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NZi3 Scholarship enables base station research
Wireless communications student wins Poster Competition
Professor Jim Cavers Visits Wireless Research Centre
New Wireless Research Centre Manager
WRC Benefits from UCi3 Scholarship
Brazilian Police Force Opts for Digital Tait Radios
NZi3 Scholarship enables base station research (PDF 3MB) (April 08)
Through the Wireless Research Centre (WRC) Judy
is undertaking her Master’s of Engineering in the
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
having been awarded a $30,000 NZi3 Master’s
scholarship. Her industry sponsor, Tait Electronics, is
also her current employer. She is taking 12 months
special leave to return to academia to develop her
skills in her chosen research area which is also of
benefit to Tait Electronics.
Wireless communications student wins Poster Competition (March 08)
Karla Smith is now $2000 better off, having won the 2008 College of Engineering Postgraduate Research Poster Competition. Karla is a postgraduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and received a Tait Electronics scholarship to assist her with her studies.
Professor Jim Cavers Visits Wireless Research Centre (February 08)
Professor Jim Cavers of Simon Fraser University in Canada is visiting the Wireless Research Centre during a research semester.
Jim’s research interests include modulation and detection for mobile communications, and integrated RF/DSP design. He has published many well-known journal and conference papers and one book, and holds twelve patents. He has received several national and provincial awards for innovative and commercially successful research. Prof. Cavers is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Jim is working with the WRC’s manager and advisory group in order to provide advice on developing the Centre’s engagement with the wireless community and refine the research directions of the Centre.
As part of the affiliation with the WRC he will be working with Tait Electronics Ltd and the newly formed Mimomax Wireless Ltd, where he will be identifying problems to which he can apply his expertise, whilst also identifying suitable projects for further research work within the WRC.
Jim will use his time in NZ to help identify new problems for him to focus his research on whilst supporting his students with their analysis of problems.
New Wireless Research Centre Manager (February 08)
Jeremy Reece has recently commenced his position as Manager of the Wireless Research Centre. He has a strong background in 
University Industry collaboration, having worked in this field at the University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom, for 13 years. At Wolverhampton , he rose to the level of principal lecturer, primarily through project managing and consulting on a wide variety of ICT-related, technology transfer projects.
He has undertaken several industrial secondments, including representing the West Midlands region's 13 Universities on its ICT Cluster's strategic board, the remit of the cluster being to define and implement a $200 million strategy for the development of the region's ICT industry.
Jeremy's final position at Wolverhampton was a secondment on to the IT Futures project, which created a team to specialise in collaborating and supporting industry in the use and development of ICT technologies, through the leveraging of University expertise. He has also worked for Lucas Aerospace, where he undertook research and development into fly-by-wire and fly-by-light actuation systems and engine control systems.
Since emigrating to New Zealand in 2006, Jeremy has been working for Tait Electronics Ltd in their development department, helping to define the solutions for their range of terminal radios. We welcome Jeremy aboard NZi3 and wish him every success with his work in the Wireless Research Centre.
WRC benefits from UCi3 scholarship (March 07)
The Wireless Research Centre (WRC) has received a boost to its next generation mobile communications research, thanks to one of its students receiving an inaugural $30k UCi3 Master's Scholarship.
Arpan Mandal, a postgraduate student within the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Canterbury, received the award to assist him with his research being carried out in the WRC in collaboration with Tait Electronics.
Under the supervision of Professor Harsha Sirisena (Electrical and Computer Engineering) and Dr Kishore Mehrotra (Tait Electronics), Arpan will conduct research on advancing high-speed wireless broadband technology known as WiMAX.
"The technology is not yet fully developed and there are thousands and thousands of engineers working on this worldwide but to our knowledge we are the only academic institution in New Zealand working on this technology," Arpan said.
Brazilian Police Force Opts For Digital Tait Radios (Tait Electronics website)