Description
As a professional community it is important that we invest in our student participants who will be our future colleagues and professionals in our field. The activities are designed to increase awareness of quality scholarly research, promote interaction with members from the scientific community (industry and academia), provide a mechanism to develop long term social and professional relationships with fellow students, and develop leadership through outreach to younger high school students. This symposium includes two student competitions; one for technical papers and presentations and the second for student created hardware. Students are active leaders of this symposium helping to plan and organize activities. If you are a student interested in helping please contact any of the chairs.

Student Competitions
Student Paper Competition
Contact: LeAnn Faidley at faidley@iastate.edu

Student Hardware Competition
Contact: Andrei Zagrai at azagrai@nmt.edu

Other
Assistance with arranging shared housing for students will be available as the conference approaches.

Chair: LeAnn Faidley, Iowa State University, faidley@iastate.edu
CoChair: Constantin Ciocanel, Northern Arizona University
Student Chair: Julie Abel, University of Michigan, jmariee@umich.edu