The CDEN-09 Organizing Committee is pleased to announce the Second Annual Student Design Contest. Full-time graduate and undergraduate students are invited to present a design that they have performed while at the university. Suitable designs caninclude class projects, research projects or spare-time projects. Students will present their posters during the student poster session. A schedule of poster presentations will be made available prior to the conference.
Winning entry will be awarded $500 prize. Top three entries will receive certificates of recognition.
All submissions must include:
A list of the participants in the design,
The affiliations of the participants,
The reason for the design (class work, thesis work, etc.),
The need being addressed and an idea of its importance and prevalence,
Sufficient documentation and illustrative material to permit assessment of the design and the manner in which it was conducted,
A brief description of the design process used,
An assessment by the student and design team of the strengths and weaknesses of the design process.
A poster not to exceed 1m wide by 1.5m tall.
In addition, you must complete for each submission and send to the Conference Chair a Right To Publish form, granting permission to publish the submission in the Conference Proceedings.The address of the Conference Chair is:
Vladimir Mahalec
Conference Chair, CDEN-09
GMC
Centre for Engineering Design
1280 Main Street West,
McMaster University
Hamilton, ON ITB 107
Fax: 905-528-7901