Curriculum Vitae

Surname: León de la Barra, First Name: BernardoSchool of EngineeringUniversity of TasmaniaPrivate Bag 65HobartTAS 7001Australia

Contents

1 Personal Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.1 Academic and Professional Quali…cations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.2 Employment History and Work Contact Details . . . . . . . . . . 3

2 Awards, Fellowships, and Scholarships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Teaching and Learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.1 Teaching Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63.2 Postgraduate Research Supervision at UTAS, Australia . . . . . . 73.3 Capstone/Honours Project Supervision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

3.3.1 At UTAS, Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73.3.2 At the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia . . . . 83.3.3 At Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile . . . . . . . . . . 93.3.4 At Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso,

Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93.4 Participation on Research Thesis and Capstone Project Committees 9

3.4.1 At the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia . . . . 93.4.2 At Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile . . . . . . . . . . 103.4.3 At Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso,

Chile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Research and Scholarship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

4.1 Research Stays at other Institutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114.2 Main Externally Funded Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124.3 Main Invited Technical Presentations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

5 Main Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195.1 Chapters in Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195.2 International Journal Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195.3 Journal Papers In Preparation1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215.4 Fully Refereed Conference Papers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

6 Citations in International Journals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 Membership in Scienti…c and Professional Societies . . . . . . . . . . . 278 Other Academic Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289 Community Engagement Through Science, Technology, Engineering, andMathematics (STEM) Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

10 International Marketing and Recruitment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3211 Administration in University Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3312 Other Professional Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3413 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

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1. Personal Data

Last name: León de la Barra. Given names: Bernardo Andrés.Citizenship: I hold both Australian and Chilean citizenship.Place of Birth: Valparaíso, Chile. Date of Birth: 24 November 1962.Marital status: Married to Angela Andriopoulos (daughter born on 03 November2000)2.

1.1. Academic and Professional Quali…cations

Degrees (and dates of award):

² Graduate Certi…cate in University Learning and Teaching, University ofTasmania (UTAS), Australia (December 2007).

² Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering), University of New-castle, Australia (February 1993). Supervisor: Professor Graham Goodwin.

² Ingeniero Civil Electrónico, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Val-paraíso, Chile (January 1989). [A 6 year Electronic Engineering Program;Major in Automatic Control].

² Ingeniero de Ejecución Electrónico, Universidad Técnica Federico SantaMaría, Valparaíso, Chile (May 1986). [A 4 year Electronic EngineeringProgram; Major in Automatic Control and Digital Systems].

1.2. Employment History and Work Contact Details

Present position: Tenured Lecturer Level B Step 6, School of Engineering, UTAS,Australia (February 2004-).

Previous positions: Lecturer Level B Step 6, Faculty of Engineering, University ofTechnology, Sydney, Australia (February 2002-January 2004); Tenured Associate

2Both my wife and daughter are Australian citizens.

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Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidad de Chile, Santiago,Chile (November 1998-January 2002).3,4

Postal address at work: School of Engineering, University of Tasmania, PrivateBag 65, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia.

Telephone: + 61 3 62267279 (o¢ce).

Fax: + 61 3 62267247. email: b.a.leondelabarra@ieee.org

2. Awards, Fellowships, and Scholarships

² The Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Community Engagement, UTAS,Australia, 2009. This award was conferred in the category of Creative Part-nerships with the Community “for outstanding commitment and dedicationin creating innovative partnerships with key educational stakeholders andfor signi…cant contribution, through community engagement activities, toenhancing the reputation of the University of Tasmania”.

² 2009 Endeavour Executive Award, Department of Education, Employment,and Workplace Relations, Australia. The Endeavour Executive Awards pro-vide professional development opportunities (e.g., intensive managementtraining, peer-to-peer learning, short-term training, leadership and/or ex-ecutive management training) for high achievers in business, industry, edu-cation or government. The Awards focus on building skills and knowledgethrough a host work environment rather than through formal enrolment ina study program at a host institution and are not intended to fund directacademic research. This award allowed me to travel to Japan to develop theproject “Improving Science, Engineering, and Technology (SET) Educationfrom Primary School to University: A Hands-on Minds-on Approach”. Someof the highlights of the award program included visits to the following insti-tutions: the Department of Science Education at Tokyo Gakugei University,the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan), JapanScience and Technology Agency, Kikuzato Senior High School (in NagoyaCity), and Nagoya City Science Museum.

3Head of Department, June 1999-May 2001.4Tenure-track Assistant Professor (January 1993-October 1998).

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² Teaching Merit Certi…cate, UTAS, Australia. The Teaching Merit Certi…-cate scheme recognises teaching members of academic sta¤ who are judgedby peers and students as being highly pro…cient and competent teachers,January 2008.

² Winston Churchill Fellowship, Australia, 2007. A Winston Churchill Fel-lowship is the award of an opportunity through the provision of …nancialsupport, to enable Australian citizens from all walks of life to travel over-seas to undertake an analysis, study or investigation of a project or an issuethat cannot be readily undertaken in Australia. This fellowship allowedme to study methods for improving the hands-on teaching of science, engi-neering and technology from primary school to university. Some of the high-lights of the fellowship included visits to the following institutions: Heureka,The Finnish Science Centre, Helsinki, Finland; The Norwegian Museum ofScience, Technology, and Medicine, Oslo, Norway; The National Museumof Science and Technology, Stockholm, Sweden; The Museum of Science,Boston, Massachusetts, The Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley, California,and The Exploratorium, San Francisco, California, USA, December 2007-January 2008.

² Brain Korea 21 Visiting Scholar Program, South Korea. This program seeksto contribute towards the development of the next generation of Koreanworld class leaders in the …elds of chemical engineering, mechanical engi-neering, and information technology. The invitation of foreign scholars toKorea is a key aspect of the program. This fellowship allowed me to visitthe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Chungbuk Na-tional University, South Korea, December 2006-January 2007.

² Fulbright Alumni Initiatives Awards Program, U.S.A. Department of State.This program provides Fulbright Scholar Alumni with the opportunity todevelop and sustain ongoing contacts and partnerships initiated as a resultof their Fulbright experiences in the U.S.A., October 2001-September 2004.

² Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program, Fulbright Commission for EducationalInterchange between the United States of America and Chile. Fellowship tovisit the Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Califor-nia at Berkeley, U.S.A., February 1999.

² The Matsumae International Foundation Fellowship. Fellowship to visit the

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Department of Electrical Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, De-cember 1997-February 1998.

² University of Newcastle Postgraduate Research Scholarship. Scholarship tocarry out Ph.D. studies, University of Newcastle, Australia, February 1989-July 1992.

² Research Fellowships Program, Fundación Andes5, Chile. Fellowships tovisit the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University ofNewcastle, Australia, December 2000-January 2001, January 2000, Decem-ber 1998-January 1999, and July 1997, and the Department of ElectricalEngineering, Sydney University, Australia, December 1995-February 1996,respectively.

² Travel Grants Program, Fundación Andes, Chile. Travel Grant to attendthe 12th IFAC World Congress, Sydney, Australia, 18-23 July 1993.

² Federico Santa María y Carrera University Medal. Ingeniería de EjecuciónElectrónica, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile,December 1986.

3. Teaching and Learning

As part of my Brain Korea 21 Visiting Program (please see Section 2 of thisdocument), I delivered a 20 hour postgraduate course titled "Towards AdvancedPID Control: A Modern Perspective". The participants in this course includedacademics, postgraduate students and industry-based research engineers from anumber of Korean universities, research institutes, and private companies.

3.1. Teaching Record

Since 2004 I have been lectured and tutored in “Electrical Engineering 1”, “Sig-nals and Linear Systems”, “Mechatronic Systems I and II”, “Control SystemsEngineering”, and “Process Control Engineering” at the School of Engineering,UTAS, Australia. I have also coordinated “Engineering Fundamentals”.

5Lampadia Foundation was represented in Chile by Fundación Andes.

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During 2002 and 2003 I lectured and tutored in “Introductory Digital Systems”,“Circuit Analysis”, and “Signals and Systems” at the Faculty of Engineering, Uni-versity of Technology, Sydney, Australia.

From 1993 to 2001 I taught “Classical Control System Design”, “Analysis andModeling of Dynamical Systems”, “Laboratory of Electrical Circuits”, “Multi-variable Control System Design”p, and “Robust Control System Design”p. Allthe above subjects were taught at Universidad de Chile. Note that p stands forpostgraduate subject. These postgraduate courses were introduced by me intothe Electrical Engineering curriculum.

From August to December 2001 I also taught a “Signals & Systems” course at theChilean Defence Force Academy.

Between 1989 and 1992 I was a tutor in “Control System Design and Manage-ment”, “Communication Systems”, “Electromechanical Systems”, and “Funda-mentals of Electronics”, at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineer-ing, University of Newcastle, Australia. During the same period I was also a tutorin “Automatic Control”, at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Universityof Newcastle, Australia.

3.2. Postgraduate Research Supervision at UTAS, Australia

² Reproducing Biological Motion in a Robotic Arm (co-supervisor).² Computational Intelligence in E-mail Tra¢c Analysis (associate supervisor).² A Stable Self-Structuring Adaptive Fuzzy Control Scheme for ContinuousSingle-Input Single-Output Nonlinear Systems Nonlinear System (associatesupervisor).

3.3. Capstone/Honours Project Supervision

3.3.1. At UTAS, Australia

² Using State-of the-Art Laboratory Equipment to Engage Students in ControlEngineering.

² Active Control of Underground Mining Truck Suspension Systems.

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² Acoustic Modelling of Brass Musical Instruments.² Design and Implementation of a Ball and Beam Apparatus.² Design and Implementation of a Low-Cost Automatic Weather Station.² Design and Implementation of a Low-Cost ECG Machine.² Design and Implementation of a Lego Based Process Control Experiment.² Design and Implementation of a Magnetic Levitation System.² Development of a Bluetooth Communication System for Lego Based MobileRobots Laboratories.

² Simple Educational Experiments in Renewable Energies: Hydrogen, Solarand Wind.

² A Software-Based Timetabling Tool for the School of Engineering.² Is ‘Easy Java Simulations’ Really Easy?.² Application of Signal Processing Ideas to the Analysis and Design of OpticalFilters.

3.3.2. At the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

² Hand Gesture Recognition System Using an Improved Hybrid Model.² Software Development for Engineering Management System.² Polyphonic Pitch Identi…cation by Estimating the Loudness of the Harmon-ics.

² WebIBIS– A Structured Discussion on the Internet.² Using Inertial Measurement Techniques to Detect Lift in Gliders.

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3.3.3. At Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

² Design of a Control System for a Hidraulic Lift.² Circular Placement of Zero-Pole Patterns for Monotonic Discrete-Time StepResponses.

² Conditions on the Zero-Pole Pattern for SPR Discrete-Time Transfer Func-tions.

² State of the Art in Modelling and Control of Surge and Rotating Stall inAxial Flow Compressors.

² Design of a Modern Control System for a Seismical Insulator Test Bed (incooperation with the Department of Civil Engineering).

² Con…guration of the Distributed Control System at “El Abra” Mine.² Issues in the Design of Linear Multivariable Servomechanisms.² Frequency Domain Multivariable Control of an Industrial Grinding Circuit.

3.3.4. At Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile

² New Insights Into the Behaviour of the Step Response of a Prototype SecondOrder Discrete Time System.

² Discrete-Time Bode Diagrams and their Application in Control System De-sign and Digital Signal Processing.

Please note that the above Chilean Electrical and Electronic Engineering programstake 6 years to be completed.

3.4. Participation on Research Thesis and Capstone Project Commit-tees

3.4.1. At the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

² Automated Report Manager. Software Engineering Capstone Project.

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3.4.2. At Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

² Analysis of the Main Factors that In‡uence the Introduction of Modern Con-trol Systems in the Australian Mining Sector. Electrical Engineering FinalProject.

² Face Recognition using Neural Networks. Electrical Engineering Final Project.² Feature Extraction in Images for Rock Classi…cation. Electrical EngineeringFinal Project.

² Prediction of Financial Variables using Neural Networks. Electrical Engi-neering Final Project.

² Parameter Estimation in an Automatic Visual Inspection System of WoodDefects. Electrical Engineering Final Project.

² Automatic Detection of Fingerprints Characteristic Vectors. Electrical En-gineering Final Project.

² Optimization of SDH Telecommunication Networks. Electrical EngineeringFinal Project.

² Feasibility Assessment of Video Multicast over IP Networks. Electrical En-gineering Final Project.

² Design of a Teaching Laboratory for Internetworking. Electrical EngineeringFinal Project.

² Introduction of New Services on Wideband Coaxial-Optic Fiber Networks.Electrical Engineering Final Project.

² A Long Distance Telephone Service over IP Networks. Electrical Engineer-ing Final Project.

² Mirroring Techniques for IP Networks. Electrical Engineering Final Project.² Comparative Analysis of Spatial Tactile Resolution using Perpendicular andTangential Stimuli. Electrical Engineering Final Project.

² Reliability of Soft Sensors. Application to Biotechnology Processes. Masterof Science Thesis.

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² Multivariable Control of a Cold Rolling Plant under Disturbances. ElectricalEngineering Final Project.

² Automatic Control of a Conveyor Belt Manufacturing Plant. Electrical En-gineering Final Project.

3.4.3. At Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso, Chile

² Equivalence Between Classical Control and Observer-Based Control (Masterof Science Thesis).

² Control Structure Selection and Synthesis in a Model Predictive ControlFramework (Master of Science Thesis).

4. Research and Scholarship

4.1. Research Stays at other Institutions

² Brain Korea 21 Visiting Scholar, School of Electrical and Computer En-gineering, Chungbuk National University, South Korea, December 2006-January 2007.

² Visiting Researcher, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Chung-buk National University, South Korea, May-June 2006.

² Visiting Researcher, Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidad deConcepción, Chile, January 2005.

² Visiting Associate Professor, Centre for Integrated Dynamics and Control(CIDAC), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Universityof Newcastle, Australia, December. 2000-January 2001, January 2000, andDecember 1998-January 1999. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department ofElectrical and Computer Engineering, University of Newcastle, Australia,July 1997 and July 1993.

² Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Signals, Systems, and Radio-communications, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, July 1999.

² Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, TheUniversity of California, Berkeley, U.S.A., February 1999.

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² Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, KyotoUniversity, Japan, December 1997-February 1998.

² Visiting Assistant Professor, Signals and Systems Group, Uppsala Univer-sity, Sweden, January 1997.

² Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Univer-sity of Sydney, Australia, December 1995-February 1996, and June-July1994.

4.2. Main Externally Funded Projects

I am/was the team leader in all the following projects:

² Putting Control Engineering in Middle School Girls’ Futures. Institute ofElectrical and Electronics Engineers Control Systems Society, USA, 2011-2012, Total funding: US$12,500. The project aims to develop educationalprograms to signi…cantly increase the number of middle school girls whohave a working knowledge of the fundamentals of Control Engineering asthey apply to modern engineering and technological devices, ranging fromairplanes, boats, rockets, roller-coasters, submarines, and terrestrial vehicles.

² Putting Optics and Photonics Engineering in Australian Middle School Girls’Futures. SPIE, The International Society for Advancing Optics and Pho-tonics, USA, 2011-2012, Total funding: US$3,150. The project aims tosigni…cantly increase the number of middle school girls who have a work-ing knowledge of the fundamentals of Optics and Photonics Engineering asthey apply to modern engineering and technological devices. The role ofOptics and Photonics concepts in Food and Sports Science, and BiomedicalEngineering will be explored as well.

² Engaging Families in Low SES Communities in Exciting Hands-on ScienceLearning. Inspiring Australia “Ignite your Imagination”, 2012, Total fund-ing: AU$2,000. This project was implemented in partnership with the Com-munity Development Division at the Tasmanian Department of Premier andCabinet. This partnership put together a number of “Family Science” eventsin the North and North-West of the state. These events sought to strengthen

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the role of parents and guardians in the education of their primary-aged chil-dren as families learned together and engaged with the STEM6 …elds in fun,informal, and relaxed environments.

² Get SET (Science, Engineering and Technology) for Your Future: Hands-on Minds-on Explorations of SET Careers. Southern Tasmanian CouncilsAuthority, Total funding: AU$7,500. This was a program aimed at assist-ing grade 10 students to explore career pathways in the areas of Science,Engineering and Technology through exciting hands-on minds-on activities,December 2008.

² Attracting Girls to Science, Engineering, and Technology (SET). AustralianSchool Innovation in Science, Technology and Mathematics (ASISTM) Pro-ject, Department of Education, Science and Training, Australia, 2008, To-tal funding: AU$80,300. Project partners: Engineers Australia Women inEngineering Group (Tasmania), Fahan School, Hydro Tasmania’s Hands-on Energy Discovery Centre, Ogilvie High School, Robotics Tasmania, StMichael’s Collegiate School, TAFE Tasmania, and the Tasmanian Depart-ment of Education’s Centre for Extended Learning Opportunities (CELO).The project aimed to increase the number of school girls taking up SET stud-ies and careers by addressing existing barriers to the education, progressionand retention of female students in SET related …elds. The outcomes of theproject included: The design and implementation of innovative and techni-cally challenging hands-on activities and learning sequences that highlighthow SET helps to solve environmental and social problems; The design anddevelopment of cooperative learning and small group instruction strategiesthat meet girls’ needs for socializing and sharing; The provision of trainingworkshops for teachers less experienced in the use of hands-on SET resources.The project also involved mentoring of school girls by young women study-ing SET degrees at UTAS, as well as regular interaction between engagingfemale engineers-scientists and students in the partner schools. Engagementwith parents, guardians, and school career counsellors was also a focus ofproject activity as positive messages about SET studies, careers, and pro-fessions needed to come from all stakeholders. One of the key innovativefeatures of this project was the holistic and multi-dimensional approach toattracting girls to SET.

6STEM represents Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

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² Engineering the Engagement of Students through Hands-on Activities. Aus-tralian School Innovation in Science, Technology andMathematics (ASISTM)Project, Department of Education, Science and Training, Australia, 2007,Total funding: AU$74,074. Project partners: Australian Model Solar Ve-hicle Challenge Tasmania, Clarendon Vale Primary School, Comalco Alu-minium Bell Bay, CSIRO Science Education Centre Tasmania, Exeter HighSchool, Hobart College, Huonville High School, Robotics Tasmania, RokebyHigh School, Rokeby Primary School, Taroona High School, and the Centrefor Extended Learning Opportunities (CELO). The project’s key innovativefeature was the development of a SET resource library that supports schoolsthrough the provision of a collection of learning modules that include fullclass-sets of hands-on resources, learning sequences, and lesson plans linkedto the Tasmanian Science curriculum. These learning modules are availableto schools across Tasmania at no cost. The project also provided trainingworkshops for Tasmanian teachers less experienced in the use of hands-onSET resources.

² Improving University Teaching and Learning in Science, Engineering andTechnology: Sharing Expertise between Australia and Thailand. Australia-Thailand Institute, Department of Foreign A¤airs and Trade, Australia,2007-2008, Total funding: AU$24,750. Foreign partners: ChulalongkornUniversity, Kasetsart University, and King Mongkut’s University of Tech-nology Thonburi (KMUTT).

² Engineering Teaching Kits: Middle and High School Hands-on Education inEngineering and Technology. Australia-Korea Foundation, Department ofForeign A¤airs and Trade, Australia, 2006-2007, Total funding: AU$11,000.Foreign partner: Chungbuk National University. This bi-national projectinvolved the School of Engineering at UTAS and Chungbuk National Uni-versity in South Korea. The project allowed for two Tasmanian high schoolteachers to accompany me to South Korea to take active part in a Sci-ence and Technology Camp for middle school students. The Korean projectpartners also visited Tasmania to demonstrate some of the teaching kits thatthey developed as part of the project. This project ran between July 2006and June 2007.

² New Insights Into the Behaviour of The Step Response of a Prototype Second

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Order Discrete Time System. FONDECYT, CONICYT7, Chile, 2001.

² Circle Conditions on Zero and Pole Locations for Discrete Time MonotonicStep Responses. FONDECYT8, CONICYT, Chile, 1999.

² Su¢cient Conditions on Zero and Pole Locations for Discrete Time StrictlyPositive Real Transfer Functions. FONDECYT, CONICYT, Chile, 1998.

² Frequency Domain Properties of Discrete Time Zeros. FONDECYT, CO-NICYT, Chile, 1997.

² Transient Properties of Linear Multivariable Servomechanisms. FONDE-CYT, CONICYT, Chile, 1996.

² Analysis and Design of Multivariable Feedback Systems: A Dual Time andFrequency Domain Perspective (in cooperation with A. Ahlén and M. Ster-nad from Uppsala University, Sweden). FONDECYT, CONICYT, Chile,1995.

4.3. Main Invited Technical Presentations

Inquiry Based Science Education

² Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago, Chile, 17 June 2011.

Integrated STEM Education for At-Risk Students

² Universidad de Playa Ancha, Valparaíso, Chile, 14 May 2010.

Ways to Improve Educational Outcomes in Tasmania: A Science, Engineeringand Technology (SET) Hands-on Minds-on Perspective

² SIMERR (Science, Information and Communication Technology and Math-ematics Education for Rural and Regional Australia) Summit, 04 June 2008.

Improving Teaching and Learning in Engineering: An Australian Perspective

7CONICYT is the Chilean counterpart to the Australian Research Council.8FONDECYT is the fund within CONICYT which promotes basic research.

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² Chulalongkorn University, Kasetsart University, and King Mongkut’s Uni-versity of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT), Bangkok, Thailand, September2007.

² Centre for Teaching and Learning, Seoul National University, South Korea,18 December 2006.

² Centre for the Advancement of Engineering Education, Chungbuk NationalUniversity, South Korea, 15 June 2006.

Hands-on Science, Engineering, and Technology Education in Australian Schools:A Tasmanian Perspective

² Information Technology Winter Camp for Middle and High School Students,Chungbuk National University, South Korea, 13 December 2006.

Transient Tracking Error Properties of - and -- Filters

² School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Chungbuk National Univer-sity, South Korea, 08 June 2006.

² Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidad de Concepción, Chile, 13January 2005.

Su¢cient Conditions on Zero-Pole Locations for Discrete Time SPR TransferFunctions

² Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Auck-land, New Zealand, 19 September 2001.

Linear Multivariable Servomechanisms Revisited: New Insights and Accuracy Trade-o¤s

² Department of Electrical Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 28January 1998.

Transient Tracking Error Properties of Linear Multivariable Servomechanisms

² Signals and Systems Group, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, 21 Jan-uary 1997.

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Frequency Domain Properties of Discrete Time Zeros

² Second Italian Latinamerican Conference on Applied and Industrial Math-ematics (ITLA 97), Rome, Italy, 31 January 1997.

² Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata,Rome, Italy, 28 January 1997.

² Department of Automatic Control, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund,Sweden, 23 January 1997.

² Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University, Linköping, Swe-den, 22 January 1997.

² Department of Signals, Systems and Sensors, Royal Institute of Technology,Stockholm, Sweden, 16 January 1997.

² Signals and Systems Group, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, 15 Jan-uary 1997.

² Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley,U.S.A., 20 February 1996.

² Integrated Systems Inc., Santa Clara, California, U.S.A., 19 February 1996.² Department of Systems and Control, University of New South Wales, Aus-tralia, 12 February 1996.

² Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Sydney, Australia, 09February 1996.

² Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Queensland, Australia,08 February 1996.

² Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Mel-bourne, Australia, 06 February 1996.

² Department of Systems Engineering, Australian National University, Can-berra, Australia, 01 February 1996.

² Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Newcas-tle, Australia, 25 January 1996.

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Transient Properties of Type [12 ¢ ¢ ¢] Multivariable Systems

² Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Queensland, Australia,08 February 1996.

² Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash Uni-versity, Australia, 06 February 1996.

² Facultad de Ingeniería Eléctrica y Electrónica, Universidad Nacional de In-geniería, Lima, Perú, 16 August 1995.

² Departamento de Ingeniería Electrónica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ar-gentina, 07 March 1995.

² Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Universidad Nacional del Sur, BahíaBlanca, Argentina, 02 March 1995.

² Integrated Systems Inc., Santa Clara, California, U.S.A., 28 July 1994.² Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Newcas-tle, Australia, 26 July 1994.

² Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Mel-bourne, Australia, 22 July 1994.

² Department of Systems Engineering, Australian National University, Can-berra, Australia, 21 July 1994.

² Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Sydney, Australia, 14July 1994.

Analysis and Design of Multivariable Feedback Systems: A Dual Time and Fre-quency Domain Perspective

² Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Newcas-tle, Australia, 29 July 1993.

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5. Main Publications

5.1. Chapters in Books

² Rimes, J., B.A. León de la Barra and S. Lyden (2014). Enhancing Science,Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education for Girls througha University-School Partnership. To appear in “Engaging Australia: CaseStudies of University-Community Engagement”, Editors: Isabelle Bart-kowiak-Théron and Kathryn Anderson, Pallgrave Macmillan, Australia.

² León de la Barra, B.A. (1998). Zero-Pole Patterns in Control and SystemsTheory. In Novel Intelligent Automation and Control Systems, Edited by J.Pfei¤er, ALFA-NIACS, Germany, vol. 1, pp. 211-215.

² Goodwin G.C., B.A. León de la Barra and R.J. Mazzaferri (1990). SomePreliminary Results on Connecting Identi…cation and Robust Control. InControl of Uncertain Systems, Edited by D. Hinrichsen and B. Mårtensson,Birkhauser, U.S.A., pp. 83-99 [30 %].

5.2. International Journal Papers

² Colvin, W., S. Lyden, and B.A. León de la Barra (2013). Attracting Girlsto Civil Engineering through Hands-on Activities that Reveal the CommunalGoals and Values of the Profession. To appear in ASCE’s Journal of Lead-ership and Management in Engineering, Special Issue on STEM Education[30 %].

² Little, A.J. and B.A. León de la Barra (2009). Attracting Girls to Science,Engineering and Technology: an Australian Perspective. European Journalof Engineering Education, vol. 34, No 5, pp. 439–445 [50 %].

² Sbárbaro, D., M. Tomizuka, and B.A. León de la Barra (2009). RepetitiveControl System Under Actuator Saturation and Windup Prevention. Journalof Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, vol. 131, No 4, pp. 044505-1/8 [30 %].

² Silva, R., D. Sbárbaro, and B.A. León de la Barra (2006). Closed-LoopProcess Identi…cation under PI Control: A Time Domain Approach. In-dustrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 45, pp. 4671-4678 [30%].

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² León de la Barra, B.A. and F.J. Salazar (2002). Discrete-Time Systems withMonotonic Step Responses and Complex Conjugate Poles and Zeros. IEEETransactions on Automatic Control, vol. 47, No 12, pp. 2098-2101 [70 %].

² León de la Barra, B.A. and R. Prieto (1999). On the Frequency Response ofScalar Discrete-Time Systems. Automatica, vol. 35, No 11, pp. 1843-1853[70 %].

² León de la Barra, B.A., A. Emami-Naeini and E.R. Chinchón (1998). Lin-ear Multivariable Servomechanisms Revisited: System Type and AccuracyTrade-o¤s. Automatica, vol. 34, No 11, pp. 1449-1452 [60 %].

² León de la Barra, B.A. (1996). Comments on Some Conditions on Zeros toAvoid Step-Response Extrema. Part I [with reply]. IEEE Transactions onAutomatic Control, vol. 41, No 11, pp. 1699-1670.

² León de la Barra, B.A., M. El-Khoury and M.A. Fernández (1996). OnUndershoot in Scalar Discrete Time Systems. Automatica, vol. 32, No 2,pp. 255-259 [60 %].

² León de la Barra, B.A. (1994). Su¢cient Conditions for Monotonic DiscreteTime Step Responses. ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement,and Control, vol. 116, No 4, pp. 810-814.

² León de la Barra, B.A. and M.A. Fernández (1994). Transient Properties ofType m Continuous Time Scalar Systems. Automatica, vol. 30, No 9, pp.1495-1496 [80 %].

² León de la Barra, B.A. (1994). On Undershoot in SISO Systems. IEEETransactions on Automatic Control, vol. 39, No 3, pp. 578-581.

² León de la Barra, B.A. (1994). Frequency Domain Trade-o¤s in Loop Trans-fer Recovery for Multivariable Nonminimum Phase Discrete Time Systems.IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 39, No 3, pp. 574-577.

In the case of joint book chapters and journal papers I have shown between brack-ets the extent of my contribution.

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5.3. Journal Papers In Preparation9

² Ward, L., S. Lyden and B.A. León de la Barra (2012). Integrating Biologyand Physics Education in Informal Middle School Settings. To be submittedto CBE–Life Sciences Education

5.4. Fully Refereed Conference Papers

² Lyden, S., W. Colvin, and B.A. León de la Barra (2012). Putting Con-trol Engineering in Middle School Girls’ Futures. Proceedings of the 42nd

ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Seattle, WA, USA.

² León de la Barra, B.A. and K.L. Wilson (2011). Introducing Solar EnergyEngineering in an Australian Middle Elementary Classroom. Proceedingsof the 41st ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Rapid City, SD,USA.

² León de la Barra, B.A. and K.L. Wilson (2010). Introducing Modern Opticsand Photonics Engineering in the Elementary Classroom: An AustralianPerspective. Proceedings of the 40th ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in EducationConference, Washington DC, USA.

² León de la Barra, B.A., L. Jin, Y.C. Kim, and M. Mossberg (2008). Identi-…cation of First-Order Time-Delay Systems using Two Di¤erent Pulse In-puts. Proceedings of the 17th International Federation of Automatic Control(IFAC) World Congress, Seoul, South Korea

² León de la Barra, B.A. and M. Mossberg (2007). Identi…cation of Under-Damped Second-Order Systems Using Finite Duration Rectangular Pulse In-puts. Proceedings of the 2007 American Control Conference, New York City,NY, USA.

² Sbárbaro, D., M. Tomizuka, and B.A. León de la Barra (2006). The WindupProblem in Repetitive Control: A Simple Anti-Windup Strategy. Proceed-ings of the 4th IFAC Symposium on Mechatronic Systems, Heidelberg, Ger-many.

9Draft manuscripts are available upon request.

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² Jin, L.H., Y.C. Kim, and B.A. León de la Barra (2006). Issues in LinearFeedback Control Design with Notch Filters. Proceedings of the 25th ChineseControl Conference, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.

² Kim, Y.C., J.J. Kim, and B.A. León de la Barra (2006). Design of CascadedLow-Order Controller to Reduce the E¤ects of Its Zeros. Proceedings of the2006 International Conference on Electrical Engineering, YongPyong, SouthKorea.

² Reguera, P., J.J. Fuertes, M. Domínguez and B.A. León de la Barra (2005).Active Learning in Control Education. Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Confer-ence on Decision and Control and European Control Conference ECC 2005,Seville, Spain.

² León de la Barra, B.A., K. McPherson and P. Reguera (2005). Main-taining Academic Standards and Encouraging Active Involvement in En-gineering Courses: The Role of Formative Assessment. Proceedings of the2005 ASEE/AaeE 4th Global Colloquium on Engineering Education, Syd-ney, Australia.

² Bullen, F., D.H. Waters, M. Bullen, and B.A. León de la Barra (2004). In-corporating and Developing Graduate Attributes Via Program Design. Pro-ceedings of the 15th Annual Conference for the Australasian Association forEngineering Education and the 10th Australasian Women in EngineeringForum, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia.

² León de la Barra, M.B., G.E. León de la Barra, A.M. Urbina and B.A. Leónde la Barra (1998). Towards a global Improvement of Engineering MathsTeaching. Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference,Tempe, Arizona, vol. 3, pp. 1327-1331.

² León de la Barra, M.B., G.E. León de la Barra, A.M. Urbina and B.A.León de la Barra (1997). Continuous Improvement of Engineering MathsTeaching. Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference,Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, vol. 3, pp. 1290-1293.

² León de la Barra, M.B., G.E. León de la Barra, A.M. Urbina and B.A. Leónde la Barra (1996). Short Period Teaching-Learning Cycles. Proceedingsof the 1996 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah,vol. 1, pp. 452-454.

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² León de la Barra, B.A. (1993). On the In…nity Norm of a Discrete Time Pro-totype Second Order System: A Feedback Design Interpretation. Proceedingsof the 1993 American Control Conference, San Francisco, California, vol. 3,pp. 2631-2632.

² León de la Barra, B.A. (1992). Su¢cient Conditions for Monotonic DiscreteTime Step Responses. Proceedings of the 31st IEEE Conference on Decisionand Control, Tucson, Arizona, vol. 2, pp. 2208-2213.

² León de la Barra, B.A. and G.C. Goodwin (1991). Open Unit Disk Zeros ofScalar Stable Discrete Time Transfer Functions: Implications for FeedbackDesign. Proceedings of the 30th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control,Brighton, U.K., vol. 3, pp. 2672-2673.

² León de la Barra, B.A. and G.C. Goodwin (1991). Left Half Plane OpenLoop Zeros and Poles: Implications for Feedback Design. Preprints IFACSymposium on Design Methods of Control Systems, Zürich, Switzerland,vol. 1, pp. 100-105.

6. Citations in International Journals

The following citations of my work were taken from the Science Citation IndexExpanded, Thomson Reuters

² Analysis and design of a robust odd-harmonic repetitive controller for an ac-tive …lter under variable network frequency. G.A. Ramos, R. Costa-Castello,and J.M. Olm, Control Engineering Practice, 2012, vol. 20, No 9, pp. 895-903.

² The design of nonovershooting and nonundershooting multivariable statefeedback tracking controllers. R. Schmid, and L. Ntogramatzidis, Systems &Control Letters, 2012, vol. 61, No 6, pp. 714-722.

² Closed-loop identi…cation of multivariable systems, using b-spline series ex-pansions for step responses. J.-C. Jeng, Industrial & Engineering ChemistryResearch, 2012, vol. 51, No 5, pp. 2376-2387.

² Repetitive control design for MIMO systems with saturating actuators. J.V.Flores, J.M.G. da Silva Jr., L.F.A. Pereira, and D. Sbárbaro, IEEE Trans-actions on Automatic Control, 2012, vol. 57, No 1, pp. 192-198.

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² Su¢cients conditions for analysis of extrema in the step-response of linearcontrol systems. C.A. Reis, and N.A.P. Silva, IEEE Latin America Trans-actions, 2011, vol. 9, No 7, pp. 1025-1031.

² Perceived gender di¤erences in STEM learning in the middle school. L.D.English, P. Hudson, and L. Dawes, International Journal of EngineeringEducation, 2011, vol. 27, No 2, pp. 389-398.

² Performance assessment of PID control loops subject to setpoint changes. Z.Yu, J. Wang, B. Huang, and Z. Bi, Journal of Process Control, 2011, vol.21, No 8, pp. 1164-1171.

² Closed-loop identi…cation with routine operating data: E¤ect of time delayand sampling time. Y.A.W. Shardt, and B. Huang, Journal of Process Con-trol, 2011, vol. 21, No 7, pp. 997-1010.

² Closed-loop identi…cation of dynamic models for multivariable systems withapplications to monitoring and redesign of controllers. J.-C. Jeng, and Y.-Y.Lin, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2011, vol. 50, No 3, pp.1460-1472.

² Switched linear model predictive controllers for periodic exogenous signals.L. Wang, P. Gawthrop, D.H. Owens, and E. Rogers, International Journalof Control, 2010, vol. 83, No 4, pp. 848-861.

² Perceptions of collaboration, equity and values in science among female andmale college students. L. Fuselier, and J.K. Jackson, Journal of Baltic Sci-ence Education, 2010, vol. 9, No 2, pp. 109-118.

² Set-point regulation of LTI nonminimum phase systems with a single positivezero using two sliding lines. H. Lee, and C.H. Park, IEICE Transactionson Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences,2009, vol. E92A, No 3, pp. 862-870.

² E¤ects of multiple-stage membrane process designs on the achievable perfor-mance of automatic control. K.W.K. Yee, A. Alexiadis, J. Bao, and D.E.Wiley, Journal of Membrane Science, 2008, vol. 320, No 1-2, pp. 280-291.

² MIMO controller synthesis with integral-action integrity. A.N. Gündes, andA.N. Mete, Automatica, 2008, vol. 44, No 1, pp. 128-134.

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² Multimode control of a large-scale robotic manipulator. M.R. Kermani, R.V.Patel, and M. Moallem, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2007, vol. 23, No

6, pp. 1264-1270.

² Nonminimum phase zeros. Much to do about nothing. J.B. Hoagg and D.S.Bernstein, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, 2007, vol. 27, No 3, pp. 45-57.

² A Smith-like control design for performance enhancement of systems withRHP zeros. Q.-G. Wang, X. Lu and T.H. Lee, Journal of Chemical Engi-neering of Japan, 2007, vol. 40, No 2, pp. 128-138.

² Minimization of basic quality indices in linear discrete systems. O.N. Kise-lev, Automation and Remote Control, 2005, vol. 66, No 3, pp. 398-405.

² Optimal zero locations of continuous-time systems with distinct poles track-ing reference step responses. A.S. Hauksdóttir, Dynamics of ContinuousDiscrete and Impulsive Systems-Series B-Applications & Algorithms, 2004,vol. 11, No 3, pp. 353-361.

² Transient response control via characteristic ratio assignment. Y.-C. Kim,L.H. Keel, and S.P. Bhattacharyya, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Con-trol, 2003, vol. 48, No 12, pp. 2238-2244.

² On the synthesis of controllers for a nonovershooting step response. S.Darbha and S.P. Bhattacharyya, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control,2003, vol. 48, No 5, pp. 797-799.

² On the synthesis of controllers for continuous time LTI systems that achievea non-negative impulse response. S. Darbha, Automatica, 2003, vol. 39, No

1, pp. 159-165.

² Controller synthesis for sign-invariant impulse response. S. Darbha and S.P.Bhattacharyya, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2002, vol. 47, No

8, pp. 1346-1351.

² Fundamental limitations on the time-domain shaping of response to a …xedinput. R.D. Hill, A.C. Eberhard, R.B. Wenczel and M.E. Halpern, IEEETransactions on Automatic Control, 2002, vol. 47, No 7, pp. 1078-1090.

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² Optimal zero locations of continuous-time systems with distinct poles track-ing …rst-order step responses. A.S. Hauksdóttir, IEEE Transactions on Cir-cuits and Systems-Fundamental Theory and Applications, 2002, vol. 49, No

5, pp. 685-688.

² Quantitative performance design for inverse-response processes. W. Zhang,X. Xu and Y. Sun, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2000, vol.39, No 6, pp. 2056-2061.

² Control of overshoot in the step response of chemical processes. A. Rachidand C. Scali, Computers and Chemical Engineering, 1999, vol. 23, pp.S1003-S1006.

² On approximate pulse transfer functions. M.J. Blachuta, IEEE Transactionson Automatic Control, 1999, vol. 44, No 11, pp. 2062-2067.

² Slow stable open-loop poles: to cancel or not to cancel. R.H. Middleton andS. Graebe, Automatica, 1999, vol. 35, No 5, pp. 877-886.

² Fundamental limitations due to -axis zeros in SISO systems. G.C. Good-win, A.R. Woodyatt, R.H. Middleton and J. Shim, Automatica, 1999, vol.35, No 5, pp. 857-863.

² An experimental comparison of several nonlinear controllers for power con-verters. G. Escobar, R. Ortega, H. Sira-Ramírez, J-P. Vilain and I. Zein,IEEE Control Systems Magazine, 1999, vol. 19, No 2, pp. 66-82.

² A comparative experimental study of …ve multivariable control strategies ap-plied to a grinding plant. M. Duarte, F. Sepúlveda, A. Castillo, A. Contreras,V. Lazcano, P. Giménez and L. Castelli, 1999, Powder Technology, vol. 104,No 1, pp. 1-28.

² Nonovershooting and monotone nondecreasing step responses of a third-order SISO linear system. S.-K. Lin and C.-J. Fang, IEEE Transactionson Automatic Control, 1997, vol. 42, No 9, pp. 1295-1296.

² Some Classes of Step-response Models without Extrema. J.R. Howell, Auto-matica, 1997, vol. 33, No 7, pp. 1427-1428.

² Comment regarding On undershoot in SISO systems. J.R. Howell, IEEETransactions on Automatic Control, 1996, vol. 41, No 12, pp. 1845-1846.

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² Authors reply. A. Rachid, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 1996,vol. 41, No 11, p. 1700.

² Analytic expressions of transfer function responses and choice of numeratorcoe¢cients (zeros). A.S. Hauksdóttir, IEEE Transactions on AutomaticControl, 1996, vol. 41, No 10, pp. 1482-1488.

² On compensation of nonminimum phase zeros. U. Holmberg, P. Myszko-rowski, Y. Piguet and R. Longchamp, Automatica, 1995, vol. 31, No 10, pp.1433-1441.

² Some conditions on zeros to avoid step-response extrema. A. Rachid, IEEETransactions on Automatic Control, 1995, vol. 40, No 8, pp. 1501-1503.

² Robust controller structure for coordinated power system voltage regulatorand stabilizer design. K.T. Law, D.J. Hill and N.R. Godfrey, IEEE Trans-actions on Control Systems Technology, 1994, vol. 2, No 3, pp. 220-232.

² An FIR pre…lter leading to bounded overshoot and undershoot with applica-tion to deadbeat control. Y. Peng and R. Hanus, International Journal ofControl, 1993, vol. 58, No 2, pp. 459-470.

² Discrete-time loop transfer recovery for systems with nonminimum phasezeros and time delays. Z. Zhang and J. Freudenberg, Automatica, 1993, vol.29, No 2, pp. 351-363.

7. Membership in Scienti…c and Professional Societies

² Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), U.S.A.

– Member of the Control Systems Society (Senior Member Grade sinceAugust 2001)

² IFAC, Austria.² The Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE), Australia.² National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), USA.² Australian Science Teachers Association (ASTA), Australia.

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² American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), USA.² European Science Education Research Association (ESERA).² East Asian Association for Science Education (EASE).

8. Other Academic Activities

² Organizer of “The Time is Now: Science, Technology, Engineering, andMathematics (STEM) Education and Tasmania” events, Launceston andHobart, 23-24 October 2012.

² Engagement Australia’s Relationships and Partnerships Committee mem-ber, October 2012 to date.

² Tasmanian Articulation and Credit Transfer Committee (TASACT) Engi-neering Working Group member, September 2012 to date.

² Australian Women in Resources Alliance (AWRA) Attraction and R&DWorking Groups’ member, May 2012 to date.

² Science Teachers Association of Tasmania (STAT) Council member, 2011 todate.

² IEEE Teacher In-Service Program (TISP) Planning Committee member,March-August 2012.

² Reviews for the Frontiers in Education Conference, the IEEE Conferenceon Decision and Control, the American Control Conference, the EuropeanControl Conference and the IFAC World Congresses.

² Reviews for Automatica, Control Engineering Practice, the European Jour-nal of Engineering Education, the IEEE Control Systems Magazine, theIEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, the IEEE Transactionson Automatic Control, the IEEE Transactions on Education, and the ASMEJournal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control.

² Local Organizing Committee member, 8 th Biennial Engineering Mathemat-ics and Applications Conference (EMAC 2007), Hobart, Tasmania, Aus-tralia, 1-4 July 2007.

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² Local Organizing Committee member, Australasian Universities Power En-gineering Conference (AUPEC 2005), Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 25-28September 2005.

² International Program Committee member, 3 rd IFAC Workshop on TimeDelay Systems (TDS 2001), Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A., 08-10 December2001.

² Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarships Committee, Engineering Panel mem-ber, Fulbright Commission for Educational Interchange between the UnitedStates of America and Chile, Santiago, Chile, May 2000-January 2002.

² Engineering Research Grants Committee member, FONDECYT, CONI-CYT, June 1998-May 2000.

² International Technical Committee member, International Conference onEngineering and Computing Education (ICECE 99), Río de Janeiro, Brazil,11-14 August 1999.

² International Program Committee Chairman, 2 nd Latinamerican Seminaron Advanced Control (LASAC 95), Santiago, Chile, 26-29 September 1995.

² Organizer and Chairman of the Invited Session Zeros and Feedback Design,held at the 12th IFAC World Congress, Sydney, Australia, 18-23 July 1993.

² Book Draft Reviews for McGrawHill Interamericana (the Spanish languagedivision of McGrawHill Education)

9. Community Engagement Through Science, Technology,Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education

http://www.utas.edu.au/stem

² CSIRO’s Scientists in Schools, St Paul’s Catholic School and St Virgil’sCollege, 2011 to date.

² 2011 Annual Conference of the Science Teachers Association of Tasmania,Ulverstone, 2 April 2011 (delivery of two professional development work-shops).

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² “Inspiring Science, Inspiring Australia” Conference, Melbourne, 28-29March2011.

² “Hands-on minds-on renewable energy: Hydrogen, solar, wind, and more!”;“Fun learning with forces and fast low-cost cars”; and “Seeing the Light:Embracing classical and modern Optics/Photonics in the classroom”. Thesethree workshops were presented at CONASTA 58, the Annual Conference ofthe Australian Science Teachers Association, Launceston, 04-07 July 2009.

² 2009 National Science Week. Eighteen hands-on minds-on engineering ses-sions were run in Burnie (UTAS Cradle Coast campus; 8 two hour sessions)and Launceston (QVMAG; 10 two hour sessions).

² “Career Specialist Investigation, CSI 09”. 3-4 April 2009, Derwent Enter-tainment Centre, Hobart.

² National Youth Science Forum (http://www.nysf.edu.au), April 2009. Year12 students from across Australia visited the School of Engineering for ahands-on session on Renewable Energy.

² Tasmanian Department of Education/Engineers Australia’s GuaranteeingFutures initiative (May 2009). Year 10 students from across Tasmania vis-ited the School of Engineering for hands-on sessions on Renewable Energy.

² “Skills for a sustainable future” (A SCOPE Tasmania initiative, 14 May2009). Years 11-12 students from across Tasmania visited the School ofEngineering for hands-on sessions on Renewable Energy.

² Vocational and Applied Learning Conference “Designing the Future”, Launce-ston, 25-26 June 2009. Our team ran three professional development sessionsfor Materials, Design and Technology (MDT) Tasmanian teachers.

² “Inspiring School Communities in Low Socio-Economic Status (SES) Areasto Aspire for and Achieve Educational Excellence through a STEM Pro-gram”. September 2009-August 2010. This was a joint project between theSTEM Education and Outreach team and East Derwent Primary, Gage-brook Primary, Herdsmans Cove Primary, and the Bridgewater and South-ern Midlands Learning Federation. The project was co-funded by UTAS(through a community engagement grant), the School of Engineering, and

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the partner schools. Key project activities included: visits to UTAS by part-ner schools’ students, teachers, parents and guardians; visits to the partnerschools by UTAS Engineering students and academics; delivery of hands-onminds-on STEM sessions both at the partner schools and at UTAS; and pro-fessional development for teachers and career counsellors/pathway plannerson STEM …elds and careers.

² “Hands-on Minds-on Engineering”, As part of Australia’s National ScienceWeek the School of Engineering School Outreach team travelled to the citiesof Burnie, Hobart and Launceston, 18-22 August 2008, to run a total ofeighteen hands-on minds-on sessions across the state.

² “Exploring Engineering through Hands-on Minds-on Activities”, A programof 14 two hour sessions where Tasmanian schools visited the School of Engi-neering for a session on a topic of their choice. Available topics included: bal-loon and electric powered cars, electromagnetism, electronics, LEGO NXTrobotics, light & optics, and renewable energy. Sessions were tailored to thevisiting group grade level that could range from primary to senior secondaryschool, May-July 2008.

² “Engineering Kits to Teach Science and Technology in Tasmanian Schools”,Two workshops presented at CONSTAT 2008, the Annual Conference ofthe Science Teachers Association of Tasmania, Woodbridge High School,Woodbridge, Tasmania, 11-12 April 2008.

² I also led the involvement of the School of Engineering School Outreachteam at the following major school outreach activities:

National Youth Science Forum (March 2008), Tasmanian Department of Ed-ucation/Engineers Australia’s Guaranteeing Futures initiative (April 2008),Tasmanian Department of Education Secondary Science Teachers NetworkForum (May 2008), Tasmanian Department of Education Primary ScienceTeachers Network Forum (May 2008).

² “Engineering is Elementary”, A hands-on session conducted at Sandy BayInfant School (grades 1-2), Hobart, Tasmania, (as part of Science Week), 09August 2007

² “Hands-on Engineering”, A workshop presented as part of KidzED WinterProgram (grades 5-6), Centre for Extended Learning Opportunities, De-

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partment of Education, School of Engineering, UTAS. In cooperation withWarwick Gillespie and Damian Von Samorzewski [TAFE Tasmania], 14 June2007.

² Adult Education University Taster: “A Hands-On Introduction to 21 st Cen-tury Engineering”, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. A four session course of-fered during May 2007.

² “Hands-on Science, Engineering, and Technology Education in TasmanianSchools”, A workshop presented at CONSTAT 2007, the Annual Conferenceof the Science Teachers Association of Tasmania, Marist Regional College,Burnie, Tasmania, 30-31 March 2007.

10. International Marketing and Recruitment

Between August 2008 and March 2012 I was actively involved in facilitating in-teraction between UTAS and Chilean Universities. As part of these activities, Irepresented UTAS at a number of educational fairs that were held in Chile duringthat period. In what follows, I describe my activities in this area during 2011.

In 2011, I continued my work with UTAS International Services and a number ofinternal and external stakeholders to increase the number of UTAS postgraduatestudents that come from Latin America. My work in this area included a numberof tasks related to: the (possible) establishment of Memoranda of Understand-ing with Chilean Universities and the Chilean Research Council (CONICYT); thetranslation from Spanish to English of email messages, scholarship applicationforms and funding guidelines; the preparation of a testimonial by a current BecasChile Ph.D. student to go on the Becas Chile website; regular email and video-call contact with a number of Chilean students; regular interaction with UTASInternational Scholarships o¢cer; interaction with educational agents (especiallyat Latino Australia Education) representing Australia in Chile; and the prepara-tion of the Spanish language version of UTAS “Welcome Guide” which includedconducting interviews of a number of Ph.D. students from Latin America.

Other UTAS stakeholders that I had contact with in 2011 were: Graduate Re-search O¢ce personnel, including the Dean of Graduate Research; TasmanianInstitute of Agriculture (TIA), Institute for Marine and Antartic Studies (IMAS),and Australian Maritime College (AMC) sta¤ in relation to the recruitment

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of Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellows from Chile. Other tasks I spenttime on included the translation into Spanish of TIA’s research lea‡et; and lo-gistic/marketing support in organizing a seminar in Chile by Professor HolgerMeinke, TIA’s Director.

My service to the University’s International Marketing and Recruitment activitiesin 2011 also included two trips to Chile where I represented UTAS at the followingevents:

a) Europosgrados (Becas Chile International Fair): 9-10 April, Santiago. Duringmy time in Chile I also had meetings with Becas Chile o¢cials and Latino Aus-tralia Education personnel.

b) Second Latino Australia Education Fair: 27 August, Santiago. During my timein Chile I also had meetings with Becas Chile and CONICYT o¢cials.

Even though most of my work in this area has focused on Chile, during 2011I also spent time interacting with Ecuadorian students, educational agents, andgovernment o¢cials.

To complement the above work, I also attended the 2011 International EducationAssociation (ISANA) Conference which was held in Hobart on 29 November-02December.

11. Administration in University Settings

² Faculty of Science, Engineering, and Technology Internationalization Com-mittee member, 2012.

² Teaching and Learning Committee member, School of Engineering, UTAS,Australia, 2010 to date.

² Catalyst for Teaching and Learning (2005-2007), Library Liaison O¢cer(2004 to date), and Timetabling O¢cer (2005-2007), School of Engineering,UTAS, Australia.

² Head, Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidad de Chile, Santiago,Chile, June 1999-May 2001.

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² Member of a number of committees both at Departmental and Faculty levels(e.g., Teaching Assessment Committee [April 1998-December 1999]), Univer-sidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

² IT Advisor to the Associate Dean for Research, Faculty of Physical andMathematical Sciences, Universidad de Chile, September 1996-November1997.

12. Other Professional Activities

² IEEE Victorian/Tasmanian Section Member-at-Large, 2005-2006.² Consultant to the ChileanMinistry of Education in the assessment of propos-als submitted by Chilean Universities to its “Quality Improvement in HigherEducation” Institutional Development Program, 1999, 2001 and 2002.

² Board Member, Chilean Association for Automatic Control (ACCA10), De-cember 1997-June 1999.

² Board Member, IEEE Chile Section, March 1997-June 1999.² Consultant to the Chilean Ministry of Planning and Cooperation in theassessment of its “Presidente de la República” Postgraduate ScholarshipProgram, May-August 1998.

² Research Associate in the project Automation in Mineral Processing, San-tiago, Chile, January 1993-December 1994. This initiative involved closeassociation with CODELCO, the Chilean Copper Corporation.

² Consultant to BHP Melbourne Research Laboratories, Australia, in theprojectBloom Caster Secondary Cooling Control, December 1989-June 1990.

13. References

These are available upon request.

10ACCA is the National Member Organization of IFAC.

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