2000 Regional Student Paper Contest Results

Region 1

First Place (co-authors)
Matthew Foster and Nader Zaki
The Cooper Union
Paper Title: PSI Optik

Second Place (co-authors)
Wesley Hertlein and Michael Horowitz
The Cooper Union
Paper Title:A CDMA System Utilizing Adaptive Modulation

Third Place (co-authors)
Serhend Arvas and Echeruo Ifeanyi
Syracuse University
Paper Title: IRIS 61 A 3D Ranging System

Region 2

First Place (co-authors)
Matthew Foster and Nader Zaki
The Cooper Union
"PSI Optik

Second Place (co-authors)
James De Furia and Amol Shah
Rowan University
Paper Title: The Guardian ANJEL: Automated New Jersey Emergency Locator

Third Place
Stephen Wrazien
University of Scranton
Paper Title: Design and Implementation of an Autonomous Robot

Region 3

First Place
Mike Lockard
Clemson University
Paper Title: Magnetic Fields and Forces in a Three Phase Catenary Power Line System

Second Place
Ronald W Bentley
Old Dominion University
Paper Title: Measuring Temperature and Strain with Fiber Bragg Gratings

Third Place
Matthew J Inman
The University of Mississippi
Paper Title: An Evaluation of Key Interval Measurement By Macromedia Authorware

Region 4

First Place
Jared Mornose
St. Cloud State University
Paper Title: The AuralShapeShifter

Second Place
Kristin Dawn Kellogg
Purdue University-West Lafayette
Paper Title: Global Vehicle Communications

Region 5

First Place
Eric Flattem
Tulane University
Paper Title: Sub-Surface Target Acquisition and Identification

Second Place
Virgil Zeterlind
University of Missouri - Rolla
Paper Title: Fiber-Optic Strain Sensing in a Carbon-Graphite Plate

Third Place (co-authors)
Stephen Robertson, Brandon Hombs and Jacob Haskew
Oklahoma Christian University
Paper Title: The Functionality of CDMA Modems

Region 6

First Place
Bryan R Parks
Gonzaga University
Paper Title: Design of a Standard Phase Noise Test Source

Second Place
Monica Harrison
San Francisco State University
Paper Title: Radiated Field Coupling onto Antennas & into slotted Enclosures

Third Place
Lawrence Tafoya Jr
New Mexico Highlands University
Paper Title: Implementation of an Adaptive Delta Modulator using Fuzzy Logic

Region 7

Eastern Canada Council Life Members Award
Shawn Nicholl
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Paper Title: FPGA Implementation of ATM Internet Traffic Handling Algorithm

Central Canada Council Life Members Award
Paul Westergaard and Tony Pialis
University of Toronto
Paper Title: A 1.6 Gbps Digital Data Recovery Receiver for Flat Panel Displays

Western Canada Council Life Members Award
Remi Beaudin and Jeff Leinweber (co-authors)
Red River College
Paper Title: An Automated Process Using a Positioning Table and Drill

Region 8

First Place
Ales Bardorger
University of Ljubljana
Paper Title: Connecting Haptic Interface with a Robot

Second Place
Allert Van Zelst
Eindhoven University of Technology
Paper Title: Extending the Capacity of Wireless LANs Using Space Division Multiplexing Combined with OFDM

Third Place
Christian Gunselmann
Ruhr Universitat Bochum
Paper Title: A contribution to the modeling of short channel MOSFETs for HF circuit simulations

Region 9

Results not available

Region 10 1999 Results

First Place - Undergraduate
Lee Jek Chong Gary
National University of Singapore
Paper Title: Study and Characterization of Near-field Phase-change Optical Disk Media

Second Place - Undergraduate
Sai-Yuen Leung
University of Hong Kong
Paper Title: Analysis of Photon Capturing in Light Emitting diode with different surfaces

Third Place - Undergraduate
Zhao Fang
National University of Singapore
Paper Title: Techniques for Minimizing Error Propagation in DFE Read Channels

First Place Postgraduate
Chi Lun
City University of Hong Kong
Paper Title: Wideband L-Probe Proximity-Fed Microstrip Patch Antenna

Second Place - Postgraduate
Seung-Chul Lee
Sogang University
Paper Title: Acquisition-Time Minimization and Merged-Capacitor Switching Techniques for Sampling-Rate and Resolution Improvement of CMOS ADCs

Third Place - Postgraduate
Xiao-Kang Kang
National University of Singapore
Paper Title: Electromagnetic Dyadic Green s Functions in Spectral Domain for Multi-layered Spheroidal Structures: I-Dyadic Formulation