The 2000 IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest received 20 papers from 11 Student Branches in 8 countries:
- Egypt, Cairo
- Germany, Bochum
- Iran, Tehran (3)
- Iran, Tehran – Amir Kabir (3)
- Iran, Tehran – Sharif (3)
- Israel, Haifa
- Netherlands, Eindhoven (3)
- Slovenia, Ljubljana
- Slovenia, Maribor
- South-Africa, Pretoria (2)
- Spain, Madrid
The oral finals took place in Limassol, Cyprus, on 30 May 2000, as part of MELECON 2000, the 10th Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference (29-31 May 2000).
The three winners were:
- Ales Bardorfer (Ljubljana, Slovenia) Connecting haptic interface with a robot
- Allert van Zelst (Eindhoven, Netherlands) Extending the capacity of wireless LANs using space division multiplexing combined with OFDM
- Christian Gunselmann (Bochum, Germany) A contribution to the modeling of short channel MOSFETs for HF circuit simulations
The other three papers selected for the oral finals were:
- Ahmed Nabil Mohamed Al-Zeftawi, Khaled Mahmoud Abd El-Fattah, Hyman Nabil Hussien Shanan, Tarek Salah Eddeen Mohammad Kamel (Cairo, Egypt) CMOS mixed digital/analog reconfigurable neural network with Gaussian synapses
- Alfons W. Bogalecki (Pretoria, South-Africa) Design of a waveguide-based opto-electronic integrated circuit in silicon CMOS technology
- Nader Motee (Tehran – Sharif, Iran) Design parameters selection in the multimodel adaptive control
The five jury members were:
- Martin Bastiaans, Eindhoven, Netherlands, IEEE R8 SPC coordinator.
- Jordan Kolev, Varna, Bulgaria
- Javier Macías-Guarasa, Madrid, Spain
- Gregory Malliotis, Cyprus
- Kurt Richter, Graz, Austria