Industry and education academic tour

MathWorks is hosting its largest series of education events in Australia this July as part of its MATLAB and Simulink Academic Tour.

The events will focus on how MATLAB and Simulink are used as teaching tools in universities around Australia, to prepare students for the workforce and to help bridge the gap between industry and education.

Engineers are one of the top occupations on Australia’s Critical Skills List, demonstrating the industry’s need to source talent from overseas due to the shortage of local skilled engineers.

To help address this issue in Australia, education institutions locally are increasingly employing technical tools as part of the curriculum. This ensures Australian students are equipped with a practical working knowledge of industry tools that are transferrable immediately on entering the workforce.

MATLAB is used in all 40 of Australia’s universities as both a research and education tool and campus-wide licences are available to more than 50% of Australia’s technical students. A total of 11 leading institutions across Australia have adopted site-wide licences.

The tour is a series of free, one-day events providing insight on how educators can enhance both teaching and research to bridge the gap between theory and practice.

The theme of the tour is: Accelerating your research with MATLAB and Simulink. In addition to the keynote presentation, MathWorks engineers will demonstrate how MATLAB and Simulink can be used in education to prepare the next generation of engineers. The tour will visit Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Adelaide.

Visiting Australia as part of the tour and delivering the Global Education Keynote at each event is Loren Shure, principal, MATLAB developer. She will highlight MathWorks’ approach to teaching computation skills.

Guest presentations will be delivered by leading academic staff from the four host universities.

Dates and locations are: Tuesday 3 July - Sydney, hosted by The University of NSW; Thursday 5 July - Melbourne, hosted by The University of Melbourne; Tuesday 10 July - Adelaide, hosted by The University of Adelaide; Thursday 12 July - Brisbane, hosted by The University of Queensland.

More information and registration at: www.mathworks.com.au/MSAT12.