■ ■ FigurE 7. Team Resonance_1011 received the grand prize. Participants' thoughts Whether moderating the discussions online or attending the final competition at ICASSP, we could feel the enthusiasm and dedications from the participants. Amid the understandably intense competition, one could also sense a bond, and a community formed between students of different teams through the SP Cup endeavor. Here we highlight a few words from the finalist teams as each team reflected on their journey. Team Resonance_1011 Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) has had a team as a finalist in every SP Cup so far-and this year, Team Resonance_1011 (see Figure 7) received the grand prize! What an impressive performance and persistent engagement! Three students from this year's BUET team had also participated in the previous SP Cup competition and spoke enthusiastically of the rewarding experiences gained from this unique journey of learning and professional growth. ■ "The SP Cup was a great learning curve indeed both times I participated. It taught us to work as a team and follow a stringent time schedule"- Sayeed Shafayet Chowdhury ■ "Since this time the task was on a broader scale and we had a team com- FigurE 8. Team Hammer Down won second prize and a special recognition for original algorithm. 154 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine | September 2016 | prising of ten students from different classes, we split up our work and tried to have online contacts regularly, besides having meetings with our supervisor, thus boosting our teamwork capabilities"-Billal Hossain "This year we had hardware tasks too... We realized it was possible to take a much simpler approach [than using complex components and boards]. ... We were able to devise an extremely low cost (lower than US$5) sensing circuit that provides a perfectly adequate output."-Ratul Khan and Munif Ishad Mujib "The SP Cup has profound impacts on our students. Through the competition, they get to know how fundamental signal processing algorithms are used to solve a real and complicated signal processing problem. They also need to explore many advanced signal processing areas outside their text books. They become familiar with signal processing journals and conference proceedings. We have also been able to attract some good and talented students to signal processing research through their participation in the SP Cup....Each SP Cup gave me the opportunity to work on a new signal processing application. It increases my depth and breadth of knowledge that is really helpful for teaching signal processing courses."-Mohammad Ariful Haque, faculty mentor.