North Jersey Spring 2002 Student Presentation Contest

The new spring-02 student presentation contest is coming up !!
The North Jersey Section will be holding a presentation contest 
scheduled for late-February or early-March of 2002.  
This contest has been held in years
past and its overwhelming success in generating student 
participation and interest make it an fantastic event for
up and coming engineers.  This year's contest will feature
similar prizes ($$$) and have graduate and undergrad 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 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 in
the archive section.

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.
The exact date and time will be announced at they become
available.  All participants MUST submit an abstract by filling
in the form available at the SAC website 
to qualify as a contest participant.  

Any and all questions can be emailed to the contest organizer,
northjerseysac AT ieee.org and check out the website:
http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/north_jersey/sac