IEEE Xtreme Programming Project RESULTS

Congrats to Adam, Luke, and Chris St. John for placing 44th out 130 teams internationally, in the IEEE Xtreme Programming Competition.

Chapter News Update: 4/10/08

• SA gave us $10,000 for the solar car. The plan is to appeal for more money.
•  All non-senior design projects will be developed through IEEE for solar car.
• Adam Schoenwald will be setting up the microprocessor and LCD for the holiday project.

IEEE Xtreme Programming Project: UPDATE 6 (3/8/2008 6:42 PM)

Hello follow SUNY NP E&CE students,
Yes, we made it thru 24 hrs and we are still here. ;-)) And get this: we have submitted a total of 6 solutions.

Congratulations to the three "Xteremists" and the supporters!! You did us proud.

Around 11 AM this morning, we received the final booklet which contained 2 more problems. This brings up to a total of 16 problems over the 24 hrs period. Here is the final two problems. Check it out and have some fun.

There are 125 teams from all over the world participated in this years "Xtreme" programming contest. A team can have up to 3 members. Some of the teams have only one person. Many universities have entered multiple teams. Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey fielded 15 teams!!! Maybe next year we can team up with Dutchess Community College and USMA and field several teams!! How about it DCC? USMA?

You can find out more about this contest from the following web sites.
http://ieeextreme.org
http://ieeextreme.googlepages.com

Now we are leaving and going home. Hope you enjoyed the updates as much as we did on the contest.

IEEE Xtreme Programming Project: UPDATE 5 (3/8/2008 5:35 PM)

Tim,
we have submitted 4 solutions. And we have also received another 2 problems. A grand total of 16 problems (10+4+2).

IEEE Xtreme Programming Project: UPDATE 4 (3/8/2008 10:08 AM)

Now we are seeing some light; sun light that is. We are still working on some of the 14 problems. Progress is a bit slower now after 15 hours.

Good news is that we have submitted two more solutions, a grand total of 3. ;0))

Bring you pom-pom to cheer your buddies when you visit us today . We will be here until 7:00PM.

IEEE Xtreme Programming Project: UPDATE 3 (3/8/2008 9:54 AM)

As of 9:54 PM, we have submitted three solutions into the project.

IEEE Xtreme Programming Project: UPDATE 2 (3/8/2008 4:18 AM)

Here is an update on the contest. Just in case you are out there cheering for us..... We are still going STRONG... I try to take a nap, but it is hard to do. Between all the excitement, solution submission and new emails from."IEEEXtreme Admin", I was able to close my eyes only a bit. The 3 crazy guys are still wide awake. ;o)))

1. Great News.... We submitted a solution for problem #1 around 2:30AM..
2. I was wrong about solving 10 problems in 24 hrs.. Here is another booklet which contains 4 more problems. ( I am not making any more predication on the # of problems to be solved in 24 hrs.)

Take a look at the new problems and have some fun..

IEEE Xtreme Programming Project: UPDATE 1 (3/7/2008 11:49 PM)

IEEE Xtreme is an IEEE SAC initiative for creating a worldwide programming contest for IEEE Student Branches.
In IEEEXtreme teams of student members, supported by a Student Branch, advised and proctored by an IEEE Member, compete in a 24-hour time span to solve a set of programming problems. The 2008 edition of the contest will begin at 00:01 GMT time of March 8th 2008 and end the following day (Sunday, March 9th 2008)... Translation.. The contest began at 7:00PM Eastern Standard Time (NY time) Friday, March 7 and will end 24-hrs later, on Saturday at 7:00PM.

There are over 125 competing teams, 3 students per team, in this year's world-wide competition. There are 10 problems in the contest and we have 24 hrs to solve them.
Here is the problem booklet. You can take a look and see if you can solve them. And see how much fun we are having.;-))

Oh, Yes, we are struggling. ;-((
Four and a half hours into the contest, we are still trying to finish one solution. & we will be up all night.

Chapter News Update: February 27, 2008

• Starting Next Semester a separate club The Solar Car Team will be formed.
  • Publicity
    • Sent emails to Accounting and Finance Association (AFA) and American Marketing Association (AMA), along with an announcement post on the SA website.
    • Chris St. John Invited an Oracle (campus newspaper) journalist to our IEEE meeting which was basically focused on the Solar Car
    • Should be nice publicity
    • He offered to hang a flyer in humanities
    • Tim Light is advertising on the campus TV and radio
    • Sent a mass email to EE and CE students about  the solar car and the embedded steering/acceleration senior design project
  • Solar car team is open to all students and the email is: newpaltz.solar@gmail.com
• We will start ordering food and drinks for the meetings as an extra motivation factor.
• IEEE Student Design Contest - Read the flyer on the wall in the war room for details.

Solar Car Project Team Now Forming

IEEE with the help of SWE and HKN are organizing a Solar Car Team, Rob need's a response from all those interested.  IEEE with be requesting approximately $60,000 (of the $160k Solar Car budget) from the Student Association.  Next year, the solar car team will be a separate club advised, by Mike Otis.   At IEEE's  meeting tonight we will discuss the proposed budget.  The meeting is 2/27/08 at 7:30 PM in REH 109.  Also email Rob which are good for you for solar meetings, preferably Monday or Wednesday. 

A key senior design project which we will need in the future is an embedded system which would control the steering and acceleration via a joystick.   This would drop the weight of the car due to less mechanical parts. The controller would control the speed and acceleration of the car since it would have a hub motor on each of the front wheels.  Also steering would be controlled via "steering by wire" design which would turn the rear wheel as needed.

Polytechnic University Tuition Discount

Polytechnic University offers a 10% discount on all online courses for Long Island IEEE members.   See  link for details.

http://www.ieee.li/pdf/epoly.pdf
 

IEEE Participates in Engineering Day

The IEEE student chapter participated in Engineering Day on the campus of SUNY New Paltz on February 20, 2008. More than 1000 middle and high school student attended the event, held in the Elting Gymnasium. IEEE built and displayed an AC to DC power supply and demonstrated its function using an oscilloscope. For pictures of engineering day, visit our photo gallery.

Chapter News Update: February 13, 2008

Chapter News Update: February 6, 2008

• Possible work study program available this summer. Pays up to $1500 in 5 weeks.
• Senior design projects for Engineering Day Wed Feb 20th. We are thinking of doing something with AC and DC or hooking up a wave generator to a scope and speaker. This will allow the students to see and hear the wave as you vary the frequency. Next meeting we will further discuss how we want to set up our table for the event.
• Xtreme Computing - We are still looking for volunteers for this event. A few have expressed interest in this event so we are really looking to make it happen. See below for details...
  • "IEEE Xtreme is a IEEE SAC initiative for creating a worldwide programming contest for IEEE Student Branches."
  • "In IEEE Xtreme teams of student members, supported by a Student Branch, advised and proctored by an IEEE Member, compete in a 24-hour time span to solve a set of programming problems."
  • The 2008 edition of the contest will begin at 7:01pm on March 7th and end the following day (Sunday, March 8th at 7:01pm.)