One of our committee members, Karen Austria will be speaking at a number of outreach events run for prospective students, IT students and high school girls (Year 11). Details as follows:
Event: Victoria University - Forum Success Story Presentation (a presentation to Year 11 and 12 careers teachers form schools around Victoria)
Date: Tuesday, the 8th of May 2007
Where: Victoria University City Flinders Campus
For further information contact: Karen.Austria@alcatel-lucent.com.au
Event: ACS Expo , School of Information Systems Ambassador
Date: Friday, the 11th of May 2007
Where: Melbourne Exhibition Centre.
For further information: contact: Karen.Austria@alcatel-lucent.com.au
Event: Victoria University's School of Information Systems I.T. (E.R.P) Day
Date: Friday, the 18th of May 2007
Where: VUT's Flinders Street Campus, 300 Flinders Street, Melbourne.
For further information contact: Karen.Austria@alcatel-lucent.com.au
Event: Alcatel-Lucent & Victoria University's School of Information Systems
Date: Friday, the 23rd of May 2007
Where: Catholic Regional College Sydenham, 380 Sydenham Road, Sydenham 3037.
For further information contact: Karen.Austria@alcatel-lucent.com.au
March
2007
IEEE WIE at Victoria University's 7th Annual Graduate Careers Fair
The IEEE Women in Engineering group is pleased to be represented at Victoria University's 7th Annual Graduate Careers Fair by our treasurer, Karen Austria. A graduate of Victoria University with a Bachelors Degree in Business and Information Systems, Karen is now a Technical Designer with Alcatel-Lucent. Karen will be available to speak to visitors about opportunities for women interested in engineering at the Alcatel Lucent stand. The Fair will be held on Friday, 9 March from 11 am to 2 pm at Victoria University's Footscray Park Campus.
March
2007
Honourable Mention Reception & Leadership and Career Growth Talk
We have a very special function which we'd like to invite you to. A high level delegation from the IEEE will be travelling to Australia. They have planned a free reception and talk to invite all Victorian IEEE members and guests to come along.
The group is the world-wide IEEE Women-in-Engineering Committee The talk which they have arranged is being given by an eminent person and excellent speaker. As well, as it turns out, they will be presenting the local WIE with an Honourable Mention award for the outstanding work done by it in Victoria in 2006 !!
Title: Leadership and career growth in an engineering / technical environment.
Presenter: Mary Petryszyn, Raytheon USA
Time: Reception 5:30 to 6:30 pm for talk from 6:30 to 7:30 pm
Date: Friday, 9 March 2007
Where: Hilton on the Park, 119 Wellington Parade, Melbourne
RSVP: wie.victorian@ieee.org
This function is free and open to all - this will be a wonderful event so put this date down in your diary and bring your friends and make a great night of it. Looking forward to seeing you there.
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March
2007
IEEE WIE at Victoria University's 7th Annual Graduate Careers Fair
The IEEE Women in Engineering group is pleased to be represented at Victoria University's 7th Annual Graduate Careers Fair by our treasurer, Karen Austria. A graduate of Victoria University with a Bachelors Degree in Business and Information Systems, Karen is now a Technical Designer with Alcatel-Lucent. Karen will be available to speak to visitors about opportunities for women interested in engineering at the Alcatel Lucent stand. The Fair will be held on Friday, 9 March from 11 am to 2 pm at Victoria University's Footscray Park Campus.
January
2007
Visit by IEEE Region 10 Director, Prof. Janina Mazierska
Prof. Janina Mazierska, the new IEEE Region 10 Director, is visiting Melbourne.
We have an organised an evening dinner and would like to warmly invite all IEEE
members to come along.
When: 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm, Wednesday, 10th of January 2007
Where: Santino's Terrace Restaurant, 166 Lygon Street, Carlton
Cost: $25 a la carte
RSVP: 5 pm Tuesday, 9 January to wie.victorian@ieee.org.
Background:
The IEEE is divided in to Regions and Region 10 encompasses "Tasmania to
China" and "New Zealand to Pakistan". Regions are responsible for all of the
activities and services not provided directly by the IEEE in Piscataway. Running
such a unit is a complex task with many diverse interests needing to be catered
for. If you would like to know more about Region 10, or have
ideas about how Region 10 should do things, or would like to hear Janina, then
please do come along.
Biography:
Janina Mazierska received MSEE and PhD in Electronic Engineering from
the Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. From 1972 to 1982 she worked with
the Institute of Electronic Fundamentals, Warsaw University of Technology. She
spent the next four years on an assignment to the University of Jos, Nigeria. In 1987 she joined James Cook University in Queensland. Since 2004 she has been on leave from James Cook and is currently Head of Information Sciences
and Techology, Massey University, New Zeland. She is an IEEE Fellow and the
incoming Director of IEEE Region 10.
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December
2006
End of Year & Festive Season Networking Dinner
Wednesday, 13 December 2006
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Santino's Terrace Restaurant, 166 Lygon Street, Carlton
You are warmly invited to the final IEEE Women in Engineering event of the year
- a celebratory networking dinner in the festive season. Further details are in the flyer.
We look forward to seeing you there. Come along and support your WIE - with
your interest we can run many more successful events in the new year.
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November
2006
The Digital & the Divine: A Critical Exploration of the Intersections of Spiritual Practice & New Technologies - A Presentation by Dr Genevieve Bell, Intel, USA.
Friday, 24 November 2006
12:30 - 1:30 pm
Telstra Conference Centre, 242 Exhibition Street, Melbourne
Dr Bell is a widely recognized ethnographer, who has developed product shaping insights into consumers world-wide and is bringing a research driven, end-user focus to Intel in her role as the Director of User Experience within Intel’s Digital Home Group in USA. She will speak about the ways in which religious uses of technology suggest a very different path(s) for technology envisioning and development.
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October
2006
Secrets of Success for Women in Science and Engineering
Prof. Irena Cosic
and WIE Website Launch.
Prof. Irena Cosic
is Head of the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, RMIT University,
Melbourne and a prominent
woman scientist in the area of biomedical engineering. Recently she was an invited speaker at "IIWE
2006: Women in Engineering - Pushing for Sustainability". Professor Cosic will reflect upon some of the strategies successful women have used in the past and the present to progress their careers.
We will also officially launch our website and celebrate the outstanding achievement by the web design team led
by Kristine Rizardo.
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September
2006
Career, Relationships and Children
- can women really have it all?
Dr Leslie Cannold
In September, WIE will be pleased to host a lunch
with Dr Leslie Cannold, a prominent bioethicist and commentator on gender issues.
Dr Cannold will speak about the myth of "having it all"; the choices professional
women are often forced to make between career and family; the role of men in
redressing these difficulties; and how, with the Government's help, women can
make informed choices in their changing lives.
Dr Cannold's book, "What,
No Baby?: Why women are losing the freedom to mother, and how they can get
it back" is now available from the Fremantle Arts Centre Press.
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June
2006
Maxwell
Year 2006 - A Presentation by Dr Robyn Arianrhod
Tuesday, 13 June 2006
5:45 - 7:00 pm
Telstra Conference Centre, 242 Exhibition Street, Melbourne
The distinguished author and mathematician Dr Robyn Arianrhod will be speaking
about the life of James Clerk Maxwell, a great influence on the work of Albert
Einstein. Famous for his equations of electromagnetism, this is the opportunity
to learn more about this unheralded mathematician, physicist and poet. Dr
Arianrhod's book, "Einstein's Heroes" is the definitive work on
this fascinating individual. Fortuitously, 13 June is the 175th anniversary
of his birth.
The lecture will be held at the Telstra Conference Centre, 242 Exhibition
Street (on the corner of Lonsdale St), Melbourne. Doors open at 5:45 pm and
the lecture starts promptly at 6:00 pm. Light refreshments will be served
afterwards. To register your interest, please RSVP to wie.victorian@ieee.org.
The event is free and open to non-IEEE members, so please bring a friend and
circulate this talk notice to any other interested people.
The event will also be listed on the UK Maxwell
Year
2006 event website.
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March 2006
Evening
Networking Meeting to Celebrate International Women's Day
To celebrate International Women's Day, WIE will host a networking dinner for
its members. International Women's Day is a major day of global celebration
of the economic, political and social achievements of women. In this spirit,
this event will be held to particularly celebrate the contribution of women engineers,
encourage networking between local IEEE WIE members and other professional
women from the industry and facilitate discussions about issues which are
relevant to women in the sciences today.
Wednesday,
8th March 2006
7:00pm - 9:30pm
Restaurant Berth,
45 New Quay Promenade,
Docklands, http://www.berth.com.au
So, we would like to extend
an invitation to all IEEE and other interested women to come along and join us in celebrating this very significant and important
day for all the women in the world.
Let you
friends and colleagues (IEEE and non-IEEE) know of this as well. All are welcome.
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December
2005
Evening Networking Meeting with IEEE
RAB/TAB Women
Nearly the whole of the IEEE is run by, and reports back to, two important
Boards: the Regional Activities Board (RAB) and the Technical Activities Board
(TAB). And some of the key people involved in the running of RAB and TAB are
women !!
A networking event will be held in honour of these distinguished visiting IEEE women:
Celia Desmond (Technical Activities Board, Vice President and the recent Chair
of the IEEE Communications Society), Mary Ward-Callan (Managing Director,
Technical Activities Board), and Cecilia Jankowski (Managing Director, Regional
Activities Board).
Monday, 5th December 2005
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Santino's Terrace Restaurant
166 Lygon Street, Carlton
This will be a wonderful opportunity to listen and talk to
high profile women within IEEE. Let your
friends and colleagues (IEEE and non-IEEE) know of this as well. All are welcome.
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November
2005
Two events will be held to acquaint the Victorian Section members of WIE. Both will coincide with Tencon'05.
Evening Networking Meeting with Dr Radia
Perlman
Thursday, 24th November 2005
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Santino's Terrace Restaurant
166 Lygon Street, Carlton
A networking dinner event will be hosted by WIE, featuring
a well known, high achiever Dr Radia Perlman - Distinguished Engineer, Sun
Microsystems Laboratories - as a special guest. We would like to extend an
invitation to all IEEE and other interested women to come along to this networking
event.
Radia Perlman's work on bridging (spanning tree algorithm)
and routing (robust and scalable link state routing) is
fundamental to today's networks. She has also made significant
contributions to security, including credentials download, key
management, authentication and authorization models, and
assured delete.
She is the author of "Interconnections: Bridges, Routers,
Switches, and Internetworking Protocols", and co-author of
"Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World".
Holding about 80 patents, she was named SVIPLA (Silicon Valley
Intellectual Property Law Association) 2004 Inventor of the
Year. She has a PhD from MIT in computer science, and an
honorary doctorate from KTH, Sweden's Royal Institute of
Technology.
Dr Perlman
is visiting Australia for the IEEE Tencon Conference
being held in Melbourne from 21-24 November www.tencon2005.org.
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November
2005
Lunchtime
Networking Meeting at TENCON 2005 Conference
Wednesday,
23rd November 2005
12:30 pm - 1:45 pm
Meeting Room 3, 1st Floor
Crown Promenade Hotel, Southbank
A lunchtime
networking meeting will be hosted by WIE at the IEEE TENCON 2005 Conference.
This is aimed at drawing together all of the interested participants at TENCON
because it's IEEE policy to run a WIE event at a technical conference. It
also presents a great opportunity for all the women engineers attending Tencon
from all the different countries in IEEE Region 10 to get together as a group
and share knowledge about women in engineering and science in these countries.
If you are not coming to TENCON you are STILL INVITED to come to this event
for free.
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