• Jan.2002-Dec.2002.: Chair, School of EESE Teaching & Learning committee. Achievements so far: initiated T&L research grants provided by the school to promote on-line teaching, assessment, benchmarking, initiated and maintained the EESE T&L website, and other areas.
• Jan.2002-Dec.2002.: School of EESE Representative on the Faculty Teaching & Learning committee.
• Jan.2002-Dec.2002: Course Coordinator, Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical & Computer Engineering)/Bachelor of Applied Science Mathematics- IF21.
• Jan.2002-Dec. 2002: Course Coordinator, Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical & Computer Engineering)/Bachelor of Business- IF28.
• Feb.2000-April 2001: School Representative of a new Course (INFOMECHATRONIC) A multidisciplinary course involving the school of Mechanical Engineering, the School of Electrical Engineering, and the School of Information Technology. My role is to coordinate the activities related to the units in this course. I also taught a new unit in this course.
• Feb. 2000-April 2001: Responsible for the Electrical Eng. Course Benchmarking My role is to benchmark the school's new 12 credit points electrical engineering course against similar courses in Australia and overseas. The first exercise consisted of a thorough analysis of the course in terms of content, pre-requisites, areas of studies, delivery, and assessments. I had to devise a method to make sure that the students' load was reasonable taking into consideration assessments, delivery time, etc.
• March01-Dec.2002: Director, Research Concentration in Computer Vision and Automation (RCCVA), QUT

The Research Concentration has two main groups: 1) the Computer Vision group (under my leadership) and the Automation group (under the leadership of Dr. D. Campbell). A/Prof. Bergmann was also a member of the Concentration with involvements in activities related to High Performance Computing (as reflected by joint research grants as in Section 4.2). Two academics, Two postdoctoral fellows during 2001, many research assistants, one Admin. Officer and one Computer Systems Officer are currently working/worked with the RCCVA under my supervision.
• Jan. 98-March01: Director, Space Centre for Satellite Navigation (SCSN), QUT

 Duties: Provide leadership and support to staff and postgraduate students in the Centre. Supervise the research activities in the Centre, and provide adequate financial support to sustain the activities. The SCSN includes three (3) Academics, two (2) Post-docs (another postdoc concluded in Feb. 2001), four (4) Research Assistants in average, around 12 Postgraduate Students, one Administration Officer and one Computer Systems Officer. Another leadership role is to manage the Centre’s budget ($300K/year in average).
 The centre has three groups: 1) The GPS group (project leader: Prof. K. Kubik now replaced by the Automation Group led by Dr. D. Campbell). 2) The High Performance Computing (HPC) group based on FPGA technology (Project Leader: Dr. N. Bergmann). 3) The Image Processing and Computer Vision Group (Project Leader: Dr. M. Bennamoun).
 The centre collaborates with several institutions and companies, including, CSIRO (joint supervision of Ms. J. Banks, and J. Williams), a local textile company (through an ARC SPIRT grant), the University of Stuttgart, Germany (Adjunct Professor M. Hahn spent a year in the SCSN in 1998, and in average 2 students from Germany spend 4 months per year in the Centre), and Wuhan University, China.
 I developed collaborations between the SCSN, CSIRO, and the Queensland Manufacturing Institute (QMI). During my period as director, students were supported to go overseas. Examples include Bruce Hannah who went to the Rutherford Appleton Lab (RAL) near Abingdon, England, in the Space Science Dept. and the Radio Communications Research Unit for a period of 4 months.
 SCSN Ph.D. graduates were able to obtain jobs with very prestigious companies overseas, examples include Dr. W. Osberger who is currently working with Tektronix, Portland, Oregon, USA and Dr. J. Banks currently working with the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany.
 I had to undertake many other allied positions for the Centre, such as the SCSN ethics adviser, and serve on Ph.D. Oral defense committees.
• Jan. 97- Present: Responsible for the Computer Network and computing facilities in the Space Centre for Satellite Navigation. When I joined the SCSN, the Unix network was practically down. I identified the needs and managed with the help of the SCSN Computer Systems Officer to have a fully functional PC and Unix networks serving the needs of the SCSN, the CRC for Satellite Systems, and the Communication and Information Processing group in the EESE. Around 25-30 people were using the networks.
• Jan. 97-Dec.2002: Project Leader, Vision Group, Space Centre for Satellite Navigation. The group is, in average, composed of eight postgraduate students working on different Image Processing and Computer Vision projects, and three-four research assistants.
• June. 97-Dec. 98: Project Manager of a RIEF’97 Grant in the SCSN, obtained by Prof. K. Kubik (QUT), and A. Maeder (Univ. of Ballarat), A$90,000.  I equipped the SCSN with top of the line hardware  for real-time image processing applications.
• July 93-Dec. 97: Coordination of Tutorials, Division of Electronics/Aerospace & Avionics, School of Electrical & Electronic Systems Engineering, QUT.

The division was composed of seven staff members.  There were about 12 units assigned to that division.  My role was to find out the tutorial needs of each staff member in the division, assign tutors to their units, and make sure that the tutorials are run smoothly.
• July 93-Dec. 97: Coordination of the Avionics Undergraduate Laboratory, School of Electrical & Electronic Systems Engineering, QUT.

All the undergraduate students in the Avionics Course continuously used this laboratory. This laboratory contained two X-terminals, and six Personal computers.  The laboratory was vital for the students to learn about flight simulation, and perform their computing assignments.
With the help of the Technical Services Group in the school, my role was to make sure that the hardware and the software requirements were maintained.
• July 93-Dec. 97: Coordination of the Electronics Laboratory, School of Electrical & Electronics Systems Engineering, QUT. All the Electronics Pracs. in the school were run in this laboratory.  We hosted an average of 550 students/week. My role was to assign tutors to supervise the pracs., supervise the tutors while they were running the pracs., and supervise few pracs. myself.
• July 93-Nov. 94: Project Leader of the Computer Vision Group, Image Processing & Computer Vision Laboratory, SPRC, QUT.

• Jan. 95-Dec. 97: Maintenance of the Andros Robotec mobile robot at the Signal Processing Research Centre (SPRC), QUT.
• Jan. 94-May 94: Acting Coordinator of the Robotics Laboratory, Signal Processing Research Centre (SPRC), QUT.  Acted on behalf of the Laboratory Coordinator while absent.

The laboratory was composed of four lecturers at that time.  My role was to act more as a facilitator between the four lecturers, and the postgraduate students, and to ensure that the equipment in the laboratory was functioning properly.

• Jan. 97-Jan.2000: Area Subject Coordinator: Aerospace/Avionics.

Duties: Coordinate the Aerospace/Avionics subjects in the School of EESE, QUT
• Jan. 2000-Nov. 2000: Unit Coordinator, EEB791 Final Year Elective Unit in the area of "Artificial Neural Networks". My role was to devise the most appropriate content for the unit, deliver lectures, organize computer-based tutorials (using Matlab) and prepare the assessments. I now serve as a unit coordinator every semester. Other units include:
• Jun.99- Dec.99 Unit Coordinator, EEB889 Final Year Elective Unit in the area of "Image Processing and Computer Vision". My role was to set up the content of the unit, deliver lectures, organize computer-based tutorials (using Matlab) and prepare the assessments.
• Jun 98-Dec. 98: Acting Course Coordinator, IF45 (BE(Elec&Comp)/Bbusiness.

Duties: provide leadership in course development and accreditation, resolve operational matters, including timetable matters and adjustments to assessment requirements, in order to balance student work loads, counsel students on academic matters and foster their progress in the course. Other duties included the participation in the “Enrolment Advisory Session”, and the weekly meetings to sort out the 12 credit point units relations between the different courses.
• Jan. 95-Nov. 95: Unit Coordinator, EEB 271, involving another lecturer and 250 students.

My role was to interact with the other lecturer to prepare the lecture notes, and the tutorials, make sure that the material covered in both sections was compatible, prepare the assignments and the exams, and mark the final year exam.  I have also been the unit Coordinator for most of the other units that I taught.
• Based on the course that I was lecturing at Queen’s University, Canada, I will be offering an elective unit on “Robotics and Sensing” in our school. This is an initiation to a unit, which was never taught in our School before.

• From 1998 to 2002 supervised in average two (2) academics, a total of three (3) postdoctoral fellows, one Administrative Officer and one Computer System Officer (CSO) and an average of three (3) Research Assistants in the RCCVA.
• Participated in the Faculty Orientation Day (August 98)
• Participated in the School Executive meetings, School of Electrical & Electronics Systems Engineering, QUT.  Acted on behalf of the Head of my Division while absent.
• Mentor for eight students (1995-1998), Bachelor of Engineering (Aerospace Avionics, EE43), QUT. Meetings were planned with these students to identify problems they were possibly encountering and to seek solutions.
• Involved in the yearly Student Orientations and tours in the school of Electrical Engineering, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, from 1986 to 1992.
• Involved in the yearly Student Orientations and tours in the School of Electrical Engineering, QUT.  The objective of these tours was to attract high school students to pursue a course in the school.
• Involved in the Tertiary Studies Expo95.  The objective was to promote the courses offered in the school of EESE, QUT.

• Built a Mosaic Homepage for the Image Processing & Computer Vision, and the Robotics Laboratories, Signal Processing Research Centre (SPRC), QUT.  I was also the maintainer of this page until January 97. This was an important contribution to promote the activities of the SPRC all over the world, and to attract potential postgraduate students.
• Built a Mosaic Homepage for the Australian Affiliate Campus (AAC) to the International Space University (ISU): http://www.isunet.edu/affiliates.html. As the General Coordinator of the Australian Affiliate Campus to the ISU my role is to promote the activities of the AAC to the ISU community.

• Jan. 02-Dec.2002: Member of the Faculty Advisory Committee.
• Jan. 02-Dec.2002: Member of the Faculty Teaching & Learning Committee.
• Jan. 02-Dec.2002: Member and Chair of the School Teaching & Learning Committee.
• Jan. 98-Dec.2002: Member of the EESE School Research Committee (SRC). The role of the SRC is to liaise and implement the policies of the Faculty Research committee. The committee initiated a School based scholarship in 1998 to encourage postgraduate students with a substantial number of publications.
• July 93-Dec. 97: Member of the Division of Electronics/Aerospace & Avionics, EESE, QUT.

We had monthly meetings to address different issues related to the units assigned to the division, establish strategic plans, and discuss the equipment needs pertinent to the laboratories which were attached to the division.  My role varied according to the needs of the division.
• July 93-Dec. 97: Member of the Image Processing Laboratory, Signal Processing Research Centre, QUT.  We had weekly meetings to discuss the needs of the laboratory and the research directions to take.  My administrative role was to assist the laboratory coordinator if in need, and to help in the maintenance of the computer system in the lab.
• Apr. 95-Dec. 97: Nominated Member of the Cultural Diversity Working Party in the School of EESE, QUT to promote diversity in the school.  The role of this working party was: 1)- to identify the diversity issues  within the School at both an interpersonal and structural level, 2)- to examine models of diversity management used elsewhere, 3)- to establish strategies and an action plan to address the issues identified in 1, and 4)- establish a plan for diversity training for senior managers. The working party met regularly to act on the above mentioned issues.

• Jan. 99-Jan.2000: Member of the School Workspace and Safety Committee.

Examples include:

• June 1999: Introduction to Recruitment and Selection at QUT.
• April 1997: Staff Development Training Course, QUT: “Effective Business Writing”,
• July 1996: Two days workshop, Strategic Planning for the Signal Processing Research Centre.
• Jan. 1995: Four days workshop, Team Building, Strategic Planning, and Management Skills, offered by the Australian Institute of Management (A.I.M.), Kooralbyn Valley. The objective behind this workshop was to improve teamwork in the Signal Processing Research Centre, and to acquire practical management skills.