This meeting will be held at 5:45pm on Wednesday February 15th at the offices of URS, level 6 no 1 Southbank boulevard, Southbank (Click here for a map)
Convener:
Guest Speaker: Damien Moyse
Outline: Damien will report on the results of a recently completed research study into the long term economic costs of standalone power systems located [...]

ATA Melbourne
Branch

Tentative Topics 2012 (and list of meeting dates)
List will go here
The February topic is: “Economics and Efficiency of Standalone Power Systems”, presented by Damien Moyse
Meeting dates for 2012:
February 15th, March 21st, April 18th, May 16th, June 20th, July 18th, August 15th, September 19th, October 17th, November 21st
Note that there is no meeting in January

ATA Melbourne
Branch

Events Pre-2012

Nov 2011 Phase Change Materials: light weight smart thermal mass
Oct 2011 Solar PV Panels: a Review of the Industry and Recent Advances in the Technology
Sept 2011 ATA Melbourne Project Night
Sept 2011 special meeting Arduino Interest Group meeting
Aug 2011 Wind Energy – Australia and the World
July 2011 Making Plastics Biodegradable; Recycling Plastics into Products
June [...]

Formula SAE and electric cars
Come along, bring your electric vehicle and help us support the electric competitors at SAE’s Formula SAE event in Werribee on Sunday 18th December.

Swinburne’s car

The Event
This event is an international event for students to build a race car to set specifications. This year there are 29 teams competing with 8 [...]

Melbourne Branch monthly meeting November 16th 2011
This meeting was held at 5:45pm on Wednesday November 16th at the offices of URS, level 6 no 1 Southbank boulevard, Southbank (Click here for a map)
Topic: Phase Change Materials: light weight smart thermal mass
meeting description
Convener: Peter Wonfor
Guest Speaker: Paul Wilson, General Manager Australia, Phase Change Energy Solutions Australia
paul.wilson@phasechange.com.au
http://www.phasechange.com.au
Outline:
Phase [...]

This meeting was held at 5:45pm on Wednesday October 19th at the offices of URS, level 6 no 1 Southbank boulevard, Southbank (Click here for a map)
Topic: Solar PV Panels: a Review of the Industry and Recent Advances in the Technology
meeting description
Convener: Peter Wonfor
Guest Speaker: Govind Kant, Sales Manager – Solar at RF Industries
Outline:
Govind discussed [...]

This meeting was held at 5:45pm on Wednesday September 21st at the offices of URS, level 6 no 1 Southbank boulevard, Southbank (Click here for a map)
The topic:
ATA Melbourne 2011 Project Night
Convener: Paul Fritze
This month’s meeting repeated our very successful 2010 event. Around 20 members and invited guests put their projects on show to [...]

When: Saturday 17 September
Time: 2pm
Where: Ben Somerville’s home, 18 Gwyn Rise Vermont South 3133. Melways: 62H5.
There is good parking available.
Update
We have come a long way in our research for the fan project. We will be discussing a PWM circuit, an interesting reference design for a fan and temperature controller, a 12 Volt DC fan, a [...]

This meeting was held at 5:45pm on Wednesday August 17th at the offices of URS, level 6 no 1 Southbank boulevard, Southbank (Click here for a map)
Topic: Wind Energy – Australia and the world
meeting description
Convener: Antoni Pisa
Guest Speaker: Jonathan Upson from Infigen Energy (previously Babcock and Brown)
Outline:
Jonathan presented an overview of wind energy in Australia [...]

Melbourne Branch monthly meeting July 20th 2011
This meeting was held at 5:45pm on Wednesday July 20th at the offices of URS, level 6 no 1 Southbank boulevard, Southbank (Click here for a map)
Topic: Making Plastics Biodegradable; Recycling Plastics into Products
Convener: Tim Hamer
First Speaker: Dr Ross Headifen (Plastic Waste Solutions info@plasticwastesolutions.com)
meeting description: Dr Ross Headifen gave [...]