IEEE Green Technologies conference and R5 student competitions 2024 were held between the 3rd-7th of April at Springdale, Arkansas. A large number of students from Wichita Section took part in both events this year.

In the Green Technologies conference, four papers were published and presented at the technical sessions by students from Wichita State University. The papers are listed below with the student authors.

  1. Demy Alexander – ‘DER Impacts and Equity Considerations for Transmission Assets in a Multi Area Network’
  2. Md Raihan Uddin – ‘Voice Activated Edge Devices Using Tiny Machine Learning Enabled Microcontroller’
  3. Md Raihan Uddin – ‘Avian Song Identification Using CNN’
  4. Nirasha Bataduvaarachchi – ‘Emergency Load Shedding to Enhance Resiliency Considering Operator and Customer Equity’

In the R5 student competitions, ten students from Wichita State University contested in the cyber challenge, circuit design and student presentation competitions. Mary Peterson won first place in the student presentation competition, and the team of Jack Delmar, Carlos Renato Soverina Figueroa and Benjamin Serrano won third place in the cyber challenge competition.

This is the highest participation from Wichita Section to these events, and we convey our wishes to everyone involved. It is to be noted that both IEEE Green Technologies conference and R5 student competitions for the next year will be hosted by Wichita Section.