Best Student Award 2011

Call for participation

VKII announces the launch and call for participation of its 6th VKII-Best Student Award (VKII-BSA). This is an annual prize awarded to the best 3 participants in an international contest for undergraduate and graduate students with Cameroonian origin worldwide.
It offers an opportunity for competition of different innovative researches in engineering and computer science in solving everyday problems. In an effort to encourage and reward female student participation, VKII also offers a special price VKII-Best Female Student Award (VKII-BFA) which goes to the best female of the award contest.
Founded 2000 in Frankfurt, VKII (Verein Kamerunischer Ingenieure und Informatiker) is an Association of Cameroonian Engineers and Computer Scientists in Germany with activities across the world. Among its main goals, VKII identifies and assigns technically oriented professionals to tackle serious and urgent problems faced in various fields of technology both in Cameroon and abroad. In order to establish a genuine link for technology transfer, the association has set a board of experts which deals with institutions such as universities, industries and vocational training schools.

Goals

The goals of the VKII-Best Student Award consist of the following:

1. Highlight and reward high quality work from students in engineering, computer sciences and related fields
2. Encourage university/college students to explore engineering and computer science opportunities and improve their individual skills from
system level design down to implementation
3. Engage university/college teachers and students in the examination of their thesis topics
4. Challenge university/college students to strengthen their creativity skills
5. Help students to establish first contacts with professionals and researchers in the related fields

Eligibility & Guidelines for 2011

Eligibility for this contest entails the submission of a summarized paper presenting an original research/thesis/dissertation performed by either a Bachelor or Master Degree (or Diploma) student of Cameroonian origin in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Energy Engineering, Electrical Engineering and all related science and engineering fields. A work performed by a group of students with at least one being of Cameroonian origin is equally accepted. The summary should be submitted by latest 15th of December 2011. The submission should be a summary of a work and not the complete thesis
All submitted works must have been initiated by the 1st of July 2010 and the bulk of the work must have been performed at a university/college between the 1st of July 2010 and the 30th of November 2011. The submitted paper should describe either a conceptual work aimed at solving a given problem in engineering or computer science or a practical implementation solving a novel problem.

Some guidelines to follow during submission are outlined:

- Your work must be submitted via the VKII-BSA email address Cette adresse email est protégée contre les robots des spammeurs, vous devez activer Javascript pour la voir. .

- Each submitted paper should have a maximum of six A4 pages using font lower limit of 10pt.
- Use attached MS Word template VKII-BSA 2011 - Submission Template.doc to make your write-up.
- Submissions are preferred as a PDF file but MS Word files (*.doc and *.docx) are also accepted. In any case, the attached template format
must be respected.
- A proof of your studentship is required and should accompany the submitted paper.

The following criteria will be evaluated: presentation, logic, structure, clarity of argumentations and pertinence of the conclusion. It is highly recommended that the author(s) show the utility of their work for the future of less developed African countries.

All participants will be notified on the outcome of their results using their submission email by the 30th of Januar 2012.

VKII-Student Awards

The VKII-Best Student Award first 3 prizes along with the VKII-Best Female Student Award will be awarded to the winners and handed over to them during the VKII Symposium in Mai 2012 in Dortmund (Germany).

The winners will be asked to present a summary of their work during the award ceremony. They would have 15 minute to do so; 10 minutes for the presentation and 5 min for Q&A. Additional, information may be requested from the winners to supplement their contribution especially if he/she cannot be present at the award ceremony.

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