On Friday, April 2nd, twelve IEEE Oregon Section members arrived at Portland State University at 7:30am to be IEEE awards judges for the Intel Northwest Science Expo.  The IEEE Oregon Section has seven categories for judging the excellence of our middle and high school students.  The winning students in each category receive recognition in the form of a certificate and a 4 GB USB drive.

"Thank you to the high-school (HS) judges: John Vinson (lead judge), Yongji (Fred) Fu, Walter Kaelin, Anil Kumar, Chris Jacobs, Deanna Phillips, Mark Weaver, and Ed Perkins

and the middle-school (MS) judges: Coral Jean Cotterell (lead Judge) Raja Neogi, Beenish Zia, and Ken Tsui

The students appreciate that you are willing to take time out from your busy schedules to meet with them and discuss their projects with you.  You are providing encouragement to them to consider pursuing careers in engineering.  Thank you for your participation".

Coral Jean Cotterell (middle-school lead judge)

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BEST IN IEEE OREGON AWARDS

(HS) Rose Perrone from Catlin Gable for her project “The Effect of Vibratactile Training on Navigational Ability”

SYSTEMS, MAN & CYBERNETICS ENGINEERING AWARD

(MS) Rohan Hiatt from Summa Academy South for his project “The Brain, the Mind, and Meditation”

(HS) Rose Perrone from Catlin Gable for her project “The Effect of Vibratactile Training on Navigational Ability”

(HS) Tesca Fitzgerald from Sisters All-Prep Early College Academy for her project “AI Meets the VA:  Artificial Intelligence Software Creates Navigation for Veterans Hospital Robotic Transport System”

POWER ENGINEERING AWARD

(MS) Amiel Patton-Hall from Portland Jewish Academy for her project “Optimizing Auto Energy Efficiency:  An Axle Generator Design”

(HS) Nick Halsey from Oregon Episcopal School for his project “Rooftop Wind Turbines:  Where Should They be Placed and What Design is Best?”

COMPUTER SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AWARD

(MS) Alaa Alssi from Oregon Islamic Academy for her project “Electronic Discovery:  Analysis of Data-Deletion and Data-Recovery Methodologies”

(HS) Kevin Ellis from Catlin Gable for his project “Automatic Parallelization Through Dynamic Analysis”

At Intel ISEF 2010 in San Jose, CA, Kevin was awarded the Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award of $50,000 and the Intel ISEF Best of Category (Computer Science) Award of $5,000 and the First Award of $3,000.

EMC ENGINEERING AWARD

(MS) Jethro Swain and Dominic Arce from Bridlemile Elementary School for their project “A wind-powered bicycle light”

(HS) Ramsey McGrath from Wilson High School for his project “Electric Power Transmission Wirelessly Using Microwaves”

COMPUTER SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AWARD

(HS) Vighnesh Shiv from Catlin Gable for his project “BeatHoven:  Automatic Music Transcription Algorithms and Implementation”

At Intel ISEF 2010 in San Jose, CA, Vighnesh was awarded the Computer Science Fourth Award of $500.

TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING AWARD

(HS) Preston Altree from Beaverton High School for his project “Utilizing Electromagnetic Pulses to Safely Disarm the Cell Phone Trigger on Improvised Explosive Devices”