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Krishnamachar Prasad
Professor, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies
The wonderful world of Microelectronics
If you’ve got an opinion on the Super City and want to let the Select Committee know about it then don’t miss this free opportunity to learn from the best.
Following on from the Institute of Public Policy’s (IPP) Auckland Governance Conference in April the Institute is teaming up with the expertise of Kensington Swan to deliver a free seminar on how best to prepare and present your select committee presentation.
Villagers in four Cambodian rural communities can now drink fresh water thanks to AUT’s MBA Leadership classes.
In 2006, leadership lecturer and author John Tan donated students each a copy of his book The Inspirational Leader and refused to accept any payment. Instead, students donated money to two villages near Siem Reap in Cambodia to build much-needed wells.
Minister of Youth Affairs Paula Bennett told students to believe in themselves and dream big at the AUT University Prefects Training Programme (PTP) Leaders Summit last week.
Four hundred student leaders from more than 25 schools around Auckland and the Waikato took part in the day-long programme which featured talks from prominent New Zealand leaders including Bennett.
AUT University and community newspaper Indian Newslink have launched a journalism scholarship in a bid to boost the standard and practice of the profession.
Indian Newslink will pay the tuition fee, Student Services Fee and Student Association Fee for one student admitted every year into one of the university’s one-year postgraduate programmes, including the postgraduate diploma in Communication Studies (journalism) and the Bachelor of Communication Studies (Hons).
Singing shirts, purses with inbuilt touch alarms and cycling jackets that indicate when you turn are a few of the spinoffs of technology that allows fabric to respond to stimuli like light, sound and touch. This week, international electronic textiles expert Dr Leah Buechley will be in Auckland to show how it is done.
AUT celebrates sporting prowess
AUT University students clinched the two top awards at this year’s NZU Blues Awards which were held at Te Papa in Wellington on Friday evening.
The Supreme Award – NZU Sportsperson of the Year went to business student and Kiwi League star Jerome Ropati and the NZU Maori Sportsperson of the Year, communications student and Paralympics swimmer Cameron Leslie.
Broadband users young and urban
New Zealand broadband users perceive the Internet as more important in their daily life compared with those who use a dialup service according to the latest findings from the World Internet Project.
Researchers at AUT University’s Institute of Culture, Discourse & Communication have been conducting further analysis on the New Zealand results within a global survey that studies the social impact of the Internet.
Ropati Sportsperson of the Year
Kiwis league star Jerome Ropati took top honours at the 2008 NZU Blues Awards held at Te Papa in Wellington this June, scooping NZU Sportsperson of the Year.
Judges say his success with the Kiwi team at the 2008 Rugby League World Cup and the way he has balanced his busy sporting life with study towards a Graduate Diploma of Business at AUT, means Ropati is a worthy recipient.
IBM Grant to AUT Boosts SKA Bid
A grant of specialised hardware, software, and research time to AUT University by IBM will strengthen New Zealand’s chances of co-hosting the world’s biggest radio telescope project.
AUT leads the New Zealand arm of the Australasian Consortium striving towards a role in the international Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project, with total cost of approximately NZ$4.6 billion dollars.