(Appearing by country in alphabetical order).

Sincere thanks to all members of the Mechatronics Team for the personal and team skills they demonstrated in getting the competition organised and
successfully completed. On the left (click to enlarge) are the special duties that we
distributed among ourselves -  in the record time of about seven minutes!

:-) Martin

Profession: Facilities & Instrumentation Engineer

Affiliation: Engine Laboratory, Ford Motor Company of Australia Limited

Experience in Mechatronics (no. of years): 7 years

Are you the trainer? Yes

Competitor selection process in your country: Regional competitions of which the winners go to the National competition of which the winner goes to Seoul 

Email: aheath1@ford.com

Profession: Mechatroniker/Mechatronics Expert

Affiliation: Beratung & Training, FESTO, Austria

Experience in Mechatronics (no. of years): 2 years

Are you the trainer? Yes

Competitor selection process in your country: November 2000, Salzburg, "Profession Information Fair 2000"

Email: Hermann_studnitzka@festo.at

Profession: Tecnico de Ensino (Teacher in Mechatronics)

Affiliation: SENAI

Experience in Mechatronics (no. of years): 5 years; trainer of the teams of 97 and 99 WSC

Are you the trainer? Training Team:

1. Ademir Bassanesi
2. Paulo Villiger (supervisor)
3. Jose Ricardo da Silva (supervisor)

Email: josericsi@sp.senai.br

Profession: Engineer, FESTO, Brazil

Profession: Engineer

Affiliation: FESTO, Canada

Experience in Mechatronics (no. of years): since 95

Are you the trainer? No

Competitor selection process in your country: 3 provincial competitions and then 1 national competition.

Email: benoit_maisonneuve@festo.com

Profession: Technical Manager

Affiliation: Skills Finland

Experience in Mechatronics (no. of years): 7 years

Are you the trainer? No

Competitor selection process in your country: National Competition

Email: jaakko.pekkala@skillsfinland.com

Mika Karki and Jaakko Pekkala shared the job of Finnish expert in Seoul, since Jaakko was learning the logistic ropes of running a competiton in preparation for Helskinki 2005.

(Translator: Jung Kyung Kim and Eunice Chung, students, French/English/Korean)

Profession: Agrege de Genie Mecanique

Affiliation: CALFAT Consultant

Experience in Mechatronics (no. of years): 2 years

Are you the trainer? A little only.

Competitor selection process in your country: Yes, there is.

 Email: gaubert.f@wanadoo.fr

Graduate student, Ewha University, Seoul

French/English/Korean

Email: alex-c@hanmail.net

Graduate student, Seoul National University

French/English/Korean

Email: choco21@hanmail.net

Profession: Product Management, Training and Consulting

Affiliation: FESTO, Germany

Experience in Mechatronics (no. of years): Involved in the competition and training management since Taipei 93

Are you the trainer? Yes, along with the trainers from Bosch, and Joern Stock, apprentice trainer and  Festo competitor from Montreal in 1999.

Competitor selection process in your country: National competition between companies at the Bildungsmesse (Training Fair) – in Hanover – in 2001 with 17 teams

Email: wls@festo.com

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Profession: Lecturer, Engineering Admissions Tutor

Affiliation: Warrington Collegiate Institute

Experience in Mechatronics (no. of years): 5 years

Are you the trainer? Co-trainer with Andy Knight from Ford at Dagenham

Competitor selection process in your country: via Regional and then National Finals.

Email: h.ward@warr.ac.uk

Profession: Aerospace Engineer, Senior Lecturer in Information Technology and Manufacturing Engineering

Affiliation: Hong Kong Institution of Vocational Education, Vocational Education Council

Experience in Mechatronics: since 1993; trainer and expert of local competitions since 1996, and that of the 35th World Skills Competition in Montreal, Canada, 1999.

Email: sshho@vtc.edu.hk

The Webmaster would like to express his sincere gratitude to:

1. The Vocational Training Council of Hong Kong for providing sponsorship on participation of the 36th WorldSkills Competition.
2. EC Global corp of Korea for providing off venue ISP support throughout the course of this project.
3. David Hoey of Australia for providing a Corporate design framework for the site and his continuous support.
4. Nils Karlsson of Sweden for providing state-of-the-art Axis 2120 Network Camera streaming video technology.

Profession: Chief Instructor

Affiliation: Electro-Mechanics group, Nissan Human Resources Development Centre Inc., NISSAN

Experience in Mechatronics (no. of years): about 3 years

Are you the trainer? Yes

Competitor selection process in your country: Chosen amongst NISSAN employees.

Email: s-hiratsuka@mail.nissan.co.jp

Profession: Sales & Education Planning Group, NHD, NISSAN

Profession: President

Affiliation: Festech Co., Ltd.

Experience in Mechatronics (no. of years): 7 years

Are you the trainer? No

Email: jrlee@festech.co.kr

Profession: Ingenieur d’ etat, Genie electrique

Affiliation: Institut Superieur De Technologie Appliquee Inter-Entreprises

Email:

Profession:

Affiliation: Sales Department, Fleximatic AS

Experience in Mechatronics (no. of years): since 93

Are you the trainer? No

Email: fleximatic@online.no

www.fleximatic.no

Affiliation: FESTO, Philippines

Email: mcm@festo.com.ph

Profession: Director

Affiliation: Academic & Student Affairs, Nanyang Polytechnic

Experience in Mechatronics (no. of years): 3 years

Are you the trainer? No

Competitor selection process in your country: Winners of the National Skills Competition will be selected to represent the country in the WSC.

Email: Anthony_WOON@nyp.gov.sg

Profession: Teacher of Vocational Education

Affiliation: Gymnasieskolan Komvux Åtvidaberg

Experience in Mechatronics (no. of years): 10 years plus

Are you the trainer? Yes – together with people from involved companies

Competitor selection process in your country:

1. Test by Internet, August 2000
2. Semi-final – 12 competitors, November 2000
3. Final – 6 competitors, February 2001

Email: nikar@atvidaberg.se

The Expert's advice to his people: "Life is a journey - travel it well."

Profession: Leitung Seminarwesen

Affiliation: FESTO Switzerland

Experience in Mechatronics (no. of years): 7 years

Are you the trainer: Yes

Competitor selection process in your country: National Competition

Email: erich_brun@festo.ch

Profession: Lecturer

Affiliation: FESTO, Taiwan

Experience in Mechatronics (no. of years): 6 years

Are you the trainer? Co-trainer

Competitor selection process in your country: Winners of the Matsushita (National) Competition.

Email: YL_Chiang@festo.com.tw

Profession: Senior IA Engineer

Affiliation: Sales & Marketing Div., FESTO, Thailand

Experience in Mechatronics (no. of years): 5 years

Are you the trainer? No

Competitor selection process in your country: National Competition by the Department of Skills Development

Email: chamnan.h@festo.co.th

"Mechatronics run further and further in Industrial Automation."

(Translator: Wim de Graaf, Team manager, Didactic, FESTO, The Netherlands)

Profession: Docent werktuigbouwkunde

Affiliation: De Mondriaan Onderwijsgroep, Den Haag, The Netherlands

Experience in Mechatronics (no. of years): 8 years

Are you the trainer? Yes

Competitor selection process in your country: Some schools sent their students to the Mechatronics Competition. The best team goes to the WSC.

 Email: thmatla@planet.nl

Profession: Team manager, Festo Didactic,The Netherlands

Profession: Student

Affiliation: University of Georgia, USA

Experience in Mechatronics (no. of years): 2

Are you the trainer? Yes

Email: qahooei@hotmail.com

Profession: Product Manager - Modular Production System

Affiliation: Festo Didactic

Email: tzi@festo.com

Profession: Project Assistant

Affiliation: Festo Didactic

Email: hoo@festo.com

Profession: Didactic Manager

Affiliation: Festo Korea

Email: joongkim@festo.com

This is David Hoey, who worked behind the scenes to bring you this website. A special thanks to him - he designed the site to satisfy Festo and WorldSkills needs, helped get the website and webcam working and worked highly unsocial hours during the competition processing images and text into the fast, informative website we all enjoyed. And he has kept going with ideas and energy long after the event to help produce this unique and lasting document of that competition.

Thanks mate! – The Mechatronics Team

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