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2020 CASS COVID-19 Special Student Design Competition
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s part of the response to the global pandemic
situation, IEEE CASS launched the 2020 CASS
COVID-19 special student design competition,
aiming to create technology solutions aligned with
Circuits and Systems to help break the infection
chain of the COVID-19 virus. The technologies can
be geared for diagnostics, treatment, surveillance,
and prevention, targeted for specific communities or
the public at large. Sponsored by industry partner Synopsys,
the competition launched in May 2020, gained
worldwide interests with 18 initial submissions. Each
student team submitted their demonstration videos
and reports, showing the solution's highlights and its
alignment to the Circuits and Systems technology. After
careful technical evaluation, the 18-strong judging
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committee panels representing university and industry
has recommended the winner, first and second runnerup
as follows:
Winner: Low-Cost Artificial Ventilator with Embedded
Artificial Intelligence Monitoring, University de Toulon,
France.
First runner-up: Intelliscope: A Low-Cost AI-powered
Stethoscope for Cardiovascular Disease Management in
Resource-Constrained Environments, University of Moratuwa,
Sri Lanka
Second runner-up: RespDetect: A Smart Mask to
Monitor COVID-19 Symptoms, University of Rhode Island,
USA
More information on the competition can be found
here: https://ieee-cas.org/2020-cass-covid-19-special
-student-design-competition
Source: CASS COVID-19 Special SDC organization
committee
IEEE CASS Member Sanjit Mitra is Elected to the Corresponding
(International) Member of the Academia Nacional de Engenharia (ANE)
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cademia Nacional de Engenharia (ANE) was
founded in 1991, thus it is celebrating 30 years
this year. The Brazilian Academy of Engineering
operates much like the US National academy of
Engineering (NAE), with high-level contacts with top
academic institutions, and serving as an engineering advisory
body to the Brazilian government. It meets regularly,
and has several technical committees to address
pressing issues related to engineering and technology. It
also supports and helps coordinate events on technical
and policy aspects, with a Brazilian or Latin American
Scope, in a few cases in collaboration with the US NAE.
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Professor Sanjit K. Mitra has graduated five PhD students
from Brazil including one from UC Davis and five
from UC Santa Barbara of which four are faculty members
at universities in Brazil. The election of members to
the Academy is carried out in compliance with its own
regulations, in which all stages that candidates must attend
are foreseen. The process starts with the presentation
of a proposal signed by a group of full members of
the Academy, duly instructed, submitted to the Selection
Committee. The latter may or may not respond to the
request and, with the opinion of the Ethics Committee,
proceeds to final approval in the Plenary Session of the
Academy, specially called for this decision. There are
only 12 Corresponding (International) Members of the
academy with Professor Mitra being the 12th member.
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