Electronics Engineer named '2015 Professional Engineer of the Year

2015 Professional Engineer of the Year.
Adelaide electronics engineer Andrew Skinner was this month named ‘2015 Professional Engineer of the Year’ by Engineers Australia. This high honour is more often awarded to a member of the larger civil engineering sector, so this focus on electronics engineering is applauded by his electronics industry peers.
Dr Skinner is Engineering Director and the founder of Measurement Engineering Australia (MEA). With an engineering career spanning 40 years he established MEA in Adelaide in 1984 to carry out the three-year SA Wind Energy Survey. While running the company full-time, Andrew completed a Master’s Degree and PhD in environmental measurements.
Andrew was one of the pioneers of the renewable energy industry and MEA has built more than 2,500 systems for wind and solar monitoring, irrigated agriculture and remote weather station networks. MEA has also developed a web-enabled radio measurement system for Australian farmers, novel soil moisture displays for African farmers, salinity sensors for farmers in Bangladesh and a new-to-world sensor for getting living plants to talk to irrigators about their state of water stress. This original MEA research will be developed for application in vineyards and orchards and could revolutionize the application of water and nutrients to crops in our water constrained future.
MEA is an excellent example of the successful application of electronics technology in the design and local manufacture of high technology products and systems for the agriculture industry in both national and global markets.
EIDA salutes Dr Andrew Skinner, a quiet achiever in the relatively unknown Adelaide electronics industry.