Summary of the 2007 Rex Johns Student Presentation Prize
The 2007 IET Student Papers Night was an informative and well fought event with six excellent presentations. Each SA university nominated two presenters for the event who competed for the chance to represent South Australia in the interstate competition. The winner of the Australian competition will present for Australia at the international event in the UK (competition attendance expenses paid by the IET). On the night the judges struggled to agree on the top three presenters, because of the consistently high standard of presentation, but eventually made the following awards:
- In 3rd place Emily O’Brien (Flinders University) who presented her project; an instrument to measure articular cartilage stiffness.
- In 2nd place Sunil D’Souza (University of Adelaide) who presented his team’s project; a GSM payphone.
- And in 1st place Emilio De Stefano (University of SA) who presented his team’s project; airship telemetry.
Awards of $100, $200 and $400 were made for 3rd, 2nd and 1st respectively on the night and presentation certificates will go out to all of those who took part in the event.
Mr Rex Johns, the founder of the competition, attended the evening and presented the prize money to the winners. It was encouraging to see a top three position going to each of the three universities as it indicated the high calibre of engineering students at all of the universities and bodes well for the national and future competitions.
Presenters in the above image from left to right in the bottom left picture on the web site - Rob Baginski (Overhead imaging platform, University of Adelaide), Sunil D’Souza (GSM payphone, University of Adelaide), Emilio De Stefano (Airship telemetry, University of SA), Emily O’Brien (an instrument to measure articular cartilage stiffness, Flinders University), Nathan Grocke (integration of a commercial digital camera into an automated vision system, University of SA) and James Galdes (autonomous underwater vehicle - 6 DOF inertial measurement unit, Flinders University).
