Student Competitions
There are two registrations that students need to be aware of; conference registration and competition registration.
All students competing in student competitions must register for both the conference and the competition.
Discord Server For Discussion Of Competitions And Event: https://discord.gg/TRb5N9W9QU
Competition Winners
Third Place – North Carolina A&T
Second Place – Virginia Tech University
First Place – University of Kentucky
Open Hardware Competition Winners
Second Place – Competitive Robotics Organization at Virginia Tech won 2nd place
First Place – West Point
This year’s hardware competition is an exciting theme robotics competition. A hurricane has damaged Duck Gardens. Robots will compete to rebuild Duck Gardens and re-open the park. Please look below for a link to the rules. Also included are some helpful templates and a fantastic presentation on building the arena. Please post comments and questions directly on the discord site or email the competition chair at the email in the rules.
Some fundraising tips.
- Find if there are grants at your university to apply for and get that out of the way.
- Ask your department if they are willing to help you with
- Are there ways in your college on your department to “volunteer” and get the promise for sponsorship out of it (Help setting up the career fair or similar things)
- Look for companies in your community that might be able to help you with arts/tools/machine time/financially. start talking to them.
- Finally, reach out to your section and build a relationship. If you report to IEEE, the section gets money for you. Make sure to ask how you can apply for this money to help you travel/participate in IEEE SoutheastCon 2023
04/14
19:00 – 00:00 – Practice
12:00 – 08:00 – Qualification Inspection
20:00 – 20:30 – Hardware Captains Meeting. This is MANDATORY for all hardware captains to attend. Location: Lake Hart
04/15
01:00 – 06:30 – Practice
07:00 – 08:00 – Qualification Inspection and Sequestration
08:00 – 14:00 – Competition Day: Qualifying and then Semi-Finals for the Main and Open Competition.
18:00 – 20:00 – Finals for the Main and Open Competition during the Awards Banquet.
V 3.0 Rules – Released On 11/1/2022
Competition Winners
Third Place – University of Florida
Second Place – Georgia Tech University
First Place – Mercer
This year’s software competition is a great problem set of challenges to exercise your design and programming talents! You will be able to develop code in several different languages on several problems. You can choose which language you want to use for each problem.
Some fundraising tips.
- Find if there are grants at your university to apply for and get that out of the way.
- Ask your department if they are willing to help you with
- Are there ways in your college on your department to “volunteer” and get the promise for sponsorship out of it (Help setting up the career fair or similar things)
- Look for companies in your community that might be able to help you with arts/tools/machine time/financially. start talking to them.
- Finally, reach out to your section and build a relationship. If you report to IEEE, the section gets money for you. Make sure to ask how you can apply for this money to help you travel/participate in IEEE SoutheastCon 2023
Please see the rules below. These are the final draft of the rules. If you have comments or questions, please get in touch with the student competitions chair. Please find the chair’s email in the rules. The deadline for comments on the rules is February 15th, 2023.
Software Competition Schedule
08:00 – Competition Starts
12:00 – Competition Ends
V 2.3 Rules – Released On 02/28/2022
Competition Winners
Third Place – University of Florida
Second Place – University of North Florida
First Place – Alabama A&M University
First Place Graduate Ethics – University of Alabama Birmingham
Click here to register a team for the Ethics competition: Ethics Registration Form
Click here for the prompt for this years ethics competition: 2023 Engineering Ethics Case
POC: bailey.u.heyman@gmail.com
In the IEEE Region 3 Ethics Competition, IEEE students will be provided with an engineering ethics case, a
set of deliverables, and timeline. Students will be able to start working on the deliverables in advance of
Southeast Con and will then attend Southeast Con for a final segment of the competition. The
competition will be student self driven for the deliverables the students prepare in advance of Southeast
Con.
Key Dates
January 1st , 2023 Registration for the Ethics Competition opens.
Friday March 24th, 2023 Competition case will be released and teams can start working on the competition deliverables.
Monday April 3rd, 2023 Teams submit their presentation video and slides by 11 PM EST. Registration for the Ethics competition closes at this time. Note that students will have until March 30th to register for the Southeast Con Conference.
—–Southeast Con 2023 is April 13th – 16th ——
Friday April 14th, 2023 Teams will be on site at Southeast Con and will meet with judges for a 20 minute Q&A about their deliverables/presentation at their assigned time slot. Time slots will be set up with the teams in advance. Make sure to be checking emails to see when to set up a time slot.
Competition Process
1. Create your team and register for the Ethics competition.
Students can compete in teams of 1-3 students. A maximum of 2 teams can participate from the same student branch.
2. On Friday March 24th 2023, all registered students will receive an email with the Ethics challenge.
3. Conduct and record a presentation with a qualified audience. Criteria for audience members and presentation format can be found in the “Presentation” section of these rules
4. Submit presentation by 11 PM EST on April 3rd, 2023.
5. Attend SoutheastCon and be prepared to answer follow up questions from a panel of judges.
Information and time slots will be released to students by April 10th
Presentation Requirements
Each team must organize and record a presentation to a live audience of at least 5 people. Details on what must be covered in the presentation will be states in the ethics challenge. It is on the students to find their audience members and schedule their presentation with them. The requirements on who qualifies to be an audience member is that they must belong to at least one of the following categories:
a) University faculty/staff
b) IEEE Professional member
c) Professional in a technical industry
You must email your audience a copy of your presentation slides prior to the start of your presentation. The length of the presentations must be between 10-12 minutes. You must then allow for a Q&A session with your audience and each audience member should ask at least 1 question. You then must allow for a feedback session and open the floor for any of your audience members to give you feedback if they would
like. The presentation, Q&A session, and feedback session should also be captured in your recording. Disqualifications may be made by mutual consent of SAC. Causes include, but are not limited to, unethical behavior during the competition and academic dishonesty.
Click here to submit your teams presentation: Ethics Presentation Submission
Competition Winners
Third Place – University of Kentucky
Second Place – Tennessee Tech
First Place – University of Florida
Click here to register your team for the circuit design competition.
Overview:
For the circuit design competition, teams will be provided with a technical problem to solve, and all equipment and resources to be able to solve the problem, and an allotment of time in which they must complete the task. This will be the first year that SoutheastCon will have the circuit design competition.
If you are considering participating in the Circuit Design Competition please fill out the skill set survey at: https://forms.gle/pLBeZTuTY3e7UiTr8
Team information:
Each university is allowed to submit 1 team. The maximum number of students allowed on the team is 3.
IEEE SoutheastCon Circuit Design Competition 2023
What you need to know beforehand
A three-hour competition, 2-5PM Friday April 14, 2023 – Lake Hart Room
For this challenge, you will be charged with developing a proof-of-concept prototype. Based on design criteria, this device will take some defined input, that input will be processed by a circuit you design and fed into an ESP32 board. The processor will manipulate that input with the code you write and the output will also have to be processed by another circuit you design. That output will then be fed into another device that is provided. Some programming will need to be done for the ESP32 using the Arduino IDE. Some example code will be provided to help you in that task. The processing of the input and output may require the use of interface modules, op-amps, and transistors as well as resistors and capacitors. Parts of this design may require a knowledge of filters and signal processing. Teams may bring up to one laptop apiece. The software to be announced may be installed on one or all laptops. Laptops should have Wi-Fi capability as you will want to make use of the Internet for resources.
This is a real-life simulation, and you are free to use outside knowledge resources but the work of the team must be your own. You can phone a friend, but they can’t do the work for you.
Some of the software will require Windows 10/11 while other can use a Mac or Linux machine.
You will need to document your circuitry as well as demonstrate its operation. A laptop will need to have a word processing program (Word or equivalent) and we will provide you the access to a student edition of OrCAD schematic design software with Spice (the software also does PCB layout but we will not be laying out a PC board). There is also a PC interface to the handheld oscilloscope / DMM that will be available.
All software links will be provided to teams on Friday, April 7 by 5PM.
Scoring:
This project, like any other, is on a budget. You will start out with a certain number of points. You will gain points by demonstrating each design challenge as well as documenting them. You will be provided with a set of basic tools, supplies, and equipment as well as parts – but you may need to ‘buy’ more parts or equipment with points (including replacing parts you ‘fried’ by applying excess or improper voltage). You can also gain points by completing your project early. And there may be the opportunity for extra points for adding ‘enhancements’ to your project. The exact criteria for all of these will be explained in detail at the project inception at 2PM Friday April 14.
Limits:
We are limiting this to 10 undergraduate teams this year as we are learning this new but fun competition. We may allow a few more as well as graduate teams if we have resources (TBD). There are currently 6 teams registered. Please keep in mind that this is new to all of us so excuse any hiccups that may occur.
As we are late getting this out, we will extend the registration a day until 5PM April 6.
Competition Winners
Third Place – John Harris, Tennessee Tech
Second Place – Anthony Cole, The Citadel
First Place – Ronald Reif, The Citadel
Click here to register for the networking competition.
The IEEE Region 3 Networking Competition is an opportunity for IEEE student members to develop networking skills through feedback provided by Networking Competition Judges in order to mirror the experience of presenting pitches during real world job fairs.
Overview
Eligible judges (primarily IEEE professionals) will be provided with a “networking judge button” when they check into the conference. For the duration of the conference, any time someone has a judge button on, it will indicate that they are available if a student wants to stop them and give their elevator pitch. The judge will grade the pitch with a rubric and the student will email in the completed rubric. This competition is great for all students at SoutheastCon as it does not interfere with any other competition or activity at SoutheastCon.
Whenever the attendee has the button on, then it will mean they are open for students to come up to them and do their elevator pitch. The students will self-drive the steps below during this time frame to present their pitches to Networking Competition Judge.
Click here for the full rules of the networking competition.
Undergraduate Competition Winners
Third Place – Conor McCarthy, Virginia Military Institute
Second Place – James Ratcliffe, The Citadel
First Place – Binh Tran, Virginia Military Institute
Graduate Competition Winners
Third Place – Ge Song University of South Carolina
Second Place – Mohammad Nasser, Kennesaw State University
First Place – Ahmed S.Soliman, Florida International University
The student presentation competition will have two categories: graduate and undergraduate
presentations. Each category will have three award levels: first, second, and third. Students in each
category will be judged by a separate panel of judges. Students participating in the presentation
competition will have to submit an abstract in the template provided for the presentation. The abstract
will have one student author. Multiple student authors per presentation will not be allowed. The
selected students will be required to provide a 15-minute presentation of their project at the
conference. All presentations will be carried out in person.
The Deadline To Submit Was February 28, 2023
Competition Winners
Third Place
Mercer University – T-Shirt
University of Southern Indiana – Lab Coat
Bethune-Cookman University – Website
University of Alabama Huntsville – Fireworks
Second Place
Bethune-Cookman – T-Shirt
University of Florida – Lab Coat
University of Florida – Website
Tennessee Tech – Fireworks
First Place
University of Kentucky – T-Shirt
Virginia Tech – Lab Coat
North Carolina A&T State University – Website
North Carolina A&T – Fireworks
Click here to register for the promotional design competition.
Click here for the full rules of the promotional design competition.
Starting 2022, the T-Shirt Design Competition is being expanded to allow non T-Shirt entries and is being updated to the name ‘Student Branch Promotional Competition’. Aside from offering more opportunities, this change will not impact you if your branch has been following the 2021 T-Shirt competition rules.
The Region 3 Student Branch Promotional Competition will be held annually in conjunction with SoutheastCon. The competition is open to all Region 3 Student Branches, which can submit any of the following:
- T-Shirt design (one submission per branch)
- Lab coat (one submission per branch)
- Student branch website (one submission per branch)
- Fireworks (one submission per branch)
Competition Winners
Second Place – The Citadel
First Place – University of Florida