WESYP 2019 POSTER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
As a part
of WESYP 2019 you are invited to present a poster for the poster competition and
WIN exciting Prizes!!!
The poster
is intended to be a means of improving your skills in the presentation of
information. This is a unique opportunity for engineering students to
demonstrate their research, projects or business ideas to a community of
world-renowned industry experts, faculty and IEEE professionals in addition to
fellow students. The poster should aim to have an immediate appeal to
non-technical event attendees but should also provide some content for those
with more specialised interests.
Although
the theme of the event is “Building a Sustainable Tomorrow”. A wide
variety of relevant subjects relating to emerging technologies will be
accepted for the poster competition. The topics can contain different
combinations of design, build, experimentation, analysis etc. Poster
submissions must be in English and posters should show diagrams, photographs,
text and data which would be of interest to other engineers and scientists.
Complex displays should be avoided. The format of the poster is your
choice but should contain the following features:
The aim is
to get all of this information into such a short
amount of space (A1 Size paper) and at the same time make it CLEAR,
CONCISE AND ENGAGING. Please prepare the poster in portrait format. A
template for your ease is provided here.
The use of coloured pictures, lettering etc is acceptable BUT the background
should be left WHITE. For further information on how to format a good poster, refer
to the following links:
·
https://undergrad.stanford.edu/opportunities/research/go-further/surpsasurps/make-good-poster
You need
to submit one Electronic version of your poster in pdf format to the WESYP
committee wesyp2019@gmail.com by the 6th September 2019. Please include the text ‘Poster
Competition’ followed by your full name in the email title when submitting your
poster. After confirmation of the topic, you can print the poster in A1 size
and bring it along to the event.
POSTER JUDGING
Posters
will be on display in the Poster Area located in the Govan Mbeki foyer on
the ground level and would need to comply with the following requirements.
AWARDS
The
competition committee will notify the winners on 21st September 2019.
First place and second place winners will be awarded cash prizes and
certificates. All winning posters will be displayed during the rest of the
congress.