The 2007 IEEE Region 8 Student Paper Contest received 16 papers from 14 Student Branches in 11 countries:
- Belgium, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (2x)
- Denmark, Aalborg University
- Denmark, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby
- Egypt, Ain Shams University, Cairo
- Germany, Technische Universität München
- Greece, University of Patras (2x)
- Israel, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
- Netherlands, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
- Serbia, University of Belgrade
- Slovenia, University of Maribor
- South Africa, University of Cape Town
- South Africa, University of Pretoria
- South Africa, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
- Turkey, Koç University, Istanbul
The oral finals took place in Warsaw, Poland, on 11 September 2007, as part of IEEE Region 8 EUROCON 2007, the International Conference on “Computer as a Tool” (9-12 September 2007).
The three winners were:
- Wilm Decré (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) Application of a generic constraint-based programming approach to an industrially relevant robot task with geometric uncertainties: decre
- Ales Zamuda (University of Maribor, Slovenia) Modelling, simulation, and visualization of forest ecosystems: zamuda
- Jan Verveckken (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) Design of inverse controller with cross-coupling suppression for UPFC series converter: verveckken
The other two papers selected for the oral finals were:
- Emre Ayranci (Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark) Enhancement of VCO linearity and phase noise by implementing frequency locked loop: ayranci
- Michael Rapson (University of Cape Town, South Africa) Pareto analysis of controller design methodologies for integrator plus dead time processes: rapson
The five jury members for the 2007 SPC were:
- Martin Bastiaans, Eindhoven, Netherlands, IEEE R8 SPC coordinator
- Kamel Hassan, Cairo, Egypt
- Carlos López-Barrio, Madrid, Spain
- Kurt Richter, Graz, Austria
- Ryszard Romaniuk, Warsaw, Poland