2019 IEEE RFID Smart Cities Educational Mega Challenge Announced

The IEEE Council on RFID once again challenges undergraduate engineering students to team up to offer a Smart Cities problem and solution. The competition, introduced in 2017, draws proposals from around the world. After the finalists are selected, they each present a 3-minute video, followed by a live presentation at the IEEE RFID 2019 Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. Challengers are at their best answering tough questions in real-time from the judges from RAIN RFID Alliance, AIM Global, and RFID Journal Live! representatives. The finalists received a trophy for their school, certificates for each team member, and split $5,000 student travel grants donated by RAIN and IEEE CRFID.

If you are interested in this competition, please send an email to megachallenge@ieee-crfid.org. We challenge you and your team to do one better than the 2017 and 2018 teams!

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Dr. Venkata Kishore Kothapudi is an academician, researcher, and RF engineer specializing in RF, microwave, and radar engineering. He has more than 15 years of experience across the defense industry, national laboratories and academia, with a focus on antenna arrays for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and SATCOM applications. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation (KL University), Vijayawada Campus. There, he serves as Faculty Advisor of both the IEEE Council on RFID (CRFID) and the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS) Student Branch Chapters. Through these chapters, he introduces students to RFID, wireless sensing, antenna and radar technologies

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