ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC STUDENTS WIN THREE AWARDS AT THE 2016 IEEE MALAYSIA FINAL YEAR PROJECT (FYP) COMPETITION

Three students from the School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia won awards in three different categories in the recently concluded 2016 IEEE Malaysia Final Year Project (FYP) Competition.

Nazleen Syahira binti Mohd Suhaimi who is under the supervision of Dr. Nor Muzlifah Mahyuddin won first place in the Telecommunication track for her project on the design of a multi-port reflectometer as an alternative measurement means of vector network analyzers (VNA).

In addition, Tan Chee Sheng and Nur Shahira binti Shahul Hameed also won second and third place in the Under Water Systems and Under Water Robotics and the Computational Intelligence track respectively. Tan’s project was on the mapping of autonomous surface vehicles (ASV) while Shahira worked on the comparison of bees and firefly algorithms on proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controllers.

Their supervisors, Professor Dr. Mohd Rizal Arshad and Dr. Wan Amir Fuad Wajdi Othman expressed their delight on the achievements of their students and added that the students were very industrious and resourceful in solving very challenging problems for their final year projects.