Danijel Danković

The fourteenth student conference, "IEEESTEC 14th Student projects conference", was held on November 25, 2021. Since the whole world was hit by a difficult situation caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, this year the conference was held online on the IEEESTEC conference website (http://ieee.elfak.ni.ac.rs/) too. The conference, as the previous ones, was organized by the student branch of IEEE SB Nis, EESTEC LC Nis, and the Faculty of Electronic Engineering in Nis, in cooperation with IEEE Serbia and Montenegro Section, IEEE Electron Devices / Solid-State Circuits Chapter, IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Chapter, IEEE WIE Affinity Group and IEEE Computational Intelligence Chapter, with the support of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA) Branch Niš, as well as the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia.

At the IEEE SB Nis meeting held on February 2021, the initiative for organizing the “IEEESTEC 14th Student projects conference” was supported. The IEEE Serbia&Montenegro Section has supported this initiative.

We sent a call for the conference to authors of papers from the previous conference, to all student organizations in Serbia, student branches of IEEE, members of the IEEE Serbia&Montenegro Section. The total number of received papers is 70 (in the field of: electronics, microelectronics, telecommunications, automatics, power engineering, informatics, physics, student mobility etc.). All papers passed the review phase, with a minimum of three reviews being provided for each paper. In the review process, 37 professors and teaching assistants of the Faculty of Electronic Engineering in Niš helped us. Based on the received reviews, awards were given:

First place – “Academician Ninoslav Stojadinović” prize
Paper: Mechanical learning as help with the forecast of the clinical outcome after stroke
Authors: Emilija Ćojbašić
Institution: Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Niš

Second place
a) Paper: Comparing the efficiency of algorithms to resolve Sudoku
Authors: Milica Aleksić, Đorđe Antić
Institution: Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Niš

b) Paper: NBS IPS QR code generation software
Nikola Milošević, Luka Nikolić
Institution: “Bora Stanković” Gymnasium, Niš

Third place
Paper: Mobile Android application for the establishment of a contact between the master and employer and finding practices for vocational school students
Authors: Aleksandar Cvetković, Pavle Janevski
Institution: Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Niš, Faculty of Electrotechnical Engineering, Belgrade

In the category of “The Best Practical Realization”, and according to the Decision of the Organizing Committee of the Conference awards were awarded:

First place
Paper: Smart street
Authors: Nikola Simić, Marko Milijanović, Aleksandar Krajačević, Ognjen Milojević, Nikola Velemir, Filip Goldberger, Albert Anđelkovski, Branislav Hrćan, Matej Milankov, Tomislav Jovanović
Institution: Electrotechnical school “Mihajlo Pupin” Novi Sad

Second place
a) Paper: Automatic checking and maintenance system against COVID-19
Authors: Lazar Mančić, Jovan Stanišić, Bojan Ćirić
Institution: Technical school Pirot

b) Paper: Measurement of inductor inductance using Arduino microcontroller
Authors: Ana Simić
Institution: Technical school Loznica

Third place
Paper: Locking system using remote control realized in Arduino environment
Authors: Nemanja Nedeljković
Institution: Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Niš

Based on the received papers, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Niš published the “IEEESTEC 14th Student projects conference”, ISBN: 978-86-6125-242-6. Editors of the Proceedings are: prof. Dr Vera Marković, prof. Dr Danijel Danković and prof. Dr Zlatica Marinković. The conference was organized by the Organizing Committee consisting of: prof. Dr Danijel Danković, Chairman of the Conference, Dušan Vučković and Miloš Marjanović, Vice-Chairmen of the Conference. The secretary of the conference consisted of: Jana Vračar, Aleksandra Stojković, Nikola Mitrović Milan Stojanović, Sandra Veljković, Neda Stanojević, Marija Živković, Milica Veljović, Anđela Kocić, Nina Dimitrijević, Ana Sentov, Stefan Popović, Nemanja Nedeljković, Anastasija Avramović, Dušan Jovanović, Nikola Stojiljković, Aleksandra Trajković, Strahinja Dimitrijević, Mikica Radenković, Sava Stojanović, Katarina Božinović and Ilija Đorđević Arsić.

Since this year the entire organization of the conference was presented on the website of the IEEESTEC conference, the opening ceremony and the entire program was led by the president of this conference prof. Dr. Danijel Dankovic and Miloš Marjanović, the vice president of the conference.

All participants had the opportunity to present their papers online, through a video presentation they recorded.

Award in the category IEEE Woman in Engineering based on the decision of the Organizing Committee of the Conference went to:

First place
Paper: Design and implementation of water quality monitoring systems
Authors: Nikoleta Džunić
Institution: Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Niš

The award in the category of IEEE MTT special prize is awarded to:

First place
Paper: Security IOT system with electric lock
Authors: Jelena Nedeljković, Marko Tepavac
Institution: Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Niš

This year, a project called “STEM visits IEEESTEC Conference” was realized and rewarded in that category are:

First place
Paper: Electronic system "Smart house”
Authors: Marina Stojilković, Aleksa Tripković, Pavle Mitić, Nikola Milošević, Lazar Rašović
Institution: “Bora Stanković” Gymnasium, Niš

Second place
a) Paper: Different realizations of binary collector
Authors: Vuk Radonjić, Teodora Obradović, Đorđe Drizić, Aleksandar Crnatović, Aljoša Paunović
Institution: “Bora Stanković” Gymnasium, Niš

b) Paper: Prototype system for door unlocking using RFID technology
Authors: Aleksa Mladenović, Sara Stanojić, Mihajlo Usković, Nemanja Ćirić, Andrija Kostić, Sara Mišić, Mateja Grujić
Institution: Electrotechnical school “Mija Stanimirović”, Niš

Third place
Paper: Realization of traffic lights with day and night mode using Arduino
Authors: Veljko Spasić, Danilo Jovanović
Institution: Technical school “Rade Metalac”, Leskovac

By the decision of the Organizing Committee of the IEEESTEC Conference, the paper proposed for the IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest 2022 (http://www.ieeer8.org/category/student-activities/awards-and-contests/student-paper-contest) is:

First place
Paper: Mechanical learning as help with the forecast of the clinical outcome after stroke
Authors: Emilija Ćojbašić
Institution: Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Niš

All authors received as promotional material of the IEEESTEC conference: proceedings, and a certificate of participation in the conference. The authors of the best papers were sent diplomas and special awards, a gift from a friend of the conference, to their home address. Conference participants were from the following institutions: Faculty of Electronic Engineering Nis, University of Nis, Faculty of Electrotechnical Engineering Belgrade, University of Belgrade, Technical School Loznica, Electrotechnical School "Nikola Tesla" Nis, Department of Mechanics, Mathematical Institute SASA, Faculty of Technical Sciences Novi Sad, University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Economics, Study program – Business Management Skopje, Electrotechnical School “Mihajlo Pupin” Novi Sad, Knjaževac High School, Technical School Zaječar, Academy of Technical and Educational Vocational Studies, Department of Niš, Technical School Pirot, Veriest, Technical School "Rade Metalac" Leskovac, Electrotechnical School “Mija Stanimirović” Niš,

We hope that next year this conference will be even better organized and more extensive.