FEKO Student Competition

The FEKO Student Competition is organised annually by the FEKO team to support engineering education and to promote innovative academic use of FEKO. Any original FEKO simulation work may be submitted for the competition.

Eligibility

Any under-graduate or post-graduate student at a recognized educational institution, working on a project in EM engineering and making use of FEKO, may enter. Students who would like to start using FEKO in order to enter, are welcome to contact us.

Free access to the CrunchYard large scale computing facility

Entrants might need to run simulations which require more computational resources than what they have access to. Such entrants are welcome to contact us at the email address below to organise access to the CrunchYard large scale computing facility. CrunchYard has kindly agreed to provide free access (with limits determined by them) to their facilities. For more information on FEKO at CrunchYard, see our page on Parallel Processing.

Prize

The winner will have a choice between the following two options, to the value of up to $2000:

1. A notebook computer (specifications dependant on availability at the end of the competition), or
2. An all travel expenses paid trip to an international EM engineering conference of their choice
   

Application Procedure

Submissions must be made before the deadline of 24 September 2010, to student_comp2010@emss.co.za. Results will be announced here on the FEKO website, by 29 October 2010. Submissions should consist of the following:

1. A completed application form (FEKO Student Competition Application Form 2010)
2. A concise report (PDF, DOC or PPT file in either article or slideshow style, or a link to a web page where the project is documented)

Evaluation Criteria

Reports are evaluated with respect to the following criteria:

• Clear definition of the EM problem
• Quality of FEKO models and proper usage of solution options
• Presentation of the results
• Verification of results (i.e. comparison with measurements and/or results from other numerical tools)
• Interpretation of results
• Overall quality of the report
• The EM complexity of the actual problem solved will not be a major consideration
  

Previous Winners

• 2009: Simone Ledda from the Electronic and Telecommunications Department, Faculty of Engineering, University of Florence, Italy. Honourable mention was made of Markus Lehner (Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg Ravensburg and EADS Military Air Systems [training company], Germany), Bennie Jacobs (University of Pretoria, South Africa) and Gideon Wiid (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa).
• 2008: Markus Birk, Stephan Werker and Jens Holzapfel from the High Frequency Laboratory at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences.  Special mention awards were made to Shaun Walker (University of Kansas-Missouri City) and Yijun Zhou (Ohio State University).
• 2007: Brad Kramer from Ohio State University. Special mention awards were made to Kichul Kim (University of Colorado, Boulder), Gideon Wiid (University of Stellenbosch) and Taeyoung Yang (Virginia Tech).
• 2006: Michael Buck from Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder is awarded the Student Prize for his for his work on Two Arm Sinuous Antennas. The Educational Institute Prize has been awarded to the Prof Jim Breakall (Antenna & Radio Engineering Lab), Pennsylvania State University.

• 2005: S. J. Marais from The University of Stellenbosch

• 2004: Laura Ollino and Luca Manetta from Politecnico di Torino

• 2003: Lester Low from Kent University