Visiting Industry Professionals - Successful Applicants

In March 2008 funding was awarded to:

University of Otago – Department of Computer Science
VIP: Tyrone MacAuley, Technical Director and Cofounder, Sidhe Interactive
Mr. MacAuley will be teaming up with colleagues from Sidhe’s design, production, and art departments to talk about the computer game industry in a summer course on Computer Science.

University of Canterbury – Department of Mechanical Engineering
VIP: Dr Lawrence Ray, Program Manager, Carestream Health
Dr Ray is a world expert in biomedical imaging. He will spend two weeks teaching a mini-course and interacting with students, staff and researchers.

University of Canterbury - Chemical and Process Engineering
VIP: Dr Robert Dempster, Technical and R&D Manager, Intervet Ltd.
Dr Dempster will present two lectures to students of bioprocess engineering, and offer a seminar open to the wider department.

University of Waikato – Department of Engineering
VIP: J Godfrey Lucas, air navigation expert
Mr Lucas will give a series of lectures on antenna theory and measurement to third year physics undergraduates,fourth-year electronic engineering students, and local industrial researchers.

Massey University – School of Engineering and Advanced Technology
VIP: Dr Yong Yuan, Research Scientist, Industrial Research Limited
Dr Yuan will give three lectures to senior mechatronics students, as well as tutoring their final projects and helping to revise the course contents. He will also give two research seminars to postgraduates in biosensors and bioelectronics and meet staff members for potential research collaboration.