Announcing SusTech 2017 Student Poster Contest
SusTech 2017 invites undergraduate students to submit abstracts for the Student Poster Contest.
(Download Poster Contest PDF Flyer here.)
Students are invited to send in ideas or designs for developing projects/products supporting the sustainability topics areas of the Conference. The selected posters will be displayed during the SusTech 2017 Student Poster Session, on Sunday November 14, 2017, being held in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
The deadline to submit poster abstracts is midnight US Mountain Time, September 15, 2017.
Notification of acceptance will be October 1st. Accepted posters must then register for Contest and pay the submission fee.
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?
Poster authors must be undergraduate students at the time of submission and may be members of a team comprising of up to four students. At least one student author must be an IEEE student member at the time of the submission of the poster to the Contest. The poster should be fully the work of the student or students and completed before they have received the engineering or scientific degree.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
| Focus Area | Topics |
|---|---|
| Renewable/Alternative Energy - Solar/Wind/Other | (e.g. solar, wind, tidal, fuel cells, energy harvesting, nuclear, thermal, power distribution) |
| Energy Efficiency | (e.g. sensors and measurement, retrofits of existing infrastructure, energy saving controls, data centers, power saving, Smart Environment) |
| Internet of Things (IOT) for sustainability | (e.g.: sensors, computing, control, communication, storage and drive electronics targeted for IOT applications, medical electronics) |
| Smart Grid | (e.g. communications, control, power electronics, industrial and home applications, energy storage, demand control and response) |
| Connected Vehicles | (e.g. electric vehicles, intelligent/autonomous vehicles, aviation/drones, transportation electrification, motors, drive controls, batteries, sensors, electronics & fuel economy, environmental & power distribution impacts) |
| Sustainable Electronics | (e.g. sustainable manufacturing and industrial applications, components and systems, global materials supply, reuse and repair of consumer electronics, Open repair manuals and on-line repair and electronics sustainability resources, best practices) |
| eWaste | (e.g. reduction, conversion, disposal, recycling, materials harvesting, reuse, managing product lifecycle) |
| Agriculture and Food Technology | (e.g. control and production of fertilizers, soil, water conservation, irrigation, fisheries) |
| Ecological Sustainability and Conservation | (e.g. technology to monitor global environmental change, technology for conserving nature on the high and deep seas, technology for nature conservation and management, technology to reduce the spread of invasive species, technologies to reduce the ecological foot print of a growing (blue) economy, technology to measure progress towards the sustainable development goals) |
| Water Resources Management | (e.g. quantity and distribution of water in natural and the built environment, sensors, controls, systems to treat, reclaim, and conserve water) |
| Ocean Waste & Pollution Management | (e.g. engineering solutions for industrial & military dumping in the oceans, CO2 trapping in the oceans effect, acoustic pollution, technologies for managing coastal oceans) |
| Societal Implications / Quality of Life | (e.g. engineering of sustainable solutions, implementation challenges for sustainable technologies, Smart Cities, health & medical electronics, global education & human resources, ethics and professional responsibility, risk management, public policy) |
HOW TO SUBMIT?
To participate in the contest students should write a 2-page (up to 500-700-word) description (abstract) of the poster, along with authors names, respective university and contact details; and submit it using the SusTech website here by the specified deadline. The abstracts will be reviewed and authors notified by October 1st if they have been selected for presentation at SusTech 2017. If accepted, one student author must register for the Poster Contest and pay the submission fee.
If you have any questions or problems submitting your abstract, contact Phani Vallabhajosyula, SusTech 2017 Poster Contest chair, phani.c.v@ieee.org.