Danijel Danković

The fourth student conference "IEEESTEC 4th Student project conference" was held on November 30, 2011 at the Electronic Faculty in Niš (http://ieee.elfak.ni.ac.rs/). The conference was organized by the student branch of IEEE SB Niš, EESTEC LC Niš and Faculty of Electronic Engineering in Niš, in cooperation with IEEE Serbia and Montenegro Section, IEEE Electron Devices / Solid-State Circuits Chapter and IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Chapter.

At the meeting of representatives of IEEE SB Niš and EESTEC LC Niš held at the end of January 2011, the initiative for organizing the conference "IEEESTEC 4th Student project conference" was supported. Immediately afterwards, this conference was announced to be approved by the IEEE Section Serbia and Montenegro. A detailed explanation with the invitation letter for the conference was given at the meeting of the IEEE Section Serbia and Montenegro, held at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade on June 23, 2011, when the initiative was accepted.

We sent a call for the conference to authors of papers from previous conference, to all student organizations in Serbia, student branches of IEEE, to all members of the IEEE Section Serbia and Montenegro. The total number of received papers is 34 (in the field of: electronics, microelectronics, telecommunications, automatics, power engineering, informatics etc.). All papers passed the review phase, with a minimum of five reviews for each paper. In the review process, 37 teachers and assistants of the Faculty of Electronic Engineering in Niš helped us. Based on the received reviews, three best-rated papers were selected:

First place
Paper: Testing the characteristics of the TMS320C5510 processor in real-time signal filtering
Authors: J. Zdravković, M. Jelenković
Institution: Faculty of Electronic Engineering Niš

Second place
Paper: GreatWarriors - strategy multiplayer game for bada OS
Authors: A. Ilic , V. Janković, S. Stošović
Institution: The Higher Technical School of Professional Education Niš

Third place
Paper: Realization of the electronic lock for the safe using a potentiometer and a PIC microcontroller
Authors: M. Marjanović
Institution: Faculty of Electronic Engineering Niš

The conference was officially opened by the Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Electronic Engineering in Niš, prof. Dr Zoran Perić. On behalf of the IEEE Section Serbia and Montenegro, the participants were greeted by prof. Dr Vera Marković, Secretary of the Section.

The three best-rated papers were presented verbally. All papers (including awarded) were presented as poster section in the hall of the Faculty of Electronic Engineering in Niš. In addition to the placement poster in four-hour time, the authors also used PowerPoint presentations, simulations on the computer, models and finished products/projects. The authors themselves selected the most interesting paper:

Paper: Virtual table tennis
Authors: S. Dević, D. Nešić
Institution: Faculty of Electronic Engineering Niš

All authors received the IEEESTEC Conference promotional material: a collection of papers, a disc, a block and a bag. The best works were awarded with diplomas and awards, gifts from friends of the conference.

Participants of the conference were from the following institutions: Faculty of Electronic Engineering in Niš, Gymnasium Leskovac, Gymnasium Knjaževac, Teaching School Kraljevo, Faculty of Science and Mathematics in Niš, The Higher Technical School of Professional Education Niš, Sentronis a.d. Niš, Ei PCB Factory Niš and Petroleum Industry of Serbia (NIS Petrol), Directorate for ICT in Niš.

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