The third VKII-Best Student award is an international contest for undergraduate and graduate Cameroonian students worldwide. It offers them an opportunity to compete for an award, as they examine innovative topics in engineering and computer science in order to solve everyday problems.

Call for Participation | Winners & Prizes

The goal of the VKII Student Competition consists of:

1. Highlighting and rewarding very high quality work from students in engineering, computer sciences and related fields
2. Encouraging college students to explore engineering and computer science opportunities and improve their individual   skills from system level design down to implementation
3. Engaging college teachers and students in their examination of their thesis topics
4. Challenging college students to strengthen their creativity skills
5. Helping students to establish first contacts with professionals and researchers in the related fields
 
Eligibility

All contributions has to be original works done by a Cameroonian student or by a group of Cameroonian students. The work must be submitted to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it not later than the 1st of August, 2008. Winner notification will be posted by September 1st, 2008.

Each contribution should not exceed six pages using a 10pt font coding (pdf documents are preferred but not a must).

The contribution should describe either a conceptual work aimed at solving a given problem in engineering or computer science or a practical implementation solving a novel problem. In the second case, sufficient proof (pictures, video or demonstration) must be provided at time of submission.

Only Bachelor and Master Degree students presenting their bachelor or master dissertation in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering and all related fields may submit their work. For the recent graduates: all submitted work must have been initiated and the bulk of the work must have been performed at university between the 7 of August 2007 and the 1st of August 2008.

The following criteria will be evaluated: presentation, logic, structure & clarity of the argumentation, the pertinence of the conclusion and the utility of the work. Look for example at the contribution of the 2006 winner. The impact of each criterion on the final note will be published on the BSA 08 website later.

The awards will be handed out at the Gala taking place after the workshop. The winner will also receive a free registration to the VKII-Workshop.

The winners will be asked to present a summary of their work during the workshop. They will have 15 min time for the exercise broken down by 10 min for the presentation and 5 min for Q&A.

Jury Members

Jean-Pierre Kassi, Synthes, Inc. (Switzerland)
Bernard Kamdem, Bosch (Germany)
Hervé Noumi, Vodafone (Germany)
Joseph Tadjuidje, University Kaiserslautern (Germany)
Aurelien Tchegho, University Munich (Germany)
Honoré Tchoukuegno, Daimler (Germany)
Marco Wabo, T-Mobile (Deutschland)
Sylvain Tchokouagni, Bosch (Germany)
Francis Nzeukeyo, Lion Engineering (Germany)
Sadou Daouda, Siemens (Germany)
Bertrand Mbayin, Avaya (Germany)
Oumal Ousseini, TietoEnator GmbH (Germany)
Christophe Bobda, Technical University Postdam (Germany)
Erick Tambo Gankam, University of Hagen (Germany)
Alexis Takoudjou, Université des Montagnes (Cameroun)
Marcelin Nkelinfack, IUT Fotso Victor (Cameroun)
Calvin Nangue, IUT Fotso Victor (Cameroun
Mbang Sama, Daimler (Germany)