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The Instrumentation & Measurement Society is involved with Students!!  We have an Undergraduate Student Representative and a Graduate Student Representative that sit on the I&M AdCom.  We also support GOLD with a representative on the AdCom.  Please feel free to contact these representatives with your inputs on how better to serve the growing student membership.  Also of interest:  The Graduate Student Fellowship Award.

Best Student Paper Awards

Involving our student members as well as other students more actively in the Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IMS) is one of the major goals established recently by the IMS Membership Development Committee. In 2005, we began several initiatives to provide more benefits to our student members and encourage them to continue as active members after graduation. One of those initiatives was the creation of Student Paper Contests to be held in conjunction with our two major conferences, the Systems Readiness Technology Conference (AUTOTESTCON) and the International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), and one of our symposia, Sensors Applications Symposia (SAS).

We wanted to encourage more students to attend our professional conferences, and we wanted to recognize the outstanding research work that they were performing as undergraduates and graduate students.


Following is a list of all the Best Student Paper Award winners:

2012

I2MTC 2012

Soren Lewis, Vienna University of Technology, Austria, 1st Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Acquisition of muscle activity with a fully implantable multi-channel measurement system.

Han Woong Yoo, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, 2nd Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Automated Adjustment of Aberration Correction in Scanning confocal Microscopy.


2011

AUTOTESTCON 2011

Shane Strasser, Montana State University, USA - 1st Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Diagnostic Alarm Sequence Maturation in Timed Failure Propagation Graphs.

 

I2MTC 2011

Lei Shi, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands - 1st Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Series Resistance Optimization of High-Sensitivity Si-based VUV Photodiodes.

Lingjun Gao, University of Kent, United Kingdom - 2nd Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Contour-based Image Segmentation for On-line Size Distribution Measurement of Pneumatically Conveyed Particles.

Mikko Haapalainen, University of Oulu, Finland - 3rd Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Measuring Electrical Properties of Microbeads by Dielectrophoretic Mobility.

Vinit Jakhetiya, LNM Institute of Information Technology, India - 1st Place Undergraduate Best Paper Award for the paper, A Novel Predictor Coefficient Interpolation Approach for Lossless Compression of Images.

 

SAS 2011

Hamid Fahim Rezaei, The University of Iowa, USA - 1st Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Next Generation System for Real-Time Monitoring of Rainfall, Soil Moisture, and Soil Temperature.

Alireza Hassanzedeh, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA - 1st Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Single Chip Solution to Capacitive Liquid Crystal Chemical and Biological Sensor.

Andreas Mucha, Siemens/TU Munich, Germany - 3rd Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Sensing cellular adhesion with a CMOS integrated impedance-to-frequency converter.

2010

AUTOTESTCON 2010


I2MTC 2010


SAS 2010

Scott Fazackerley, Canada - 1st Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Reducing Turfgrass Water Consumption using Sensor Nodes and an Adaptive Irrigation Controller.

Juha Virtanen, Finland - 2nd Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Printed Humidity Sensor for UHF RFID Systems.

2009

AUTOTESTCON 2009

Mikhail Itskovich, University of Maryland, USA - 1st Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Area Efficient Vector Multiplication for IDDT Test Calibration.

Anton Pirker-Fruhauf, University of Technics, Austria - 2nd Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, A knowledge-based test program following the ATML Standard.

Andrew Flanyak, Rowan University, USA - 1st Place Undergraduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Design-for-Testability On A Small Scale.

 

I2MTC 2009

Andreas Penirschke, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany - 1st Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Microwave Mass Flow Meter for Pneumatic Conveyed Particulate Solids.

Alexandru Nechifor, Politechnica University of Bucharest, Romania - 1st Place Undergraduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Online measurements and control of a laboratory scale DC grid.

 

SAS 2009

Brian Carter, University of Louisville, USA - 1st Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, A Probabilistic Model for the Deployment of Sensors.

Michael Russell, Rowan University, USA - 2nd Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Acquisition, Interfacing and Analysis of Sensor Measurements in a VR Environment for Integrated Systems Health Management in Rocket Engine Tests.

Stefan Moller, University of Limerick, Ireland - 3rd Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Evaluation of Key Distribution Protocols for use with Wireless Sensor Networks.

2008

AUTOTESTCON 2008

Matthew Hunter, University of Central Florida, USA - 1st Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Arbitrary Waveform Generators for Synthetic Instrumentation.

Seokjin Kim, University of Maryland at College Park, USA - 2nd Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, High-speed ADC Dynamic Performance Validation: the Impact of Skew-corner Lot Testing.

Wang Lei, Engineering School of the Air Force Engineering University, China - 1st Place Undergraduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Parallel test tasks scheduling on multi-core platform.

Mallory Phillips, Brigham Young University, USA - 2nd Place Undergraduate Best Paper Award for the paper, RFID Threshold Accelerometer.

 

I2MTC 2008

Francesco Leonardi, Columbia University, USA - 1st Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Metrological characterization of a time of flight CMOS range image sensor.

Ana-Maria Cretu, University of Ottawa, Canada - 2nd Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Selective vision sensing with neural gas networks.

 

SAS 2008

Hesaam Esfandyarpour, Stanford University, USA - 1st Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Real Time Simulation of Heat Detection in Thermosequencing.

Matthias Fabbian, University of Limerick, Ireland - 2nd Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Investigation of Ethanol and Methanol Water Mixtures in the Visible Wavelength Area Using Fibre-Optic Evanescent Field Absorption Sensors Based on a U-Shaped, a Coil-Shaped and a Meander-Shaped Probe.

Stephen Olson, University at Albany, USA - 3rd Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Piezoresistive Strain Gauges for use in Wireless Component Monitoring Systems.

 

2007

AUTOTESTCON 2007

Seokjin Kim, University of Maryland at College Park, USA - 1st Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Device Verification Testing of High Speed Analog-to-Digital Converters in Satellite Communications Systems.

Lingfeng Wang - Texas A&M University, USA - 2nd Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Flexible Measurement Point Management in an Industrial Automatic Supervision System.

I2MTC 2007

Marc Simon Wegmueller, Integrated Systems Laboratory (IIS), Switzerland - 1st Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Investigation on Coupling Strategies for Wireless Implant Communications.

Lubomir Riha, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic - 2nd Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, New interpolation methods for image-based sub-pixel displacement measurement based on correlation.

Tokoh Nishikubo, Graduate School of Kinki University, Japan - 2nd Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Fabrication of RF Magnetic Shielding Plate Having the Polarization Characteristics.

Ilkka Jolma, University of Oulu, Finland - 1st Place Undergraduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Image Sharpness Based Range Sensing Using Pattern Projection.

 

SAS 2007

Graham Wild, Edith Cowan University, Australia - 1st Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Fibre Bragg Grating Sensors for Acoustic Emission and Transmission Detection Applied to Robotic NDE in Structural Health Monitoring.

Sanaz Adl, University of Maryland at College Park, USA - 2nd Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Low Noise Pre-Amplifier/Amplifier Chain for High Capacitance Sensors.

Seung Hyuck Shin, Seoul National University, South Korea - 3rd Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Adaptive Step Length Estimation Algorithm Using Low-Cost MEMS Inertial Sensors.

Alaeddin Abu-Abed, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA - 3rd Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Capacitive Transduction in Partially Disordered Systems:  Application to LC-Based Biosensors.

2006

AUTOTESTCON 2006

Baojiang Sun, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China - 1st Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, An Automatic Design Technique for Hardware System of ATS.

Lingfeng Wang, Texas A&M University, USA - 2nd Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Real-Time Software Design for Safety-and Mission-Critical Systems with High Dependability.

 

I2MTC 2006

Mona Safi-Harb, McGill University, Canada - 1st Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Embedded Narrow Pulse Measurement in Digital CMOS.

Anton Plotkin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel - 2nd Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Compensation of Temperature-Drift Errors in Fundamental-Mode Orthogonal Fluxgates.

Stefan Rupitsch, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria - 2nd Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Synthetic Aperture Focusing Technique in High-Frequency Ultrasound.

Koen Vandermot, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium - 2nd Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Understanding the Nonlinearity of a Mixer Using Multisine Excitations.

Valentina Cecchi, Drexel University, USA - 1st Place Undergraduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Instrumentation and Measurement of a Power Distribution System Laboratory for Network Reconfiguration Studies.

 

SAS 2006

Philip A. Ferguson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA - 1st Place Graduate Best Paper Award for the paper, Kinetic and Kinematic Sensing System for the MICRO-G/Adapt International Space Station Experiment.

2005

AUTOTESTCON 2005

Stephen Bracht, New Mexico Technological University, USA - 1st Place Best Paper Award for the paper, Advanced Microelectronics Test Facility at New Mexico Tech.

Matthew Braley, University of Idaho, USA - 1st Place Best Paper Award for the paper, Low Cost Method to Create a Cryogenic Chamber.

Lingfeng Wang, Texas A&M University, USA - 2nd Place Best Paper Award for the paper, Middleware for Implementing Distributed Embedded Real-Time Measurement and Control Systems.

Saxena Abhinav, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA - 2nd Place Best Paper Award for the paper, Integrated Diagnosis and Prognosis Architecture for Fleet Vehicles Using Dynamic Case Based Reasoning.

I2MTC 2012 Graduate Student Panel

Graduate Student Panel Discussion 2012

The annual Graduate Student Panel Discussion at I2MTC aims to examine topics relevant to graduate students attending I2MTC as they move forward with forming goals and pursuing their careers.

Dr. Kristen Donnell of Missouri University of Science and Technology chaired this year’s panel discussion, which had 11 attendees. The panelists included Dr. Sarah Seguin, of the University of Kansas, Mr. Erik Timpson of Honeywell, USA and a PhD student at the University of Missouri at Columbia, Mr. Jorge Fernandez Daher, President of the Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IMS), and Dr. Reza Zoughi, past Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.

“What can involvement in the IEEE and IMS bring to a student?” Dr. Donnell described the major benefit of being a member of a professional society as having the opportunity to experience professional networking, mentoring, publishing, and attending conferences. Mr. Daher explained the organizational structure of IEEE and also discussed the benefits of membership including the fact that IEEE provides a useful venue to demonstrate technical skillsets. In addition, job opportunities may result from such involvement.

Sarah Seguin, Erik Timpson, Jorge Fernandez Daher

Dr. Seguin spoke about life as an assistant professor. For those in the audience considering an academic career, her descriptive experience as a tenure track professor was very insightful. She was very candid about the challenges facing a young professor (e.g. learning how to manage students, projects, project funding, and time), and also spoke of the rewarding parts of the job such as educating and discovery. She noted that the key to success is organization, and that the best part about being in academia is having the freedom to explore and research across many different disciplines.

Mr. Timpson brought a unique perspective resulting from his experiences in industry. He spoke on topics that ranged from management styles and the importance of communication between colleagues to cognitive neuroscience and why learning from experience is so effective. He also talked about how earning a PhD is an important credential that is going to help him bring technical excellence to a high level of practicality in industry. In his experience, he said, “to truly be very successful, you must pool your resources and bring peoples’ expertise together" to find a solution.

Whether in academia or in industry, Dr. Zoughi explained, publishing is important for building a career. “Publishing your work is the ultimate statement of saying you’ve done something novel,” he said. He spoke about the mechanics of publishing including the peer review process, its importance, and how to get involved. He also offered his insights into publishing successfully.

The IMS is committed to supporting the involvement of students within the Society and our Conferences, and the next Graduate Student Panel discussion is already being planned for I2MTC 2013 in Minneapolis, MN. For more information, or if you wish to get involved, please contact Sarah Hatfield.

 

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