Bridging the gaps in mobile internet services
Bridging the knowledge gap between technical professionals and research scientists in the rapidly advancing area of intelligent mobile internet services and wireless infrastructure was the aim of a workshop held at UniSA’s Mawson Lakes campus during September.
The new course provided a timely opportunity for students and industry professionals to develop research and industry-based skills in emerging areas of internet services, wireless infrastructure and artificial intelligence for developing intelligent services.
UniSA’s School of Electrical and Information Engineering conducted the three-day workshop in collaboration with the local industry. Participants included 24 postgraduate and final year engineering and IT students, who are continuing to undertake research projects to complete the course work and produce a paper for presentation at the end of the year.
In keeping pace with rapidly growing services in the mobile internet arena, the workshop gave students a comprehensive training platform on design, development and deployment of end-to-end mobile internet services, in diverse domains such as Telematics, E-commerce and TeleHealth.
The broad study topics covered included concepts of internet service engineering, application of intelligent systems, wireless infrastructure and platforms, and included analysis of the selected industry/research papers.
Anant Mahajan of Motorola coordinated the workshop in consultation with UniSA’s Professor of Knowledge-Based Engineering, Lakhmi Jain.
Dr Vasile Palade from Oxford University, UK, presented the fundamentals of intelligent systems while Andrew Udina from DSTO and Dr Maxim Chitayev from Motorola gave technical presentations. The workshop also included components on professional presentation and effective technical writing delivered by Ron Johnson of Rostrum and Emeritus Professor Bob Bogner from the University of Adelaide..
Since then the course has gained increased momentum in Asian countries and Professor Jain is also exploring the possibility of presenting the course online to overseas universities.
For further enquiries contact: anant.mahajan@motorola.com or nikhil.ichalkaranje@unisa.edu.au