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updated January 4, 2010
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Student Team Named One of Six Semifinalists for IEEE Antenna
Design Challenge
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A team of electrical and computer engineering students from Rose-Hulman
Institute of Technology has been chosen among six semifinalists in the first
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers' 2010 Antenna Design
Challenge, receiving $1,500 to incorporate designs during the winter
academic quarter into a working model that may be demonstrated at the IEEE
Antennas and Propagation Symposium (APS) in Toronto in July, 2010. This is
an international competition with original proposals being submitted from
institutions throughout the world.
Students were asked to design an antenna demonstration system that can be
used to teach how antennas work in college undergraduate or graduate courses
and in pre-college physics courses. The system must be safe and durable,
easily reproducible by others, inexpensive and portable so that it can be
demonstrated at the symposium.
"It is a significant achievement that Rose-Hulman has been selected as a
semifinalist for this contest," stated Deborah Walter, assistant professor
of electrical and computer engineering. "When it comes to creativity,
innovation and design, our students can really compete with any top
engineering school world-wide. I am excited see how the students will take
this preliminary design and bring it to reality."
Rose‐Hulman's project, Making Antennas Groovy In the Classroom (MAGIC)
Antenna Kit, uses PCB-based antennas in the classroom to demonstrate basic
antenna principles.
The original application was submitted by Tom Campie, a November electrical
engineering graduate. The team that will carry forth the design during an
antenna engineering class this winter include seniors Andrew Anderson, Dane
Bennington, Ben Cook, Michael Fiedeldey, Blake Marshall, Jon Turpen and Ryan
White, and graduate students David Baty, Joel Beally, Dane Bennington and
Mark Jacobson.
The group spent the first three weeks of the winter course learning about
antenna basics from Walter, with assistance from emeritus faculty member
David Voltmer. The students will spend the last seven weeks of the quarter
working on different components of the design -- individually or in small
teams. The final report must be filed by May 1 and three finalist teams must
demonstrate their working systems at the IEEE APS Conference, with final
judging for first ($1,500), second ($750) and third ($250) place awards.
Each finalist team will receive up to $2,500 to attend the conference.
More information about the IEEE APS Design Challenge can be found at
http://www.ieeeaps.org/studcontest.html.
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