2003 Regional Student Paper Contest Results

Region 1  

First Place 
Jill Anderson
Boston University
Paper Title:   Conceptual Design of Solar Powered Desalination using Parabolic Mirrors

 Second Place
Thomas Baran
Tufts University
Paper Title:   The Applications of Logical Transforms to Lossless Image Compression using Boolean Minimization

 Third Place
John Murch
University of Vermont
Paper Title:   Near Ground Propagation Measurements at 2.4 GHz

 Region 2

First Place    
Stefan Krause
Rowan University
Paper Title:   An Ensemble of Classifiers Approach for the Missing Feature Problem

Second Place (tie two papers)  
Andrew Ellis
DeVry University
Paper Title:   Simplified Houseboat Docking

  Second Place (tie two papers)
Richard Primerano
Drexel University
Paper Title:   Improved Rectilinear Motion in Robotic Snakes

Third Place (co-authors)  
Michael Y. Tu & Yue Li
Swarthmore College
Paper Title:   Fighting Corrupt Speech:  Reduction of Background Noise in Recorded Speech

Region 3

First Place
Lisa Lavie
Christian Brothers University
Paper Title:   Electrical Safety for an Offshore Power System

Second Place
Brian Greskamp
Clemson University
Paper Title:    A Java Virtual Machine for Reconfigurable Computing

Third Place
Derek Rahn
University of Kentucky
Paper Title:   Custom Design of a High-Fidelity Hearing Aid

Region 4

First Place (Co-Authors)
Colin Hanson, Michael Meemken
St Cloud State University
Paper Title:    Semi-Intelligent Maze-Breaking Automation (S.I.M.B.A.)

Second Place  
Eldon Nelson
University of Minnesota
Paper Title:  Designing a DMA Controller for the Motorola 68HC12 Microcontroller

Third Place  
Shakil Hossain
Western Michigan University
Paper Title:     Metal Oxide Based Electronic Nose

Region 5

First Place
Navid Pourtaheri
Tulane University
Paper Title:   1-D Blood Vessel Modeling:  Vessel Area and Flow Rate Control

Second Place
Kelly Bott
University of Wyoming
Paper Title:  Non-Invasive Infant Resiratio and Temperature Monitor

Third Place
Kelly D. Redding
Texas Tech University
Paper Title:   Liquid Level Sensing System

Region 6

First Place  
Galen Hatfield
University of Alaska
Paper Title:   Design of a Future Technology USB Enabled Development System

Second Place
Nate Stutzke
Boise State University
Paper Title:  Modeling of Stressed Simple Integrated Circuit Building Blocks on ICs

Region 7

First Place Western Canada Council (co-authors)
Ryan M. Tourigny & Michael A. Jaspar & John M. Anderson
University of Saskatchewan
Paper Title:       UV Monitor System

Central Canada Council
James Gaston
Ryerson University
Paper Title:    A Swarm of Collaborative Autonomous Robots

Eastern Canada Council
Bhavin J. Shahstri
McGill University
Paper Title:    Face Detection Using Skin Colour

Region 8

First Place (co-Authors)
Ulrich Stein and Marwan Younis
Universitaet Karlsruhe
Paper Title:    Suppression of Range Ambiguities in Synthetic Aperture Radar Systems

Second Place
Els Kok
Universiteit Twente
Paper Title:    Completely Multimode Arrayed Waveguide Grating-Based Wavelength Demultiplexer

Third Place
Noha A. El-Yamany
Alexandria University
Paper Title:   A New Fuzzy Gradient-Adaptive Lossy Predictive Coding System for Still Image Compression

 Region 9

First Place (co-Authors)
Henry Antonio Roncancio Velandia and Hugo Fernando Velasco Pena
Universidad Distrital Francisco Jose de Caldas
Paper Title:   Wood Microanatomy Study Based on Multiscale Image Segmentation

Second Place (co-Authors)
Leonardo B. Oliveira and Isabela G. Siquieira
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Paper Title:    Evaluation of Ad Hoc Routing Protocols Under a Peer to Peer Application

Third Place
Andres Eduardo Gaona Barrera
Universidad Distrital Francisco Jose de Caldas
Paper Title:    New Topology Design for Hardware Implementation of Fast Speed Fuzzy Inference Systems

 Region 10 Undergraduate

First Place
Mukundan Venkataram
Goldent Valley Institute of Technology
Paper Title:   On a TCP-Friendly Linear Congestion Control Algorithm for Real Time Streaming Applications

Second Place
Tak Sing Wong
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Paper Title:   Bundled Carbon Nanotubes as Electric Circuit and Sensing Element

Third Place
Lau Yiu Kee
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Paper Title:   Development and Control of a Smart Damper for a Prototype Building

Region 10 Postgraduate

First Place
Shengyong Chen
City University of Hong Kong
Paper Title:        Perception Planning for Model-Based Robot Vision

Second Place- (Co-Authors)
Parastoo Sadeghi and Vladimir Trajkovic
University of New South Wales
Paper Title:        A Novel Method for Receiver Training in Flat Fading Channels Modeled as Finite State Markov Processes

Third Place
Min Chee Chou
National University of Singapore
Paper Title:        Cooperative, Hubrid Agent Architecture for Real-Time Traffic Signal Control