Announcement of the FEKO Student Competition for 2013

The FEKO Student Competition is celebrating 10 successful years! In the first few years of the competition, students had to develop websites to showcase their work. The competition was later expanded to allow other forms of reporting, such as written reports and presentations. The following gives a recap of the winning entries selected over the past 10 years:

1. (2003) Lester Low from Kent University, England, for the project, "The design and simulation of a PIFA Antenna and then solving its radiation pattern when placed inside an automobile". Lester reported by means of a website with pages dedicated to the objectives of the project, the antenna design, verification of the design, antenna placement analysis and the EDITFEKO pre file source code.
2. (2004) Laura Ollino and Luca Manetta from Politecnico di Torino, Italy, with their website presenting the design and simulation of a uniform waveguide slot array antenna.
3. (2005) S. J. Marais from The University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, for his website reporing on his entry "Aperture Coupled Microstrip Antennas".
4. (2006) Michael Buck from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, for his written report on "Two arm sinuous antennas".
5. (2007) Brad Kramer from Ohio State University, USA for his presentation, "Size Reduction of an UWB Low-Profile Spiral Antenna via Inductive Loading".
6. (2008) Markus Birk, Stephan Werker and Jens Holzapfel from the High Frequency Laboratory at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Germany for their report on "Modified Corner Reflection Yagi for Shortwave under Consideration of Building Properties", submitted in article format.
7. (2009) Simone Ledda from the Electronic and Telecommunications Department, Faculty of Engineering, University of Florence, Italy for her website showing the work she performed in FEKO as part of her thesis entitled "Microwave Sensor with Polarization Diversity for Detection of Dielectric Objects".
8. (2010) Christopher Thajudeen from the Center for Advanced Communications, College of Engineering, Villanova University in Pennsylvania, USA, for his report in article format on "From Electrically Small Ultra-Wideband Antennas to Large Scale Building Imaging; Using FEKO to Synthesize Full Building Through-the-Wall Radar Imaging".
9. (2011) Joan Gemio Valero from the Antenna and Microwave Systems Group at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, for his written report entitled "Multiband antennas for a remote sensor network central unit".
10. (2012) Richard Pierce from the Department of Electrical Engineering at The University of Texas at Dallas, USA for his concise written report, "Modified Aperture Bowtie Antenna Created Using FEKO".

Now in its 11th year, the FEKO Student Competition is open to all under-graduates and post-graduates who work on supervised projects in electromagnetic engineering and make use of FEKO. Entries should be the original work of the student and should clearly state the problem, describe the model and solution setup and demonstrate how simulation results were verified, either with measurements or by solving the same problem with other codes or techniques.

There are some great prizes up for grabs – a state-of-the-art laptop computer or attendance to an industry related conference anywhere in the world, to the value of US$ 2000! The supervisor of the winning student will receive an online gift voucher to the value of US$ 400.

“Our distributors and resellers are committed to supporting engineering education and encourage 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. He added that students are most welcome to contact FEKO regarding free licenses for the competition.

Entries must be submitted by the closing date, 30 September 2013.