A team of Waterloo Engineering students has been selected as a finalist in the IEEE AP-S 2016 student competition out of 50 international participating teams.
The Waterloo team is the only one from North America among the six competing for the best design of an energy harvesting system. The students' video describes an energy harvester for a smart contact lens that monitors the glucose level of a user.
Team members are Luyao Chen and Luxsumi Jeevananthan, both electrical and computer engineering master's students, Ben Milligan, an undergraduate nanotechnology engineering student and Shiran Qu, a mechatronics engineering undergraduate student.
"The IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation jointly held with the United States National Committee-International Union of Radio Science meeting is the largest annual event on antenna theory and design technologies," says the team's supervisor George Shaker, an adjunct assistant professor with the electrical and computer engineering department.
The competition will take place at the annual IEEE AP-S meeting to be held June 26-July 1 in Puerto Rico.