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Brief Biography
About Dr Armstrong
Dr. Armstrong has
worked as a communication engineer in both industry and academia for over
twenty-five years. After graduating from Edinburgh University with first class
honours, she worked at Hewlett-Packard, Scotland designing test equipment for
the telecommunications industry. In 1977, she emigrated to Australia to take up
a lecturing position at The University of Melbourne. Since then she has held
academic positions at The University of Melbourne, La Trobe University and
currently here at Monash University. She has also gained an MSc (Digital
Techniques, Heriot-Watt) and a PhD (Digital Communications, Monash).
She is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers Australia
(FIE Aust), Member of Institution of Electrical Engineers (MIEE) and Member of
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (MIEEE).
She is the author
of numerous journals and conference papers (see
publications).
Other activities (academic)
Dr. Armstrong's other activities include
Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Communications,
Journal of Selected Area of Communications, IEEE Transactions of Wireless
Communications, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular
Technology,
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems,
IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEE Electronics Letters and INEER
(International Network of Engineering Education and Research) Journal.
Reviewed papers for IEEE Globecom, IEEE International
Communications Conference (ICC), IEEE Symposium on Circuits and
Systems (ISCAS),
IEEE Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications (ISSSTA),
IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Australian
Communications Theory Workshop (AUSCTW), and Conference of the
Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE).
Dr. Armstrong has also had a long interest and involvement in
Engineering Education research and research into
the experiences of Women in Engineering. From 1996
to 1998, she was a member of the National Executive of the
Australasian Association for Engineering
Education. In 1997 and 1998, she was one of the two co-editors of the
Australasian Journal of Engineering Education.
Her work in Women in Engineering led to her being one of only
thirty people invited from around the world to a meeting in England entitled
"Engineering Education and Professional Practice: Developing Gender-Inclusive
Models".
In 1996, She was awarded an "Engineering 2000 Award" by
the Institute of Engineers in recognition of her work on issues related to women
in engineering.
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