• First, to reward outstanding works from both technical and presentation-wise perspectives. To this end, a jury of researchers reads the abstracts and watch the video of the participants. The three best candidates will receive a monetary reward.
• Second, to recommend potential candidates for an international contest: the IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest. IEEE’s Region 8 spans Europe, Africa and the Middle-East. We have had several successes at this Student Paper Contest, reaching the top 3 in previous years. More info can be found here.

For more information about the contest, please check the rules below. To register, please click on the button below.

Contest rules

1. Awards
A jury of researchers selects a first, second and third prize based on the abstract of the master’s thesis and a short video presenting their work (more details below).
A monetary reward of 500 EUR will be split amongst the three finalists (250/150/100), and an award certificate is granted to each finalist during the Louvain School of Engineering (EPL) graduation ceremony. The finalist most likely to succeed in the IEEE Region 8 SPC contest will be offered the opportunity to participate to SPC2027.

2. Eligibility
Students participating in the contest need to satisfy the following criteria:

1. Their master’s thesis must be defended in June or August 2026 in the Université catholique de Louvain.
2. They must be students of the Louvain School of Engineering (EPL).
3. At least one of the members of the master’s thesis comity (advisers or jury) should be part of the ICTEAM. A list of all ICTEAM members is available at https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/icteam/people.html . Nevertheless, if you believe your master’s thesis subject corresponds to the scope of the IEEE but no member of your comity belongs to the ICTEAM, feel free to contact us.

3. Process
To participate, students should register before July 1st, 2026 for students participating in the June session and before September 9th, 2026 for students participating in the August session. Students should note that two files have to be sent and submitted:

1. The abstract of their master’s thesis. Students are asked to provide the abstract in English.
2. A short video in English to present their work. The video can only display slides with the voice of the participant. The total duration of the video must be below 20 minutes. Teams can easily be used for the video. An easy alternative is also to add audio recordings directly on the PowerPoint (do not forget to save in a video format).

In case of any question or remark, you can send an email to tim.bary@uclouvain.be.

• First, to reward outstanding works from both technical and presentation-wise perspectives. To this end, a jury of researchers reads the abstracts and watch the video of the participants. The three best candidates will receive a monetary reward.
• Second, to recommend potential candidates for an international contest: the IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest. IEEE’s Region 8 spans Europe, Africa and the Middle-East. We have had several successes at this Student Paper Contest, reaching the top 3 in previous years. More info can be found here.

For more information about the contest, please check the rules below. To register, please click on the button below.

Contest rules

1. Awards
A jury of researchers selects a first, second and third prize based on the abstract of the master’s thesis and a short video presenting their work (more details below).
A monetary reward of 500 EUR will be split amongst the three finalists (250/150/100), and an award certificate is granted to each finalist during the Louvain School of Engineering (EPL) graduation ceremony. The finalist most likely to succeed in the IEEE Region 8 SPC contest will be offered the opportunity to participate to SPC2025.

2. Eligibility
Students participating in the contest need to satisfy the following criteria:

1. Their master’s thesis must be defended in June or August 2024 in the Université catholique de Louvain.
2. They must be students of the Louvain School of Engineering (EPL).
3. At least one of the members of the master’s thesis comity (advisers or jury) should be part of the ICTEAM. A list of all ICTEAM members is available at https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/icteam/people.html . Nevertheless, if you believe your master’s thesis subject corresponds to the scope of the IEEE but no member of your comity belongs to the ICTEAM, feel free to contact us.

3. Process
To participate, students should register before July 1st, 2024 for students participating in the June session and before September 9th, 2024 for students participating in the August session. Students should note that two files have to be sent and submitted:

1. The abstract of their master’s thesis. Students are asked to provide the abstract in English.
2. A short video in English to present their work. The video can only display slides with the voice of the participant. The total duration of the video must be below 20 minutes. Teams can easily be used for the video. An easy alternative is also to add audio recordings directly on the PowerPoint (do not forget to save in a video format).

In case of any question or remark, you can send an email to tim.bary@uclouvain.be.

• First, to reward outstanding works from both technical and presentation-wise perspectives. To this end, a jury of researchers reads the abstracts and watch the video of the participants. The three best candidates will receive a monetary reward.
• Second, to recommend potential candidates for an international contest: the IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest. IEEE’s Region 8 spans Europe, Africa and the Middle-East. We have had several successes at this Student Paper Contest, reaching the top 3 in previous years. More info can be found here.

For more information about the contest, please check the rules below. To register, please click on the button below.

Contest rules

1. Awards
A jury of researchers selects a first, second and third prize based on the abstract of the master’s thesis and a short video presenting their work (more details below).
A monetary reward of 500 EUR will be split amongst the three finalists (250/150/100), and an award certificate is granted to each finalist during the Louvain School of Engineering (EPL) graduation ceremony. The finalist most likely to succeed in the IEEE Region 8 SPC contest will be offered the opportunity to participate to SPC2024.

2. Eligibility
Students participating in the contest need to satisfy the following criteria:

1. Their master’s thesis must be defended in June or August 2023 in the Université catholique de Louvain.
2. They must be students of the Louvain School of Engineering (EPL).
3. At least one of the members of the master’s thesis comity (advisers or jury) should be part of the ICTEAM. A list of all ICTEAM members is available at https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/icteam/people.html . Nevertheless, if you believe your master’s thesis subject corresponds to the scope of the IEEE but no member of your comity belongs to the ICTEAM, feel free to contact us.

3. Process
To participate, students should register before June 29th, 2023 for students participating in the June session and before September 6th, 2023 for students participating in the August session. Students should note that two files have to be sent and submitted:

1. The abstract of their master’s thesis. Students are asked to provide the abstract in English
2. A short video in English to present their work. The video can only display slides with the voice of the participant. The total duration of the video must be below 20 minutes. Teams can easily be used for the video. An other easy software to realize the video is ScreenRec (a free account is however needed to record longer than 5 min).

In case of any question or remark, you can send an email to nicolas.roisin@uclouvain.be.

• First, to reward outstanding works from both technical and presentation-wise perspectives. To this end, a jury of researchers reads the abstracts and watch the video of the participants. The three best candidates will receive a monetary reward.
• Second, to recommend potential candidates for an international contest: the IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest. IEEE’s Region 8 spans Europe, Africa and the Middle-East. We have had several successes at this Student Paper Contest, reaching the top 3 in previous years. More info can be found here.

For more information about the contest, please check the rules below. To register, please click on the button below.

Contest rules

1. Awards
A jury of researchers selects a first, second and third prize based on the abstract of the master’s thesis and a short video presenting their work (more details below).
A monetary reward of 500 EUR will be split amongst the three finalists (250/150/100), and an award certificate is granted to each finalist during the Louvain School of Engineering (EPL) graduation ceremony. The finalist most likely to succeed in the IEEE Region 8 SPC contest will be offered the opportunity to participate to SPC2023.

2. Eligibility
Students participating in the contest need to satisfy the following criteria:

1. Their master’s thesis must be defended in June or August 2022 in the Université catholique de Louvain.
2. They must be students of the Louvain School of Engineering (EPL).
3. At least one of the members of the master’s thesis comity (advisers or jury) should be part of the ICTEAM. A list of all ICTEAM members is available at https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/icteam/people.html . Nevertheless, if you believe your master’s thesis subject corresponds to the scope of the IEEE but no member of your comity belongs to the ICTEAM, feel free to contact us.

3. Process
To participate, students should register before June 20th, 2022 for students participating in the June session and before August 29th, 2022 for students participating in the August session. Students should note that two files have to be sent and submitted:

1. The abstract of their master’s thesis. Students are asked to provide the abstract in English
2. A short video in English to present their work. The video can only display slides with the voice of the participant. The total duration of the video must be below 7 minutes. An easy software to realize the video is ScreenRec (a free account is however needed to record longer than 5 min). An online solution can also be used such as ScreenCapture.

In case of any question or remark, you can send an email to nicolas.roisin@uclouvain.be.

These visits are organized to connect ICTEAM researchers to the world of professional industries. This activity will attempt to merge academic research with real world industrial problems.

This activity will necessitate an on-site interaction with industrial companies here in Belgian to discover their impressive infrastructure and to be able to interact with specialists in the field.

During this semester, a visit of UMICORE is proposed:

• UMICORE (https://www.umicore.com/)
  • at Hoboken (Antwerp) on Tuesday the 26th of April from 8:15 to 15:00
  • 13 places available
  • The visit will be held in English
  • UMICORE is the biggest recycling company of precious metals in the world. Their main activities are in the fields of recycling, production of materials for rechargeable batteries and the production of catalysts for industrial chemistry. This visit is a great opportunity to be able to see how dependent today’s technology is on precious resources and how hard it is to recycle them.

You can register to the visit via the registration forms below.

We look forward to seeing you there !
Nicolas Roisin, Karim El Khoury and Thibault Pirson

REGISTRATION

Additionnally, Olivier is one of the many newcomers in the IEEE Student Branch members this year. He will join the seminar team in charge of organizing many exciting talks this year!

This year, the ClubINFO, a part of the IEEE Student branch has many motivated newcomers. This Wednesday November 10th, they kicked off their first event, The INGI Dakar2k21. As the name suggests, it is a race car contest but with some quirks. The contestants must use genetic algorithms to create the car that will beat them all. It is a brand new activity covering an interesting subject, good luck to the participants!

• First, to reward outstanding works from both technical and presentation-wise perspectives. To this end, a jury of researchers reads the abstracts, attends the master thesis presentations and interviews the participants. The three best candidates will receive a monetary reward.
• Second, to recommend potential candidates for an international contest: the IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest. IEEE’s Region 8 spans Europe, Africa and the Middle-East. We have had several successes at this Student Paper Contest, reaching the top 3 in previous years. More info can be found here.

For more information about the contest, please check the rules below. To register, please fill in the form below.

Contest rules

1. Awards
A jury of researchers selects a first, second and third prize based on the public defense of the master’s thesis, an abstract and an interview (more details below).
A monetary reward of 500 EUR will be split amongst the three finalists (250/150/100), and an award certificate is granted to each finalist during the Louvain School of Engineering (EPL) graduation ceremony. The finalist most likely to succeed in the IEEE Region 8 SPC contest will be offered the opportunity to participate to SPC2022.

2. Eligibility
Students participating in the contest need to satisfy the following criteria:

1. Their master’s thesis must be defended in June 2021 in the Université catholique de Louvain.
2. They must be students of the Louvain School of Engineering (EPL).
3. At least one of the members of the master’s thesis comity (advisers or jury) should be part of the ICTEAM. A list of all ICTEAM members is available at https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/icteam/people.html . Nevertheless, if you believe your master’s thesis subject corresponds to the scope of the IEEE but no member of your comity belongs to the ICTEAM, feel free to contact us.

3. Process
The contest proceeds as follows:

1. First, students should subscribe through the form below. Subscription are closed on June 14th, 2021.
2. Students should send us the abstract of their master’s thesis, written in English, by e-mail at the address “nicolas.roisin@uclouvain.be”. The e-mail should have as object “[IEEE BMTA 2021 Abstract] Surname – Name”. The deadline is June 16th, 2021. The abstract must be a one page pdf file.
3. We will appoint researcher volunteers to attend to the students’ public defences. There is no need to adapt anything for the contest (language, format, etc.). However, the language you choose for your presentation when you register to the contest must not change!
4. A short interview will take place right after the defense. In case the interview needs to be delayed, we will contact you for an appointment.

This Monday 22 February 2021, the ClubINFO, a part of the IEEE Student Branch of UCLouvain, kicked off the 3rd edition its Capture The Flag, a security contest where team have to solve challenges to earn points. The winning team is the one with the most point.

Good luck to all the participants!

… And what if all of these were FALSE? It is time to break the myths!

A new online edition of the “PhD Info & Experience Sharing Event” is coming in order to help master students understand the PhD career! Researchers from the ICTEAM, IMMC and IMCN institutes join forces to organize an information evening on the PhD! You will find below all information for the event, which is exceptionally held online!

When? Thursday, December 3rd 2020, in the evening.

Where? On your favourite platform, Teams!

Price? The info session is obviously free! Nonetheless, we suggest you plan your own drink to enjoy the evening!

What?

• 8pm to 8:15pm: Short presentation of the PhD in the Sector of Sciences and Technology (SST).
• 8:15pm to 9:15pm (and possibly later): informal exchanges in small groups using separated Teams channels (options, fundings, …) in presence of PhD students from different research institutes linked to the EPL.

Whether you simply have questions, whether you are seriously considering the PhD or are just curious about it, do not falter any more and join us! For practical organization, could you please fill in the form below. Do not worry though: if you decide late or if your agenda is currently booked, you will still welcome at the last minute!