Date: Place:
August 22, 23 and 24 Andrés Bello Campus Universidad de la Frontera Temuco
Paper Contest Organized by:
With the support of:
Paper Contest Basis 1. Undergraduate and Postgraduate students of engineering degrees, bachelors, or postgraduate programs in electricity, electronics or informatics can participate, of any University accredited in its country of origin. 2. The selection and presentation of the papers will be taken by the academic authorities, coordinators and directors of each specialty. The responsibility of the organization and promotion of the Contest at the internal level will fell upon the IEEE Student Branch of Universidad de la Frontera. 3. The undergraduate and postgraduate works entitled to participate are those sent before the Contest Deadline and complying with the IEEE document style, indicated at point 6. The authors of the papers must be exclusively students, being only one author responsible, and the rest being coauthors. 4. The works sent will be considered final, without right to further revision or correction by the authors, and with those the Reviewing Committee will approve or reject its participation in the contest. 5. The following aspects will be considered in the reviewed papers: Originality, Theoretical Background, Presentation, Industry Applicability and Scientific Advance, aspects that will be weighted as detailed in the included table. 6. The papers must be sent to the Student Branch of Universidad de la Frontera, with a copy of the work in IEEE format (6 pages máx. double column), along with an abstract to the following email address:
[email protected], in PDF format, Time New Roman font, 12 pts. In addition, a 60 cms. x 120 cms. poster with a summary of the work must be sent, as it will be exhibit at the Conference. Furthermore, a registration document copy of the author(s) most be sent, along with their addresses and phone numbers. Shipping expenses of any kind will not be pay by the IEEE Student Branch of Universidad de La Frontera. 7. At least one of the authors must assume responsibility, in case of being selected, of presenting the work during the Conference Days, August 22, 23 and 24 of 2007. In case of absence of the expositor during the days of the event. all rights over the presentation will be lost. 8. The deadline for submission of papers for the Contest will be on July 14 of 2007.
9. The Reviewing Committee, conformed by members of IEEE Chile Section and Universidad de la Frontera, will deliver a verdict about wining papers and their order at the last day of the Conference.
10. Papers awarded with the first, second and third places will receive prizes, in both categories (Undergraduate and Postgraduate). 11. The prizes for the wining works will be given by IEEE Chile. In addition, a certificate be given to both winners and participants of the Contest. 12. Contest places can be declared deserted, if the Reviewing Committee considers that as such. 13. The Chile Section of IEEE and the Student Branch of IEEE reserve the rights to modify the dates and program of of the event. 14. Prizes will be awarded during the days of the XXIII Ingelectra 2007 Conference. taking place in Temuco, from 22 to 24 August 2007.
Notes: 1 .The IEEE paper format can be downloaded from: http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs/pubs/confpubcenter/pdfs/samplems.pdf 2.A sample poster format can be download from: http://www.oceans06mtsieeeboston.org/docs/poster.pdf
More Information Web Page: Email:
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For inscriptions, contact with: Mg. Nelson Aros Oñate UFRO IEEE Student Branch Councelor Email:
[email protected] Phone: (56) 45 325574 Ernesto Villarroel Zapata UFRO IEEE Student Branch Email:
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Conference Committee IEEEUFRO Student Branch Directive: Ernesto Villarroel Zapata President Claudio Soto Contreras Vicepresident Víctor Hormazábal Millañir Treasurer Katerina Mihovilovich Roa Secretary Mg. Nelson Aros Oñate Branch Councelor IEEEUFRO Student Branch Directors: Internal Affairs: Ludwig von Dossow Tellier Public Relations: Javier Mardones D'Appollonio Claudio Silva Peña Rodrigo Oñate Fox Abdel Hidd Figueroa Publicity: Ronald Beltrán Calfín Oscar Valderrama Cayumán Sebastián Ulloa Quezada