IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine - July 2015 - 31

Future Directions

Mobile Power Initiative
Moves into Second Year
By Tom Coughlin, Lee Stogner, and Peter Corcoran

he Safe Advanced Mobile Power
(SAMP) Initiative began in 2014
with two SAMP workshops. One
was held in the summer in San
Jose, California, and the other was in Galway, Ireland, in December. A white paper
was written on this topic and is available
on the SAMP Web page on the IEEE Consumer Electronics (CE) Society Web site.
In January 2015, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine published an article on
the group activities and the white paper.
The 2014 SAMP Initiative was supported
by a grant from the IEEE Future Directions Committee as well as the CE Society.
Tom Coughlin, vice president of
Future Directions, led the SAMP effort
in 2014. This year, Lee Stogner is heading up this effort. Lee is launching a
mobile power flipbook similar to the
transportation electrification flipboard
that he has supported for several years as
part of the IEEE Transportation Electrification initiative. You can read the new
IEEE Battery flipbook supporting the
SAMP efforts at https://flipboard.
com/@stogner/ieee-battery-ledl8fs0z.
Lee will also coordinate the 2015 workshops as well as the student design contests associated with these workshops,
which are described here.

SAMP Student
deSign ConteStS
In 2015, we received additional funding
from the IEEE Future Directions
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Date of publication: 15 July 2015

Committee to carry on student design
contests during 2015 associated with
mobile power sources and mobile power
management. We are calling these the
Mobile Power Design Contest. We plan
to carry out two competitions in the fall
of 2015. The first will be in the San Jose
and will be associated with a follow-up
workshop on the SAMP Initiative. The
second will be in November in Dublin,
Ireland, associated with our second

The 2014 SAMP
Initiative was supported
by a grant from the
IEEE Future Directions
Committee as well as
the CE Society.

SAMP Workshop.The competitions will
be open to higher-level undergraduates
and graduate students.
There will be prizes for the top three
winners of each design contest and recognition of the winners from the three
contests at the 2016 IEEE International
Conference on Consumer Electronics in
Las Vegas in January 2016. The first,
second, and third prizes in each design
contest will be US$2,000, US$1,000,
and US$500, respectively. The rules for
the contest are as follows:
▼ The SAMP student design contest
will include the design of a mobile

application with significantly improved
power efficiency.
▼ There will be extra credit given in
the contest for designs that incorporate an improved energy source for
the mobile device (such as advanced
batteries, fuel cells, energy harvesting, or directed power).
▼ In all cases, the design must be able
to meet safety requirements common
for mobile consumer applications
(contestants should read the SAMP
white paper for guidance on these
requirements at http://cesoc.ieee.org/
futuredirections/sampw.html in the
related links).
▼ Participants can be single students or
teams of students.
▼ The contestants will be required to
write a paper of no more than ten
pages on their design and should be
ready to demonstrate the design during the competition.
▼ Judging will be done by a panel of
experts on mobile technologies and
mobile power.
▼ The winning student papers may be
published in IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine or IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, if
appropriate.
Students who wish to participate in
the Mobile Power Design Contest
must submit a participation form by
31 July 2015. (See "IEEE Mobile
Power Design Contest Application.")
All contestants will be responsible for
their own travel to participate in
the contest.

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