Student Paper Contest   

Phoenix Section Student Paper Contest 2012

The IEEE Student Paper Contest offers the undergraduate IEEE Student member opportunities to exercise and improve both written and verbal communication skills.  Throughout an engineer's career, (s)he will be constantly called upon to communicate ideas to others. Researching, writing, and presenting a paper provides a student with invaluable early experience in expressing ideas related to engineering. Since the paper contest primary function is to improve the engineering student's communicative skills, no student should be discouraged from entering the contest due to a false requirement of technical sophistication.

This undergraduate student paper contest consists of a written paper and an oral presentation. The written paper should comply with the IEEE Regional Student Paper Contest Guidelines (PDF). Briefly, the type-written papers are 15 pages maximum, double-spaced with 12-pt font. The written paper, as either an MS Word or an Adobe PDF file, should be emailed to sdianesmith@computer.org by 6 p.m. on March 3, 2012.

The oral presentations are 15 minutes plus a 5-minute question & answer period. The oral portion of the contest will be held the morning of Saturday, March 17, 2012. A computer with projector will be provided for the contestants to use, since PowerPoint slides are the recommended approach.

The local cash awards for the paper contest winners are (1) First Place – $300, (2) Second Place – $200, and (3) Third Place – $100. The five judges are local IEEE members, often IEEE Senior Members or IEEE Fellows.

The top entrant from each local Student Branch is eligible to present their paper to the IEEE Region 6 Southwest Area contest to be held May 5, 2012, in San Diego, CA, with the chance to advance to the IEEE Region 6 (western United States) contest in the fall.

The winner of the 2010 IEEE Phoenix Section Student Paper Contest was Elijah Brown from Embry-Riddle for the paper entitled A Detection System for the Naval Space Surveillance Radar Transmitters. Elijah went on to take third place at the 2010 IEEE Region 6 Southwest Area Student Paper Contest, picking up another cash prize. Congratulations!

If you have any questions, please contact:

Dr. S. Diane Smith
IEEE Phoenix Section
Student Activities Chair
E-mail: sdianesmith@computer.org