2004 Regional Student Paper Contest Results

Region 1

First Place (Co-Authors)
Alan Chan & Vasilios Giannopoulos
Cooper Union
Paper Title:   The Car Sitter – A Non-Invasive Drowsiness Detection System

Second Place (Co-Authors)
Zhao Feng Mah & Alex Lorbert
Cooper Union
Paper Title:   A Phased Array Receiver

Third Place
Thomas A. Baron
Tufts University
Paper Title:  Transform Based Image Compression by Noise Reduction and Spatial Modification Using Boolean Minimization

Region 2

First Place (tie two papers)
Prashant Poddar
Lafayette College
Paper Title:  Optimization of Microwave/Optical Interaction in a Mode-Locked Microchip Laser

First Place (tie two papers)
Amy Vanderslice & Megan Moran (Co-Authors)
Rowan University
Paper Title:   Design and Fabrication of Three-Dimensional Structures for In-vitro Bone Cell Study

Third Place (co-Authors)
Leonardo Urbano & Jacob Warren
Drexel University
Paper Title:  Power Consumption of Mobile Devices in a MANET

Region 3

First Plac e
Tequilla Nicole Clayton
Christian Brothers University
Paper Title:   Network Protector Monitoring System for the Downtown Memphis Electric Network

Second Place (co-Authors)
Adje Mensah & Rebecca Hayman
University of Central Florida
Paper Title:   Analysis and Modeling of Solar Cells for Maximum Power Point Tracking Applications

Third Place (co-Authors)
Genevieve Hankins & Mennatoallah Youssef
Old Dominion University
Paper Title:  Electromagnetic Propagation Prediction for Wireless Networks Inside Aircraft Cabins

Region 4

First Place
Joseph Dalton
St Cloud State University
Paper Title:  Wireless MP3 System with Two Way Communication

Second Place
Grace Woo
University of Illinois – Urbana/Champaign
Paper Title:   Real-Time Monophonic Note Transcription

Third Place  
Aisha Yousuf
University of Michigan - Dearborn
Paper Title:   Intelligent Systems and Artificial Intelligence:  From Vision to Reality with Neural  Networks

Region 5  

First Place  
Colt McAnlis
Texas Christian University
Paper Title:  Software Rasterization for Improved Occlusion Culling

Second Place
David Faulk
Texas Tech University
Paper Title:  A Demonstration in Chaos Theory

Third Place  
Christopher Edwards
Texas Christian University
Paper Title:   Parameterized Approach to MEMS Gear Design

Region 6

First Place
Robert Lovejoy
University of Utah
Paper Title:  A Low Power Successive Approximation Analog to Digital Converter for Biomedical Applications

Second Place
Benajmin Egg
San Diego State University
Paper Title: Implementation of a Fully Digital FPGA Based, IF Sub-Sampled FM Receiver

Third Place
Joshua Tallman
University of the Pacific
Paper Title: Steganography - The Science of Hiding Information

Fourth Place
Erik Mentze
University of Idaho
Paper Title: High-Voltage I/O For Low Breakdown Voltage CMOS Processes

Region 7  

First Place West Area (Co-Authors)
Andrian Wang, Saad Rahim & Jong-Sook Iris Choi
University of Calgary
Paper Title:  The Self-Phasing Antenna Array Controller

Second Place Central Area (Co-Authors)
Chris Erickson, Jeffrey Cowan & Andrej Zlatanovic
Lakehead University
Paper Title:  Computer Based State Feedback Control of a Double Inverted Pendulum

Third Place East Area
Jacqueline O'Toole
Dalhousie University
Paper Title:  Underwater Acoustic Beacon

Region 8

First Place (co-Authors)
Antonin Descampe & Francois Devaux
Catholic University of Louvain
Paper Title:  A Flexible Line-Based JPEG2000 Decoder for Digital Cinema

Second Place
Biswa Sengupta
University of York
Paper Title:  Optimisation of Timing Properties in a Platform Independent Manner

Third Place (co-Authors)
Ahmed Abdelrahman Muhammad & George Isaac Aziz
Ain Shams University
Paper Title:  2D Single Mode Channel Waveguide and MMI Beam Splitter Fabrication and Characterization

Region 9

First Place
Rodrigo A. Carrasco Schmidt
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Paper Title:    Queen Bee” Genetic Optimization of an Heuristic Based Fuzzy Control Scheme for a Mobil Robot

Second Place
Alfeu J. Sguarezi Filho
Universidad Salvador-Bahia
Paper Title:  Utilizacao de um Controlador Vetorial Complexo

Third Place (co-Authors)
Javier Gonzalo Garcia & Pablo Ignacio Mercader
Universidad Nacional de la Plata
Paper Title:    Determinacion de la Orientacion de Vehiculos con Senales de GPS

 Region 10 Undergraduate

First Place  
Wei Chee Lim
National University of Singapore
Paper Title:  Channel Estimation and OFDM Synchronization in Multipath Fading

Second Place  
Chiu Leung
City University of Hong Kong
Paper Title:  A New Ring Hybrid Mixer Design Using TS-CMRC Circuitry with Very Low-Conversion Loss and Excellent Linearity Response

Third Place (Co-Authors)

Raymond Hiu Wai Lam,Davey Fong Tik Wai & Chi Yin Wong
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Paper Title:  A Low-Power Motion Sensing for Sports Science Applications

Region 10 Postgraduate

First Place
Yum Tsz Yin
City University of Hong Kong
Paper Title:    Quasi-Lumped Compact Microstrip Resonent Cells (CMRCs) and its Application for High-Performance Microwave Communication Subsystem

Second Place
Li Chen
National University of Singapore
Paper Title:  Optimum Target Design for Digital Magnetic Recording Channels

Third Place
Chin Wee Yak
National University of Singapore
Paper Title:  Reduced Complexity Viterbi Detector for Perpendicular Recording Channels