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What is it
The FEIT Film Festival is hosted by the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology (FEIT) at the University of Melbourne. This is a week of screenings and conversations to review critical moments in engineering and IT history, to introduce famous visionaries, inventors and entrepreneurs and to evaluate ground-breaking discoveries.
When
15/05/2023, 4:30am - 21/05/2023, 9:00pm
Where

Launch Pad (Level M), Melbourne Connect and Parkville Campus

Free
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Faculty of Engineering and IT (FEIT) Film Festival 2023

The FEIT Film Festival is hosted by the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology (FEIT) at the University of Melbourne. Join us for a week of screenings and conversations to review critical moments in engineering and IT history, to introduce famous visionaries, inventors and entrepreneurs and to evaluate ground-breaking discoveries.

Opening Celebration and Three Idiots

  • Date: 15 May
  • Location: The Superfloor, Melbourne Connect and Black Box Theatre, Science Gallery Melbourne

Join FEIT students in a screening of the Bollywood cult movie Three Idiots (Rajkumar Hirani, 2009) and linked talks about the meaning of engineering education around the world from Javane Javaherchian and Rahul Deshpande on their experiences of studying engineering in Iran and India, respectively.

Guest Speakers

Javane Javaherchian received her Bachelor's degree and Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology (2016) and Sharif University of Technology (2019), respectively. Currently, she is a PhD student in the Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology (FEIT) at the University of Melbourne.

Rahul Deshpande studied Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), for his Bachelor and Master degrees in 2014 and 2016, respectively. He obtained his PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2021 and is currently working on a Melbourne Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology (FEIT).

Engineering Technology in Filmmaking: Cutting the Edges

  • Date: 18 May
  • Location: The Launch Pad (Level M), Melbourne Connect

Join ATOMOS, a co-located partner based in Melbourne Connect, for an interactive presentation showcasing their cutting-edge film content-creation technology.

Guest Speakers

Bob Grieve is the Head of Content Production at ATOMOS.

Prof. Joe Klewicki is Head of the School of Electrical, Mechanical and Electrical (“EMI”) Engineering at The University of Melbourne, and the Director of Infrastructure for the Faculty of Engineering and IT.

He is a Fellow of the Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society, the American Physical Society, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is also a Distinguished Alumnus of the Michigan State University (MSU) Department of Mechanical Engineering.

As a researcher, Professor Klewicki specialises in experimental methods in fluid dynamics, turbulent and unsteady flows, vorticity dynamics, boundary layers, and atmosphere surface layer phenomena. He received his BS (1983), MS (1985) and PhD (1989) degrees from MSU, Georgia Tech and MSU respectively.


See the full program list and guest speakers here.

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