he was 16 years old. He obtained a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at San
He's been teaching for 6 years and continues to write computer programs as a contractor.
Gopala Krishnan
Gopala has worked in the field of Mechanical and Project engineering for over 35 years and has wide experience in the field compressed air systems, Hydraulics, HVAC systems, Air purification system in both India and south-east Asian countries. He has directly involved in design, construction, erection and commissioning of various plants.
He has the hands-on experience in design, erection and commissioning of HVAC Plants in Pulp and Paper mills, HVAC systems in cleanroom application in Malaysia, Indonesia, devised various training on HVAC with a view of imparting in-depth knowledge and understanding of its applications in buildings, industrial establishments. The interactive presentation along with course lecture and the practical exercises, with the latest information, will provide a valuable training for the delegates.
Gert Coetzee
Gert has 27 years boiler experience. He has been Director of his company, Boiler Management Services, for the past 17 years. They provide specialist services designed to keep the Boiler Plant operating safely and efficiently, thereby eliminating the high cost of maintenance, inefficiencies, air pollution or even Boiler failure.
He spent the majority of his years as a Director for many companies and in those years developed the first competence based video training programme for boiler attendants in South Africa, which was approved by the Institute of Certificated Mechanical and Electrical Engineers, the Department of Manpower, Air Pollution Control – Cape Town, City Council and the National Association for Clean Air.
He is also currently consulting to the industry that has Boilers with the objective of improving the overall efficiency and reduced air pollution.
Gert’s knowledge is second to none, he is enthusiastic and experienced in all aspects of boilers, and will ensure you leave this workshop with knowledge that will immediately aid you in your work environment.
Geoff Bottrill
Geoff has been working in the instrumentation, measurement and control fields for over thirty five years, eventually specialising in Hazardous Areas and Intrinsic Safety applications. He began his career at Kent Instruments, becoming a service engineer in the UK and in East Africa after completing an apprenticeship. His experience ranges from system design, through technical and commercial product support to on-site trouble-shooting. During this time the industry has seen change from a generation of mechanical instrumentation towards sophisticated electronic analogue and digital techniques. Geoff is mindful of these technological changes and its importance in the training and re-training of engineers and technicians involved in the practicality of equipment selection for a project, right through to its maintenance. He considers that his work in Intrinsic safety, in the interfacing of control signals between plant and control system, has inspired his fascination with these connected engineering disciplines and the appreciation of how they work must together.
He asserts that learning and training must be a continuous process and requires a balance between theory and practise, so as to develop an inquisitive and professional approach in students.
Gabriel Ojeah
Gabriel Ojeah obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering at the University of South Australia in 1992 and 1996 respectively.
He lectured at the University of South Australia and the Flinders University of South Australia prior to working in various design, commissioning and testing capacities within the electrical power industry. His vast electrical power industry experience includes 10 years at Hydro Tasmania in Hobart and 3 years at ABB in Perth.
He is currently a Director / Principal Engineer at both Gadian Electrical Engineering Services Pty Ltd and Aptus Power Pty Ltd.
Frikkie Marx
Frikkie has over 20 years of experience in the field of EMC, PE and EO subsystems in both testing and design. Starting his career on the Power System Protection side, he migrated to EMC, PE and EO subsystems. Frikkie's portfolio of achievements includes design of Power Systems, Switch Mode Power Supplies, UPS, high precision Servo Amplifiers, video systems for UAV’s and IR cameras for high reliability military applications.
An enthusiastic instructor with a wealth of knowledge under his belt, you will gain much from his practical approach and entertaining style, as thousands of others have benefited from his knowledge. Don't miss this excellent workshop presented by a leading engineer in EMC/EMI, PE and EO.
Fabian Fernandez
Fabian Fernandez started his career as a Marine Engineer in the merchant marine fleet. He has extensive operational experience with various large power plants – Diesel and also later on with steam turbines. He has also operated various types of auxiliary equipments, like boilers, pumps, purifiers, AC systems, cranes , etc.
After leaving the Marine industry, he spent more than 10 years in the Oil Palm Sector, where he managed plants for various plantation companies in Malaysia and overseas. In this sector, he had control over up to 200 personnel and was also in charge of large transport fleets, heavy equipments like excavators as well as managing not just the palm oil processing plant but also the central workshops.
He has also been involved with Maintenance and Reliability for a large MNC and was one of the 9 professionals for the whole MNC.
He has an intense desire for learning and to upgrade his skills. Besides having qualifications as a Certified Marine Engineer, he also is a Certified Steam Engineer and holds an MBA from the University of Wales, Cardiff, Wales.
Edwin Wright
Edwin has over 40 years of practical experience in the planning, design, construction and operation of telecommunications systems, data networks, SCADA and Ethernet systems. He has also been involved as Project Manager on many projects and has a passion for technology topics.
Edwin has published numerous papers and consulted widely on Ethernet, data communications and telecommunications issues in the USA, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand. Over the past 19 years more than 20,000 engineers and technicians have attended his workshops worldwide. Delegates attending his lectures will benefit from his tremendous knowledge and enthusiasm for the topics and his entertaining instructing style. When not working in the communications world, Edwin relaxes by reading and writing on technology issues at his beachside home.
Deon Reynders
Deon is an Electronics Engineer with over 40 years postgraduate experience encompassing middle management, engineering consulting, management consulting, hardware and software development, systems engineering, project management, marketing, and industrial relations.
He has experience of both large and small business environments. He also is an experienced teacher with HOD and Governing Board experience at University level. His current areas of specialisation include Information Technology (IT ) with an industrial focus, Radio Telemetry Systems, Industrial Networking (LAN technology), and Internet technologies and applications including TCP /IP , the use of Web technologies for process control and OPC . Over the past 15 years he has provided consulting and training services to clients in the USA, Canada, Ireland, the UK, South Africa, Botswana, Trinidad, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Malaysia, Myanmar, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Egypt.
He is co-author of several technical books, of which two (Industrial Data Networks and Modern SCADA Protocols) have been published by Butterworths (Newnes). Deon has prepared course material and presented to thousands of engineers and technicians all over the world. Topics include industrial data communications, industrial networking (including fieldbuses and device networks), radio telemetry systems, Ethernet, TCP/IP, OPC , network security, and financial management for engineers and technicians
Deepak Pais
B.E (Electrical & Electronics) MIEAust CPEng NER
Deepak started his career within the Zinc mining & smelting industry as Project Engineer in Substation & Distribution Greenfield project.
He then worked in a Marine and Logistics firm in the Bahamas as Maintenance and Commissioning Engineer. Following this he worked with Japanese and German automobile firms as Maintenance Engineer for Distribution and Utility related systems. For the last seven years he has been working as a Principal Engineer in the Mains (Standards) team for a leading NSW Electricity Distribution utility.
Deepak has hands on experience in Distribution, Utility and Substation related systems. He has a particular interest in the consistent interpretation and implementation of Greenfield and Brownfield Standards with an emphasis on safety, reliability, economy and whole of life cost analysis.
Danie Stoop
Danie was born in South Africa in 1964 and played with electronics since his school days. He obtained the B. Eng. Electrical and Electronic degree from the former Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education (PU for CHE).
Danie worked in industry for a year and then joined the same university’s School for Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering as lecturer. In 1992, he began his own electronic consultancy business named Dantron, which is an acronym of his own name and the term “electronics”.
In 1997 he won the University’s VERKA competition for best lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering. During the years he lectured, he conducted research in TCP/IP based digital communications for which he obtained a Masters degree Cum Laude in 1999 and pioneered a programmable logic laboratory, sponsored by Xilinx from the USA, amongst others.
Danie’s design experience includes many facets of electronic and embedded systems and -programming for applications such as protocol converters between a variety of protocols.
During 2000, Danie moved over to the operations division of the university, where he gained extensive operational and management experience.
Danie still engages in the academic world from time to time as external examiner or moderator.
He is currently enrolled in a leadership academy to further hone his management skills.
Danie resides in the university city of Potchefstroom and is married to Marlise. They have three sons. He enjoys doing woodwork in his (very little) spare time.
Brian Hobby
Brian has 20 plus years of engineering experience. He thinks in systems and the connections between them as a result of his time as a Naval Weapons Electrical Engineering Officer.
As a design, commissioning and project engineer with Rio Tinto Alcan he oversaw the first application of devicenet in an aluminium smelting environment and assisted with piloting fully automated anode changing.
More recently he has been involved with collecting data from process using the OSISoft historian and using their toolset for analysis. His experience with networking goes back to becoming the accidental sysadmin for a Novell Netware system in the early 1990’s and has been a part of his roles ever since.
He is now ISA99 qualified and currently works for Griffith University as a Technical Lead (IT and Engineering) where he is assisting in collecting and analysing data in support of their sustainability initiatives.
Braam Burchardt
Braam started his career in electrical engineering by serving an apprenticeship on the Zambian copper mines.After qualifying, he moved to South Africa where he obtained Government Certificates of Competency, in both electrical and mechanical engineering, and worked for a number of years as an Engineer on various gold, diamond, platinum, coal and titanium mines.
He was subsequently recruited by the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR), where he attained the rank of Principal Inspector. His work entailed investigating serious mine accidents involving mechanical and electrical plant and equipment. He was also often called to present evidence in criminal and civil courts. Braam studied for a degree in Electrical Engineering with a DMR bursary.
Braam is the Principal Member of the consulting firm, Burchardt Technical Services cc, which he established in 1998. He is also the owner of an electrical construction company, RB Electrical. In the past two decades Braam has worked on major mining projects for Rio Tinto, both in South Africa and abroad.
Braam has a passion for educating young engineers and freelances as an instructor for mining companies, IDC Technologies and others. He also has an interest in writing and (late in his career) obtained a diploma in journalism.