​​​​Dear researcher, GECon 2023 is announcing a new Workshop Session on August 02th-04th related to planning and organizing student contests. This workshop will introduce a methodology to plan contests while motivating students to approach real-world problems in signal processing and communications engineering. We look forward to seeing you at this hybrid conference!!!

ABSTRACT: Organizing different engineering tasks as a competition, we aim to enable students to approach real-world problems in signal processing and communications engineering by motivating them to transfer their predominantly mathematical and analytical knowledge acquired from lectures to complex and incomplete scenarios. Classroom teaching suffers from a lack of opportunity for students to engage with the material without guidance, hindering their development of self-reliance and their ability to transfer knowledge to applications. Laboratory courses and other hands-on teaching formats still tend to guide students toward achieving a reference solution, prohibiting students from drawing satisfaction from solving a problem independently.
This workshop introduces the general methodology of the IEEE Student Branch Karlsruhe Signal Intelligence Challenge (ISIC), reviews both experiences and feedback gathered throughout the years of conducting the ISIC, and discusses the applicability of this approach to learning in the context of structured curricula.
The ISIC is a voluntary activity in which students form small interdisciplinary teams to correctly receive, analyze and decode unspecified signals from wireless transmissions they capture themselves. An automated feedback and grading system, which rewards faster teams, motivates advanced teams without disheartening inexperienced teams. The difficulty of the individual challenges ranges from choosing the appropriate tools for a straightforward solution to requiring cross-disciplinary research.

Networking Education in Germany

Berlin, Germany 2-4 August 2023

https://www.gecon2023.org/