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Mr Jan Machotka
Position: Program Director Mr Jan Machotka
Division/Portfolio: Division of Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment
School/Unit: School of Electrical and Information Engineering
Campus: Mawson Lakes Campus
Office: SCT2-44
Telephone: +61 8 830 23292
Fax: +61 8 830 23384
Email: Jan_dot_Machotka_at_unisa_dot_edu_dot_au
URL for Business Card: http://people.unisa.edu.au/Jan.Machotka

Teaching interests

  • Computer-aided methods in circuits and systems analysis
  • Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering
  • Network theory
  • Supervising final year student projects (at least 3 groups per year)

Professional associations

1985 Chartered Professional Engineer of the Institution of Engineers Australia

1973 Member of the Czechoslovak Electrical Engineers Association

Qualifications

1973 Dipl.Ing., Czech Technical University in Prague

Research interests

  • Computer-aided methods engineering (Matlab, Simulink, Pspice etc)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Multimedia in engineering education
  • Intelligent agents

Research publications

Selected Publications (recent):

Machotka, J. and Nedic, Z., Interactive Electronic Tutorials versus classical black-board tutorials, 3rd UICEE Annual Conference on Engineering Education, Hobart, Tasmania, February 2000, pp. 193-197.

Nedic, Z., Raza, S.R., Jain, L.C. and Machotka, J., Computer aided tutorials with randomised parameters, 3rd UICEE Annual Conference on Engineering Education, Hobart, Tasmania, Feb. 2000, pp. 229-232.

Nedic, Z, Machotka, J. and Jain, L., Multimedia Package for Interactive design of Laboratory Experiments (LabCAD), Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information Engineering Systems, IEEE Press USA, August 1999, pp. 17-20.

Machotka, J., Nedic, V. and Nedic, Z., Interactive Electronic Tutorials for Subject Signals and Systems 1N, 11th Australasian Conference on Engineering Education Adelaide, Australia, 26-29 September, 1999.

Machotka, J. Nafalski, A. and Nedic, Z., Experiences in Teaching Large Classes Using Web Sites, 2nd UICEE Annual Conference on Engineering Education, Auckland, New Zealand February 1999.

Machotka, J. and Nedic, Z., Interactive Web sites for teaching engineering Subjects: Network Theory and Signals and Systems 1&2 at the University of South Australia, 1st UICEE Annual Conference on Engineering Education, Melbourne, February 1998.



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