Undergraduate Project Poster Competition

All registration materials must be emailed by May 12, 2008.  Send competition entry requirements via e-mail to: James Bartlett

American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE)
International Preprofessional Council (IPC)
Undergraduate Projects Poster Session

Purpose

The purpose of the Undergraduate Projects Poster Session is to encourage undergraduate students to interact with industry, faculty, and fellow students by giving a technical poster presentation on an engineering project useful to agriculture and related areas.

Eligibility

Contestants shall be Student Members of ASABE and must be undergraduates or graduates paying student membership fees at the time their projects are conducted. Candidates will be declared ineligible if more than twelve (12) months have lapsed between the awarding degree and the May 15 date preceding the Poster Session.

Membership in a local Student branch is not required and will not substitute for Student Membership in ASABE.

Projects designated as finalists for the K.K. Barnes Student Paper Awards Competition, the National Student Design Competition, or the Open Format of the G. B. Gunlogson Environmental Student Design Competition may not be entered in this Poster Session.

Individual and team projects are eligible.  All members of the design groups must be eligible as outlined above.

Competition Entry Requirements

• Students must register with the Poster Session Coordinator by the designated deadline (May 12, 2008).  Students may only register one project for the Poster Session.  Coordinator must confirm receipt of registration form to the students no later than two weeks after deadline date. 
• Students must provide the Poster Session Coordinator a proposal (300 words maximum) that briefly outlines the statement of the project's objectives, methodology, results, and conclusions.
• At least one member of design groups must attend the annual international meeting to present the project.
• Presenters will be available for a designated question and answer period, during which they will interact with judges and other interested individuals.  Formal presentations with a time limit are not required.

Selection of Winners

The Poster Session Coordinator will select four judges.  The judges will be representatives of different technical divisions of ASABE; the panel should reflect the fact that design entries may originate from any technical area in agricultural, food, or biological engineering.

Each judge will score the poster presentations in accordance with the Undergraduate Projects Poster Session score sheet.  Judges will then forward scores to the ASABE IPC Officers, and the officers are responsible to average scores and designate top three poster session winners.  Decision of the judges is final.

Awards

Winners will be announced shortly after the Poster Session. Honor certificates and cash awards of $500, $300, and $200 will be presented to the first, second, and third place winners respectively.  The respective members of each team will determine the method of distributing the prize money to design team members.  All participants of the Poster Session will receive ASABE Certificates of Achievement.