FEKO 2014 Student Design Competition Begins

The Prizes First prize: Paid attendance for the winner to an international electromagnetics related conference of his/her choice, including travel and accommodation costs up to the value of US$2000 OR a state-of-the-art laptop computer up to the value of US$2000. Supervisor prize: The supervisor of the student who wins the first prize will receive an online store gift voucher to the value of US$400. Other prizes: Further gift vouchers may be awarded to other entrants at the judges’ discretion. The winning student will receive recognition on the FEKO website. Other entrants also stand the chance of getting their name, entry and school mentioned in the results announcement. Eligibility and Entering The competition is open to any student using FEKO whilst enrolled at an accredited college or university. Enter by submitting the following before 30 September 2014: • Online registration form: The online registration form requires a title and brief summary of the project, the first name, family name and contact information of the entrant, the college or university attended and the name and contact details of the entrant’s supervisor. • Short report or presentation on the work involving FEKO (PDF document) Students who do not have access to FEKO and are applying for a temporary FEKO licence need to fill out the registration form when applying for a licence. Their report can be submitted separately via e-mail at a later stage during the competition entry period. Students with access to FEKO can fill out the registration form and submit their entry at any time during the competition entry period. Judging Criteria Submissions will be reviewed by a panel of judges and 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 • Interpretation of results • Overall quality of the report The complexity of the EM problem studied will not be the major consideration for judgement. Rules & Questions Rules: View the full competition rules at http://www.feko.info/about-us/student-competition. Questions? E-mail inquiries to feko_competition@emss.co.za

Getting Brains into Gear with the FEKO Student Competition

The popular FEKO Student Competition is once again open to all under-graduates and post-graduates who work on a supervised project in electromagnetic engineering and make use of FEKO. This annual competition is an opportunity for students to showcase their work.

There are some attractive prizes up for grabs – a state-of-the-art laptop computer or attendance to an industry related conference anywhere in the world! Online gift vouchers are also up for grabs for the winning student’s supervisor.

"Our distributors and resellers around the world are committed to supporting engineering education and encourage the students in their regions to enter.

By using FEKO they gain experience with a leading CEM tool that is widely used in industry," explains Ulrich Jakobus, Director of EM Software & Systems–S.A. Institutions can apply for free Classroom Licenses for FEKO, which helps students to learn the basic electromagnetic principles or to investigate the finer intricacies of the different CEM techniques. The hybridisation of these techniques enable advanced research that would not be possible with a code that relies on a single technique.

"The memory limit on classroom licenses is now 1 GByte which enables the demonstration of larger problems to students and is also more suitable for use by students in their individual projects," says Gronum Smith, Team Leader Marketing at EMSS.

He added that students are most welcome to contact FEKO regarding free licenses for the competition.

Chenchen Li from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA was the 2013 winner with his presentation entitled "Dynamic Radar Signatures of Wind Turbines – Simulation and Measurement". Chenchen investigated the dynamic backscattering of a single small wind turbine. http://www.feko.info/about-us/News/feko-student-competition-results-for-2013

More information along with the T's & C's can be found at www.feko.info.

About FEKO and EM Software & Systems-S.A. (Pty) Ltd.

FEKO® (www.feko.info) is a comprehensive computational electromagnetics code (CEM code) that is used widely in the telecommunications, automobile, space and defence industries. FEKO® offers several solution techniques (MoM, MLFMM, PO, Ray Launching GO, UTD and FEM) under a single licence.

Hybridisation of these techniques enables the efficient analysis of a very broad spectrum of EM problems e.g. 3D antenna design, antenna placement on electrically large structures, microstrip-antennas, microstrip-circuits, EMC, biomedical and scattering. With the MLFMM, and the true hybridisation of the solvers, FEKO® is considered the global market leader for antenna placement analysis.

FEKO® has a well-established global distribution and technical support network with subsidiary companies in North America, Europe, China and representatives in 8 other countries. EMSS (www.emss.co.za) was started in 1994 as an engineering company consulting in general electromagnetic problems.

Posted  April 25, 2014