2002 Regional Student Paper Contest Results

Region 1

First Place 
Tauseef A Ansari
The Cooper Union
Paper Title:   Microphone Array for the location of an Audio Source in a Single Source Environment Using Phase Delay

 Second Place (co-authors)
Shou Mai Chan, Smrita Gupta, Chun Hao Wang and Zheng Xu
The Cooper Union
Paper Title:   A Wireless Remote Storage System

 Third Place (co-authors)
Gregory Barber, William J Bruggeman and John D Cunnngham
United States Military Academy – West Point
Paper Title:  Harmonically Mode Locked 10 Gb/s, Fiber Soliton Laser for Analog-to-Digital Conversion Applications

Region 2

First Place (co-authors)
Aniket Hirebet and Vasileios T Nasis
Drexel University
Paper Title:  Elimination of Clutter Through Signal Processing for Landmine Detection

Second Place
Joshua S Petko
Pennsylvania State University
Paper Title:   3-D Fractal Tree End-Loaded Miniature Dipole Antenna Design

Third Place 
Aditya P Chaubal
Rowan University
Paper Title:   Design of Customizable Low Cost Digital Storage Oscilloscope

Region 3 

First Place
Matthew R Brooks
Virginia Military Institute
Paper Title:   Catheter Pressure Sensor for Stent Placement

Second Place
Karla Conn
University of Kentucky
Paper Title:   Finger Mouse and Test-To-Speech Application as Additions to the Smart Wheelchair

Third Place
Alan S Brannon
Clemson University
Paper Title:  The Electronic Ballboy:  A Reactive Visually Guided Mobile Robot for the Tennis Court

Region 4

First Place
Akshay Naheta
University of Illinois-Urbana
Paper Title:  Identification of Maximum Likelihood Fault Sets in Networked Systems

Second Place
Parmoon Seddighrad
Michigan State University
Paper Title:  A 900 Mhz Low Power CMOS Frequency Synthesizer using AMI 0.5um Technology

Third Place
K Ali Mirza
Wayne State University
Paper Title:  Characterization of Multi-junction Solar Cells in Stratosphere

Region 5

First Place (co-authors)
Travis Plummer and Bharath Parthasarathy
University of Kansas
Paper Title:   Target Simulation for Internal Layers of Greenland Ice Sheet

Second Place
Jennifer Price
University of Oklahoma
Paper Title:  Design and Implementation of a Cordless Voice Over IP Phone

Third Place
Michael Silverman
Tulane University
Paper Title:  A Wind Shift Detection System

Region 6

First Place
Rory Sorenson
University of Utah
Paper Title:   Development of Wire Interconnect Models at Millimeter Wave Frequencies

Second Place
John Cadwell, Jr.
Gonzaga University
Paper Title:   Microcontroller for an Elastomer Dispensing System

Third Place (tie two papers)
Vivek Farias
University of Arizona
Paper Title:   A 2D Simulation of the Crystallization Process in the Presence of Impurities

Third Place (tie two papers)
Sunny Fugate
University of Nevada, Reno
Paper Title:   A GPS-Based Navigation System for the Visually Impared

Region 7

First Place Western Canada
Jeff M Sill
University of Victoria
Paper Title:  Experimental Verification of Microwave Detection of Breast Cancer

First Place Central Canada
Stephen J McGilvray
Lakehead University
Paper Title:  Self-Erecting Inverted Pendulum:  Swing Up and Stabilization Control

First Place Eastern Canada (co-authors)
Dominik Pudo and Kahn Li Lim
McGill University
Paper Title:  Wavelength-Switchable, Dual Wavelength Erbium-Doped Mode-Locked Fiber Laser               

Region 8

First Place (co-authors)
Hans B Roelofs and Jeroen A J Thijs
University of Twente
Paper Title:  Performance and Cellular Capacity of M-ary PSK in Co-Channel Interference

Second Place
Matej Artac
University of Ljubljana
Paper Title:  Mobile Robot Localisation with Incremental PCA

Third Place
Saurabh Sinha
University of Pretoria
Paper Title:  Design of an Integrated CMOS PLL Frequency Synthesizer

Region 9

First Place (co-authors)
Juan C Montero and Mauricio V Arquello
Universidad de Costa Rica
Paper Title: Optimizacion de la Interconexion de Cogeneradores en Paralelo

Second Place
Marcio V De Lacerda
Universidad Federal de Juiz De Fora
Paper Title:  A New Control Scheme for a Static Synchronous Series Compensator Based on Instantaneous P-Q Power Theory

Third Place
Marco A Briceno
Universidad Simon Bolivar Venezuela
Paper Title:  Reliability Analysis of the Venezuelan Metropolitan Area Using Monte Carlo Techniques

Region 10 Undergraduate

First Place - Undergraduate
Gaurav Gupta
Indian Institute of Technology - Roorkee
Paper Title: Dynamic Distance-Based Mobility Management for PCS Network:  A Profile-Based Approach

Second Place - Undergraduate
Rodney Chung Kuoh Hua
National University of Singapore
Paper Title:  Detection and Tracking of Faces in Real-Time Environment

Third Place - Undergraduate
Chuen Yang Lee
National University of Singapore
Paper Title:  Reconstruction Algorithm for Nouniform SubNyquist Sampling

Region 10 Postgraduate

First Place - Postgraduate
Yang Gao
Nanyang Technological University
Paper Title: Online Identification and Control of Nonlinear Systems using Generalized Fuzzy Neural Networks

Second Place - Postgraduate
Yang Yang
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Paper Title: Maximally Flexible Assignment of Arthogonal Variable-Spreading-Factor Codes for Multi-Rate Traffic

Third Place - Postgraduate
Chirag Shah
Indian Institute of Technology - Madras
Paper Title: Automatic Organization of Text Documents in Categories Using Self-Organizing Map