SPC 2016


IEEE R8 STUDENT PAPER CONTEST 2016 – RESULTS

The IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest 2016 was announced in June 2015. The deadline to submit Student Branches best papers to R8 contest was December 15, 2015. 

Within the SPC 2016 campaign, the following activities were realized, mainly by emails:

  • Beginning June 2016 a SPC 2016 email call with essential SPC data and rules was sent to all R8 SB chairs.
  • The same email was also sent to all SB counselors.
  • Different versions of the SPC calls were sent to SB chairs and counselors three more times.
  • All Region 8 IEEE student members got once email with brief information about various Students’ activities, including SPC.
  • Section chairs, Section students’ representatives and student activities officers also obtained basic information about SPC, asking them to support and co-organize SPC activities. It was especially emphasized to connect when possible local SPC contests with other IEEE R8 Sections and Chapters activities.

Before the deadline 32 IEEE student papers were submitted. 30 papers were accepted and graded.  .

SPC 2016 contestants were from 19 Sections and 25 different Student Branches/Institutions:

  • Universite Catholique de Louvain,  Benelux

*ENSIAS-University Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco

  • Univeresity Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

*University of Bologna, Italy

  • Univ Maribor, Slovenia

*University of Bahrain

*University of Bucharest, Romania

  • University of Nis, Serbia

*Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

  • University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

*University of Tehran, Iran

*Sohag University, Egypt

*Eindhoven University of Technology, Benelux (2)

*University of Southampton, UKRI

  • Telecom Bretagne, France

*KU Leuven, Benelux (2)

*Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK), Lebanon

  • Klagenfurt University, Austria;

*Isfahan University of Technology, Iran

*King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (3)

  • University of Valencia, Spain

*Ss Cyril and Metodius University, Skopje, Macedonia

*Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran

*University of Applied Sciences Bielefel, Germany

*University of Technology and Economics Budapest, Hungary (2)

The first phase of the IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest – selection of the best five papers for Oral Finals – finished at the beginning of February 2016. During this phase the International Jury:

– Prof. Paul Micallef, Malta – Chair,

  • Prof. Samir Shaheen, Egypt,

– Prof. Andrzej Pacut, Poland,

– Prof. Mohamad Awad, Lebanon,

-Prof. Christos Schizas, Cyprus

anonymously graded all papers. The contributions were graded as follows:

– Written paper evaluation:

  • 45 points maximum for the technical and engineering content,
  • 25 points maximum for the paper content presentation.

Jury selected the following five papers (in alphabetical order of the first author’s first name) for the SPC 2016 Oral Finals:

A.J. Van den Biggelaar (91222905)  “A Fast, Flexible and Accurate Algorithm for Shaping the 3D Radiation Pattern of an  AAS”, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

Laszlo Pinter (93247672) Statistical Analysis of the Electrical Vehicle Chargers’ Impacts on the Low-voltage Distribution System”, University of Technology and Economics Budapest, Hungary

Marko Bizjak (93544587) The segmentation of a point cloud using locally fitted surfaces, University of Maribor, Slovenia

Serban Mihalache (92528080), Florin-Silviu Dumitru (93718008)  Current-Mode Capacitance Multiplier with Reduced Parasitic Elements , University of Bucharest, Rumania

Stefan Wunsch (93708480) Reducing the Processing Loss of Windowed Transforms using Linear Discriminant Analysis ”, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

The first phase of the IEEE R8 SPC – selection of the best five papers for Oral Finals – finished March  2016.

IEEE Region 8 SPC 2016 – II phase

ORAL FINALS, SELECTION OF WINNERS AND WINNERS ANNOUNCEMENT

 

The second phase of the Region 8 SPC 2016 – Oral Finals – was organized in Limassol, Cyprus  April 19, 2016, during the MELECON 2016 IEEE Conference.

The five finalists were examined on the technical presentation, their communication skills and their answers to the questions from the jury members and from the audience present at the presentation. The marks awarded by the jury members, out of a possible 30 marks, were added to the marks obtained in the first stage to obtain the final total.  The jury members had a further discussion on the results and agreed to the following.

The first three prizes awarded, from the IEEE Life Member Fund, were to:

 First Prize:  Certificate and 800 USD (cash award amount):

Stefan Wunsch (93708480) Reducing the Processing Loss of Windowed Transforms using Linear Discriminant Analysis ”, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Student Branch, from which the First Prize winner of the SPC 2016 came from, will receive the Region 8 “Dick Poortvliet Award”, an amount of USD 250;

Second Prize: Certificate and 500 USD (cash award amount):

A.J. Van den Biggelaar (91222905)  “A Fast, Flexible and Accurate Algorithm for Shaping the 3D Radiation Pattern of an  AAS”, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

Third Prize: Certificate  and 200 USD (cash award amount):

Serban Mihalache (92528080), Florin-Silviu Dumitru (93718008)  Current-Mode Capacitance Multiplier with Reduced Parasitic Elements , University of Bucharest, Rumania

The official award ceremony of SPC 2016 was organized during the MELECON 2016 Gala Dinner, April 19, 2016. IEEE Region 8 Director Costas Stasopoulos and SPC 2016 Coordinator Paul Micallef introduced all the SPC finalists, and the members of the Jury and announced the three winners. All finalists also obtained certificates that their papers were selected as the five best SPC 2016 papers.

All finalists papers were included in MELECON 2016 Proceedings and in IEEE Explore digital library.

Finalists and jury members

Award ceremony for SPC2016


IEEE R8 SAC Student Paper Contest 2016

This year’s IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest awards were held at Limassol Cyprus during Melecon 2016. From the original 29 submissions, the five finalists were Marko Bizjak from Slovenia , Serban Mihalache from Romania, Laszlo Pinter from Hungary , A.J. van den Biggelaar from the Netherlands and Stefan Wunsch from Germany.
After the oral presentation of the finalists, together with the marks given originally for the paper, the jury members chose the paper “Reducing the Processing Loss of Windowed Transforms Using Linear Discriminant Analysis” by Stefan Wunsch from the University of Karlsruhe as the winner.
Congratulations to Stefan, to the other finalists, and also to all the participants in the contest.

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Finalists and jury members

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Region 8 Director, Jury Members and Finalists at the award ceremony.


STUDENT PAPER CONTEST RESULTS 2016

The results of this year’s Student paper Contest are out. The five chosen finalists that will be presenting their papers at the Melecon 2016 conference, Limassol Cyprus on April 18, have been chosen by a five member jury.

These are :

Serban Mihalache, Florin-Silviu Dumitru, Current-Mode Capacitance Multiplier with Reduced Parasitic Elements, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania

Marko Bizjak, The segmentation of a point cloud using locally fitted surfaces, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

Laszlo Pinter, Statistical Analysis of the Electric Vehicle Chargers’ Impacts on the Low-voltage Distribution System, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary

A.J. van den Biggelaar,  A Fast, Flexible and Accurate Algorithm for Shaping the 3D Radiation Pattern of an AAS, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Stefan Wunsch, Reducing the Processing Loss of Windowed Transforms Using Linear Discriminant Analysis, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

 

While congratulating the authors of the five chosen papers, SAC thanks all participants in the SPC contest. There  were many other valid contributions but the jury members have to make a decision on which are the best from among all the papers presented.


Deadline Extended! IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest SPC 2016 – Final Call

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IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest  2016 Final call & Deadline Extension

INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE IN IEEE REGION 8 STUDENT PAPER CONTEST 2016

  All IEEE Region 8 Student Branches (SBs) are invited to participate in IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest 2016.

The deadline to send full student papers for the contest has been extended to December 15, 2015.

This is the final reminder for paper submission. Five papers will be chosen for presentation at MELECON 2016, April 18-20 2016, Limassol Cyprus.

The deadline to send full papers to IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest 2016 is extended to December 15, 2015. Submit paper to http://spc2016.exordo.com . You will be required to setup an account using an e-mail address and a password to allow you to
edit any of your input before the closing date. Papers submitted after the deadline will not be accepted.

For more information, PLEASE READ THE SHORT DIGEST ABOUT SPC IN THE ATTACHED FILE. (Link)

 

THE COMPLETE SPC RULES ARE ALSO ATTACHED (Link), AS WELL AS IEEE COPYRIGHT FORM (Link).


IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest SPC 2016 – First call

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INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE IN IEEE REGION 8 STUDENT PAPER CONTEST 2016
   
All IEEE Region 8 Student Branches (SBs) are invited to participate in IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest 2016.  
The deadline to send full student papers for the IEEE R8 SPC 2016 is December 1, 2015. 
FINALISTS’ PAPERS WILL BE PRESENTED DURING MELECON 2016, APRIL 18 – 20, 2016, LIMASSOL, CYPRUS
 
PLEASE READ THE SHORT DIGEST ABOUT SPC IN THE ATTACHED FILE. (Link)
 
THE COMPLETE SPC RULES ARE ALSO ATTACHED (Link), AS WELL AS IEEE COPYRIGHT FORM (Link).