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Big prizes to be won, i.e. the Automation Scholarship competition
Scholarships worth €2,000 as well as Eurail passes allowing you to travel all over Europe await the winners of the Automation Scholarship Competition. And the winners will be those who come up with the most original practical applications of the automation devices of the competition's organiser, Mitsubishi Electric. All applications must be submitted by 16th December 2008.
The competition challenges include using Mitsubishi Automation equipment in an innovative and unusual way to: save energy in an industrial process, create an application of benefit to society or alternatively think up a 'toolbox' for an existing Mitsubishi product. Participants are to select one of these challenges and work on a solution, which is to be submitted in written form, using a standard size font, on no more than five pages. The organisers stress that competition entries must be the entrant's own work.
To enter the competition simply register at: http://www.automation-scholarship.com. Next you only have to accept the competition rules, submit your personal details and attach your proposed solution.
The competition is addressed to the students at universities and colleges of technology in Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Anyone with at least a basic knowledge of electrical engineering can enter, though students from electrical or mechanical engineering faculties are especially welcome.
The competition is divided into three regions: Poland is region 1, Hungary is region 2 and Slovakia and the Czech Republic are region 3. In each region the competition judging panel will select no more than three winners. Each winner will be awarded €2,000, whereas their universities will receive top quality multimedia projectors. Of the three winners in each region, one overall winner will be selected, who will additionally receive two €800 Eurial passes. Moreover, in each region there will be 50 consolation prizes for runners up.
The panels of judges will comprise representatives of the media sponsors and of Mitsubishi Electric as well as independent representatives from the industrial and educational sectors. Each entry will be judged on the criteria of the extent to which it is practical, its perceived advantages and its level of automation, i.e. the degree to which Mitsubishi Electric equipment has been applied. Moreover, the way the entries are actually presented will also be a factor in the judges' overall appraisal.
This is the second time this competition is being held. In the previous competition Gdansk University of Technology students won two of the main prizes. And now, too, we're keeping our fingers crossed for our students!
Further details at: www.automation-scholarship.com at the students' forum: http://www.studentix.pl
Please note! Competition entries must be submitted no later than by Friday, 16th December 2008. The prize giving is planned to take place in February 2009.