The regulation of ISA District 12 on open permanently active

student's paper competition in the area of aerospace instrumentation. (ESPC)

ISA is a nonprofit technical, scientific and educational organization. Since the inception, the Society's goal has been to advance the technology of process measurement and control instrumentation through education. Another important objective of the Society is to honor individual achievement.

Meaning the goals to attract an attention of university students to the area of instrumentation, propagate ISA's ideas, recruit new members for ISA, expose gifted students and advanced projects, ISA European Council has decided to organize open regular student's paper competition in the area of aerospace instrumentation.

Theoretical and practical papers and projects in following directions are accepted for the competition:

· Measuring converters of physical quantities

· Electronic devices for measurement information processing

· Measuring computer complexes

· Control complexes

· Automatic control systems

· Ergodic complexes (man - machine)

· Intelligent control systems

· Systems for control and diagnosis

· Software for borne equipment

· Software for ground equipment

· Aerospace equipment test systems

· Computer-aided training systems and trainers

· Computer-aided designing

· Aircraft safety systems

· Methods and means for aviation incident and disaster investigation

· Methods for forecast and prevention of the aviation incidents and disasters.

· Remotely piloted and automatic aircraft complexes

· Methods and means for aerospace equipment maintenance

· Automation of the control of aircraft movement in the air.

· Space satellite systems for navigation and control

· Nontraditional aerospace ideas

Claims for the papers:

Papers are allowed to be presented both on electronic and paper carriers. Paper volume is no more than 60 type-writing pages. It is possible to use illustrations such as diagrams, drawings, tables, photographs, etc. Software

is placed in Annexes.

Jury secures the confidence of the paper materials.

· The paper presented must include the following:

· Abstracts - no more than 1 page.

· Explanatory note including the suggestions of the authors on further implementation of the project results.

· Recommendations (if they exist)

· Application form

Materials are not sent back and not criticized.

Participants:

1. Students and postgraduates of universities and colleges.

2. The number of the authors of one work may not be more than 6.

Jury address: 67, B. Morskaya st., ESPC St. Petersburg, 190000, Russia, e-mail: bob@aanet.ru

Rewards

After summing up the results of the competition Jury declare winners.

Paper abstracts and information about the authors is put into data base "XXI century intellect" and published in periodic ISA issues and INTERNET network.

Summing up the results is held twice a year before the next meeting of District 12.

Deadline for project paper presentation:

May 31, 2001

December 31, 2001