Thank you
Thank you for registering for Hands On Engineering and IT at the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology.
Sign up to individual workshops
Use the links below to sign up to individual workshops:
Wednesday 30 September
- 9.00–10.30am
- Introduction to the day – engineering and IT and workshop: making an impact with engineering
- 11.00am–12.30pm
- Workshop: Explore your neighbourhood with a Digital Twin (spatial engineering): part 1 of 2
- 12.30–1.00pm
- Lunch
- 1.00–2.30pm
- Workshop: Coding against COVID 19
- 2.30–3.30pm
- Workshop: Ethics of artificial intelligence
- 3.30–4.30pm
- Workshop: Programming challenge with ALICE
Thursday 1 October
- 9.30–11.00am
- Workshop: Bridge building
- 11.00am–12.30pm
- Workshop: Demystifying cryptography
- 12.30–1.00pm
- Lunch
- 1.00–2.30pm
- Workshop: So you think you know maths?
- 2.30–4.00pm
- Workshop: Coding against COVID 19
Friday 2 October
- 9.00–9.30am
- Introduction to the day – engineering and IT
- 9.30–10.30am
- Workshop: Making an impact with engineering
- 11.00am–12.30pm
- Workshop: Explore your neighbourhood with a Digital Twin (spatial engineering): part 1 of 2
- 12.30–1.00pm
- Lunch
- 1.00–2.30pm
- Workshop: Bridge building
- 2.30–3.30pm
- Workshop: Ethics of artificial intelligence
- 3.30–4.30pm
- Workshop: Programming challenge with ALICE
Workshops
- Explore your neighbourhood with a Digital Twin
In this workshop you will explore your neighbourhood with a state-of-the-art Digital Twin platform. This platform integrates spatial, social and economic data, historic, real-time, and future. This workshop has 2 parts.
- Making an impact with engineering
An introductory workshop for those who are interested in engineering. Hear from our current mechanical and electrical engineering students about their studies, the impact they are making through internships and work on a case study using engineering problem-solving techniques.
- Coding against COVID 19
Engineers without Borders and Robogals present a workshop for students to engage with sophisticated coding concepts. The overall goal of the workshop is for students to develop handwritten code to navigate a map, with a motivating narrative of improving access to healthcare in developing countries.
- Ethics of artificial intelligence
Imagine a runaway trolley raging down the tracks toward five people. You stand at a railway switch with the power to divert the trolley to another track, where just one person stands. Do you do it? What if there is a computer automated to make the decision? Professor Tim Miller discusses the ethics of autonomy using this and other examples.
- Programming challenge using ALICE
Alice is an innovative block-based programming environment that makes it easy to create animations, build interactive narratives, or program simple games in 3D. Students will learn logical and computational thinking skills, fundamental principles of programming and enjoy exposure to object-oriented programming.
- So you think you know maths?
Professor Andrew Ooi, Mechanical Engineer, and Dr Jillian Kenny, Civil Engineer, demonstrate how mathematics has been used in the fight against COVID 19.
- Bridge building
Participants will learn the engineering concepts of bridge building guided by our resident bridge building expert. Materials required: paper, straws and sticky tape and tin-can weights.
- Demystifying cryptography
In this session we will look into cryptographic techniques behind secure communication and privacy-preserving data analysis. You will get a chance to “break” simple encryption methods and participate in a protocol for protecting personal information.
We look forward to seeing you virtually.
If you have any questions, email schoolsengagement-engit@unimelb.edu.au.