Rotha



media type="file" key="rotha.wav" width="300" height="50" My name is Rotha. I'm from Cambodia. I've studied and worked in Tokyo, Japan. I have been in Hobart for about 1 year. And I started the CSWE 3 in April this year. It is a good chance for me to attend this Work It Out course. My field is Electrical and Electronics Engineer. I had also worked as an Electrical Engineer in Japan for 2 years. I know how to develop C, C++ programing language. Designing electric circuits is also one of my skills too. Because of my experience in Japan, which was a foreign country for me, I have learned how to work with people from different cultures. These experiences with the manufacturing department, I can work under pressure, I can work as a team member.

Since I arrived in Hobart, I've tried to find an Engineer job but, it's been hard to find a job which is similar to what I did and my skill. Fortunately, in this Work It Out course, Jenny who is a counselor of AMEP could find a small company called Vision Instruments where I can have an Electrical and Electronic Engineer job to do.

My work experience placement(Vision Instruments) is at Techno Park which is near Glenorchy. It is a nice and quiet place to work. In the laboratory, there are a lot of machines and parts that I can use for the job.

I am going to do reliabilities test for the new machines which the company is going to install before they are delivered. Other works can be designing circuit for the temperature test of the machine. It is a multinational company, one staff member is from Begium, one is from Germany, and the CEO is an Australian. I got a lot of inductions on the first time I met my supervisor. He was very friendly. He made a cup of coffee to welcome me. He made me feel free to ask him any questions. About the core time at work is flexible I can start from 8:30 and finish at 16:00. I feel so happy to get this chance to have a work experience in AUS as an Engineer. I hope to learn as much as I can.

__Week 1 and 2 Recount and Skills__

Remember the employability skills are: **communication**, **teamwork**, **problem-solving**, **self-management**, **learning**, **technology**, **planning and organizing**, and **intiative and enterprise**.

Fill in the following chart with actions from your workplace from the last two weeks. Remember to use the past tense. Also fill in the other charts with new words you have learned and the names of people you work with. (Adapted from //Keys To Work// by Jacky Springall, p. 50)
 * **Activity** (eg. My boss showed me how to use the floor polisher on Tuesday morning this week. I learned very quickly and used it that same day. He told me I had done a good job.) || **Skill** (eg. Learning, Technology) ||
 * My boss explained me about the inductions at the first day then he found that there were not material safety data sheets of Polyester Resin and MEKP. He asked me to find them on the internet, print them out and put them in the folder of the materials. I did that. I learned about Polyester Rasin and MEKP. He said that I had done well and if I can find something missing to let him know. || **Communication,Technology, Learning** ||
 * Chris is a contract engineer who come to work one day a week. He showed me how to set up Eclipse for a MSP430 microprocessor board and its functions. I noted down all the steps and I think I can set up Eclipse by myself. || Communication, Learning, Teamwork, Organising ||
 * I read the instruction of how to use a temperature and humidity data logger tester and tried to run it. I got the result as in the instruction paper. || **Learning, Technology** ||
 * There is a project of how to measure the power comes from the retina camera into the eyes. My supervisor asked me to think about that. As I hadn't had knowledge about retina camera, I did a lot of searching on its information and I asked the questions to my supervisors about the LED wavelenght which get into the eyes, the distance between lens and retina, how much power that is safe when it comes into the eyes. My supervisor answered all my questions and he asked me to buy ISO15xxxx which measures light hazzards into the eyes. I bought it online by ISO website but the information were not enough to what we wanted, so we keep searching and thinking again. || **Communication, Learning, Problem-solving, Technology** ||
 * During lunch time, we had lunch together at our office. We talked about many things such as recent technology, Hobart weather, history of the company, and how to find a job. || **Communication** ||


 * **New Words** || **Meaning** ||
 * Guru || genius ||
 * Bug || problem ||
 * Rotter || bad person ||


 * **Names of People I Work With** ||
 * Greg ||
 * Dirk ||
 * Chris ||