About Us


AKHTAR KALAM JP


BSc, BScEng, MS, PhD, FEA, CPEng, FIET, CEng, FAIE, MCIGRE, MIEEE


Professor Akhtar Kalam has been at Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne since 1985 and a former Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science for 7 years. He has wide experience in educational institutions and industry across four continents. He received his B.Sc. and B.Sc. Engineering from Calcutta University and Aligarh Muslim University, India in 1969 and 1973 respectively. He completed his MS and Ph.D. at the University of Oklahoma, USA and the University of Bath, UK in 1975 and 1981 respectively. He has worked with Ingersoll Rand and other electrical manufacturers. He has held teaching appointments at the University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq and Capricornia Institute of Advanced Education, Rockhampton, Queensland.


 


He is regularly invited to deliver lectures, work on industrial projects and examine external thesis overseas. His major areas of interests are power system analysis, communication, control, protection and cogeneration systems. He has been actively engaged in the teaching of Energy Systems to undergraduates, postgraduates and providing professional courses to the industry both in Australia and overseas. He regularly offers professional development courses on Power System Protection, Renewable Energy and Cogeneration & Gas Turbine Operation to the Energy Supply Association of Australia (ESAA) and Australian Power Institute (API). He also runs postgraduate distance education programme on Power System Protection for the ESAA. He has conducted research, provided industrial consultancy and published over four hundred publications on his area of expertise and written over 29 books in the area. Professor Kalam is a Fellow of EA, IET, AIE and a member of IEEE and CIGRE AP B5. He has chaired number of accreditation committees for Engineering Australia for the grant of necessary approvals to run undergraduate engineering programs in various universities in Australia. He is a steering committee member of Australian Power Institute (API) for overseeing quality under and post graduate Power Engineering courses in Australia. He is also in number of steering committees on their bid for Australian Cooperative Research Centres. He has been the Advisory Council Member in the Australian Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers’ Association (AEEMA), representing the Australian Vice Chancellors’ Committee (AVCC). He is an Associate Editor, for the Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Australia and number of other international journals.  He has held executive positions in some of the professional bodies’ e.g. former Vice President of the Australian Cogeneration Association and President of the Institution of Engineers and Technology (IET) (Victoria Chapter). Due to his international reputation in promoting research activities in Smart Energy Systems, he has had concurrent appointments as Visiting/Distinguished Professor and External Examiner in three universities overseas – University Technology MARA (UiTM), University of Technology Malaysia (UTM) and University Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP).


 


His key attributes include:


  • High academic qualifications in Electrical Engineering. He was the recipient of the Cleo Cross International Scholarship and the University of Bath Scholarship.
  • High professional qualifications in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, (CPEng; CEng; FEA; FIET, MIEEE and MCIGRE).
  • The capacity to manage teaching, research, industry and consultancy.
  • The ability to conduct professional educational development courses to the industry.
  • The potentiality to learn and adapt quickly to new environments, cultures and government approaches to education, training and research.
  • Successful leadership of change processes in systems and organisations.
  • The skills to communicate effectively and with good sense of humour.
  • The respect of his colleagues nationally and internationally in his field of expertise.


 


ALBERT E. J. McGILL


BSc (Hons), MA, MSc, PhD, DSc, C.Chem. C.Sci, FRSC, FIFST, FRSH, FRACI, FAIFST, FAFST, FRSV


Professor Albert McGill is the owner and Consultant of Future for Food, an independent think tank and advisory group concerned primarily with Food Security, as defined by FAO in 1996. He is the representing delegate on this subject for the International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST) to the International Council for Science (ICSU) and represents AIFST.


In 2008 he was appointed a Fellow of the International Academy of Food Science and Technology (IAFST) and was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the National University of Singapore.


In March 2007 he was a Visiting Professor to the Institute of Biotechnology, Fuzhou University, Fujian, China, with whom he maintains an ongoing relationship.


During the academic year 2005-6, he was a Visiting Fellow at the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization at Oxford University, UK.


September 1995 - August 2005 Professor Albert McGill was Dean of the Faculty of Science, Engineering & Technology at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia; Professor of Analytical & Food Chemistry and Head of the Food Safety, Authenticity & Quality Unit.


He has wide experience in educational institutions, industry and government across four continents.  He has published 90 refereed papers in journals and presented 110 papers at scientific conferences.  As international and technical editor of a food trade journal he wrote monthly technical editorials for ten years.  He was the inaugural Editor of the Journal of Food Science Education and Joint Managing Editor of the ASEAN Food Journal.


His key attributes include:


  • High academic qualifications in Chemistry, Food Science/Technology and Education.  He was the Thomas Henry Research Fellow at Queen’s University, Belfast and was awarded a higher doctorate by the University of Pretoria for published contributions to research.
  • High professional qualifications in Chemistry, (C.Chem; FRSC; FRACI), Food Science/Technology (CSci, FIFST, FAIFST) and Health (FRSH)
  • The capacity to manage research, education courses, industry and government interfaces and administrative/structural change in organisations.
  • The development, implementation and management of Quality Systems in industry and academic including integrated teaching / training components for operators.
  • The ability to learn and adapt quickly to new environments, cultures and government approaches to education and research.
  • Successful leadership of change processes in systems and organisations
  • The ability to develop novel solutions to problems and implement them within budget.
  • The skills to provide technical communications in the most appropriate formats for the recipients and with good humour.
  • The respect of his colleagues nationally and internationally in his fields of endeavour.
  • An understanding of and adherence to the principles of Equity and Social Justice within the framework of his jurisdictions.
  • An ability to work successfully with both management and staff representatives in various organisational frameworks, eg government, academia, industry.