Finland Section Student and Gold ActivitiesIEEE Grand Challenge Workshop Seminar – summary and pictures
During the last weekend of October IEEE GOLD Oulu Finland together with Infotech and IEEE Student Branch Oulu organized a Grand Challenge Workshop in Sanginjoki. It was a two day event (30 – 31.10.2009) during which participants could gain knowledge about integration of different fields of technology.
Event was opened by IEEE GOLD Finland Oulu Activities chairman Rafal Sliz, who welcomed participants and briefly presented the contents of the seminar. Next Marek Skowron showed a presentation about benefits of IEEE for its members and deeply explained the IEEE Student Transition and Elevation Partnership (STEP) program.
After those presentations there was time for invited key note speakers. Professors Heli Jantunen and Olli Silvén made their presentations and shared their experience with working in co-operation with different laboratories from university and beyond, which attendees found very interesting.
Following the lectures there was time for the social part of the event, during which participants could get to know each other and share their ideas and experience, most of which took time in sauna.
Second day was dedicated to group work. People were divided into four teams with team leaders from different fields. Task for each team was to invent a device or solution which would integrate different fields of technology. There were no strict boundaries for the project in order not to limit teams with their concepts; however there were few aspects that they had to take into consideration, e.g. power supply, electronics, interfacing, connectivity, etc. All of the teams came up with innovative and useful solutions that could make out life easier in future.
In addition, this even was just a first step in integration of different engineering fields to make our scientific work more innovative. Moreover, after a very convincing STEP presentation we are certain that recently graduated students members will stay in the IEEE organization.
Couple of pictures from the event:
Coffee - official drink of the event
Professor Heli Jantunen lecture
Professor Olli Silvén lecture
Tiny gifts for keynote speakers
Some organizers were surprised...
Next day has started early in the morning
Hard brainstorming has started
Brainstorm results presentations
Some kept suprised!
Event well done
Group picture of happy participants
