IEEE Region 6, Southwest Area Meeting
and
Student Paper
Contest Was Held
Meeting Report
follows:
I want to
congratulate the winners of the IEEE Region 6,
Southwest Area
Student Paper Contest held April 13, 2002
at DeVry University
in Phoenix. I also want to congratulate
the other paper
contestant because your papers and
presentations were
all top notched.
The competition was
very close. We had 10 extremely great
papers. The judging
was extremely close. However, the judges
concluded only one
1st, one 2nd, and one 3rd place paper.
To give you an idea
how close the vote count was, there were
9 judges and the
first vote had 6 papers ranked in first place.
Out of 200 hundred
points the point spread between first and
last place was only about 20 points , that is
a credit to all
of the participants.
Winning papers
include:
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1st Place Vivek
Farias University of Arizona
Paper Titled:
"A 2D
Simulation of The Crystallization Process in The
Presence of
Impurities"
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2nd Place Joe
Burnside, DeVry University
Paper Titled:
"Microprocessor
Controlled Driver Convenience Center"
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3rd Place: David
Mix, ASU Main
Paper Titled:
"System and
Software Design, Development, Integration
and Test for a
Tilt-Wing Rotorcraft",
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After the paper
content we had a student meeting and a section
officers meeting.
The students made the decision to have the
October area
meeting at New Mexico Tech. So we'll see you then.
The exact date will
be decided within a few weeks. The October
meeting will
include the Student Leadership Training and section
officers meeting.
Exact date is TBD but please put October 5th
as a possible date.
Sincerely
Robert N. Smith
IEEE Region 6,
Southwest Area Chairman
P.S:
Other papers
included:
Rasheed Behrooznia,
"Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum: DS/SS,"
University of San
Diego
Christian N. Ayerh,
"Peak Power Tracker for
Low-Earth-Orbit
Satellite Applications," ASU East
Tiffany Silva,
Rebecca Martinez, Yan Lu, and Mehdi Etezadi,
"Stability Studies
for an Actual Laboratory System
Using Fussy
Control," University of New Mexico
Steven Bidermann,
"The Benchtop NMR Kit:
An analog mixing
board," University of California, San Diego
Randy McAnally,
"Discrete Audio Frequency Amplifier
Design," San
Diego State University
Gregory Baker,
"A Bright Future: Gallium Nitride based
LEDs and Laser
Diodes," University of Nevada at Las Vegas
Lawrence Tafoya and
Natalie Salazar,
"Microprocessor
- Based Frequency Measurement," New Mexico
Highland University
End of Report.
Date: April 13, 2002
Papers Due April 4, 2002.
Mail your papers to the IEEE Region 6, Southwest
Area Student Activities Chair.
Don Cottrell
E-mail: doncottrell@ieee.org
Location: DeVry
Institute, Phoenix, AZ
Map: http://www.devry-phx.edu/local/maps/mapto.asp
Guide lines for paper contest: http://www.ee.byu.edu/~mdr/r6sac/SPCguidelines.html
Who should attend from IEEE Region 6
Southwest Area:
San Diego, Southern
Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico:
One Section
Officer,
One Faculty
Adviser,
One Student Branch
Office,
One paper presenter
per Student Branch, and
One paper presenter
per Student Branch Society Chapter.
Air transportation:
If you can,
please fly in on Saturday morning and out that after noon to conserve IEEE
funds:
Hotel: Let
the person taking your reservation know you are with IEEE and DeVry meeting.
HomeStead
Studio Suites Hotel
2102
West Dunlap Avenue (just across the street from DeVry)
Phoenix,
AZ 85021
Phone:
602-944-7828
FAX:
602-944-7831
or email reservations to
mgr-dlp@homesteadhotels.com
Map:
About 15 miles from Airport (we will make
arrangement s to pick you up from the Airport)
Please let r.n.smith@ieee.org know your
flight number and time of arrival and we will make arrangements to pick you up.
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Contact:
Don Cottrell:
480-727-1029(office), 480-951-0734 (home), doncottrell@ieee.org
Robert N. Smith:
480-441-7205(office), 480-892-1789(home), pager 1-877-669-2025 (free anywhere),
r.n.smith@ieee.org
IEEE Region 6, Southwest Area Meeting
Agenda (Saturday, April <TBD>, 2002):
8:00 - 9:00 am Registration and Breakfast
9:00 - 9:15 am Welcome by DeVry Officials, and Student Branch Chair
9:15 - 9:30 am IEEE Region 6 Comments
9:30 am - 12:15 pm Student Branch Paper Contest
http://www.ee.byu.edu/~mdr/r6sac/SPCguidelines.html
12:15 - 1:15 pm Lunch and Presentation of Awards
1:30 - 2:30 pm Tour of Dept./Campus Facilities
2:30 - 3:45 pm Section and Student Branch Parallel Meetings
Round Table Format
3:45 - 4:15 pm Wrap-up Session and Distribution of Travel
Reimbursement Forms
4:30pm and 5:00pm and 5:30pm Transportation to Airport
Paper
Contest Awards:
1st Place:
$500.00 and all expense trip to present paper at WESCON
2nd Place: $300.00
3rd Place: $200.00
Food:
Continental
breakfast is provided at DeVry Saturday morning.
Lunch Saturday
will be provided by DeVry:
For questions regarding this web page please contact Robert N. Smith at r.n.smith@ieee.org
Last Date Modified: Jan 26, 2002