Paul Maj

In 1990, Paul was appointed Adjunct Professor at the Technical University of Denmark’s Institute of Automatic Control Systems.
The Technical University of Denmark is one of the leading universities in Europe.
He was responsible for teaching the industrial applications of microprocessors and networking technologies and after winning a competitive grant commissioned a pilot plant with the associated control systems.

Paul was the first Australian to be a judge for three IEEE International Education Awards for Academics. The IEEE is the world’s largest professional body for the advancement of technology.

Paul was a key note speaker at the 12th International Conference on Electrical, Engineering/Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications and Information Technology in June, 2015.
Paul is also an active researcher and reviewer for a number of international journals.

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Distance Learning – A Potential Opportunity for Thailand

October 21, 2017 1:48 pm
Distance learning is a global phenomenon with a wide range of available courses; however concerns exist regarding both course quality and educational standards. Within Australia the further and higher education sectors are highly regulated by the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency and the Australian Skills Quality Authority respectively. All...Read More
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Aquaponic Integration and Automation – A Critical Evaluation

August 31, 2017 1:55 pm
Aquaponics is technology developed from the aquaculture industry that integrates intensive farming of fish and utilizes plants (integrates hydroponics) in a continuous closed loop to clean the water for the fish. The plants clean the water of nitrate (waste form is initially ammonia) which has been converted into a form...Read More
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Aquaponics – A Process Control Approach

August 18, 2017 2:12 pm
An aquaponics automation design was undertaken to interpret the system requirements to integrate automation to operate and optimize the system. The system was designed to increase the layers of control over the inputs and outputs to operate the system with a process control approach. The viability of these levels of...Read More
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Aquaponics Automation – Design Techniques

August 4, 2017 2:08 pm
Aquaponics operators that have transitioned from hobby to commercial operators have commonly failed to meet commercial expectations. One of the reasons for failures is the occurrence of severe technical errors. Unexpected events can often have drastic financial consequences on new operators, which could be initially operating within tight margins. Standard...Read More
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Strategic Human Resource Management in International Organizations

June 15, 2017 11:51 am
This an initial study of Strategic Human Resources in Human Resource Management. This is important because in a globally competitive economy company longevity depends upon its more important aspect – their staff. This is principally governed by resource management principles and policies. This paper presents the results of a wide...Read More
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Wastewater Automation – The Development of a Low Cost, Distributed Automation System

April 23, 2017 12:11 pm
In developed countries wastewater management is considered a vital aspect of community health and wellbeing. Failures in wastewater management may result in the release of pathogens into natural water bodies and in extreme circumstances into drinking water. Illnesses caused by contamination range from gastroenteritis and viral infections to death. As...Read More
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Industrial Network Security – A Critical Review

April 17, 2017 12:25 pm
In advanced societies all aspects of commerce and industry are now based on networked IT systems. Failures of these systems have the potential to be extremely disruptive. The term Critical Infrastructure (CI) is used to define systems (private and public) considered vital to national interests whose interruption would have a...Read More
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Improving Project Management Teaching Using Scaffolding Based on Cladistics Parsimony Analysis

April 8, 2017 1:42 pm
There are numerous educational paradigms each with their advocates and critics. The cognitive science approach is based on modelling memory as short term and long term each with their different characteristics. All learning consists of an iterative cycle of assimilate and retrieve between these two types of memory. The objective...Read More
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Improving the Teaching of Project Management Software Tools Using Scaffolding Based on Cladistics Parsimony Analysis

April 8, 2017 1:01 pm
Project management software tools are essential tools for the different phases of projects. However a number of software tools exist ranging from the relatively simple to those that extremely feature rich. Feature rich software tools have their advantages due to their wide repertoire of options but can be difficult to...Read More
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Australian VET Sector – A Critical Evaluation

December 19, 2016 2:23 pm
The Australian Vocational Education and Training (VET) system is a comprehensive, national framework designed to provide quality outcomes for learners and meet the needs of potential employers. The interdependent checks and balances provide mechanisms for validating quality and relevance. Regular national surveys demonstrate that both students and employers are satisfied...Read More
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Facilitating Network Technology Training in the Australian Vocational Education Sector

November 24, 2016 1:37 pm
Within the Australian Further Education sector for lecturers in the IT field it is not uncommon to use vendor based curriculum. The advantages to this approach are that students can graduate not only with a national award (Certificate or Diploma) and also an internationally recognized vendor qualification. Furthermore, the larger...Read More
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Improving Teaching and Learning Outcomes – A Novel Cognitive Science Approach

October 8, 2016 12:46 pm
Three principle approaches to education are behaviorism, constructivism and cognitive science. However beyond that there are a wide and diverse range of methods such as outcomes based education, problem based learning etc. All these approaches and methods have their associated advantages and disadvantages. The effectiveness of the educational process is...Read More
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Australian National Training Packages – A Critical Analysis

September 26, 2016 2:16 pm
In the Australian Further Education sector all education is based on national training packages which are designed and managed to meet the needs of different industries. They provide specifications of training elements; the associate performance criteria; expected required knowledge and skills all benchmarked against defined evidence guides. Significantly the do...Read More
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State Model Diagrams for Teaching Networking – a SOLO Based Evaluation

July 27, 2016 12:32 pm
The Cisco Network Academy Program is the world’s largest network technology curriculum with over 500,000 students’ worldwide. An analysis of this curriculum found that it did not provide students with a diagrammatic model that is consistent throughout the curriculum. Without such a model students develop their own which is likely...Read More