Project Title

Transnational Communications - Community of Practice ( TCCOP)

Date/s

Dec. 2013 - Dec 2014

Client

University of Wollongong, NSW Australia

Location

Wollongong, NSW Australia

Summary

Communities of practice bring people closer together. Whether members of a group are co-located within physical proximity or meet in cyberspace virtually, they have a common interest that keeps them interacting with one another, time and time again. The paradox today is that our closest collaborators might well be tens of thousands of miles away from us and in starkly opposite time zones. The "always-on" learner is thus free to connect at any time of the day or night. In 2013 I was contracted by the University of Wollongong to co-design, project manage and expedite the membership engagement for the ‘I Love STEM’ initiative as part of the Engineering & Information Sciences Faculty work across the Australian higher education STEM sector.

Didactic

“… I love engaging with people from all over the world, many of them happen to be engineers as well. This love was imbued in me from my parents who migrated in the 1960s from very small villages in Greece and later connected with each other in Australia. But it also came about as a result of my employment in the mid-1990s working for a large telecommunications vendor. I did over 150 projects for Nortel Networks as a pre-sales engineer, traveling all over Asia. I was immersed in many different cultures through my work, and not coincidentally, it was also where I first heard about "communities of interest" in the context of teletraffic theory. Communities of interest when I think about it, have a lot in common with communities of practice. First comes the interest, then the practice.

I look forward to interacting with each new member who joins this community. Iloveengineering.org is not a "website", but rather a virtual team that will develop organically and dynamically through the exchange of information that is meaningful to individuals within this community.

On the 22nd May 2014, the concept of the Transnational Communications - Community of Practice (TCCOP) was born with the aim of raising international exposure for researchers and their projects in the fields of engineering, ICT, the mathematical and physical sciences. We hope you will join us in our journey.

Katina Michael (IEEE Senior Member - Society for the Social Implications of Technology)

Community Of Practice Values:

Within our Community of Practice (TCCP) we practice the below values:

• To support and engage responsibly to the practice of Engineering and Information Sciences while encouraging diversity of research areas and expertise;

• To remain passionate and well-rounded specialists in our respective fields while coming together for the broader nature of Engineering and Information Sciences;

To represent and engage online within this Community of Practice in a professional, timely, and well-articulated manner.

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences (EIS) Research Groups

Asset Management and Systems Engineering Research Group (AMSEG)

Centre for Big Data Analytics and Intelligent Systems (BDAIS)

Centre for Geomechanics and Railway Engineering (CGRE)

Centre for Infrastructure Protection and Mine Safety (CIPMS)

Centre for IT-enabled Transformation (CITT)

Centre for Persuasive Technology and Society (CPTS)

Coastal Reservoir Research Centre (CRRC)

Decision Systems Lab (DSL)

Engineering and Mathematics Education Research Group (EMERG)

Institute of Cybersecurity and Cryptology (iC2)

Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications (IMIA)

Mining Research Centre (MRC)

Signals, Information and Communications Research Institute (SICOM)

•    Centre for Advanced Multimedia Research  (CAMR)

•    Centre for Signal and Information Processing (CSIP)

•    Centre for Emerging Networks and Applications (ENA)

•    Signal Processing for Instrumentation and Communications Research Laboratory (SPICR)

•    Wireless Technologies Laboratory (WTL)

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