Student Paper Contest

Objective

The Osmosis Student Paper Contest offers the undergraduate students an opportunity to exercise and improve technical, written and verbal communication/presentation skills. Throughout an engineer's career, one will be constantly called upon to communicate ideas to others. Researching, writing and presenting a paper provides a student with invaluable early experience in expressing ideas related to engineering.

Eligibility

1. The contest is open to undergraduate students from any discipline in the 3rd or the 4th year of engineering (BE/B.Tech), and all MCA students.

2. Not more than 3 students should author each contribution.

Number of Entries

There can be any number of entries per Institute.

Important Dates

• Last date for abstract submission: Sept 30, 2006
• Last date for paper submission: Oct 26, 2006
• Declaration of result of contest: November 22, 2006
• Presentation for top 3 papers at Bangalore: December 14, 2006

Prizes and Travel Expenses

• Prizes and certificates for the top 3 winners: 1st Prize: Rs.10000; 2nd Prize: Rs.7000; 3rd Prize: Rs.5000
• The travel and accommodation arrangements will be made for authors of top 3 selected papers in the month of December to present their paper in Bangalore. They are required to present their paper for the final evaluation.

Guidelines

• Papers should cover technical or engineering aspects of subjects reasonably within or related to the areas with which the author is familiar, either from courses, hobbies, summer work, or other similar experiences.
• The participants are required to send a soft copy of their entry to the following mail id: osmosis_student_2006@mindtree.com. The final paper should contain a self declaration and a Professor Certification page on the originality of the work.
• For all your queries on Paper presentation, you can reach us on osmosis_student_2006@mindtree.com.
• The subject of your mail should start with 'abstract:' followed by the Title of your paper (The title may be shortened if necessary for the subject). For ex: If you are submitting an abstract on topic 'Abcd', the subject should read - . On receiving the abstract, we will communicate to you similar mailing details about the final paper submission.
• Do not search /download a published paper from the net. These will be disqualified. (MindTree reserves the right to bringing such malpractices to the notice of the College Authorities)

Paper should

• Be original (can refer other papers/ books but not copy/ paste the contents).
• Elaborate the abstract submitted earlier.
• Be minimum of 5 pages and maximum of 12 pages (see 'Written preparation' section for details)
• Contain diagrams, code snippets, data, charts etc. to demonstrate the points discussed.
• Include references to the papers/ books used for writing the topic.
• Contain contents that are correct.
• Address confidentiality of the data contents.
• Contain acknowledgements to the person (s) provided feedback/ suggestions.
• Be from the area of topics below:

Topics
Implementing solutions using RFID Multimedia VLSI Design Grid Computing and resource virtualization 64-bit computing Storage and Server Technologies Voice Over IP Consumer & Digital home Embedded Systems Security	Framework based development Enterprise Application Integration Business Intelligence Business Process Management New generation web development with multimedia Testing automation and remote testing Mobile Applications Software Productivity improvement Data Acquisition and Maintenance Service oriented architecture and development

Written Preparation

• All papers must be Arial/Times New Roman 12 font.
• The pages of the paper must be numbered consecutively. The Introduction, Body, Conclusion
• Tables and Diagrams may not exceed 12 pages while the above sections with the Appendices may not exceed 15 pages.
• In general, the contents of a Student prize paper shall be organized as follows:
  
  (1) Identification: Since the judges must handle the papers without knowledge of the identity of the author or his Institute, it is required that the paper itself show no identification other than the title. The title, name of the authors, Name of Institute, and address must be shown on a flyleaf on the abstract, which can be removed. Also, the name of the authors and institute should be written only in the abstract submission and not in the actual paper. On receipt of the abstract, you will be sent a unique identification number, which you should quote in the final paper.
  
  (2) Table of Contents: The table of contents should consist of a list of the parts of the paper and the page numbers, in order in which they occur.
  
  (3) Abstract: The abstract should not describe the paper, but should give, in brief, the essential facts of its contents; for example, a brief of the problem or objective and a concise summary of the results or conclusion, touching upon methods or other details only if they are unique or if they are of some particular significance. The abstract should be of 150-300 words.
  
  (4) Introduction: The introductions should lead to the development of the subject so that the reader may obtain a clear understanding of the significance of the paper or article prepared. This can often be done by briefly giving the state of the art as background and then by bringing out the added advantages of the method of approach and emphasizing the importance of the results or conclusions.
  
  (5) Body: To assist the judges in maintaining objectivity, no mention of the author's name or Institute should be made in the article. Any references to the author's Institute should read "the university" without giving the actual name. The main argument of the subject is carried out in the body of the paper, complete with supporting data. The argument should proceed in a logical sequence according to a prepared outline. The writing should be in the third person. Support data and results can be presented most effectively as curves, charts, or tables.
  
  (6) Standard graphical symbols and abbreviations should be used on all drawings. (Ref. "Graphic Symbols for Electrical and Electronic Diagrams," IEEE STD 315.) Well-known abbreviations may be used in the text but should be defined where used the first time followed by the abbreviation in parentheses. Generally the use of abbreviations should be confined to tables and illustrations. Illustrations and tables should supplement, not duplicate, text materials; likewise, they should complement, not duplicate each other.
  
  (7) Conclusion: The conclusions are often considered the most important part of a paper. They should be stated concisely in a separate section at the end of the paper. If there are three or more conclusions, better emphasis can be obtained by numbering each conclusion and setting it off in a separate paragraph.
  
  (8) Tables: Generally, each table should be typed on a separate sheet and numbered consecutively using Roman numerals: Table I, Table II. Small tabulations or listings may be made in the text where necessary for continuity. Each table should be titled by giving the brief description as a heading following the table number at the top. Ditto marks should not be used in tabled, but brackets may be used to group information on several lines.
  
  (9) Figures: Figures should be numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals: Figure 1; Figure 2, etc. Three types of figures may be used: photographs, oscillograms, and line drawings. The reading material on illustrations should be kept to a minimum. In short, the reading material should be included in the captions. Portions of the illustrations may be identified by letters and explained in the captions. Whenever feasible, several curves should be combined on the same coordinates. Their identifying letters or numbers should be in clear spaces between cross section lines. Readers generally prefer having the figures distributed through the article, although it is also permissible to bind them together at the end.
  
  (10) Appendices: Detailed mathematical proofs, development of equations and examples which are subordinate to the main argument in the body of the paper, but not essential to following the argument, should be treated in the appendices. Main equations as they are developed should be numbered consecutively, with the number in the right margin. The equations, figures, and tables in the Appendices should be numbered consecutively following the numbers used for the equations, figures, and tables in the text (such as, if table IV were last in the text, table V would be first in the appendices.)
  
  (11) References: To enable the reader to consult important works used by the author incidental to the preparation of his manuscript and other related literature which might be helpful, a suitable reference list should be appended. References should be numbered consecutively and should follow the form shown below:

For a periodical: R.N. Hall, "Power Rectifiers and transformers," Proc. IRE, Vol. 40, pp. 1515-1518, November 1952.

For a book: W.A. Edison, "Vacuum Tube Oscillators," John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, New York, pp. 170-171, 1948.

For an article: B. Lawrence, B.H. Weil, and M.H. Graham, "Making online search available in an industrial research environment," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, pp. 364-369, Nov-Dec. 1974.

Judging

The following is the evaluation criteria for the papers/ abstracts (in the order listed):

• Originality of the content
• Technical contents
• Facts supported by data, charts, diagrams, code snippets etc
• Presentation

Note: The judges' decision will be final and binding

MindTree Rights

MindTree reserves the right to use the content of all submitted papers in any desired manner.