Society of Monash Electrical Engineering Alumni

Revised Notice – Change of Venue We have moved the dinner venue to Waverley Industries. This is where it was last year.

Society of Monash Electrical Engineering Alumni Annual Dinner, preceded by Final Year Project Displays in the Department Wednesday 21st October 2015

This year’s Projects will be on display in the first and second floor labs of what most of us know as Building 35 from 6pm to 7pm on that day. They will be well worth a visit and may remind you of what you did in the Department in the distant past. Building 35 now has the designation ‘16 Alliance Lane’. If you look up the campus map on the web you should be able to figure out where to go. Things are much more complicated these days. There will be plenty of parking space at that time of the day but finding a way in to N1 (the multistory park near Engineering) or W1 (ground level) may test your ingenuity. No charge for the parking or for the projects.

The Dinner will be at Waverley Industries. It will be open for nibbles and a drink at 7pm. Waverley Industries is on the south side of Ferntree Gully Road between Blackburn Road and Howleys Road, just to the west of the Waverley Transfer Station. Probably best to park in Howleys Road.

Main Speaker: Kishor Dabke PhD(‘72) Almost Half a Century (-2%) at Monash

Kishor says ‘I will recall my memories of Monash EE (and ECSE) of the first day, first year and first decade followed by developments in more recent decades including the almost two decades (-10%) of retirement. It will be a pleasure to recall colleagues, friends and students who have made my time here wonderful. Two equations and a phrase will be presented and a short test on these will follow.’

Kishor is well known to any graduate who finished before 2000. He came to Australia in 1966 from Baroda, India, to enroll for a PhD with Bill Brown in the area of multivariable sub-optimal control systems. He joined the staff in 1969 and has taught measurements and control systems and lots of other things as well as supervising many postgraduate students. He has spent sabbatical periods at Stuttgart and Carnegie-Mellon. He was awarded the best teacher in the Faculty of Engineering in 1993. In 1986 Doug Lampard asked Kishor to organize an alumni group and SMEEA is the result. For many years Kishor was the President of SMEEA and did most of the organizing.

If you wish to attend the dinner and/or the project displays please let us know, preferably by e-mail, by 14th October. Our e-mail address is [email protected]. The cost for the dinner is $40 per person. We need you to pay beforehand. You can pay by direct debit or by cheque. The direct debit details are: SMEEA, CBA Monash University, BSB 06 3408, A/C 10087532. Please ensure your name appears somewhere on the transaction. If you have already paid the $55 for the Notting Hill Hotel we will pass on a $15 refund on the night. If you wish to pay by cheque you should register by filling in the slip below and mailing the slip and the cheque to: SMEEA, Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, 14 Alliance Lane, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3168.

For the 21st October I wish to register for the project displays; I wish to attend the SMEEA dinner. I enclose a cheque for $40 payable to SMEEA for the dinner.

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