Congratulations to the IEEE Student Chapter at Christian Brothers University for a job well done at the IEEE SoutheastCon 2009!
The following are excerpts from CBU's newsletter, The Connection. The newsletter can also be viewed here.
[From left: Amanda Taylor, Dr. John Ventura, and Nicholas Brown]
Seniors Nicholas Brown (ECE ’09) and Amanda Taylor (ME ’09) returned from the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers’ Southeast Conference 2009 held in Atlanta, GA on March 5-7 with the second place award in the student paper contest with their paper – “Thermoelectric Light.” As a part of the award they received $500. Engineering students from over 50 colleges and universities submitted papers for this competition. They are pictured above with John Ventura, the CBU IEEE student counselor. Congratulations Nicholas and Amanda!!!!
[From left: Russ Saliendra, Binh Nguyen, Dr. John Ventura, and Boris de Souza]
Boris de Souza (ECE ‘09), Russ Saliendra (ECE '10), and Binh Nguyen (ECE '10), and the CBU student branch of IEEE won 1st Place in the T-Shirt Competition at SoutheastCon 2009 held in Atlanta, GA on March 5-8 (Boris, Russ, and Binh were the lead designers on the T-Shirts). They did an outstanding job in designing their student chapter’s IEEE T-Shirts, pictured above. [From Left Russ Saliendra, Binh Nguyen, Dr. John Ventura, and Boris de Souza]
Boris de Souza (ECE‘ 09), Russ Saliendra (ECE’ 10), and Binh Nguyen (ECE‘ 10), and the CBU student branch of IEEE won 1st Place in the Website Competition at SoutheastCon 2009 held in Atlanta, GA on March 5-8 (Boris, Russ, and Binh were the lead developers on the web site located at http://www.ieeecbu.com/). They did an outstanding job in designing their student chapter’s IEEE site.
[From left: Thien Truong, David James, Dr. John Ventura, John Waldorf, and Matt Condren]
Matt Condren (ECE and CS ’09), David James (ECE and CS ‘09), John Waldorf (ECE and CS ‘09), and Thien Truong (ECE ’09) placed 6th in the robotic competition out of 38 schools who qualified at the IEEE SoutheastCon 2009 conference held in Atlanta, GA on March 5-8. The objective of the competition is for the robots to locate, obtain, sort, and store used beverage products. All sorting and storage is to be done on the robot. Points are awarded for the collected objects at the end of the round. Some points will be awarded for unsorted items; however, more points will be awarded for correctly sorted items. The winners will be judged on points with run time being the tiebreaker. The CBU team was leading at the end of first of the four rounds.
Below is a picture of the robot in action.
The Christian Brothers University representatives for the SoutheastCon 2009 together with their Adviser, Dr. John Ventura.
[From left: Nicholas Brown, Matt Condren, Amanda Taylor, John Waldorf, Thien Truong, David James, Boris de Souza, Dr. John Ventura, Binh Nguyen, and Russ Saliendra]
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