The Spring 2008 Student Presentation Contest is coming up!! The North Jersey Section will be holding presentation contests scheduled for March 25 for undergraduate students and on March 27 for graduate students. This contest has been held in years past. Its overwhelming success in generating student participation and interest make it a fantastic event for up and coming engineers. This year's contest will feature similar prizes ($$$) and have graduate and undergraduate categories.
The main focus of the presentation contest is to give students an opportunity to sharpen their communication skills, and help prepare for real life situations as practicing engineers and researchers. Additionally, the North Jersey Section contest provides an excellent chance for students to practice for the Region I Student Paper contest in the spring.
The contest at the North Jersey Section level is also supplemented by awarding cash prizes to the three best presentations in both graduate and undergradudate categories. All engineering students are encouraged to participate in submitting team or individual presentations on any project work RELATED to engineering. This LOCAL contest does NOT require students to write a full paper, just a slide-based presentation on technical or non-technical work is sufficient. Senior design projets, lab projects, personal engineering hobbies, engineering policy etc. are great topics to submit. Moving onto the regional contest requires submitting a short written paper.
The details of contest RULES, JUDGING criteria, viable TOPICS for presentations, and ABSTRACT FORM WILL BE SAME AS LST YEAR. Also, if you would like to get an idea of what topics would be appropriate or how you can prepare your abstract, take a look at winners from pst years at the NNJ IEE SAC homepage archive.
This year's North Jersey Section Contest will be open to graduate and undergraduate students and first/second/third place prizes will be awarded in each category of $100/$75/$50. All participants MUST REGISTER by submitting an abstract by filling in the form available at the SAC website to qualify as a contest participant.
Welcome back to the beginning of a new year of student activities for the North Jersey Section. This year promises to be filled with new activities and events. We hope you and your student branches will be participating in all of these events throughout the 2007-2008 academic year. Also, since the year is just getting started, it is a good time for a refresher on what your branch must be doing to be recognized by the IEEE. Information about IEEE, student branch bylaws and forms to fill out is available on the website given below.
My name is Russell Pepe, and I plan to Chair the Student Activities Committee (SAC) again this year. You can reach me at the following e-mail address: northjerseysac@ieee.org. I met several of you last year at and look forward to working with all of you during the upcoming school year.
To start off with, if you have not had elections yet, it would be a good idea to hold them and report to IEEE with the officer election form. Also, coming up is a leadership workshop that new (or potentially new) officers can attend to get essential training on running a branch. Your branch should fill out an annual plan of events in the fall and an annual report in the spring. Part of the reporting is on membership, which qualifies the branch for per member rebates. It's free money for turning in the right forms by the right time. Speaking of money, your branch should also plan fundraisers for basic expenses. If you really want to get started right, host one of these leadership workshops to learn the basics. Contact the organizer below. So what's happening this year? Lots of things!! Details of the event's exact location, date, time, directions, and registration will become available on the SAC website below. Free Student Leadership Training Workshops in and Professional Skills Development Workshop will start up in the fall. Instead of just holding single workshops, multiple individual workshops will be held at each university who wishes to receive formal training at their local branch for this and upcoming year's students. This holds true for both the leadership and professional skills training. If you would like to host these events then contact the organizer below. The annual Paper Presentation Contest is also planned for mid February/early March. This is a chance for students to showcase their hard work on different projects worked on during the year. It is open to both graduate and undergraduate students.
Last, but not least, the SAC and GOLD committees are looking for volunteers who might be graduating soon and would like to help out in the North Jersey Section. To find out how you can help, contact northjerseysac@ieee.org , and visit the new website at http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/north_jersey/sac. You will find the latest information updated there or you can also join the mailing list to get regular reminders of different events.
This year, we want to bring the leadership workshop to your branch and hold it individually at your school ! The leadership workshop is a great way to educate your branch members on some of the details of IEEE, their roles as students in IEEE, what is happening in the section and region, how they can get involved, and most importantly, training for new officers that were just elected or will be elected in the future.
If you would like to hold one at your branch, just contact the organizer at northjerseysac "AT" ieee "DOT" org and we can make arrangments to hold a free workshop at an appropriate date and time.
northjerseysac "AT" ieee "DOT" org
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