News from IEEE CPMT SBC Politehnica University of Bucharest

and Hu&Ro Joint Chapter

Students from Student Branch Chapter of Politehnica University of Bucharest participated with great success at the 27th International Spring Seminar on Electronics Technology, 13-16, May, 2004, in Sofia, Bulgaria.
The four posters, made by students, presented at the Poster Session, covered many areas of interest: Complex Evaluation of SMT Defects, Some Aspects of Crosstalk for Different Electronic Modules, Finite State Machines and their Applications in Software for Industrial Control, Remote Access Solutions for Industrial Control Systems. For the students, this was the first participation to an international conference.

Student Camelia Popescu from Politehnica University of Bucharest presenting her two posters to the Poster Session Chair: Dr. Pavel Mach and Prof. H. Wohlhrabe

Student Macabinski Romina from Politehnica University of Bucharest presenting her poster to the Poster Session Chair: Dr. Pavel Mach and Prof. H. Wohlhrabe and to Prof. Zsolt Illyefalvi-Vitez

Very appreciated were the posters and presentations containing theoretical aspects, experiments and simulations of the studied aspects. The ISSE Steering Committee accorded the "Excellent Poster Award for Young Scientists" to student Macabinski Romina, who also participated at the Oral Session with „Analysis of Reflection for Different Electronic Modules".

Student Macabinski Romina from Politehnica University of Bucharest receiving the "Excellent Poster Award for Young Scientists", from Prof. Klaus-Jurgen Wolter, Chairman of ISSE

The „Best Presentation Award" was awarded to Dr. Ciprian Ionescu from Politehnica University of Bucharest for the Oral Presentation „Thermal Characterization of Planar Transformers". The planar transformers were realized in collaboration with Fela.

At the Gala Dinner Dr. Ciprian Ionescu, awarded with „Best Presentation Award" and Dr. Norocel Codreanu, lecturer at the both from Politehnica Universty of Bucharest

Gabriel Chindris PhD. from Technical University of Cluj-Napoca receiving the "Best Presentation Award for Young Scientist" from Prof. Klaus-Jurgen Wolter, Chairman of ISSE and a gift from the Bulgarian organizers of ISSE2004

The "Best Presentation Award for Young Scientist" was accorded to Gabriel Chindris Ph. D student from Technical University of Cluj-Napoca for the Oral Presentation "How to Adapt the Electronics Packaging Teaching Process to Current Needs-A Perspective".

In front of Bankia Castle the Roamnian team. From left to right: Prof. Lita Ioan, Dr. Norocel Codreanu, Dr. Ciprian Ionescu, student Macabinski Romina, Prof. Paul Svasta, student Popescu Camelia and student Florin Streza

The conference was a very good occasion to exchange experience with the student colleagues from other universities from Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany and Poland.

The Interconnection Techniques in Electronics CAD student contest, TIE 2004 atracted 25 students from seven Universities of Romania: „Gh. Asachi" Technical University - Iasi, „Politehnica" University - Timisoara, Technical University - Cluj-Napoca, Politehnica University - Bucharest, University - Pitesti, North University - Baia Mare, „Stefan cel Mare" University - Suceava. This year the contest was organized by the Technical University of Cluj (www.utcluj.ro) on 22-23 May, 2004. Two students of the Student Branch Chapter of Politehnica University of Bucharest participated at the contest and obtained good results in the finals. The winners of the contest are students at „Politehnica" University of Timisoara from professor Horia Carstea.

Participants and organizers at TIE 2004. From left to right: Alexandru Borcea ARIES President, Prof. Paul Svasta, Assistent Professor Rangu Marius and Prof. Horia Carstea from Politehnica University of Timisoara.

Students found it a challenging and interesting contest and they look forward to take the prize next year.
The „Gh. Asachi University" will organize the next TIE 2005 contest. Good luck to all 2005 participants!

Macabinski Romina Daniela,
Vice Chair IEEE CPMT Student Branch Chapter of
Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania
romina.macabinski@cetti.ro