Student Paper Competition

Entry Deadline - October 30, 2012

SAE 2013 Noise and Vibration
Conference and Exhibition
May 20 - 23, 2013 DeVos Place
Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

The SAE 2013 Noise and Vibration Conference and Exhibition will be hosting a Student Paper Competition. The competition is open to all currently-enrolled full-time graduate and undergraduate university students as well as those who have graduated from a university within the past six (6) months.

Students must have a paper accepted as the main author (the author whose name is listed first on the paper) and must be the presenter of the paper in a standard SAE NVH technical session according to the regular rules of the technical sessions. Any topic related to vehicle NVH is permitted, as long as the paper is accepted and approved by an appropriate technical session of the SAE NVH Conference.

The students will present their paper during a judged Student Paper Competition session on Tuesday afternoon during the conference (in addition to presenting the paper in the regular technical session, which will not affect the paper competition scoring). Entrants will be judged directly versus the other participants in the session and cash prizes and recognition of the awards will be presented during the Wednesday evening Network Reception.

Applicants are invited to submit their abstract of 250 words or less online no later than October 30, 2012

Rules of the Competition:
The student who enters the competition (or recent graduate within the past six (6) months) must be the main author and presenter of the paper. Professors, other students, advisors, and industry collaborators may be listed as co-authors and contributors to the paper but may not be the lead author or presenter.

SAE Membership is recommended but is not mandatory.

The student must enter the same paper as the main author in one of the regular SAE NVH technical sessions and receive approval for this paper prior to the conference. The student must present the paper in the technical session as well as the judged session to be eligible for the Student Paper Competition.

Judging:
Tuesday, May 21, afternoon, (exact time and room location TBA but not before 2pm)

Judges will listen to the standard 15-minute presentation and follow up with a 5-minute Question & Answer and discussion follow-up related to the paper and presentation. Students should ensure that their paper presentation does not exceed the allocated 15 minutes.

The winning participants will be selected according to the following equally-weighted criteria:

1. Paper quality (according to standard SAE paper evaluation criteria)
2. Effectiveness of the judged oral presentation
3. Participant responses and discussion during Q & A follow-up

Awards:
Cash prizes will be awarded.

Prizes will be awarded during Wednesday's Networking Reception
Wednesday, May 22, 5:00 - 6:30 p.m., Exhibit Hall, DeVos Place

Submit Abstract

Please direct any questions regarding the competition or its rules to:

Chad Musser
SAE Noise and Vibration Conference Student Engineer Chairperson
chad.musser@ccinc.com
(617)-381-4327