Weeks after a team of three students from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) won $10,000 first prize for their vital signs remote monitoring project at Electronica 2012 in Munich, Texas Instruments is open for entries for this year's European Analog Design Contest, co-sponsored by Mouser Electronics.
The European Analog Design Contest is intended encourage system-level design within universities. It is an opportunity for undergraduate and master’s students to demonstrate engineering skills in a design project using TI’s chips.
The Analog Design Contest is hosted by TI’s European University Programme, founded in 1994.
The programme seeks to encourage young talent to innovate in the areas of system design leveraging analog and embedded processing building blocks.
The European University Programme supports more than 1,000 universities in Europe that offer classes in the fields of electronics and electrical engineering or computer science.
Deadlines and important dates:
· Registration deadline: 23:59 (GMT) on 28th February 2013
· Tools request deadline: 23:59 (GMT) on 30th April 2013
· Report submission deadline: 23:59 (GMT) on 31st July 2013
· First round winners announced by: 30th September 2013
· Second round winners announced by: 31st October 2013
Source:
http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2013/01/15/55374/ti-and-mouser-launch-analogue-design-contest-for-students.htm
