Hey MUEEC fam 👋, hope your week 5 is going swimmingly!
Back again with some sweet events (including our flagship makeathon, WattHack! 🔋), another edition of Circuit Essentials 🔌, some industry opportunities and a chance to win some $$!
⚡ Let's get Charged Up! ⚡
Fransiska, Manthila & the Charge Up! Crew
SMD Soldering Workshop
Come over to our SMD Soldering workshop! A great opportunity for you to take your soldering skills to the next level after learning the basics at your TCS inductions.
IMPORTANT: TCS inductions are MANDATORY and make sure you have your TCS general and electronics inductions done prior to the event!
Tuesday, 5th April 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Telstra Creator Space
Got no plans during your mid-sem break? Feeling crafty and have no means for implementing? Or are you looking for a fun project to do?
Join us for WattHack, our flagship event this semester. WattHack is a 2-day makeathon where you can rack your brain and work with others to create an engineering prototype with e-waste parts!
Participants of our Arduino 101 workshop would have encountered the idea of a "pull up", or "pull-down" resistor, while sensing a button press with the Arduino. Though they get a fancy name, a pull up/down resistor is just a normal resistor, but used in a specific configuration for a specific purpose.
This article will tell you why we need a pull-up/down resistor, the difference between the configurations, and what value resistances to use.
If you want to keep reading, see the full post in our blog.
Andrew Ooi’s Poetry Challenge
We have extended the poem competition until 10th of April.
Task:
Write a poem related to Electrical Engineering. The winners will be chosen by the legendary Engineering professor Andrew Ooi.
1st place will win a $25 dollar Prezzie gift-card and a mystery prize from Andrew Ooi himself 👀, with the top few winners optionally being shown in a future Charge Up! Newsletter!
How to enter:
Send through a poem of no more than 20 lines through this Google form by Sunday 10th April following the criteria below:
Relevance to Electrical Engineering: 50%
Creativity/Style & Originality: 30%
Coherence of form & structure (word harmony, presentation): 10%
Clarity of imagery & language: 10%
TOTAL: 100%
Projects
We’d love to use this newsletter to showcase member projects and give you a chance to show off your wonderful creations. If you have any upcoming, on-the-go, or completed projects you would like featured, please reply to this newsletter with some photos\video and a small description.
Check out this project by us:
ARRP Robot Arm
Engineering Memes of the Week
Huge Thank You to everyone who came to our events so far in sem 1! Because of you, we have had an epic start to the year 💖.
We have many more planned for the rest of the semester so stay tuned!
Our mailing address is:
Melbourne University Electrical Engineering Club
MAIN RECEPTION LEVEL 4 EEE BUILDING
University of Melbourne
Parkville, Vic 3010
Australia
