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UK Teams Participate in IEEE Programming Competition

Chris Gabel — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:15:48 +0000

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) student branch participated in the global IEEE Xtreme 24-Hour Programming Competition on October 21-22. Eight UK teams of three students each competed in the event and one UK team placed 31^st out of over 1,500 teams.

IEEE UK Student Branch Counselor Regina Hannemann was pleased with the teams’ performance as well as the role the competition plays in enhancing student learning.

“Many of the UK students learned a lot about algorithms and problem solving during this marathon while having a fun time with their friends,” she said.

Five Electrical Engineering Students Receive Power Scholarships

Kel Hahn — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:45:22 +0000

The IEEE Power and Energy Society has selected five UK College of Engineering electrical engineering students to receive scholarships as part of the inaugural round of the Scholarship Plus Initiative™.

The students selected are: junior Nick Aerni; senior Michael Ard; senior Joseph Kaseta; senior Jordan Laycock; and sophomore Seth Hendrix.

The PES Scholarship Plus Initiative™ recognizes undergraduate students who have declared a major in electrical and computer engineering, are high achievers with strong GPAs with distinctive extracurricular commitments and are committed to exploring the power and energy field.

Each scholarship recipient receives $2,000 as well as a certificate commemorating their award.

IEEEXtreme Programming Competition Held

Kel Hahn — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:27:41 +0000

Six teams from the University of Kentucky IEEE Student Branch competed against over 1,400 teams worldwide in the 24-hour IEEEXtreme Programming Competition 5.0 on October 21-22, 2011.

IEEEXtreme is an innovative global online competition in which a team of IEEE Student Branch members compete in a 24-hour time span to test their collective coding expertise simultaneously against other student programmers around the world.

All UK teams had at least 2 problems correctly submitted, ranging in the upper third of all teams worldwide. The three best teams scored on place 167 (Team AlpherBeterGammer), place 105 (Team SoccerMoms) place 90 (Team ZarroBugs)

For the competition, teams had to solve 15 problems. The problems were released at different times starting with the first one at 8pm on Friday and the last one being released around 5 pm on Saturday.

The other UK teams were theDontCares, AbstractDistract, and Photographers.