First CASS Student Design Competition
The IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CAS) invites you to participate in the the 1st CASS Student Design Competition. The CASS Student Design Competition is a worldwide competition where undergraduate students will team with high school students. The teams should suggest and execute projects aimed at encouraging High School Students to study Electrical Engineering and related areas. The focus should be on finding a solution to a real-life problem based on circuits and systems.
The competition will take place in three phases, the first at chapter level, the second at regional level and a final at world level. The final will take place during ISCAS 2017.
CASS will pay for the trip to ISCAS 2017 for the four finalists, one for each region - R1-7, R8, R9 and R10, as well as ISCAS registration. The winning team will be awarded US$3,000.
The detailed rules of the competition can be found here.
Important dates:
- May 2, 2016: Online registration for the competition closes
- October 7, 2016: deadline for the live demonstrations of the first phase of the competition to take place.
- November 7, 2016: deadline for the results of the first phase to be announced.
- March 5, 2017: deadline for uploading the video and report relative to the second phase of the competition.
- April 3, 2017: deadline for the results of the second phase to be announced.
- April 30, 2017: deadline for the teams to submit the final version of the report.
- May 29, 2017: the live demonstration of the final competition takes place during ISCAS 2017.
- May 30, 2017: the winner is announced during ISCAS 2017 Awards Ceremony.
Inquiries:
General inquiries: manager@ieee-cas.org.
Technical enquiries: contact your local Chapter Chair / Student Branch / Session. You can find the list of CASS Chapters here.
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Distinguished Lecturer Program and Roster
The DLP evaluation committee has chosen and the board has approved the following lecturers for 2016-2017.
- Arindam Basu: Designing Low-power “Intelligent” Chips in the face of Statistical Variations of Nanoscale Devices: The Neuromorphic Solution
- Jie Chen: (1) Designing and micro/nano-fabricating portable impedance-based point-of-care biosensors; (2) Developing pulsed wave instruments for renewable biofuel and therapeutic applications; (3) TUTORIAL: Engineering of Nanobiotechnological Systems
- Yen-Kuang Chen: Challenges and Opportunities of circuits and systems on Internet of Things Perpetual Wireless Video Camera for Internet-of-Things
- Mario Di Bernardo: (1) Self-organizing control and synchronization of complex networks; (2) From power converters to walking robots: analysis, bifurcations and control of piecewise-smooth circuits and systems
- Julius Georgiou: (1) Microelectronic Systems for Improved Quality of Life; (2) A Floroscopic Cancer Screening Capsule for the Small Intestine
- Tsung-Yi Ho: (1) The Coming of Age of Microfluidics: Connecting Algorithms and Foundations of Chip Design to Biochemistry and the Life Sciences; (2) Design Automation, Test, Error Recovery: Toward Secure, Dependable, and Adaptive Large-Scale Lab-on-Chip (LOC) Systems
- Ebroul Izquierdo: (1) Face Recognition in the Wild; (2) Visual Information Retrieval: From Machine Vision to Human Computation
- Weisi Lin: (1) Just-Noticeable Difference (JND) Formulation: Turning Limitations of Human Senses into System Advantages; (2) TUTORIAL: Perception-driven Visual Signal Modeling, Evaluation and Processing
- Shih-Chii Liu: (1) Event-Based Auditory Processing with Spiking Silicon Cochleas and Deep Networks; (2) Silicon Cochlea Design and Processing Hardware
- Lexing Xie: (1) An Anatomy of Social Media Popularity; (2) Understanding of Images and Language with Knowledge and Styles
More DLP information can be found here.