Southeast Conference 2008
Each year, students are invited to participate in one of the many contests presented by IEEE. This year's contest is being held in Memphis, Tennessee at the Memphis Marriot Hotel(2625 Thousand Oaks Boulevard). Christian Brothers University and the University of Memphis are the primary hosts for the event. Click here to visit the official website of SoutheastCon 2008.

Hardware Competition
In this year's competition, students will construct an autonomous robot that will be able to identify and manipulate several packages and to load them onto three separate planes. The packages will have barcodes on them identifying which plane they belong on. One plane will leave the playing field at 3 minutes, 4 minutes and 5 minutes. The robots must sort and load as many packages on the appropriate planes as they can in this time frame.

Software Competition
TBD

Student Paper Competition
Students are invited to submit a suitable paper including cover page, title page, abstract, introduction, body, conclusions and recommendations, appendices, and references. The paper should be typewritten, double-spaced, no smaller than 10 point font on one side of 8-1/2" x 11" paper. Legible photocopies are acceptable. The pages of the paper must be numbered consecutively. The Introduction, Body, Conclusions, Tables, and Diagrams together may not exceed 15 pages while these sections together with the Appendices may not exceed 20 pages. Judges will penalize those who exceed this length. Each copy of the paper submitted for judging must be securely fastened in a suitable folder. The top 10 to 12 highest scoring papers will by judged by oral presentation. Paper Contest The Institute Life Member Fund provides funds to the Region for prizes as follows:

• First Place - $800.00
• Second Place - $500.00
• Third Place - $200.00

In addition to the first, second, and third place prizes, the school represented by the Author of the first place paper will receive a plaque.

Web Site Competition
IEEE student chapters may submit their web site to SoutheastCon to be judged upon content, navigability, originality, presentation, portability, and load time.

T-Shirt Design Competition
The T-Shirt competition invites students to create a t-shirt incorporating the IEEE logo, school name, and/or SoutheastCon 2004 logo into the shirt.

Complete rules and schedules can be found on the IEEE web site.