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The ASEE-GSW conference was held last month at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. It was attended by a number of regional schools including Lamar University, Texas Southern University, Texas A&M at Qatar, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, University of Texas at San Antonio, Southern University at Baton Rouge. Entrants were required to create a poster to present their physical projects and submit a written technical paper. The College of Technology stole the show. Due to a large crowd of other interested attendees, some of the judges were forced to wait patiently to simply to get an opportunity to speak with the teams about their entries. Several judges admitted to assuming the team’s members were Ph.D. or master’s level students because of the high-quality of the presentations. "Education is a life-long learning journey. Getting a college degree is the easy part! How you keep up with the advances in technology and keep your skills sharp is the tough one," said the student’s project advisor, Farrokh Attarzadeh, associate professor of engineering technology. The winning paper entitled, Network Controlled Data Acquisition Drone, was prepared during the fall semester by senior computer engineering technology students Michael Alegre, Robie Calong, Dragon Siljegovic, and Juan Hernandez, a fall 2007 graduate. And the second place paper, Active Vehicle Water Level Monitoring System, was written by seniors Rafael Gijon, Amador Salazar and Matthew Moreno, a fall 2007 graduate. "In a study we performed in 2004 of some 400+ schools that have a senior project class, it was determined that only three schools in the nation came close to what we do here at UH. The awards our students received are a solid testimony of that. These honors are the fuel that encourage and inspire more students to go beyond the course requirements," Attarzadeh said. Students in the senior project class were sponsored by the Dean’s office and the Department of Engineering Technology. Monetary awards will be presented to the top three winners. |
The UH College of Technology made a lasting impression at the American Society for Engineering Education’s Gulf Southwest Annual Conference when its student teams gave exceptional presentations of their senior research projects--ultimately leading them to become the first and second place winners of the Student Paper Competition. This was the first time that senior project students in the computer engineering technology program competed in this event.