Group Challenge Activities

Magnetic Sensor Challenge
Chair: Phil Mather, Bosch Sensortec GmbH

Congratulations to the Winning Teams! 

1st Place - Magnetic Clock

  • Muhammad Sabbir Alam, VCU
  • Sreya Pal, S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences

2nd Place - Orientation Visualization and Anomaly Alert System

  • Shawnus Chen, University of Miami
  • Jieyuan Tian, University of Miami

3rd Place - Magnetically Controlled Fan 

  • Pranita Sharma, DGIST
  • Michael Vaka, Brigham Young University

Magnetic sensors fill a crucial technology space across multiple industries. While many of you have had a chance to develop materials for or perform laboratory tests on magnetic sensors, it is likely that you didn’t fully explore their practical use. To expand your skills, we invite you to participate in the Magnetic Sensor Challenge. 

The Challenge is open to students registered for the Conference and attending in person. It will start on Monday at noon with an instructional meeting. Teams will be formed then and provided with magnetoresistive sensors, magnets, and an Arduino design kit. The teams will use their creativity to develop a sensor circuit and perform measurements to be presented on Thursday. The team with the most creative and best presented solutions will receive a prize, and be recognized on the Conference website. 


Outreach Challenge
Co-Chairs: Cindi Dennis, NIST and Anjan Soumyanarayanan, National University of Singapore
 

 Congratulations to the Winning Team! 
  • Razab Aboljadayel, University of Leeds
  • Thomas Kools, Eindhoven University of Technology
  • Atif Islam, Victoria University of Wellington

We have all been taught the fundamentals of magnetism and magnetic materials and their applications.  The Outreach Challenge will give you the opportunity to create a program/demonstration to educate non-scientists on some aspect of the targeted areas.

The Challenge is open to everyone registered for the Conference and attending in person. It will start on Monday at noon with an instructional meeting where potential topics will be reviewed, and teams will be formed. Teams will choose one topic and then use their ingenuity to develop an outreach program/demonstration to be presented on Thursday.  The team with the most creative and best presented solutions will receive a prize, and be recognized on the Conference website.