IEEESTEC 9th Student project conference (2016)

Danijel Danković

The ninth student conference “IEEESTEC 9th Student project conference” was held on November 24, 2016 at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering 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 IEEE SB Niš meeting held in February 2016, the initiative for organizing the “IEEESTEC 9th Student Project Conference” was supported. The IEEE Section Serbia-Montenegro has supported this initiative.

We sent a call for the conference to authors of papers from previous conferenc, to all student organizations in Serbia, student branches of IEEE, members of the IEEE Section Serbia and Montenegro. The total number of received papers is 67 (in the field of: electronics, microelectronics, telecommunications, automatics, power engineering, informatics, physics, student mobility etc.). All papers have passed the review phase, with a minimum of three reviews being provided for each paper. In the review process, 44 teachers and assistants of the Faculty of Electronic Engineering in Niš helped us. Based on the received reviews, awards were given:

First place
Paper: Design and Realization of an Electric Go-Kart
Authors: I. Spaseski, B. Momčilovski, D. Pejovski, B. Velkovski, T. Panova, F. Simjanoski, S. Lutovski
Institution: Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia

Second place
Paper: Mobile Android application as user interface signal generator device
Authors: D. Dimčić Institution: Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Niš

Third place
a) Paper: Motion detection system using the Arduino Uno platform - alarm
Authors: A. Rajković, T. Marković, P. Marinković
Institution: Tehnička škola Zaječar

b) Paper: Development environment for realization of laboratory exercises from digital microelectronics
Authors: N. Radisavljević, M. Stojanović
Institution: Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Niš

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: Device, aid, for blind and visually impaired persons
Authors: M. Avramović
Institution: Technical School Loznica

Second place
a) Paper: Robot LION in the labyrinth
Authors: V. Pešić, V. Ristić, A. Ristić, D. Stojiljković, D. Stojanović
Institution: Technical School Vladičin Han

b) Paper: Arcade mums machines realized with Raspberry Pi
Authors: P. Mijović
Institution: Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Niš

Third place
Paper: Electric pressure switch
Authors: P. Petrović, B. Savić, Đ. Stanković, R. Mitić, D. Stamenković
Institution: ETŠ "Nikola Tesla" Niš

Based on the received papers, the Faculty of Electronic Engineering in Niš published the “IEEESTEC 9th Student Project Conference”, ISBN: 978-86-6125-168-9. Editors of the Proceedings are: prof. Dr Ninoslav Stojadinović, prof. Dr Vera Marković, doc. Dr Danijel Danković and doc. Dr Zlatica Marinković. The conference was organized by the Organizing Committee consisting of: Doc. Dr Danijel Danković, President of the Conference and Dušan Vučković and Miloš Marjanović, Vice-Presidents of the Conference. The secretariat of the conference consisted students from the Faculty of Electronic Engineering in Niš: Nikola Simić, Dragana Dimitrijević, Đorđe Veličković, Miloš Mitić, Nikola Krstić, Milan Stojanović, Nikola Mitrović, Nikola Radisavljević, Milan Ivković, Marija Živković, Filip Đorović, Stefan Jovanović and Miljan Jerotijević.

The conference was officially opened by the Dean of the Faculty of Electronic Engineering in Niš, prof. Dr Dragan Janković and the Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Electronic Engineering in Nis, prof. Dr Nebojša Dončov. On behalf of the IEEE Section Serbia and Montenegro, the participants were greeted by prof. Dr Vera Markovic, President of the Section.

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

First place
Paper: Mathematical pendulum - laboratory model and application
Authors: M. Danković, S. Jankovic, A. Stanojević
Institution: Gymnasium"Bora Stanković", Niš

Award in the category IEEE Woman in Engineering. Based on the decision of the Organizing Committee of the Conference:

First place
Paper: Designing a logarithmic amplifier
Authors: K. Krstić, M. Kovinić, S. Đorđev, D. Bogdanović
Institution: Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Niš

This year, the IEEE MTT special category was introduced, which is assigned to:

First place
Paper: Development of a patient's pulse tracking system via a mobile application
Authors: N. Milutinović
Institution: Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Niš

The Special Award of the Innovation Center of Advanced Technologies received:

First place
Paper: Room automation using Arduin, Bluetooth and RF modules
Authors: M. Ivković
Institution: Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Niš

By the decision of the Organizing Committee of the IEEESTEC Conference Best Conference Conference, proposed for the IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest 2016 (http://www.ieeer8.org/category/student-activities/awards-and-contests/student-paper-contest) was selected :

First place
Operation: Vortex current application for material testing
Authors: M. Živić
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 papers were awarded with diplomas and awards, gifts from friends of the conference. The participants of the conference were from the following institutions: Faculty of Electronic Engineering in Niš, University of Politechnica of Bucharest, Politecnico di Milano, Manipal Institute of Technology, Faculty of Science and Mathematics in Niš, University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Panasonic Lighting Devices Serbia doo, Svilajnac, Technical School “Rade Metalac”, Leskovac, Technical School Zaječar, Leskovac Gymnasium, University of Technology North Bangkok, Thailand, Philip Morris Operations ad Niš, Gymnasium “Bora Stanković”, Niš, Gymnasium “Svetozar Marković”, Niš, Electro-Technical School “Nikola Tesla”, Niš, The Higher Technical School of Professional Education Niš.

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