IEEE Region2 SAC: Student Competition

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IEEE Region-2 SACStudent Competition

• Dr. Savas Kaya

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OUTLINE

• IEEE Region-2
• Aims
• Activities
• Student Competition
• Background
• Scope
• 2003 Competition Details
• SAC_at_OU.EDU
• Robot Team
• Empty Seats

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Region 2 Map
http//www.ewh.ieee.org/reg/2/
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Region 2 Sections

• Ohio Area
• Ohio, West Virginia
• Maryland Area Sections
• Maryland, Delaware
• Pennsylvania Area Sections
• Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey, Eastern Ohio
• South Area
• Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia,

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Region 2 PACE and SAC

• PACE Professional Activities Committee for
  Engineers
• Technical and Professional Activities
• Education Activities
• SAC Student Activities Committee
• Focusing on Education and Career
• Precollege Education
• Career Development
• SAC Student Competitions
• Publishes a newsletter

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SAC Competitions

• Annual SAC Student Competition
• Challenges in
• Hardware design
• Software development
• Academic skills
• Others
• Web-Site Design Competitions
• Representations in US-wide events
• http//www.ems.wvu.edu/region2sac/

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Annual SAC Competition

• Main SAC event
• Goes around Region-2 members
• Hosted by seecs_at_ohio.edu in 2000
• 2001 Penn State in Harrisburg, PA
• 2002 University of Scranton, PA
• 2003 University of Maryland, Eastern Shore
• 2003 Cleavland State University, OH
• Has several parts to it
• Hardware (Robot) competition
• Paper Contest Leadership Training
• Project Showcase first time this year.
• Expenses are met by Region-2 SAC
• cap for travel and meals

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Hardware Competition

• Emphasis in
• problem solving
• engineering economics
• software-hardware design trade-offs
• Task Design of an autonomous robot
• To collect maximum points (balls) in an arena
• In minimum time primary criterion
• Using cheapest hardware secondary criterion
• Eliminating others in a tournament contest
• Several tiers depending of teams
• Total budget of 500

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Robot Competition Rules I

• Arena 8?8 plywood
• Black background
• White gridlines
• Central pit pole (red)
• Home bases (red)
• Collection bins (yellow)
• Balls to collect
• 1 brass ball 20 points
• Atop central pole
• 9 steel balls 2 points
• Randomly placed
• Mapped out for the teams before each round
• 9 plastic balls -4 points
• Randomly placed
• Intended to complicate the task

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Arena Photo
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Robot Competition Rules II

• Eight-minute rounds
• 15-minute lead time for the ball maps
• 30-second hands-off period before go signal
• Must start from home base
• Bonus points
• 20 points for getting back to home base
• 20 points for cheapest robots
• Tournament
• Five rounds in total
• The first is heat round for seed qualification
• All others head-to-head rounds with an opponent
• Final 8 teams are selected from seeds at round 3
• 500 for the winner
• 300 for the runner-up and 200 for the third

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Robot Competition 2002

• OU was runner-up
• Team members
• Charles Toth
• Steve Manalac
• Chris Kovatch
• Tim Bevacqua
• Ian Barton
• Lost to Geneva College

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Robot Competition 2003

• A New team
• Junior and Senior students ??????????
• Experience of EE395 track needed
• Upgrade on last years design
• Aim pick up the brass ball
• 20 points extra each round
• Only one time attempted last year
• And improve the robustness and calibration
• Or start from the scratch A new Robot

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Paper Contest General

• Objective
• Exercise and improve both written and verbal
  communication skills
• Promote awareness of presentation skills
• Eligibility Contestants must be
• IEEE members
• Exemption for non-presenting co-authors
• UG students in a Region-2 institution
• Entries
• One entry per local branch in Region-2
• Winners of the local branch competition
• Prizes and Recognition
• Winner 800, Runner-up 500, Third 300
• Equally shared among co-authors

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Paper Contest Scope

• Subject matter
• May cover
• technical, engineering, management, or societal
  aspects of students major or minor study area
• Can include summer internships, hobbies, course
  works, lab reports, etc.
• Originality and high-tech content not necessary
• Primary function of the contest is to improve the
  students communication skills.
• But students contribution to work must be
  clarified
• Presentation
• Written submitted to the judges
• Oral open to all participants and the judges

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Paper Contest Presentation

• Format for the written paper
• Max 15-page, max 20-page Appendix
• Typewritten double-spaced, one-sided, letter
  paper
• For details see the web page
• www.ewh.ieee.org/reg/2/r2sac/papercontestrules2003
  .htm
• Main sections
• Removable Flyleaf, Title, ToC, Abstract,
  Introduction, Body, Conclusion, Tables, Figures,
  Appendices, References
• Oral presentation
• 15-minute talk with audio-visual aids
• Warning signals for help
• No demos or display apparatus
• 5-minute questions
• 10-minute gaps for evaluation between talks

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Paper Contest Evaluation

• 5-to-7 Judges
• May take part in both written and oral evaluation
• 20 equally weighted judging criteria
• 65 deals with written and verbal skills
• Each criterion graded over 1-10 scale
• Division in grading
• 55 Written Presentation
• Format 35
• Subject Matter 20
• 45 Oral Presentation
• Format 30
• Subject Matter 15

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Project Showcase

• First time held in 2003
• Aim
• To allow students a less restricted or structured
  format to present their
• interesting projects
• designs (other than a robot)
• Prize and Recognition
• IEEE certificate and a plaque for top three
• No monetary prize announced
• May happen though depending on budget

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Empty Seats

• So far OU has no representatives this year
• Hardware design
• Paper contest
• Project showcase
• We are missing chance for a good
• Competition experience
• Fun and challenge
• Good for your resume
• Nice weekend with
• Hotel, meals, trip, friends
• Going with the ECCS Van
• 15-seater can fit three teams