Hot on the heels of most influential paper award from ASWEC98 earlier this year, Person:JamesNoble was awarded another Most Influential Paper award, this time from the ACM SIGPLAN International Conference ...

Person:PaulTeal has recently featured in the Dominion for his research on developing a less invasive way of monitoring foetal heart beats. Senior Lecturer Person:PaulTeal says his aim is to find a more ...

Victoria University security researchers are excited to be involved in Summer of Code (GSoC) this year. Peter Komisarczuk and Ian Welch currently lead the Zealand chapter of the Project which has been ...

The winner of the School of Engineering and Computer Science contest is 13 year old Tariq Kader. Tariq is in year 9 at Wellington College and one of his favourite subjects is mathematics. He also enjoys ...

During the mid trimester break in April, seven students from ECS (Keith Cassell, Adam Clarke, Rashina Hoda, Ben Palmer, Kourosh Neshatian, Kok Lim.Yau, and Craig Anslow) attended the New Zealand ...

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) is one of the world's leading professional societies for the engineering and technology community with more than 150,000 members in 127 countries ...

On Wednesday 10 June 2009 the Faculty of Engineering hosted approximately 70 people from the Wellington engineering and computer industry. The aim of the event was to further develop relationships in ...

Recently Person:AndyLinton, a teaching fellow at the Faculty of Engineering, took part in the 5th conference and educational workshop of the Pacific Network Operators Group (PacNOG). Held in Tahiti, the ...

On Thursday 6th August Victoria University were the hosts for the New Zealand Computer Society Evening with Industry 2009. The McClaurin foyer and lecture theatre MCLT101 were packed with 200 students ...

With names like Praying Muntaz, Predator, Icarus and Optimal Prime, the stage was set for an exciting match at the Annual Lego Competition. Monday night gave students enrolled in ECSE430 Advanced ...

On the 4th September Massey and Victoria engineering and computer science students came together in the annual IEEE New Zealand Central Section (http://ewh.ieee.org/r10/nzc/) postgraduate presentation ...

Victoria University will offer a Master of Engineering next year, beginning in February. The programme will enable students to undertake a research project in electronics, computer systems networking, ...

The sixteenth Electronics New Zealand Conference (ENZCon 2009) was recently held at the University of Otago. The papers presented broadly covered the areas of electronics, signal and image processing, ...

At the start of the year Victoria joined the NZ project part of the world wide PlanetLab. PlanetLab is a global experimental networking facility, designed for conducting cutting edge research on current ...

During the mid trimester break 12 15 April 2010, ECS hosted the 8th Zealand Computer Science Research Student Conference (NZCSRSC) on the Kelburn campus. The conference was organised and run by postgraduate ...

Brendan Vercoelen says his $6000 university scholarship will help him towards his dream job in the robotics industry. Brendan is a honours year student in a Bachelor of Engineering degree majoring in Electronic ...

Brendan Vercoelen is a fourth year Bachelors of Engineering (BE) student studying Electronic and Computer Systems Engineering (ECEN) at Victoria University of Wellington who is shaping industry to student ...

We are looking for creative and bright ideas on how you would tell the world about the Engineering students and the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Victoria University Wellington. 1st Prize ...

The All Whites recently returned from a very successful World Cup campaign, drawing with Italy, Slovakia and Paraguay to go undefeated. New Zealand soccer was thrust into the limelight when a late equaliser ...

Five final year Power Electronics (ECEN405) students ended their trimester with a project loud enough to potentially cause auditory damage. The students, supervised by Robin Dykstra, designed, developed ...

Person:KyleChard and Person:KrisBubendorfer have recently featured in the IEEE Spectrum Magazine on the development of a "social cloud," which would facilitate the sharing of information, hardware, and ...

We are delighted that the professional nature of our Bachelor of Engineering degree has been recognised by the Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand. The accreditation process is thorough, ...

On Saturday, the 11th of September, 2010, School of Engineering and Computer Science hosted the Wellington Site for the regional qualification round of the world oldest and most prestigious programming ...

Associate Professor Person:ThomasKuehne recently received a Distinguished Paper Award at the ACM SIGSOFT Conference. His paper An Observer Based Notion of Model Inheritance , discusses specialisation ...

Our Changing World, Radio New Zealand National (14 October 2010). The threat of being buried in rubble in an earthquake is a real and horrifying prospect, and trying to rescue trapped people from collapsed ...

Mansoor Shafi, adjunct professor at the School of Engineering and Computer Science, has been named co recipient of the 2011 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award. The IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award ...

A team at Victoria University has been awarded the 2010 Prime Minister's Science Prize, worth half a million dollars. Research from the Magnetic Resonance Innovation Team has been used in medical magnetic ...

Ben Haughey was recently awarded best student (novice) presentation prize at the Electronics New Zealand Conference (ENZCon) 2010 for his paper titled Simulation and Optimisation of a 2 DOF Parallel Planar ...

At Victoria University on the 24th of November, 52 year 10 girls from 9 Wellington high schools took part in the 2010 Programming Challenge for Girls. This is an annual event held in various locations ...

PhD Student Ben Palmer received $AUD 500 as prize money for winning "Best Student Paper and Best Paper" at this year's Australasian Information Security Conference (AISC). The winning paper's title is ...

At the recent APNIC conference, Victoria University Lecturer, Andy Linton, was elected Co Chair of the APNIC Policy Special Interest Group (SIG). With the imminent exhaustion of IPv4 addresses and the ...

The School of Engineering and Computer Science would like to thank Google for the donation of 50 Android mobile phones for student research. The phones will be used for teaching networked applications ...

Henry Williams has won a $500 prize in Victoria University s Summer Gold Scholars Poster Competition, for his poster titled Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping: SLAM. Henry s work over the summer involved ...

The Faculty of Engineering congratulates the inaugural group of Bachelor of Engineering graduates. Of the graduating students, around half are currently working in the industry and the other half has gone ...

Computer scientists from the ELVIS Software Design Research Group at Victoria University are working in collaboration with experts from other New Zealand universities to develop more efficient, cost effective ...

SWEN302 is a second trimester third year group project course for software engineering students. In SWEN302, students work in teams of around 6 8 people to develop prototype software for real projects ...

Latest news. Unfortunately the contest has been cancelled. See http://www.ipredictapp.co.nz/ for details. iPredict is an online political and economic trading market which allows traders to buy and sell ...

On the 16th of June, students enrolled in ECEN 405 visited Haywards Substation in Stokes Valley, in order to see power electronics at work on a large scale. They were accompanied by the course lecturer ...

Victoria University Teaching Fellow Andy Linton co presented a workshop, with instructors from NSRC (University of Oregon) and Google, on DNS operations at the 9th Meeting of the Pacific Network Operators ...

A recent article in the Dominion Post features Craig Anslow, a PhD student who has developed a 48 inch multi touch table. Craig is conducting research into applications that help software developers visually ...

Victoria University has unveiled plans for a leading edge study programme that will support innovation and growth in Wellington's internationally recognised entertainment and digital technologies industries ...

The School of Engineering and Computer Science's Annual Lego Robot Competition for 400 level ECEN students will be held at 7pm Monday 22 August in AM106. The constructed robots must be autonomous ...

On Saturday, 10th of September, 2011, ECS hosted the "Lower North Island" site for the Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest's South Pacific Regionals. The top ...

We congratulate the Faculty of Architecture and Design for their third place success in the Solar Decathlon competition and are glad that we could contribute to their triumph in the Engineering category ...

Three post graduate students from the School of Engineering and Computer Science achieved success in the Wellington Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Present around the World Competition ...

All of our cohort of graduating Bachelors of Engineering students have gone on to find graduate level employment. This illustrates both the need for digitally focused engineers from our specialisations ...

On the 23rd of November 2011, ECS and VUW hosted 51 Year 10 girls from around the Wellington Greater Region as part of the annual Challenge 4 Girls competition. The girls worked in pairs to complete a ...

Like many teenage boys, Barr spent time playing games in arcades, rented SEGA games, and bought a Playstation when it became available. However, it wasn t until he embarked on a Phd at Victoria University ...