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. This year's regional contest will be held the weekend of April 27th 2001 at Syracuse University, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
The contest at the North Jersey Section level is also supplemented by awarding cash prizes to the three best presentations in both graduate and undergrad 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 projects, 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 last 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 past years at the NNJ IEEE SAC homepage.
Any and all questions can be emailed to the contest organizer, NNJ SAC, at northjerseysac AT ieee DOT org and check out the website: http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/north_jersey/sac