Competition Awards

1. The Connecticut Business Plan Competition sponsored by the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development (DECD) and the Connecticut Venture Group (CVG):
   
   A group of students (Isack Waserman, Fran Jarnjak and Alexi Georghiou) has entered this competition with their project "The Glove" for determining pressure applied during chiropractic manipulation.
   Out of 42 projects submitted to DECD and CVG, nine were chosen as finalists to compete in the final presentation, which took place April 4, 2002. "The Glove" project won second place, which included a $12,000 prize.
   
   We are very proud of their accomplishments (this is the first time that the University of Bridgeport entered the competition) given the tough competition which included five projects submitted from Yale University.
   
   
2. One of our graduate students, Sivashankar Sangarapillai won third place in the North American Microsoft.net Best Student Competition for his "BrainWebber QA" software implementation. Sivashankar receives a $5000 prize and a trip to TechEd 2002 (April 9 - 13) in New Orleans.
   
   The University of Bridgeport will receive $5000 to the School of Engineering scholarship fund. We are very pleased with Sivashankar Sangarapillai's outstanding placement in this competition.
   
   
3. The entries of five University of Bridgeport student teams have been accepted for presentation in the ASEE (American Society of Engineering Educators) annual regional engineering student paper competition.
   
   
   • Nishant Bhalla, Laith Rashid, Thirupathi Narayanan, Amit Singh - project: "Monitoring Radiation Levels in Cellular Phones"
     
     
   • Biral Patel - project: "Global Education System"
     
     
   • Ayoush Dixit, Bhaskar Bhattarai, Siyuranga Koswatta - project: "Tiny Chip Robot Controller"
     
     
   • Akinbowale Adekeye, Banu Boopalan, Jishnu Guhathakurta, Deepti Shrestha - project: "Voice Application Interface With CS Player"
     
     
   • Uddesh Gajurel, Ajay Shrestha - project: "Firewall Evaluation System"
     
     This number of papers accepted from one university into the competition is a record. The competition was held on April 5 at West Point Military Academy. U.B. students (Puneet Batra and Andrew Rosca) won first and second place in the competition in 2000 and again won the first place in 2001.
     
     
4. Out of more than 300 schools of engineering nationwide and many schools of engineering abroad, U.B.'s School of Engineering has been chosen to compete in the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) CSIDC (Computer Society International Design Competition) after an international evaluation process and received the CSIDC project kit. The student group will be submitting their final hardware implementation by May 4, 2002.
   
   
5. Our students are also entering, for the first time, the International Mentor Graphics Design Competition.

In addition to all of these participations and awards, the School of Engineering has received several professional development grants and two NSF (National Science Foundation) grants to conduct workshops on campus. The first NSF workshop to be conducted on campus was in September 2001, and the topic of the workshop was "Assessment in Engineering Education and ABET Criteria 2000". The second NSF workshop on "Multidisciplinary Design" was held on April 3, 2002.

Furthermore, the School of Engineering is actively pursuing partnerships with several local companies who are represented on the Engineering School Industry Advisory Board. The most recent of these endeavors is a potential collaboration with Dictaphone regarding farming out some of their Research and Development projects to U.B. and for conducting training on site.

We are also hopeful that our strong relationship with Connecticut Venture Group (CVG) will lead to further accomplishments soon.

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