Session 1: Student Paper Contest

1. Who can compete?

This contest is open to students and graduates who do not start their PhD study, and they must be IEEE student members and IEEE graduate student members in the local student branch. 

Normally, if you became an IEEE student member when you studied at the University of Birmingham, you will automatically get enrolled in the local IEEE Student Branch. (Not sure whether you are a student member in our student branch? Ask us via ‘Contact us’ menu and we will help check your membership)

2. What is required for participating in the competition?

An abstract (maximum 100 words) and a paper (maximum 6 pages) need to be submitted by 18th November. Only IEEE student members and IEEE graduate student members are allowed to be authors of the SPC papers. Each author has to be a member of an IEEE R8 Student Branch at the time of the original submission of the paper to the Branch Contest and a member (student or not) of the IEEE at the time of the oral presentation. The work presented has to be completed before the student starts their PhD study, and the submission of the paper to the Region 8 Contest must be completed within 12 months after graduation. A doctoral thesis is not considered.

Once you are informed that your paper is accepted for the student paper contest, you will be asked to give a 15-minute presentation on 23rd Nov (virtually or in person), followed by 5-10 minutes of Q&A session. Your paper and presentation will be assessed and ranked.

Papers should cover technical and engineering aspects of a subject reasonably within or related to the areas with which the IEEE is concerned with. The work need not be original in engineering content, but should be original in treatment and concise in coverage of the author’s contribution to the subject. Example topics:

• Electrical Engineering
  • Power engineering
  • Control engineering
  • Electronic engineering
  • Microelectronics
  • Signal processing
  • Telecommunications engineering
  • Instrumentation engineering
  • Electro-Optical Engineering
• Computer Engineering
  • Computer Architecture
  • Computing for Development
  • Data Science
  • Data Management and Visualization
  • Image Processing
  • Molecular Information Systems
  • Robotics
  • Security and Privacy
  • Systems and Networking
  • Theory of Computation
  • Ubiquitous Computing
  • Wireless and Sensor Systems

3. Detailed Rules, e.g., paper layout and grading:

https://ieeer8.org/category/student-activities/sa-spc/

https://ieeer8.org/student-activities/sa-announcements/student-paper-contest-2023-call-for-papers/

4. Prize:

1st: Amazon gift card (worth £80)

2nd: Amazon gift card (worth £50)

3rd: Amazon gift card (worth £20)

Besides, the 1st winner’s paper will be submitted to the regional Student Paper Contest to compete, and then the five finalist papers are being included in the conference  proceedings as well as in IEEE Xplore Library. Electronic versions of the finalists’ papers will also be published in the IEEE Region 8 SAC web pages. The final five winners of the regional SPC will be invited to present their papers at the IEEE R8 flagship conference EUROCON 2023 in Turin, Italy, on July 6-8, 2023, which will be funded.

Click on this link to check the past winners: https://ieeer8.org/category/student-activities/sa-spc/sa-spc-hall-of-fame/

5. Submission:

Please follow this link to submit the abstract and paper by 18th November: https://forms.gle/fbbvkcHuUG6T9EU98

Session 2: Student Open Presentation Competition

1. Who can compete?

All undergraduate and postgraduate students in power and energy area are welcome to participate in the Open Presentation Competition.

2. What is required for participating in the competition?

An abstract (maximum 250 words) needs to be submitted by 18th November.

Once you are informed that your paper is accepted for the student open presentation competition, you will be asked to give a 15-minute presentation during the event (slides need to be submitted before the event), followed by 5-10 min Q&A session. Your presentation will be assessed and ranked. You can participate in the competition virtually or in person.

Presentations should cover technical and engineering aspects of a subject reasonably within or related to the areas with which the IEEE Power and Energy Society is concerned with.

Example topics of the presentation:

• Transmission advancement for decarbonization
  • How Transmission should evolve to support decarbonization
  • Building out the transmission system to support renewable development
  • Offshore Wind/Solar
  • Energy Storage
  • Integrating inverter-based resources into the BPS
  • Responsibility for negative sequence injection (IEEE 2800)
  • Need for the advancement of transmission planning
• Communications & Cyber Security
  • Communications infrastructure in support of the grid and IOT/development of the support grid
  • Cyber security (related to the above topic)
  • Challenges and opportunities for digital twin (IOT)/digitization
• Novel Approaches & Emerging Technologies To Support System Operation
  • Tools for operating the new grid
  • Physics-informed machine learning for power systems
  • Move from SF6 to Vacuum tech
  • Role of AI to prevent and maintain the dynamic security of the power system
• Integration of DERs, EVs, and BTM Resources
  • Infrastructure support of distributed generation
  • DER integration/EV charging/BTM impacts on system ops
  • How Distribution should evolve to support decarbonization
  • Energy storage
  • Not all generation is created equal

3. Prize:

1st: Amazon gift card (worth £50)

2nd: Amazon gift card (worth £30)

3rd: Amazon gift card (worth £20)

Besides, hard copies of certificates will be provided to winners.

4. Submission:

Please follow this link to submit the abstract by 18th November: https://forms.gle/fbbvkcHuUG6T9EU98